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This classic work of feminist science fiction finds the world reordered. Following a nuclear holocaust, women have used advanced technology to expel men from their cities, bringing them back only for purposes of loveless reproduction under the guise of powerful goddesses. When one young woman, Birana, questions her society's deception, she finds herself exiled amongst the very men she has been taught to scorn. As Birana and her reluctant male protector...
4202) The Dominion
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The Pacific Northwest border town of the Dominion is soaked in magic. Full moons are a bloody spectacle, local restaurants have unicorn on the menu, and a dragon once burned down City Hall. The excitement makes the Dominion a beacon to tourists… but many of them never make it home.
Travel writer Innis Stuart and his photographer, Karsten Roth, are visiting the Dominion to explore its dangers and offer a warning to overconfident tourists. Unfortunately,...
4203) The Exiles
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Nothing could have prepared Nyssa Ardelone for the treachery that lurks inside Fortune's Fall. What began as a joyful reunion with her family soon plunges into chaos, with Nyssa at the center of misplaced accusations that could be catastrophic for everyone. Confused and still grief-stricken over the friends she's lost, Nyssa begins to question whether her journey to Fortune's Fall was worth the cost. When she learns that President Omri has arrested...
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Fourteen months after the outbreak, thirteen months after the nuclear war, the old world is gone, but a new world is emerging. The evacuation of Britain failed, but other evacuations were a success. In Canberra, a new civilisation is being born, but in Canada, the survivors bid a last and final farewell to the Atlantic.While a final evacuation of Nova Scotia is planned, the search for lost communities begins. The journey takes Bill and Kim to the...
4205) Day 100
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One hundred days after humanity was brought to its knees, Elizabeth Marter has joined a small group of survivors in Boston. Under constant attack from scavengers who live beyond the city limits, Elizabeth and the others desperately try to come up with a plan. But when they learn that a more organized enemy is on the way, they realize that they face a battle for what's left of their resources. Thomas Edgewater, meanwhile, has joined up with a ragged...
4206) Terreur Sur Wall Street
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L'effondrement du marché boursier a crée un effet d'entraînement dans des proportions désastreuses. Les banques ont échoué, et les gens provoquent des émeutes dans les rues de villes, qui sont en feu. Des pannes localisées ont fait naitre les échecs du système dans son entier. Le professeur d'économie de l'Université de Chicago Harry Mason, Conseiller des président Américains et du Département du Trésor, a rassemblé son équipe de...
4207) A Reason to Breathe
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An earth-shattering cataclysm. Millions of lives lost. Those left behind are forced to question if they played a part in their demise.
There was a time when Maia Cameron felt safe and content. The wife of a Marine with three handsome boys, the future was something she looked forward to. Now her only concern was survival. Her lone goal is to make it back to what little family she has left, but even that seems a lofty dream.
Tye Agosta lost everything...
4208) Jar of Sorrows
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The Final Installment of the Oaths of Dante, watch as Dante rises up to create the Jar of Sorrows and heal the world he helped break. Armed with greater power and a drive to do whatever it takes to make amends, he moves forward with the love of his mother Thea, partner Christopher and several good friends to heal the earth. However, just as he has great power, he find he is stripped of his immortality and even his lycanthropy. Can he succeed where...
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Une histoire d'amour multiculturelle dans une société futuriste
En Qarabie, une petite monarchie du Moyen-Orient enrichie par les hydrocarbures, John Summerbee, professeur d'art fraîchement débarqué des États-Unis, croise la route de Qatarina, jolie responsable du ministère du Tourisme qarabien. Ce qui les réunit? Une exposition exceptionnelle à la gloire de la culture qarabienne, que les étudiants de John sont chargés de concevoir en...
4210) The Holocaust Engine
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The armies of hell are loosed upon paradise and nothing can stand in their path.It begins with disease.A brain-rotting virus, which leaves its victims disoriented and hyper-violent, rages out of Cuba into the Florida Keys. The bewildered government destroys the mainland bridge and places the islands under quarantine. Inside this cordon, the population descends into chaos, as rival factions battle over dwindling resources, buildings become fortresses,...
