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Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on...

Thomas Phillips knows he's losing his mind. He's been losing it for as long as he can remember. And yet, when a strange old man asks him to consider that he, out of everyone in the world, knows the real truth, Thomas' life begins to spiral out of control. He loses interest in his job and is fired. He refuses his wife's suggestion of psychiatric care, and she leaves him. In the end, Thomas is alone.

All Thomas Weaver wanted was death. What he got was time travel. Thomas Weaver, haunted by a teenage tragedy, lived a wasted life. He closed his eyes for what he believed was the last time in 2016, but opened them again in his teenage bedroom and body in 1976. Now a middle-aged man in his teenage body, he sets out to fix everything he did wrong in his first life. A budding serial killer in home room, a possible new romance, and high school algebra complicate his plans. What would you do, if you could do it all again?

Ex-mercenary, pirate, and gun-runner Dante Bogart knows he's screwed the pooch after he hands one of his shady employers a biological weapon that made the dead rise from their graves, laugh like hyenas, and feast upon the living. Dante tried to blow the whistle via a tell-all video that went viral - but that was before the black ops boys deep-sixed him at a secret interrogation site on the Panama-Colombia border.

First, strange odors . . . and nightmares that stretch across Time. Images of a hideous machine dragging Indians, colonials, slaves to an ancient mound . . . then a hellish light pulses from a hidden room . . . and suddenly Dan Post is trapped, his mind sane, but his body possessed by a galactic probe programmed to collect - Specimens. Human specimens. Now, with no hands, no voice, locked in the ultimate prison, Dan must battle an immortal alien machine, even as it forces him to kidnap its final victims....

A towering genius who'd already solved the problem of death by making memory recording possible, Cassia leads a team of scientists and problem solvers to a station floating in the harsh winds of Saturn. Their mission: to grow interstellar ships using nanobots in the planet's material-rich environment. She called them "monsters" to help sell the project to a skeptical public. Little did she know how prophetic that name would become.

This novel spans the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.

A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid. When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that the Hole hurtles inexorably toward the sun.

The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the nation in the aftermath of the Civil War. Everything on the other side of the Mississippi has been claimed for Russia. Lincoln is still president, having never been assassinated, but the former secretary of war Edwin Stanton is now the head of the Department of Public Safety, ruling with an iron fist as head of the country's military.

A series examining different aspects of FromSoftware's games, from Dark Souls to Armored Core to Elden Ring to Bloodborne. May also occasionally touch on other video games and aspects of game design.

Trotz seiner Angst vor der Dunkelheit verbringt Mateo sein halbes Leben damit, in Gebäude aus der »Alten Zeit« einzusteigen und vergessene Hochtechnologie zu plündern. Da erhält er die Chance seines Lebens: Der professionelle »Hunters of Ancient«-Squad engagiert ihn für den größten Auftrag, den er je hatte. Von Anfang an muss er sich gegen Schikane und Anfeindung behaupten; zu allem Überfluss verliebt er sich Hals über Kopf in die Technikexpertin des Teams. Und dann kommt es tief unten im Forschungsbunker der Takashi Corporation zur Katastrophe.

So some god smoked a million godly cigarettes and exhaled that all over the Earth, causing the entire planet to erupt into chaos, death, explosions, implosions, and general apocalyptic events. The air is foul. Probably poisonous. Despite this, life inexplicably continues for one slacker and his cat. As far as Isaac knows, and depending on what side of the AI sentience debate you're on, he's the only human left on the planet. He would resign to his fate-playing the latest Fallout or replaying Portal 2 on the PS6 until the electricity fails and he begins to rot more than just his brain.

Gideon, a young and gifted electromagnetics engineer, finds himself stationed at Green Bank Observatory, with the United States' most powerful radio telescope at his fingertips. Utilizing groundbreaking techniques, he stumbles upon an unexplainable radio signal emerging from just outside our solar system. Soon, he is thrust into a world of science and politics as humanity steps into the unknown. Trust morphs into fear as the dark shroud of the discovery is lifted, revealing the true intentions that will forever alter the course of the human race.

Decades after the zombie outbreak shattered civilization, the fragile peace in the west is about to crumble. When Knox's Castle's elite sniper vanishes while investigating mysterious explosions from the east, Ghost and his partner are forced beyond their compound's walls into infected territory—where the undead roam freely and survival depends on three rules: avoid the infected, conserve ammo, and trust your team. But in the lawless eastern zones, those rules mean nothing.

In naher Zukunft: Auf Grund der Maßnahmen zu Pandemien und Klimawandel hat sich das Leben vollkommen verändert. In dieser explosiven Gemengelage kommt der junge Robin Hochwaldt unerwartet an die Hebel der Macht, nachdem er dem Amt für Schuld und Scham entkommen ist. Nach irritierenden und schmerzhaften Erfahrungen erkennt er, dass er eine Entscheidung treffen muss.

Is our sun behaving differently from other stars? When an amateur astronomer discovers something strange on telescopic solar pictures, an explanation must be found. Is it merely artifact? Or has he found something totally unexpected? An expert international crew is hastily assembled, a spaceship is speedily repurposed, and the foursome is sent on the ride of their lives. What challenges will they face on this spur-of-the-moment mission to our central star?

Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. But what if he could go back? Hurled back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all. A chance to warn humanity of their impending doom. A chance to stop the [System] before shortsightedness and lust for power can render humanity extinct.

In der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben zieht sie mit ihrem Gefährten Gazael nach Neu-Babel, wo sich der Traum vom Glück in einen Albtraum verwandelt. Als sie auch noch an "Verfall" erkrankt, scheint ihr Schicksal besiegelt. Doch sie nimmt den Kampf auf und begibt sich auf die schier aussichtslose Suche nach einem Heilmittel. Für den ultrareichen Lukures ist das Leben ein einziger Rausch aus Drogen, Dirnen und anderen Belustigungen. Er genießt sein Leben in vollen Zügen – bis die Reize plötzlich fad schmecken und die Welt an Farbe verliert.

Für die Nachfahren der wenigen Überlebenden ist die Welt von harten Kontrasten geprägt. Wendy hält sich nicht daran. Ihr kleiner Bruder und dessen Freund werden von Fremden in einem Zeppelin entführt. In der verzweifelten Hoffnung, sie wiederzufinden, verlässt sie die Fels-Enklave und wagt sich in die große Einöde.