Showing results for "Isolation" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The enemy is coming. The enemy is already here. For years they’ve prepared, plotted, and planned. For years they’ve waited to strike from above and below. Earth is under siege. The enemy covers the landscape. Proxima is unharmed. But that’s about to change. No armies can stop this menace, and no defenses can slow the advance. We are scattered and isolated. We are ignorant and weak. No help is coming. No help remains...or does it? Old heroes will sacrifice everything. New heroes will rise.

République de Dor-Thimlin. À l'époque instable des temps sombres. Depuis la fin de l'ère de prospérité, les cinq régions vivent dans la plus grande isolation, chacune abritant ses citoyens dans des villes qui tentent de survivre malgré un climat de peur et de confusion politique. Naryë, Observatrice d'Aldal et membre de l'Assemblée des Sages, est certaine de sa vision : il existe un moyen de mettre un terme à l'Affliction qui sévit au-delà des murs et de guérir la perte du Don.

Xriah and Vylis, two avatars, both empowered with differing superhuman abilities, are repeatedly thrust into wildly varying worlds to do battle on behalf of their respective deities. Though the nature of their deities is shrouded in mystery, both avatars' faith in their purpose is strong and unwavering. On each successive world they seek one another out, and then it is a battle to the death, despite the fact that both the defeated and victor alike are reborn and plunged into yet another world, to begin the fight all over again.

The product of a troubled and violent youth, Amanda Ripley is hellbent to discover what happened to her missing mother, Ellen Ripley. She accepts an assignment with a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the Nostromo flight recorder from space station Sevastopol, which they find out of control due to a Xenomorph that was brought there with the recorder. A conspiracy unfolds, revealing ever greater threats - including an entire Xenomorph hive.

Ожерелье - планетарную систему, сформированную некогда древней могущественной расой логриан, - сотрясали катастрофические Смещения, несущие неисчислимые беды обитателям Первого Мира. Го-Лоит - модернизированный клон логрианина - при помощи бесчисленных орд скелхов, выращиваемых им в инкубаторах....

This program is read by the author. The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage. ONE LOOK CAN KILL. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon...