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Emiliano Nowell was a world-class genetic engineer. He was also a wealthy and idealistic man with the time and money necessary to follow his dreams. In secret laboratories far from Earth he used his powers to create 100 genetically perfect children...an enlightened cadre Nowell hoped would lead humanity out of that maze of war, famine, torture, and death called history. But the Golden People proved to be more intelligent than even he believed possible.

Through a heady cocktail of drugs and the occult, Bosley slips through time and space and glimpses The End. Cities lay in ruins, and those who still cling to life hide in the rubble like frightened animals. Walking carcasses shamble through the debris exacting a horrible fate upon any living they find. This horrific future is the only world fourteen year old Ocean has ever known. Starving and alone, she struggles for even the most basic of necessities: food, water, shelter, love….

Close the doors. Shut the blinds. Turn out the lights. Make that room dark. Get ready for Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People. Originally recorded in 1962, the album features 11 ghost stories introduced by Hitchcock himself and then read by actor John Allen. If you were a kid during the early '60s, this may bring back some very good memories.

His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, he’s now called the Tarnished Knight by the press. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld, destroying his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House—a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled Joshua’s psychic senses and his memories, but he’s determined to reveal the truth.

Campbell has little memory of who he was before the end of the world. His only clues are a scrap of paper with his name inscribed upon it and the single photograph he carries of his missing wife and son. He subsists in a post-apocalyptic North America devoid of resources and governance. It is ruled by oligarchs who mask themselves as Caretakers for the survivors who populate their primitive settlements.

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The final book in an action-packed science fiction trilogy set on a far-future world where the fate of nations is determined by single combat: "that rare book that fully satisfies me as an action fan." (Fonda Lee, author of Jade City) The Grievar War has engulfed the Empire of Kiroth and Silas...

In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember. But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.

Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to build or operate machinery. Not only have his fellow Londoners forgotten most of what humankind used to know, before civilization collapsed, but they don't particularly care to re-learn any of it. Though he is at first disconcerted by the failure of his own era's smug doctrine of Progress, Tuft eventually decides that post-civilized life is simpler, more peaceful.

It’s our world, but decades into the future...an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. All conflicts are safely oceans away. People get up, work, and have dinner. Everything is as it should be. Except for 17-year-old John, a tech prodigy from a damaged family, who hides a deeply personal secret. But everything starts to change when he enters a tiny café on a cold Tokyo night. A café run by a disgraced sumo wrestler, where a peculiar dog with a spherical head lives, alongside its owner, enigmatic waitress Neotnia.

Gretch Wolgast is a bit of a dud. Just ask her. She’s a 21-year-old college dropout who has a loser job at the mall. Sure, she can lift a tennis ball with her telekinetic powers. But only three feet in the air. And she has to be sitting. Gretch is an OP, one of thousands born in Orlando, Florida, in the early 1980s who mysteriously developed the ability to move things with their minds. Unfortunately, she turned out to be the weakest of the bunch. Now, Gretch’s life is being turned upside down. She witnesses a murder and discovers a wide-ranging conspiracy.

Timo, a lazy and widely disliked thirty-something, wakes up one day to discover he is… literally the last person on Earth. After a unanimous vote, humanity decided to ditch him and escape aboard a spaceship to flee an incoming asteroid. Left alone with Constance, a sarcastic drone, he becomes the caretaker of the “Attic of Humanity,” a massive warehouse filled with the most useless objects ever invented. Between laziness, absurdity, and crushing solitude, Timo tries to make sense of this new life… where even being alone turns out to be anything but restful. Hosted on Acast. See ...

Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic.

Ethan, Johnny, and Jeremy read through the many Star Wars Expanded Universe novels in publication order and look at the politics, culture, and economics of both that world and ours through a historical materialist lens. Find us at bsky.app/profile/peoplesnewrepublic.bsky.social and instagram.com/peoplesnewrepublic, and email us at peoplesnewrepublic@protonmail.com!

Warin is one of a small team charting the demise of the last few inhabitants of Retti 4, a distant planet in the throes of an extinction-level virus. It’s not Warin’s job to intervene in natural evolution or to question the whims of a cruel universe. He is only to observe and report. Until Warin actually steps foot on Retti 4.

In the aftermath of a devastating world war, Captain Garin, once the most celebrated fighter pilot in the American forces, finds himself grappling with poverty and hunger in civilian life. When an intriguing opportunity arises to join an expedition to Antarctica, he eagerly accepts the challenge. Tasked with investigating a mysterious mist that shrouds the land, Garin soon becomes entangled with enigmatic creatures that dwell within. His journey leads him to confront the ominous Caves of Darkness, where an ancient prophecy beckons Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and ...

Erlebe Retro-Gaming, Nostalgie und geballtes Nerd-Wissen in einem Podcast: People and Games nehmen dich mit auf eine Zeitreise durch die Videospielgeschichte – von den ersten 8-Bit-Hits bis zu modernen Klassikern. Hosts Kathraal und Zowarock erzählen Insider-Stories, analysieren Konsolen-Hardware und feiern ikonische Games, die Generationen geprägt haben. Jede Woche erwarten dich: - spannende Facts & Anekdoten zu Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation und PC-Legenden - Technik-Deep-Dives (Specs, Chips, Sound) für echte Retro-Gaming-Fans - kultige Soundschnipsel und „Weißt-du-noch?“-Momente ...

The spirit of Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess Orlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yelolow Raja and his servant, the Pallid Mask. Prince John's motley band of friends and followers, led by Captain Pip of Townsville and Deor Godulfson, the bard and master of magic, must lead a quest through realms of shadow and dream to rescue Prince John from a threat far worse than death. Meanwhile, Reiko and Orlaith muster their kingdoms for war, making common cause with the reborn Kingdom of Hawaii.

Gigran - paradoksal'nyj mir razdelennyj Sredinnym hrebtom. Mir, gde otdel'nye severnye strany doshli do jepohi tehnicheskoj revoljucii, a jug o slozhnoj tehnike dazhe ne pomyshljaet. Zachem ona, esli tam ne zabyli magiju? S ee pomoshh'ju sobirajut bogatye urozhai na poljah, vedut korabli po okeanam i dazhe osvaivajut Krajnij Jug - samoe negostepriimnoe mesto na svete, gde do sih por ne utihli otgoloski drevnej katastrofy.

The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont is a chilling and visionary science fiction story that explores a dystopian future where physical perfection is mandatory and individuality is a threat.