4211) The Children of the Lost
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Cast out of the city of Agora where they were left at the end of The Midnight Charter, Mark and Lily must now survive in a dense forest. The strange villages, terrifying nightmares, and powerful witches they find there are even more frightening than Agora with all its slums and secrets. In an adventure that expands with every turn of the page, David Whitley delivers a novel as thrilling and horrifying as his characters' darkest dreams.
4212) Demi-vie: Rupture
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La vie à temps partiel. Un mois d'éveil pour un mois de sommeil. Tel est le prix à payer pour survivre dans la Nouvelle Cité Mondiale. Tout juste âgée de seize ans, Ysia doit quitter ses parents et devenir une Citoyenne à part entière. Beaucoup de changements rendent sa nouvelle réalité difficile : sa superviseure est une femme froide et intransigeante, l'un de ses collègues l'épie pour une raison qu'elle ignore. et l'état de santé de...
4213) The Man in 14C
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A brand new science fiction short story anthology of three fiction works, which were all written using contest prompts.
Encounter. Two crew members must deal with a hull breach on a hauling vessel bound for a distant earth colony. Alone and desperate, they make a choice that might alter their lives forever.
Lucinda. A tv star in a dystopian America reveals her downfall from highly paid news anchor to a low-life host of a television reality show...
4214) Dog Blood: A Novel
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On the heels of Patient Zero and Pride and Prejudice with Zombies- the electrifying sequel to Hater where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction
The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and...
4215) Demise of Humanity
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Who can you trust……in a world plagued by monsters? Britney and Sloan's childhood farm has grown into a refuge for all those in need. Their community thrives, even though the rest of world lies in ruin.But outside their walls, the monsters wait.And not just the ones who've been infested.There are those who see what they have.Those who take without fear of consequences.The apocalypse has unleashed an evil no one saw coming.Can our heroes find a...
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Deep in the heart of a small, oak writing desk is a legacy that mysteriously connects three family women across centuries and generations in their fight for the future. Shima'a, an ancient woman with disturbing visions of the Earth's demise, sends a message of warning and a seed of hope forward in time within the heart of an acorn to three family women: Eliza: Post Gold Rush in the Sacramento Valley, late 19th century • Harmony: Back-to-the-land...
4217) All You Leave Behind
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Chase should be dead. The package he carried was supposed to blow up and take out the guy he handed it to. He was just the courier, the delivery mechanism for a hit. Collateral damage.But he's not.When his package starts ringing, he finds a loaded gun, a phone, and the defused remains of the bomb inside. The stranger on the other end of the line tells him that she saved his life.And that he now has the chance for revenge and the tools to take it,...
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The first book in the emotionally charged post-apocalyptic series, The Ending. They may have survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed them... Grad student Dani O'Connor won't let a cross-country move end her closest friendship. But when a mysterious virus consumes the world and Dani,herself, falls violently ill, she fears she'll never see her loved ones again.After her fever finally breaks, she barely recognizes the devastated world around...
4219) Eleven Sooty Dreams
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Eleven Sooty Dreams could also have been called Meeting at Bolcho Pride, or Fire Deep Down Below, or Station in the Heart of the Flames, or Granny Holgolde's Stories, or The Liars' Bridge, or Eve of Battle After the Defeat, or Never Without My Embers, or Good-Bye to Death, or Fire Stories, or Terminal Childhoods, or Granny Holgolde's Childish Sickness, or Even the Nursing Home Is in the Line of Fire.
In Manuela Draeger's poetic 'post-exotic' novel,...
4220) Recompense
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In a nation built upon lies, the truth is a dangerous secret.Born into Capernica's lowest social tier and not permitted to leave Settlement 56, Jaclyn (Jack) Holloway refuses to pour out her years in the local fish cannery. She gambles on the one chance available to her to advance--the high school Exit Exam. In a country that still keenly remembers its own violent birth, the smartest and strongest are richly rewarded in exchange for military service....
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