Author: Laurèn Lee
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Hope can save us, or it can tear us apart. . . With a new position of power and a promise to save her people, Lexa adjusts to life away from home. Despite their optimistic circumstances, Lexa's best friend isn't convinced better days are coming. With creeping doubt and violence swirling about, it quickly becomes obvious that not everything is as it seems. Will Lexa's people finally be saved? Or, does the apocalypse have a plan of its own?
The Ambassador (Post Apocalyptic Fiction)
Author: Laurèn Lee
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Hope can save us, or it can tear us apart. . . With a new position of power and a promise to save her people, Lexa adjusts to life away from home. Despite their optimistic circumstances, Lexa's best friend isn't convinced better days are coming. With creeping doubt and violence swirling about, it quickly becomes obvious that not everything is as it seems. Will Lexa's people finally be saved? Or, does the apocalypse have a plan of its own?
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Hope can save us, or it can tear us apart. . . With a new position of power and a promise to save her people, Lexa adjusts to life away from home. Despite their optimistic circumstances, Lexa's best friend isn't convinced better days are coming. With creeping doubt and violence swirling about, it quickly becomes obvious that not everything is as it seems. Will Lexa's people finally be saved? Or, does the apocalypse have a plan of its own?
3 books to know Post-apocalyptic fiction
Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968585380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Jack London's book place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic has depopulated the planet. A former English professor is one of the survivors and he travels with his grandsons. The teacher tells the grandchildren the story of how the plague spread and how the world was before the devastation. In After London a long forgotten catastrophe devastates Europe and returns cities to nature. Good news for nature, bad news for human survivors, who live in an almost medieval state. The inventor of modern science fiction, Mary Shelley, also describes a world ravaged by disease where human societies invade into a state of horror and barbarism. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968585380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 857
Book Description
Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Jack London's book place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic has depopulated the planet. A former English professor is one of the survivors and he travels with his grandsons. The teacher tells the grandchildren the story of how the plague spread and how the world was before the devastation. In After London a long forgotten catastrophe devastates Europe and returns cities to nature. Good news for nature, bad news for human survivors, who live in an almost medieval state. The inventor of modern science fiction, Mary Shelley, also describes a world ravaged by disease where human societies invade into a state of horror and barbarism. This is one of many books in the series 3 Books To Know. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the topics.
A Taste of Revenge (Post Apocalyptic Fiction)
Author: Laurèn Lee
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Sometimes, all you need is a taste. . . In the epic conclusion of the Tainted Life Series , Lexa must risk everything to save herself and those she loves most. When she learns a shocking truth about her family, everything she once knew comes crashing down. Lexa once thought the apocalypse was her greatest obstacle, but it turns out, man is much more lethal. Can Lexa finally put the darkness behind her? Or, will she succumb to the depths of the end of the world?
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Sometimes, all you need is a taste. . . In the epic conclusion of the Tainted Life Series , Lexa must risk everything to save herself and those she loves most. When she learns a shocking truth about her family, everything she once knew comes crashing down. Lexa once thought the apocalypse was her greatest obstacle, but it turns out, man is much more lethal. Can Lexa finally put the darkness behind her? Or, will she succumb to the depths of the end of the world?
A Dangerous Road (Post Apocalyptic Fiction)
Author: Laurèn Lee
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Sometimes the most dangerous road is only the beginning of the journey... Still desperate to save their camp from the infected water supply, Lexa and two others venture farther away from home than they've ever traveled before. The group tempts fate and treks toward the city within the storm despite the fear of death looming ahead every step of the way. Will they make it to the City of Lightning in one piece? Or, will they surrender to the ferocious expedition with its twists and turns around every dark corner?
Publisher: Laurèn Lee
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Sometimes the most dangerous road is only the beginning of the journey... Still desperate to save their camp from the infected water supply, Lexa and two others venture farther away from home than they've ever traveled before. The group tempts fate and treks toward the city within the storm despite the fear of death looming ahead every step of the way. Will they make it to the City of Lightning in one piece? Or, will they surrender to the ferocious expedition with its twists and turns around every dark corner?
