Resultados para "Herbert" en Distopía

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States, and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes at a great cost. The United States is ruled by a fascist green police state, and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them is an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma.

The running man. In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke, an American pilot and one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease, has survived alone among the debris and the dead of London for three years. Now, in '48, a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a complete transfusion of blood from one of Hoke's kind. Ever more desperate as their deaths approach, they're after his blood.

Dark destiny. When Steadman agreed to investigate the disappearance of a young Mossad agent, he had no idea he would be drawn into a malevolent conspiracy. Neo-Nazi cultists are bent on unleashing an age-old unholy power on an unsuspecting world-power rising out of a demonic relic from man's dark primal past to threaten humanity with horror beyond any nightmare. James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction.

The peaceful life of a village in Wiltshire is suddenly shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation, leaving behind it a trail of misery and horror. A yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Whatever it is, it must be controlled; for wherever it goes it leaves behind a trail of disaster as hideous as the tragedy that marked its entry into the world. The fog, quite simple, drives people insane.

Příběh odehrávající se v Anglii na konci 19. století barvitě líčí invazi Marťanů na Zemi a popisuje bezmocnost pozemšťanů, neschopných boje s vyspělou marťanskou technikou. Kruté bytosti z vesmíru v pravidelných intervalech ničí všechno živé a do myslí pozemšťanů se vkrádá beznaděj nad neutěšeným stavem. Jak to všechno dopadne? A mají Marťané nějakou slabinu? Existuje na Zemi něco, s čím při plánování invaze nepočítali?!? Byť tento vědeckofantastický román poprvé vyšel už v roce 1898, dodnes fascinuje čtenáře po celém světě svým realistickým popisem invaze mimozemšťanů z Marsu do Anglie.

Leto II Atréides, l'Empereur-Dieu de Dune, est désormais un ver de sable à face humaine. À peu près invulnérable et immortel, il a entrevu dans l'avenir l'extinction de l'espèce humaine. Pour la conjurer, il fait respecter son ordre, le Sentier d'Or. L'empire a connu trente-cinq siècles de paix. La Guilde et le Bene Gesserit ont les mains liées : c'est Leto qui contrôle sur Dune les dernières réserves de l'indispensable épice. Les Ixiens lui envoient une femme parfaite, issue d'une éprouvette et chargée à son insu de le séduire et de le détruire.

Dune est détruite, vitrifiée, atomisée. Sur tout l'Empire déferlent les hordes furieuses des Honorées Matriarches, massacrant tout sur leur passage. Le Bene Gesserit reste la seule force organisée. Mais la solution n'est peut-être pas dans le pouvoir des armes. Darwi Odrade, la Mère Supérieure, propose de négocier. La Très Honorée Matriarche accepte : elle s'attend à une capitulation sans conditions. Mais Darwi a un plan. Elle sait bien que l'entreprise est des plus risquées.

“Easily one of my favorite books of the year. Creative, incisive, and elegantly crafted, this one will wow you even as it wrecks you—you’ll be holding your breath to the end.” —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six A bold sci-fi retelling of The Great Gatsby...

Der Aufstieg der Bene Gesserit Vor dreiundachtzig Jahren wurden die Maschinen in der Schlacht von Corrin vernichtend geschlagen. Vor dreiundachtzig Jahren ernannte sich Faykan Butler zum Imperator des neuen, Planeten umspannenden Menschenreichs, und vor dreiundachtzig Jahren verschwand der Kriegsheld Vorian Atreides. Inzwischen sitzt Faykans Nachfahre Salvador Corrin auf dem Thron, doch von Frieden kann noch lange nicht die Rede sein.

2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?