Science fiction: apokalyptisk og postapokalyptisk

1995, les Ordzs sont de retour sur terre pour se venger. Les humains sont contraints de vivre cachés dans des bunkers des associations de chaque ville du monde. Dylan Inatlos, et ses amis Mei, Tyler et Ruby vont se lancer dans une périlleuse quête dans le but de venger les innocents tués par l'épée du seigneur Argoth.Le jeune Inatlos apprendra que les ordzs ne sont pas revenus par hasard sur terre, puisqu'il est la raison principale de leur retour sur terre.

A cli-fi thriller in a gritty future

On the 50th anniversary of its release, Repeater is honoured to reissue John Boorman’s novelization of his cult film Zardoz with a new introduction by the director.In a post-apocalyptic 2393, society is split between an elite group of immortal Eternals and a brutal underclass that live in the outlands and are controlled by the Exterminators. Zed, an Exterminator who has come to question his role and the exact nature of the world he inhabits, stows away in the flying head that descends to issue guns and sermons to the Exterminators, and enters the world of the Eternals: the Vortex. An ostensible paradise of rationality and order, the Vortex is revealed as a place which is itself full of division and intrigue. Has he come here of his own free will? Or is he part of some larger competition among the Eternals? How has the Vortex come about, and what might come after? What is it in Zed that the Eternals lack, and is he there to bring them “the gift of death"? Expanding on and fleshing out the characters' histories and the themes of his riotous, psychedelic cult classic film Zardoz, Boorman’s novelization has become something of a cult itself, a fully realised visionary sci-fi novel by one of the most important directors of the twentieth century.

A novel of the deindustrial future...

A journey forward into the past...

Manny Stewart is a happy man in this year 2366. He has survived a childhood with his cruel and abusive father, and has matured into a street-smart, ambitious NYPD detective with a talent for his work, and a background as a thief. Married to his childhood sweetheart, Manny has a young son, with another child coming soon.While it is illegal to leave the underground Colony of NY, Manny has been doing so regularly for many years. The family business dealing in black market goods from Philadelphia is a thriving illegal enterprise which has made the family fabulously wealthy.How long can the Colony continue underground, with its aging infrastructure? When a new threat surfaces, it becomes apparent that time is running out. Manny's career with the NYPD begins to take off just when the Colony is desperately in need of leadership. But his personal life falls apart when a sudden and unforeseeable catastrophe blindsides him, rocking him to his core, and in that moment, everything changes.Starlight, Shadows and Tears is the second book in a three-part series, Starlight and Ashes Trilogy. The first book, Never See the Sun Again, was published in 2021. The third book will be coming soon.

"In a world where Rome never fell, an unlikely group of protagonists are ready to burn down the empire in the first of this bold new speculative trilogy"--

After a global disaster reduces Earth's human population to pre-industrial levels, survivors of western civilization divide into two groups: one recreates society following pre-disaster norms, while the other modifies human emotions to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophe. Those in favor of recreating society, referred to as the "Randoms," migrate to Western Europe, while the proponents of a redesigned human existence, known as the "Modifieds," settle in North America. Centuries after the division, two young women from the Modified faction are given the opportunity to visit the Random community. After their exploration, they each face a pivotal decision: whether to remain on Random or return to their homeland, Modified.

Embrace the shadows with Vagabond #5, your newest compendium of terror, bringing you the most chilling tales from the darkest recesses of the unknown. This winter issue, featuring thirteen harrowing stories, invites you to tread the blizzard-blown paths where whispers dance with the winds, and figures lurk just beyond the frosted glass. Each tale spins a delicate web of dread, suspense, and the outright macabre, drawing the brave and the curious into landscapes from which escape is a flickering, distant hope. Gather your courage, for the icy breath of fear itself caresses every page. Dare you delve into these forbidden chronicles and face the bleak and ravenous horrors within?

