Showing results by author "Benjamin Percy" in Literature & Fiction

In a post-apocalyptic future, Marvel's Wastelanders: Star-Lord finds Peter Quill (Saif Ali Khan) and Rocket (Vrajesh Hirjee) a little paunchier, a little slower, and a lot saltier than they were during the glory days of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

They called the comet Cain, after the astronomer who discovered it. It passed 500,000 miles from Earth. We were spared planetary destruction and granted a light show like no other. But, one year later, Earth span into the debris field left by the comet and a meteor storm struck. Roads, buildings and even a small town were annihilated. It was the night of a mysterious double murder, the deed overshadowed by the discovery that the burning remains of the rock contained an unknown substance more precious than gold.

The comet, Cain, came from beyond our solar system, its debris containing elements unknown. It brought a powerful new metal to the once-declining Midwest, alien fungus to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and now, in the isolated region of Fairbanks, Alaska, the skies shift and stretch as an interstellar dust cloud seeds itself in the atmosphere. The National Weather Service dismisses the anomaly. Then, an hour outside of Fairbanks, a plane shudders its way through pulpy, swirling, bruise-shaped clouds, lit with sudden cracks of lightning. The sky opens. And the plane vanishes.

It began with a comet. They called it Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the night with a swampy green light and twinning the sky by day with two suns. A year later, Earth spun through the debris field the comet left behind.

In einer düsteren, postapokalyptischen Zukunft des Marvel-Universums haben die Schurken endlich gewonnen. Helden sind nur noch eine unangenehme Erinnerung.

The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret, far reaches of the web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. These demons are threatening to spread virally into the real world unless they can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew.

A bizarre death in a primitive, cult-like community walled off from a futuristic society brings a enigmatic agent from the outside world to investigate. Hurst offers a genre-bending reflection on how technology defines us. Also included: an excerpt from the author's post-apocalyptic thriller The Dead Lands.

In un futuro post-apocalittico, Marvel's Wastelanders Star-Lord trova Peter Quill (Neri Marcorè) e Rocket Raccoon (Corrado Guzzanti) un po' più panciuti, un po' più lenti e molto più acidi di quanto non fossero durante i giorni di gloria dei Guardiani della Galassia.

Paul zieht mit seinem Sohn und seinem Enkel Graham los, um in der Wildnis von Oregon dafür zu sorgen, dass sein Enkel ein richtiger Mann wird. Dies gelingt seiner Meinung nach nicht in der Zivilisation von heute, weswegen er mit den beiden einen Jagdausflug in den Wäldern Oregons plant. Karen, die Frau seines Sohnes Justin, hat Bedenken, ob diese Unternehmung das Richtige für ihre beiden Männer ist.

What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in World War I, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East.

Dans le monde post-apocalyptique de MARVEL’S WASTELANDERS: STAR-LORD, nous retrouvons Peter Quill (Antoine de Caunes) et Rocket (José Garcia) un peu plus bedonnants, un peu moins vigoureux et beaucoup plus revêches qu’à la glorieuse époque des Gardiens de la Galaxie. Lorsqu’ils s’écrasent sur la Terre 30 ans après la prise de pouvoir de tous les Super-Vilains, ils constatent rapidement que le monde n’est plus ce qu’il était.