Résultats pour "Eric Brown" dans Littérature et fiction

Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet. When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it is forced to land on the nearest possible location: a polar section of the Helix—a vast, spiral construct of worlds, wound about a G-type sun.

Clyde was a picturesque, quiet, little town until the night of the accident. A virus, unleashed into the air, would soon fill the streets with blood as man's best friend turned on him. Adorable pets and loving companions would become snarling, bloodthirsty beasts hungry for human flesh. Will anyone survive this brutal betrayal?

Geoff Ringer was a police detective, who never wanted to be more than that. Although he knew he had a telekinetic talent, it wasn’t something he wanted anyone to know about. Even though his reticence made him a loner, he hid his power from his friends and colleagues. Using it also reminded him of that night, which he never wanted to think about again.

He wanted out of the killing game. Instead, he walked straight into Hell. After years as a professional assassin, Gary was ready to disappear — no more contracts, no more bloodshed. Just peace, solitude, and the quiet life in a forgotten swamp town. But something ancient and monstrous is stirring beneath the murky waters. Mutated by radiation and driven by hunger, colossal alligators have begun to rise — grotesque, unstoppable abominations with a taste for human flesh. As the bodies pile up and the bayou turns red, Gary must pick up his weapons one last time… He’s hunted men his whole life.

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align, and hell is close. It is the time of The Sha’Daa. Ground Zero for this bloodcurdling attack is none other than New York City’s Central Park, a battlefield resurrecting all that ever lived and died in planet Earth’s history.

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy—to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage.

Danny's family were brutally slaughtered by a Sasquatch before his eyes when he was a small child. No one believed him. Now, grown up and a professional soldier, Danny has returned home to make the beast pay. Unfortunately for him, not everything is as it seems, and there just may be more lurking in the woods than he's prepared to deal with.

Robbie has been having nightmares. . . terrible, bloody dreams of a monster in the woods. That monster kills every night. Its bloodthirst never satiated. As bodies began to turn up in the real world, Robbie realizes his nightmares are more than they seem. Can Robbie and the local sheriff find and stop the monster or will the killings continue to grow in scope and number?

In the quaint suburban town of Quacksville, the residents had always prided themselves on their picturesque ponds and charming wildlife. Little did they know, lurking beneath the surface of the water was a sinister secret that would soon turn their tranquil lives upside down. It all started innocently enough, with the townsfolk enjoying their Sunday picnics by the pond, tossing breadcrumbs to the ever-enthusiastic flock of ducks. But these weren’t just any ordinary ducks; they were the quacking harbingers of chaos, waiting for the perfect moment to unleash their fowl wrath.

CASPers - Combat Assault Systems, Personal - are the lords of the future battlefield. The massive mechs were created to give humanity an edge against the rest of the mercenary forces in the Galactic Union. Just like today's tanks, though, massive amounts of armor and weaponry just make the CASPers "hard to kill", not "invulnerable". There are things in the galaxy even stronger than the CASPer, and when humans run up against them, it's up to the human inside to figure out a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA Today best seller FaceOff, 22 of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology. MatchUp takes the never-before-seen best seller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender. Eleven of the world's best female thriller writers, from Diana Gabaldon to Charlaine Harris, are paired with 11 of the world's best male thriller writers.

All David Conway wants after the death of his daughter and the break-up of his marriage is a quiet life away from Earth, and when he comes to Chalcedony, he thinks he's found that. What he does find is a group of people whose friendship will change his life forever, as well as a haunted starship, extraterrestrials with an uncanny ability to read future events, and a conflict between alien races that has lasted for millennia - and is about to begin all over again.

Giant crocodiles exist—the man-eating Kaiju of the real world. Dr. Jennings plans on capturing one alive. Accompanied by a squad of hired mercs and an anti-poaching unit on loan from the local government, she sets out to locate and trap Tuwile, rumored to be the largest giant croc alive. Of course, things never go as planned....

Dr. Jason Phisher has been haunted by nightmares his entire life. They show him glimpses of the future and of dark things yet to come. Now Phisher finds himself kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries who demand his help in locating the pieces of a lost, ancient artifact that holds immense power. Phisher is about to find out that monsters of his nightmares are very real as he encounters Yeti, Sasquatch, and more on a globe-trotting adventure to find The Lost Relic.

Protesting the logging of an old-growth forest, an environmentalist fells a rare tree, unwittingly releasing…something…into our world. After his subsequent disappearance, reporter Brooke Grant looks for answers. During his investigation he finds the love of his life, only to lose her to, well, he doesn't really know what. Brooke enlists the aid of his love's intriguing and extraordinary shaman uncle to help save her. Only they don't only have to save her, but save the world from being changed forever.

Manford Page is not a typical serial killer. He dresses like a Sasquatch when committing his crimes and has left a trail of blood and viscera across the country. Narrowly escaping capture in the small town of Hillston, Manford has fled into the woods surrounding it. Federal Agent Burke and the local sheriff, Clark, must put aside their differences and work together to locate Manford before he strikes again. But not everything about the latest killings Manford is suspected of add up. He just might not be the only monster lurking in the woods.

They are known as the "Family", and they kill folks for a living. They are the very best at dealing death and defeating it. Their legendary saga spans from the American Old West to the very near future. Battling both hell-birthed demons and aliens from other planets, sentient werewolves were never more dynamic or terrifying.

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our position is readily apparent - we're at the bottom of the food chain.

Bigfoot War: After the Fall picks up where the original Bigfoot War and Bigfoot War: Redneck Apocalypse left off. A mixed group of soldiers and civilians have taken shelter inside a paper mill, making it their home. There they hope to survive the Sasquatch Apocalypse.

Apropos is a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry dead is because he's not yet through with it. An orphan with a chip on his shoulder, Apropos, travels to the court of the good King Runcible, with three goals in mind: to find his father, seek retribution for the death of his mother, and to line his own pockets. However, Apropos carries the most troublesome burden a would-be harbinger of chaos can bear: He may well be a hero foretold, a young man of destiny.