A ring of reverse gravity encircles the globe. The shocking reason lies hidden within the world's outcasts. "An extraordinary work of science fiction worldbuilding" - The BookLife Prize, Publishers Weekly

Tommi Musturis ”Future” er et multivers af historier, der udspiller sig iforskellige tidslinjer i menneskets historie. Fortid, nutid og fremtid: Imaginærefremtidige verdener, aktuelle begivenheder i vores samfund og historiskereferencer. Alle disse historier vikler sig ind i hinanden på kryds og tværs, oggiver et perspektiver på menneskehedens mulige eftertid. Vores utopier, idealerog hybris.Værket er et sci-fi spektakel, der trækker på genrens utallige troper. Læserenmøder bl.a. en kæmpe plasticpose (baseret på Ursula Le Guins bæreposeteori),der vandrer formålsløst rundt i universet. Læseren møder også det ældreægtepar, de sidste overlevende på jorden, der har samlet al verdensmaterialistiske rigdom, samt byen Centra, et utopia skabt af alle hjemløsesdrømme. Et land, hvor alle er blinde og alle bænke er polstrede.Tegneserien skriver sig særligt ind i to aktuelle debatter: Klimakrisen samtmenneskehedens voksende sameksistens med kunstig intelligens og hvad detkan have af konsekvenser for vores menneskelighed. Gennem historiernebehandles temaer som overforbrug, kapitalisme, klimakrisen, unges angst forfremtiden samt den kunstige intelligens’ invasive indflydelse på vores liv ogkreativitet.Tommi Musturi er kendt for sin virtuose og generøse stil, hvor han med legende lethed skifter stil og udtryk. Et retorisk værktøj, hvor han henter inspiration fraalle de forskellige stilarter, identiteter, objekter og emner han hidtil har brugt isit arbejde for at kunne udfolde kompleksiteten af det mørke og abstrakteemne, der er centrum for tegneserierne. De forskellige stilarter udfordrerlæserens forventninger til stilen som noget trygt og genkendeligt og tiltegneseriegenren som helhed.Om Musturi:Tommi Musturi (f. 1975) og er en finsk tegner, illustrator, grafisk designer ogkunstner med base i Siuro, Finland. Han er uddannet fra University of Arts andDesign i Helsinki. Musturi er en af de kunstneriske ledere af Helsinki ComicsFestival og er også involveret i musik, grafisk design, illustration, kunst ogperformancekunst. Han er udgivet i 20 lande.

Survival is beyond gender, technology, or politics. It is a beautiful spring day when the people of the Deerwhere community meet an insurmountable natural catastrophe. Survival is completely dependent on human resilience and cooperation. A dystopian city-state must transform into recovery. Exposed to a variety of cultures, challenges of nature, and personal fears, the people of Deerwhere must save themselves and their home. Adrion's Passage is set in the Deerwhere universe, a world where a New Confederation of Peace was established after centuries of wars, overpopulation, political disruption, and global pandemics. Deerwhere was the culmination of humanity's search for Utopia. The colony quarantine keeps the survivors safe. Three genders live in harmony in Deerwhere: male, female, and uniale. Through epigenetics, uniales embody the prime qualities of both sexes and are immune to pandemics.

THE DEERWHERE CODEX defines humanity beyond the genders of Female, Male, and Uniale. Humanness can be explored through sentient Quantum Computers or corporeal beings on a water world in the Multiverse.In The Deerwhere Awakening, humanity's quest for utopia had come to fruition. The Founders imagined a place where humans, all three genders-uniales, females and males, would contentedly dwell behind walls and live happily ever after in comfort and safety. Humans have never dwelt anywhere happily ever after. It is not in their nature. Inquisitiveness and rebellion are basic thought processes. The humans revolted against their Keeper, the benign artificial intelligence the Founders had created to guide them. They thought they knew better. So they set out on their own to make the world perfect. It worked-for a while. In Adrion's Passage an earthquake, The Big One, shattered their world and a new challenge arose: Survival. They discovered a wild world outside the protection of Deerwhere, an unimagined world full of hazard and discovery. There are always challenges to face in life, but people discovered those challenges always have solutions. Often those solutions are quite dangerous and difficult.EVER AEQUUM is a collection of tales about the characters from the first two books, along with an assortment of new folk. The stories tell of their journeys, loves and tribulations as they wend their way through this dangerous, exciting new world in quest of that happily ever after for which humans all yearn.

Author Jonas Saul (Sarah Roberts Series) and Rania Stone (What He Didn't Know) team up to write another dark thriller, The Soulless.Despite dire warnings from renowned scientists, a dangerous experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern received approval.But something goes wrong.An explosion in the particle accelerator creates a massive crater and opens a rift between the planes of existence, resurrecting good and evil souls alike.Cassandra, a woman close to the explosion in Switzerland, finds her dead parents have been restored to life, while Mujtaba, a devout Muslim in the Middle East, is haunted by visions telling him what to do to save the world.In cities thousands of miles apart, Cassandra and Mujtaba fight to correct the imbalance the particle accelerator created before it's too late and the entire Earth is devoured by a blackness unleashed from the Earth's core.They soon learn that Hell is for the righteous among them.