The Line of Departure
Author: G. Michael Hopf
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698159497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A gripping new novel from one of the best-known names in survivalist fiction. Former Marine-turned-author, G. Michael Hopf grabs readers from page one with his breathtaking blend of action, adventure, and political intrigue. The End—the first book in Hopf ’s New World series—has sold more than 50,000 copies, and word of mouth is quickly building on the series as a whole. In the fourth book, The Line of Departure, the United States is on the brink of total anarchy in the wake of a super-EMP attack. Gordon Van Zandt and his family have managed to beat the odds so far, but can they survive once war erupts?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698159497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A gripping new novel from one of the best-known names in survivalist fiction. Former Marine-turned-author, G. Michael Hopf grabs readers from page one with his breathtaking blend of action, adventure, and political intrigue. The End—the first book in Hopf ’s New World series—has sold more than 50,000 copies, and word of mouth is quickly building on the series as a whole. In the fourth book, The Line of Departure, the United States is on the brink of total anarchy in the wake of a super-EMP attack. Gordon Van Zandt and his family have managed to beat the odds so far, but can they survive once war erupts?
Who Fears Death
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008288720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin!
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008288720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for HBO, with executive producer George R.R. Martin!
After the Apocalypse
Author: Andrew Bacevich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250796008
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order—these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters. In a bold reconception of America’s place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew J. Bacevich—founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy—lays down a new approach—one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future—accelerating climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war—his vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. Crucial and provocative, After the Apocalypse sets out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1250796008
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Limits of Power and The Age of Illusions. The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world, it has become indisputably clear that the terms of that policy have failed. Washington’s insistence that a market economy is compatible with the common good, its faith in the idea of the “West” and its “special relationships,” its conviction that global military primacy is the key to a stable and sustainable world order—these have brought endless wars and a succession of moral and material disasters. In a bold reconception of America’s place in the world, informed by thinking from across the political spectrum, Andrew J. Bacevich—founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a bipartisan Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy—lays down a new approach—one that is based on moral pragmatism, mutual coexistence, and war as a last resort. Confronting the threats of the future—accelerating climate change, a shift in the international balance of power, and the ascendance of information technology over brute weapons of war—his vision calls for nothing less than a profound overhaul of our understanding of national security. Crucial and provocative, After the Apocalypse sets out new principles to guide the once-but-no-longer sole superpower as it navigates a transformed world.
Date Night on Union Station
Author: E. M. Foner
Publisher: Earthcent Ambassador
ISBN: 9780972380195
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"Good SciFi comedy is as rare as hen's teeth. This was a fun read." Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for fifteen years is worth it. When Kelly receives a gift subscription to the dating service that's rumored to be powered by the same benevolent artificial intelligence that runs the huge station, she decides to swallow her pride and give it a shot. But as her dates go from bad to worse, she can only hope that the supposedly omniscient AI is planning a happy ending.
Publisher: Earthcent Ambassador
ISBN: 9780972380195
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"Good SciFi comedy is as rare as hen's teeth. This was a fun read." Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she's behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she has put ahead of her personal life for fifteen years is worth it. When Kelly receives a gift subscription to the dating service that's rumored to be powered by the same benevolent artificial intelligence that runs the huge station, she decides to swallow her pride and give it a shot. But as her dates go from bad to worse, she can only hope that the supposedly omniscient AI is planning a happy ending.
