Showing results for "stone" in Dystopian

Eight years ago, the world as we know it ended. Now, the last US government stronghold has sent a military recon team from Camp David to the bombed-out city of Seattle, but the mission turns deadly when a horde of horrifying mutant creatures are released onto the streets. Oliver Marcus and Trisha Pike, the only survivors of their nine-man team, are rescued by a group of scavengers led by their superhuman leader, River Kingston. Driven by the need to find her lost husband, River is drawn in by Mycroft, the invisible puppet master behind New Texas.

After a slap that shook the state, Oakland Pratt has become a viral symbol of resistance, whether she wants to be or not. With hate crimes surging and civil liberties disappearing, the crew at the heart of the uprising begins to mobilize. When a government crackdown explodes into violence, an event that echoes Stonewall and sets the city on fire, they retreat to the abandoned Minneapolis skyway system. There, the Scarlet Resistance begins to rise. What starts as survival becomes something much louder as they tap into a hidden network and launch a digital war the state never saw coming.

Adam Stone è cresciuto nella polverosa e arida città di Blackwater, circondata dal deserto, un luogo fuori dal mondo dove nessuno può dirsi veramente libero. Non desidera altro che fuggire da quella prigione e trovare un'esistenza di libertà e di pace. Ma c'è qualcosa che Adam rincorre ancor più della libertà: l'amore dell'affascinante Sadie Blood.

The planet is shrinking. Soon there will be nothing left of Blinkin but a black hole. All the systems are gone. The breeders have been abandoned. Mina's stuck in disbelief, navigating the long shortcut back. Rose has been taken. Is she a nightmare?

Thrown into the Wishing Well, Clio must find three keys while fighting to stay alive in a nine-square grid of fear. Whether she wins or loses the round, her wish will be read aloud. Clio knows that if she holds three keys when King Ergondy learns what she wished for, her wish will have to be granted.

Bereft of basic necessities - clean water, food, healthcare, and the rule of law - this tale of resilience tests the limits of human tenacity against a backdrop of societal decay. Hanley, a retired physician with a foresight for preparation, helps lead his kin in a transformative quest, confronting a reality harsher than that faced by the pioneering forebears of the American West. Unlike their predecessors, they must learn lost self-sufficiency skills and forge new ones to adapt to a world devoid of technological crutches.

This an apocalyptic story of survival from the perspectives of several survivors trying to live through it and survive from the start of the disaster to eight months after. They must come together to form a community by their entrepreneurial efforts and networking. The disaster, starvation, and societal collapse in this dystopian world is seen through the eyes of a pair of older vacationers who just happen to get stranded at the beach.

Mina's adventure continues in the land of Disbelief, a world the Night Mare created to exile all beliefs other than her own. All deities and goblins, pookhas and spriggins, exist now only in this dimension. It's here that Mina will learn the true herstory of the planet Blinkin, and its history as well, before she attempts a comeback as the Night Mare's polar opposite, the Dream Weaver.

The planet Earth has reformed itself into the one-continent world of Blinkin. God and his devil have given way to a new polarity - to the Night Mare and the Dream Weaver. But the Night Mare has co-opted her opposite, and she now rules the night and the day. Into this nightmare world, where human females are kept as cattle, and licensed as domestic pets - inside the stone-system designed to prevent the enemy's return - Mina, a rogue DreamWeaver, is born in the Off-grid of Winkin City.

Ein kleiner Bronzekelch aus dem Besitz von Tron führt Student Georg Brand auf die Spur eines alten Druidenkults. Uraltes Wissen hütet dieser Zirkel, der Georg nach Südengland und zum Hügel von Salisbury führt - zu den Ruinen von Stonehenge. Hat Tron wirklich das Geheimnis des Zaubertranks der alten Kelten gelöst, der Unsterblichkeit verspricht?

The story takes place almost entirely inside a priest's confessional office. Chapters alternate between a psychiatrist giving her confessions to the priest and the confessions of the very patients mentioned by the psychiatrist in her sessions. Every sentence that is written in the past tense is spoken aloud to the priest or by her, and every sentence that is written in the present tense is one of the priest's thoughts or an action she experiences.