Resultados para "The Raven" en Distopía

GO HOME, ALINA - When Alina K’vich lost her parents, her grandfather Dimas gave her a home and a purpose. At The School, he trained her to become an Aelfraver—a hunter of arcane beasts, demons, and other anti-human entities. For ten years, they built a life together. Then, one night, in the middle of preparing dinner, Dimas vanished. Now seventeen, and stuck with her grandfather’s debts, Alina resorts to illegal Raves in her rundown hometown. But these small-time contracts simply aren’t enough: The School lies in disrepair, the power’s shut off, and the bills remain insurmountable.

Raven Astray: The Rise of Yoon Ji is a two part novella. Part 1 is a science fiction narrative following Commander Jang Seo-Ah, a decorated starfighter pilot, as she battles to save a convoy of refugees from cosmic disaster while simultaneously giving birth aboard her disabled warship. Part 2 Kongdra is a wild and dangerous world, where vapor dragons roam and the Unio lies grounded. As weeks stretch into years, a girl born from chaos will learn to navigate the wreckage.

What sort of scar would smear across the face of history if the United States ceased to exist? Second in a thought-provoking science-fiction series, this installment takes place after a cataclysmic destruction of much of North America. Seeking to rise from the ashes, citizens of the Earth utilize new technology to send 21st century pioneers across the universe to settle the planet Equinox in the Proxima Centauri system.

As sole heir to the House of Raven, there is nothing Emelia can’t have. The only problem is, she doesn’t want it. But when a new guard enters her closed-off existence, she sees a way out. As rebellion and dark forces swirl around her, Emelia has a choice to make – leave everyone she loves behind, or stay and accept her destiny…

Take a journey into a lost world. A world of endless wonder and terror. Beyond the everyday known world and into a place very few have traveled. Into the world of The Rave. Follow two wandering travelers of the beat down a path of self-awareness and self-destruction. Climb down the concrete rabbit hole into a sonic world of madness and mayhem. Through the back alleys of the subconscious mind into a man-made psychedelic Eden of tomorrow.

Life is hard for Sharkey and the other scrappers in Lawrence. After the Great Oil Crisis the Earth became a hot, wild, dangerous place. Those that could reach the portals left the planet long ago. Those left behind live a desperate and brutal existence, surviving on the bones of a ruined civilization, fighting and killing each other in a world taken back by the earth. But Sharkey has hope.

After an unexpected attack, Silver and her people stand face-to-face with a dangerous enemy. Will they come out alive? Even if they survive this, nothing will ever be the same again. Silver’s home is gone, and the Elites are still hunting her down. To make matters worse, someone else is hunting her, too. Whether she can stay alive will depend on how far she’s willing to go, and what kind of allies she’s willing to make.

The hunt for information on the FLF endangers lives, including one very dear to Arinna Prescot, the leader of Europe’s military. But as Derrick Eldridge volunteers for a risky mission to infiltrate the enemy, he leaves his best friend alone in confronting the ministers of MOTHER, who secretly manipulate Europe’s government, and the same ministers who wish to remove Arinna and will not take a new threat to their power lightly.

The year is 2050 and contrary to popular belief, Judy Garland did not die in 1969, but rather, after several liver transplants, she has lived to the grand old age of 138. Re-embracing her real name, Frances Gumm, she becomes a feminist scholar working on her PhD and writing her thesis on a little-known gay Canadian playwright Dash King, whose career ended in drugs and promiscuous sex. Frances is obsessed with King’s antiquated notion of gay politics.