The Human Termites and the Ambassador from Mars
Author: David H. Keller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612873640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Armchair Fiction presents classic sci-fi double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is "The Human Termites" by David H. Keller. Hans Souderman was a brilliant scientist who knew the truth: Earth was on the brink of a massive invasion--by termites! Souderman had positive proof that mankind was in danger of extinction. He had studied termites and he now came to America to enlist aid in the battle against them. Unfortunately for humanity, in subterranean lairs, the masters of the termite race had been breeding a mammoth army of giant termites--millions upon millions of them--that was now ready to burst upon the surface and exterminate mankind! David H. Keller was one of the best authors of the pulp era. His imagination led to the creation of some of the most memorable stories of that time. "The Human Termites" is clearly one of his best. The second novel is about the struggles of a doomed planet, "The Ambassador From Mars" by Harl Vincent. Frank Chandler was slowly being overcome by the banality of his life. The young architect's youthful spirit had left him. Life was no longer a joy. Then one New York evening he fell victim to an extraordinary event--with the flick of his cigarette lighter, he found himself kidnapped to Mars! He woke up in a massive spaceship headed for the Red Planet, now in the care of the Neloia, the humanoids that inhabited Mars. Over the next several months, Frank became educated not only to the ways of the Neloia, but also to conditions on Mars itself, which--for the Neloia--were deplorable. Their entire race had been reduced to a fraction of its former size because of constant attacks by the dreaded Breggia, a race of monsters that lived beneath the Martian surface. Even worse, the planet Mars was dying. In a short span of years life would perish. It was up to Chandler to take this desperate message to Earth and negotiate a deal to save the last remnants of the Martian civilization.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781612873640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Armchair Fiction presents classic sci-fi double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is "The Human Termites" by David H. Keller. Hans Souderman was a brilliant scientist who knew the truth: Earth was on the brink of a massive invasion--by termites! Souderman had positive proof that mankind was in danger of extinction. He had studied termites and he now came to America to enlist aid in the battle against them. Unfortunately for humanity, in subterranean lairs, the masters of the termite race had been breeding a mammoth army of giant termites--millions upon millions of them--that was now ready to burst upon the surface and exterminate mankind! David H. Keller was one of the best authors of the pulp era. His imagination led to the creation of some of the most memorable stories of that time. "The Human Termites" is clearly one of his best. The second novel is about the struggles of a doomed planet, "The Ambassador From Mars" by Harl Vincent. Frank Chandler was slowly being overcome by the banality of his life. The young architect's youthful spirit had left him. Life was no longer a joy. Then one New York evening he fell victim to an extraordinary event--with the flick of his cigarette lighter, he found himself kidnapped to Mars! He woke up in a massive spaceship headed for the Red Planet, now in the care of the Neloia, the humanoids that inhabited Mars. Over the next several months, Frank became educated not only to the ways of the Neloia, but also to conditions on Mars itself, which--for the Neloia--were deplorable. Their entire race had been reduced to a fraction of its former size because of constant attacks by the dreaded Breggia, a race of monsters that lived beneath the Martian surface. Even worse, the planet Mars was dying. In a short span of years life would perish. It was up to Chandler to take this desperate message to Earth and negotiate a deal to save the last remnants of the Martian civilization.
Flowers of Time
Author: Mark Payne
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genres The literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction—stories set after civilization’s destruction—is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from antiquity to the present, Flowers of Time reveals how postapocalyptic fiction differs from other genres—pastoral poetry, science fiction, and the maroon narrative—that also explore human capabilities beyond the constraints of civilization. Mark Payne places postapocalyptic fiction into conversation with such theorists as Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Carl Schmitt, illustrating how the genre functions as political theory in fictional form. Payne shows that rather than argue for a particular way of life, postapocalyptic literature reveals what it would be like to inhabit that life. He considers the genre’s appeal in our own historical moment, contending that this fiction is the pastoral of our time. Whereas the pastoralist and the maroon could escape to real-world hills and fashion their own versions of freedom, on a fully owned and occupied Earth, only an apocalyptic event can create a space where such freedoms are feasible once again. Flowers of Time looks at how fictional narratives set after the world’s devastation represent new conditions and possibilities for life and humanity.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
An exploration of postapocalyptic fiction, from antiquity to today, and its connections to political theory and other literary genres The literary lineage of postapocalyptic fiction—stories set after civilization’s destruction—is a long one, spanning the biblical tale of Noah and Hesiod’s Works and Days to the works of Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Cormac McCarthy, and many others. Traveling from antiquity to the present, Flowers of Time reveals how postapocalyptic fiction differs from other genres—pastoral poetry, science fiction, and the maroon narrative—that also explore human capabilities beyond the constraints of civilization. Mark Payne places postapocalyptic fiction into conversation with such theorists as Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Carl Schmitt, illustrating how the genre functions as political theory in fictional form. Payne shows that rather than argue for a particular way of life, postapocalyptic literature reveals what it would be like to inhabit that life. He considers the genre’s appeal in our own historical moment, contending that this fiction is the pastoral of our time. Whereas the pastoralist and the maroon could escape to real-world hills and fashion their own versions of freedom, on a fully owned and occupied Earth, only an apocalyptic event can create a space where such freedoms are feasible once again. Flowers of Time looks at how fictional narratives set after the world’s devastation represent new conditions and possibilities for life and humanity.