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In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

The final book in the postapocalyptic Breakers series.

Westley Flagg isn't your usual lawbreaker. He's a poacher, a moonshiner, and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa's surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group. Living deep in poverty for most of his life, he's become resilient and flexible, but college education can only take him so far. A solar storm sends the northern lights as far south as Texas, and cascading failures in the grid cripple the nation. Now, without communications, Flagg has to prove he has what it takes to still survive.

Das Jahr 2090: Ein halbes Jahrhundert nachdem die Menschheit ins All aufgebrochen ist, bildet die Solare Union die Basis eines friedlich wachsenden Sternenreichs. Aber die Sicherheit der Menschen ist gefährdet: durch interne Konflikte und ­externe Gegner, zuletzt durch das mysteriöse Dunkelleben. Eigentlich hat Perry Rhodan gehofft, diese Gefahr gebannt zu haben. Doch überall dort, wo der skrupellose Iratio Hondro ­aktiv ist, bleibt das Dunkelleben eine Bedrohung. Hondro kann sogar bis zum Mond vordringen und dort NATHAN, die Künstliche Intelligenz, in seine Gewalt bringen.

Three months have passed since a disastrous EMP left the nation without power, with only the strongest and most prepared still standing. Jack is a survivor. After a tragic showdown, he is keen to step back and allow others to take the spotlight, scarred by painful memories of the casualties under his leadership. But when a terrifying and charismatic new foe arrives on their doorstep, Jack and his friends are lured into a conflict that threatens to be even more devastating than the last. Can Jack step up and protect those he cares about when it matters most?

The world is in the throes of economic decay and at the mercy of terrorists. Across this post-apocalyptic landscape marches one extraordinary soldier and his band of brothers. In a novel as disturbingly plausible as it is powerfully gripping, they are headed into a battle in which they will have to come to grips with the power of technology and the true price of freedom.

Digitaler Serienroman in 12 Folgen von Peter Anderson. Illustriert von Arndt Drechsler. Episode 1. - Ein Raumschiff auf einem unbekannten Planeten. Drei der fünf Besatzungsmitglieder können sich nicht erinnern, wie sie an Bord gekommen sind. Die Mannschaft muss das Schiff verlassen - und findet sich in einer riesigen unterirdischen Fabrikanlage wieder. In diesem gewaltigen Komplex, von Rost und Verfall gezeichnet, arbeiten Wesen, die Menschen gleichen.

Academy Award® winner Rami Malek stars in this apocalyptic thriller as a small-town radio DJ, Simon Itani, fighting to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization. Season 2 picks up after Simon’s family escapes. Upon crossing paths with an old family friend, Wren (played by Aja Naomi King), recounts her experience getting out of Boston... but can she be trusted? What truths remain to be uncovered about the origins of this blackout? Blackout was created by Scott Conroy. Blackout Season 2 was written by Jeremy Novick, and directed ...

Blackout Geschichten Blackout eine fiktive Geschichte aus der Sicht eines Vorbereiteten

(Horror/Comedy) Cryptid Revelation: The catastrophic event when all of the creatures of legend came out of hiding. Human Rights Alliance: An organization created to oppose cryptid rights. Preternatural Studies: The only college course currently offered that researches cryptid species. Group Project: The real Horror.

Longlisted for the 2021 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2021 Bookmark Book of the Year Prize ""One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today"" (Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting) makes his American debut with...

From New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock comes the third installment in her gripping survival series, where fear, hunger, and suspicion threaten to tear a fragile community apart--and one young man's life hangs in the balance. Eight months into a worldwide blackout, the...

Das mittelhessische Dorf Umbach neunzehn Tage nach dem Blackout. Die Einwohner haben sich mit den neuen Umständen arrangiert, erleben aber immer wieder Rückschläge. Vieles, das vor dem Stromausfall als selbstverständlich angesehen wurde, muss nun mühsam erarbeitet werden. Während Malte mit dem Dorfrat das Dorf durch die Katastrophe führt, droht ihm das Verhältnis zu seinem Sohn zu entgleiten. Jutta steuert nun Kutschen statt eine 767 und beginnt zu ahnen, wie ihr Mann wirklich ist.

Alice et Marcus sont confronter à une coupure d'électricité mondiale. Mais comment est arrivé cette coupure ? Trouverons-t-il la raison ? Vous le découvrirez dans Black Out !Marcus : Yoann MarietteAlice : Lisa GicquelLe scientifique : Anatole Stivet Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void. FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.

November 9th, 1965. New York City is plunged into darkness, a taxi driver has bad dreams, and an invisible spacecraft hovers ominously above the skyline. As an extra-terrestrial disease sweeps the populace, Amy and Rory must sabotage the city’s water supply to slow the spread of infection...