Amazon Editor's Pick, Best SFF September 2023 •  The Strand, Science Fiction Pick of the Month October 2023Deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor, with a brand-new introduction from the author.Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great change has happened all over the planet, and the laws of physics aren’t what they used to be. Within all this, I introduce you to Ejii Ugabe, a child of the worst type of politician. Back when she was nine years old, she was there as her father met his end. Don’t waste your tears on him: this girl’s father would throw anyone under a bus to gain power. He was a cruel, cruel man, but even so, Ejii did not rejoice at his departure from the world. Children are still learning that some people don’t deserve their love.   Now 15 years old and manifesting the abilities given to her by the strange Earth, Ejii decides to go after the killer of her father. Is it for revenge or something else? You will have to find out by reading this book. I am the Desert Magician, and this is a novel I have conjured for you, so I’m certainly not going to just tell you here.

Question: Are you part of the solution or part of the problem?These writings are offered for those average "man on the street" type of low-information conservative who have been awakened and want to volunteer their efforts by enlisting in the cause to help recover American freedoms from this leftist tyranny. Put your big-boy pants on. Let's rock and roll. This is a handbook on how to avoid being an unwitting ally of ignorant pseudointellectual elitist snobs, leftists, regressive liberals, progressives, socialists, fascists, communists, Marxists, Maoists, including all cross-dressing RINO (republican in name only) gelding losers, Trojans, and counterfeit conservatives. A starter kit and pocket guide for conservative wannabes. Conservatives are not antigovernment. They are pro-Constitution and anti-Marxist. Our country has drifted so far left that now the Tea Party represents what for decades was normal. A very important heads-up: Most low-information voters have no clue they are low-information voters. Can we talk and separate the adults from the kids? Our argument is Americanism versus Marxism, not Republican versus Democrat! All our rights are sovereign, natural, God-given, and unalienable, not constitutional! Our government is a constitutional republic, not a mobocracy! It is the government, stupid! Aren't we finished yet? Don't we have too much already?

Fynn war nie an einem Leben außerhalb der Mauern interessiert. Doch als eine unvorhergesehene Katastrophe seine Heimat verwüstet und seine Familie zerreißt, bleibt ihm nichts mehr anderes übrig. Unfreiwillig wird er tief in Konflikte voller Magie und verloren geglaubter Technik gezogen, dabei wünscht er sich nichts mehr, als endlich seine Schwester wiederzusehen...

After the events of 2020, all of us were glad to move on. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn't known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more. It was our common interests that sent us on vacation together to my remote cabin.What we didn't, couldn't know, was that we were on a collision course with the end of the world as we knew it. There was a new virus in town, and it was just making itself known when we left civilization behind. While the world was reeling from its effects, we were completely unaware of what was happening. For a couple of weeks life was great. Driving too fast on the side-by-side, loud music, great food, a little alcohol, and casual conversation distracted by beautiful scenery. About the only thing that would slow us down was the occasional deer in the road. By the time we figured out something was wrong, it was too late?..

A nuclear war ends life on earth, and a secret society called Zion survived underground by sealing their doors. One hundred years passed by, and a new generation began to see the beautiful and prosperous city they would inherit one day; however, they felt no reason to change themselves. They believe Zion's belief systems are no longer applicable and seek to replace them. When heavy secrets come to light, they begin to see the leadership as an evil tyrant and seek to save the ones they love and tear down the evil leadership--only to find out a little too late that, maybe, it was them who was wrong all along.

For Horatio Oberon Twitchgrove, the war had never ended. He fought as a child, as a teenager, as an adult. He fought into his twilight years. War was all he had ever known. Peacetime? Hah, like he could change now. It just meant trading his general's uniform for a crimelord's mantle. He proceeded with the same ruthless abandon as ever. Oh, he might be old now, battle-worn and broken-even wheelchair-bound. But he had his children. His grown children. What need had he of capable limbs when he had children to do his dirty-work? Through them he maintained his strangle-hold on the vices throughout the land.Still, there was Ronaldo, his youngest, born to too tame a wife. A bit problematic, that one. He'd never quite gotten it. Now he's gone off and found himself a young woman. Hah, of refined tastes! Naye, he's married her! She, without an ounce of bloodlust in her veins! Su, she calls herself. Without an E. As if that matters. As if anyone cares. Well, she'll have to prove her mettle to the whole family. One year. He's given her one year to demonstrate her worthiness to bear the Twitchgrove name. Who says he's not compassionate? That's plenty of time to commit an atrocity most foul.Approx. 250 pages.

