Showing results for "Afterlife" in Science Fiction

What can be worse than electrocuting yourself while getting ready for your internet date? Realizing the hot stud you've been fondling is the Grim Reaper? Being chased by a sex-crazed bloated, naked corpse? How about an eternity of more bad hair days and horrific dates? Or lusting after the one guy in all the afterlife whose hydrophobia rivals his fear of commitment? Yeah, that's a whole lot worse.

With humanity facing imminent extinction, Centauri Project scientists use technology originally designed for interstellar travel to send a test subject ten millennia into Earth's future. Marooned in an uninhabited wilderness, microbiologist Nicholas Hindman searches for evidence of remnant populations. He has a protocol to follow and is determined to do so to the bitter end—though he knows he's probably searching in vain, stranded on an uninhabited planet silently orbiting the sun.

Tad Lonnerman is having a crappy day stuck in crappy traffic late to a crappy meeting. On the bright side, his game development career is the only non-crappy thing he has going for him, so life isn't all bad. At least until he dies. Now Tad finds himself uploaded to a beta test of Haven, an unannounced hyper-immersive MMO where the dead have a second chance at life. It's not virtual reality, it's digital reality. A true afterlife online. Except Haven isn't exactly blissful paradise.

My mother-in-law, Diane Newby, zombified by accident. She still volunteers at her church bake sales and cooks pot roast for her daughter and son-in-law, Ron Yardley. What ticks her off is when people don't treat her like a normal human being - with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed. And if she doesn't get her own way, look out. She explodes and leaves broken plaster and body parts in her wake. Nothing stops her: not brick walls, the federal government, or middle-aged spread.

Alterlife: The chance of a lifetime...To live in a thrilling world of adventure...One with endless possibilities. Down on his luck and with his back against a wall, John Crussel would do anything to provide for his family. Even rob a bank out of desperation. But when he hears of how he can make money in a virtual reality video game called Alterlife, he walks away from the robbery and decides to give it a shot. Couldn't be harder than robbing a bank, could it? John's world is about to change as he finds that Alterlife is easier than it seems.

Founding a headquarters is a good start, but the Black Hats aren’t the only empire builders in the land. As crusaders mobilize an army, assassins struggle for independence, and dissidents make waves in Stronghold, Haven’s tentative peace is threatened. The gears of war are churning, and Talon refuses to be crushed in the teeth. Enlisting the help of an old friend, Talon hatches an ingenious scheme to wrangle the embattled citizens of Haven to his cause. Except there’s another plot shaping the virtual world, one meticulously devised by a ghost in the machine.

Living in a virtual game world sounds like the ultimate dream. Plenty of action, intrigue, and guess who gets to be the big hero? But what happens when that digital reality gets flipped on its head? Bad guys are after your sweet loot, your fancy title is loaded with unrealistic expectations, and achieving such a high level comes with a big fat target on your back. Something has to give, so when a new crusader faction rolls into town, Talon senses an opportunity.

To be a Valkyrie is to serve the dead, but this time, Ylva has to use her powers to save a life. Forced to work together with other Afterlife Assistants, Ylva needs to rely on them or go under. Can she do what must be done and learn to control her Shadow powers, even if that means accepting help from an unlikely place?

It was 2050, and Dr. Erwin Little, CEO of the Center for Life Sciences, was preparing to conduct the most dangerous scientific experiment ever attempted. But he needed a volunteer subject, a human willing to be euthanized and then returned to life. The goal was to go beyond the many Near-Death-Experiences documented over decades, and determine what life, if it existed after death, was really like. Was it just a dark, blank time like before birth, or was there something else?

If the tragic shipwreck isn't bad enough, the megadome suffers a horrid murder-rape, and Dog Breakfast co-op must bring the culprit to justice. Nyssa and Shepp follow the perp to LA where they rescue young women from vicious sex traffickers. But funds are running low, so they're joined by Griz and Jen. All four travel to Tijuana where they part $750,000 from strip-club bettors. The quartet follow the rapist to Quito, Ecuador where they must face two-dozen mercenaries and armored-robotic cyclops.

Accidents happen. Especially around zombie turkeys. Then you add zombie humans, and problems proliferate. Mix in some ill-planned genetic engineering, and things get crazy. The insanity continues, from the story where zombies are merged with cucumbers to the one where two basement-dwelling nerds gain access to all video content from the past two hundred years - from aliens. Andy Zach pulls out all the stops on his imagination as he serves up this smorgasbord of silliness. Try it. Laughter is good for your soul.

Zombies charge first, ask questions later. Middle-aged, overweight, and undead, Diane Newby leads the paranormal privateers against criminals and corruption. Sailing to trouble spots too sensitive for the US government, with zombie strength and regeneration they beat bullies into submission. Aided by zombie turkeys, corgis, and bulls, vicious criminal geniuses fall before them. If Diane gets overwhelmed by foes, her lovely zombie bodyguards and romantic zombie husband come to the rescue.

Ever have one of those mornings? Your head is pounding with a hangover and somebody has just hacked your brain? That's just the kind of morning Martin is having in the 22nd century where the power of Nanocells can resurrect corpses. He's been hijacked by an artificial intelligence named Angel into the search for a missing body. Unfortunately, it goes much deeper than he first suspects, and they set out to the stars to find out who is stealing bodies from Earth.

Ace zombie reporter Sam Melvin has been fired - by his wife, Lisa. Their paper, The Midley Beacon, is barely surviving. How will they make ends meet? Sam decides to give being a detective a try. He advertises his business - but his zombie experience comes with it. All across the country, people bring their zombie problems to Sam. Squirrels? Bulls? Sam's on the case. But can his experience with zombie turkeys transfer? Sam finds out in a series of deadly adventures - and so will you when you listen to this audiobook. See if you can keep from dying from laughter.

Join the AfterLife Podcast, where members of the Minecraft AfterLife SMP come together to discuss all things Minecraft, gaming, and community life. Each episode features a rotating cast of creators who share behind-the-scenes stories from their adventures in the AfterLife SMP, dive into the latest Minecraft updates, and explore the creative process behind their builds and content.

William Butcher is Dead. Forever removed from the love of his life and the future they planned to build, the young navy pilot must now spend the remainder of his existence in service to the leviathan AfterLIfe Corporation. With a crew of fellow reanimate undead William is sent on a secret mission into alien space.

The afterlife adventures of Rhinnick Feynman, who believes that he’s a character in a novel written by an omnipotent author. He also believes that the author is changing the past through editorial revision, and for the worse. We’ll see Rhinnick square off against Isaac Newton, whose experiments threaten everyone in the hereafter.

Aliens and UFOs around Earth as seen from the "Island" (cloaked Alien Mother Ship) where a select few - those who excel in perfecting themselves while on Earth - arrive after conversion ("death").

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The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where fifteen-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who’s become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their status teeter on the edge—and now it’s about to plunge into the abyss.