Bøger af Chris Pourteau

The dark, gritty dystopia of Escape from New York meets the isolated heroism of The Omega Man and the horrific reality of C.H.U.D. in this second Serenity novel. In The Serenity Strain: Stormbreak, three massive hurricanes ended the world. Six psychopaths escaped prison. And one mystical temptress named Id slipped into our reality. Now, the storms have passed. Houston's stunned survivors are waking up, wandering out of their broken homes, and looking for someone to show them the way. In Ironheart, heroes thrown together by circumstance face their greatest fears. Lauryn, Megan, Stavros, and Colt--a new champion from another reality--stand together as Id, Marsten, and their army of escaped prisoners move south to enslave the Bayou City. And now a new threat emerges as ravenous creatures born from man's own vanity pour forth from another corner of the multiverse.

*Note: Previously published as Apocalypse Weird: The Serenity Strain by Wonderment Media, Inc.* The End of the World Starts on the Gulf Coast Multiple hurricanes wreak unprecedented devastation on Houston, Texas. The Serenity Six-genetically altered test subjects for a viral strain known as Serenity-escape the state prison in Huntsville to gorge their appetite for murder on society's survivors. They soon become the acolytes of Id, a being of immense power and wanton appetites, who steps into our reality to prosecute mankind and destroy morality. And one family steps up to the fight-a family experiencing its own turmoil caused by a contentious divorce. The Stand meets 28 Days Later in this epic tale of genetic manipulation gone awry. There's no such thing as an ordinary hero.

***winner of the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction*** David Jackson leaves a successful law practice in the big city to return to the hometown he fled long ago. At its center stands Old Suzie's house, a grand home once the elegant jewel of a bygone era. Now abandoned, the house stands decaying, simmering in the town's tortured past. David thought he'd buried his childhood nightmares along with his father in the town cemetery under six feet of dirt and thirty years of grief, but they're not finished with him just yet. His wife and daughter find themselves in real danger from the unquiet phantoms of David's past. David Jackson's childhood might just hold the key to what haunts Old Suzie's house-and his family's salvation. What Other Writers Are Saying: Chris Pourteau's Shadows Burned In turned out to be much more than I was expecting....I read a lot of books from debut authors and frankly, a lot of times it can be a chore. With SBI, Chris had me from the very beginning. This is a debut book that you really should catch....Very literary in its aspirations, an abuse story that is so much more. - Michael Bunker, author of The Pennsylvania Omnibus A great start for a new literary voice...the storytelling and uniqueness of Mr. Pourteau's voice kept me reading on. A wonderful first attempt, and a sign of great things to come. - Roberto Calas, author of the Scourge series This is that novel of childhood's end and adult's beginning. Of saying farewell to the things you love and that scare you and hello to things you're too scared to ever stop loving...written extremely well and with incredible heart. Complex. Bittersweet. It doesn't let you go. I highly recommend this haunted tale. - Nick Cole, author of The Wasteland Saga ________________________________ "The author excels at painting scenery....[the] reader can really see and feel the locations and delves into them.... * [Pourteau] provides lovely gems of description reminiscent of Sarah Addison Allen: "spirit moaned on the wind" as an example; this is excellent writing....The reader goes back over these to enjoy them again. * A sign of a well-written narrative....The different plot paths converge well at the end. Excellent plotting....Good tension throughout; author moves the pace nicely."-Judge, Writer's Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards

Power, politics, and intergalactic war... Admiral Stone just wanted to retire. Xenophobia and itchy trigger fingers nearly ended the Sol Alliance. War-avoidable yet inevitable-ensued with the Arcoenum, an exotic alien species with overwhelming mental abilities. The Alliance survived thanks to the quick thinking of a brash, young starship officer, Nick Stone. A half-century of peace followed, and Stone spends the rest of his life reluctantly accepting the endless accolades of a grateful humanity. Now, at 75, he's not only ready to retire-he's desperate to. "S-O-S. All ships and stations. My name is Alice Keller..." When a distress call goes out from Drake's World, newly elected Alliance President Piers Bragg pressures Stone into one final mission: rescue the young girl marooned on the planet, then sail triumphantly into retirement. But when Alice demonstrates amazing psychokinetic abilities, everything changes. And Bragg will stop at nothing to exploit her abilities as he prepares for a war of revenge against what's left of the Arcoenum. The Expanse meets Star Trek in this military science fiction epic from award-winning author Chris Pourteau. How many times can we forget the lessons of history... before history decides to forget us?

This Twelfth edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Four sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories-each from a different featured master of speculative fiction. Jason LaVelle invites us on a journey to Utopia. Chris Pourteau takes us to the final battle confrontation with The Last Ship. In his tale Repulse, Will Swardstrom shows us that the past is always near. And Daniel Arthur Smith shares the second episode of The Off World Kick Murder Squad Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.