In an instant, it was all gone.The survivors called it the Unraveling-a merciless one-two punch of economic collapse and deadly plague that brought the United States, and the world, to its knees.For history teacher and Army veteran Eric Jaeger, the collapse of the nation he once swore to defend is only the beginning. As civilization crumbles around them, Eric and tough-as-nails paramedic Susan Walker flee the Milwaukee suburbs for the safety of the Montana home of his Army buddy, Manny Landeros. They join an eclectic group of friends forced to adapt to a violent and lawless world in which kindness and decency end at Manny's property line.Eric's hopes of staying hidden to weather the catastrophe are dashed when a wealthy despot seizes power in the nearby state capital and hatches a horrific plan with the remnants of a federal government desperate to regain control at any cost. When the enigmatic leader of a growing resistance movement asks Manny's group to join the fight, they must decide whether to risk everything to defeat a tyrant-and in Eric's case, risk sacrificing Susan on freedom's altar.The first book in the riveting Unraveling series, Big Sky Fallen is perfect for fans of One Second After, the Patriots series, as well as anyone who worries that our nation is charging headlong toward disaster.

The infected aren't as different as they once thought. For weeks after settling into the hospital, Shelby watches orderlies plunge needles into the infected. Only, it's not working. The infected grow weaker, and many are convinced a cure is impossible. When a colleague suggests another approach, Shelby doesn't hesitate despite the consequences. As she's making headway, Jason returns with a tantalizing quest that pulls her back to the Rec Pier. Torn between missions, Shelby realizes the Lazarus virus isn't the only enemy to fear. Danger closes in on all sides. Out of sight but nearby, Dean struggles with the doctor's deadly attempt to save sours and Marcus's continued threat. Trudging through the frigid streets of Baltimore with blood on his hands, he'll wield his hatchet into battle once more. Dean can't keep his loved ones safe forever. The city burns, a common enemy emerges, and hope of escape drifts further away.

With winter over, no one is safe. The infected rise from hibernation, hungry for survivors. While across the bay, an enemy's army waits to strike. Shelby creates a new life as a runner. With the freedom to move and the chance to reinvent herself, she pays the high price of leaving loved ones behind. Tangled in a web of allies and enemies, Shelby embarks on a risky journey to secure her future. A secret shatters Dean. After broken promises and torn relationships, he ventures out on his own. His plan to lay low is derailed when he runs into his wife-someone he vowed to stay away from. Could Shelby ever understand the blood on his hands and what he's had to do for his people? If not, he'll lose her and his new alliance.

Unit VL-15 was so close to freedom and answers. Until the world ended in catastrophic war. Decades of silence passed. The country had become a brutal landscape. But over time, thin roots of civilization began to peek through the wreckage. Humanity was not ready to be extinct after all. Dr. Amelia Wong, the leader the Hub, is determined to rebuild the world. And lost technological relics, no matter how big or small, would be the building blocks for their future. But was she doing enough to keep them safe? Craig Anderson leads his team, "The Exhumers," in extracting those lost relics in the savage Wastes. His already dangerous job becomes a matter of life and death once his team discovers a unique and dangerous specimen hidden in the rubble. VL-15 has awakened once more. Its head is full of shaky memories of the Old Era. Strange human memories. Where did they come from? Whose are they? It is determined to find out. Two hundred miles of wasteland, filled with vicious Errant machines, vengeful Artificers, and primal humans, lay between them and The Machine City. Terranyne. The answers would surely be there, right? Or would they be within VL-15's own mind?

"A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling, they set out across a breathtaking yet treacherous wilderness in search of the last of their people. Down the coast, raiders deliver the children's mother, along with the rest of their human cargo, to the last port city of a waning empire. Determined to reunite with her family, she plots her escape - while her fellow captives plan open revolt. At the center of power in this crumbling city, a young scholar inherits his father's business and position of privilege, along with the burden of his debts. As the empire's elite prepare to flee to new utopia across the sea, he must decide where his allegiance lies. With a rapidly changing climate shifting the sands beneath their feet, these three paths converge in a struggle for the future of humanity - who will inherit what remains and who gets to tell its story."--