Showing results for "Ex Machina" in Literature & Fiction

The opening of Pandora's Box changed the world, giving rise to an age of superhumans and monsters. Yet mankind was not safe from its own hubris, and in the end, it destroyed itself. Sonya Chernovna returns to the past with a mysterious new ability that lets her absorb powers, combine them, and even bestow them onto others. It's a power with near limitless potential.

It's the time of the Great Dionysia, the largest arts festival of the ancient world, held each year in honor of Dionysos, the god of wine. But there's a problem: A ghost is haunting Athens's grand theater. Nicolaos and his clever partner in sleuthing (and now in matrimony), the priestess Diotima, are hired to rid the theater of the ghost so that the festival can begin. With the help of Theokritos, the high priest of Dionysos, they exorcise the ghost publicly while secretly suspecting that a human saboteur is the actual culprit.

Demon-Hunter Kate Connor is having a very bad month. Her resurrected first husband houses the soul of a demon. Her current husband is being overly attentive to the point of smothering. Her toddler son has entered a tantrum phase. And her teenage daughter is still determined to be the next, best demon slayer. Worse, she's determined to get her learner's permit the day she turns 15. That's a lot for one woman to juggle, even a Demon-Hunter. Add saving the world to the mix, and things are about to get complicated.

It is the near future. The Islamic Jihad is over. The Jihadis have beaten the West. Israel stands alone . . . Can what remains of Western civilization oppose their total world domination? What might arise from the dust of the crushed West to resist the martial efforts of the whole Arab world? This is the controversial novella of the final crusade and one soldier’s dark destiny as part of it.

Set in the world of Theros, this RPG actual-play series follows four adventurers (and friends), as they battle monsters from Nyx and, eventually, the gods themselves!

They were soldiers — trained to kill, to clean up what no one should ever see.But when the mission turned on them, when the walls burned and the sky fell in…the truth bled through the fire.They weren’t sent to stop the experiment.They were sent to stop the truth.And in the heart of the inferno…something answered their screams.It offered them life. Power. Salvation—wrapped in the claws of hunger and ash.Now they walk the world changed—haunted by what saved them, hunted by who made them—and bound to hunger that will never be satiated.Welcome to Daemones Ex Machina. Hosted on Acast....