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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eight thousand years in the future, and many parsecs across the galaxy, humankind has entered a fabulous age known as the Renaissance of Mankind. Two attractive, smart young persons meet at a remote university world, and fall in love: a young commoner and a beautiful princess. Their future looks bright -- until a sudden, catastrophic attack by a blood-thirsty, merciless alien race known as the Kaarrk Swarm darkens everyone's life and calls for the utmost heroism and sacrifice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Time Train: Dystopia USA 2049 is a new edition of a 2008 novel that was eerily prophetic about future conditions in the USA and the world; too much of it seems to be coming true already as in classic dystopian Blade Runner series of Ridley Scott. The author in 2008 predicted the following.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 25 light years from dying Earth, a fresh, earth-like planet broadcasts radio invitations to come to a thriving alien starport. Paul and Licia Menard (lovers) are among 6 last surviving humans who journey 1,000 years to join an advanced star-faring civilization. What the pioneers find is a world of jungles and plains, with no sign of advanced civilization, but ancient ruins everywhere. They discover blue-skinned, stone age village people with dim cultural memories of star flight, and-as they excavate an ancient, purposely sealed chamber in the village of Akha--answers to questions nobody ever thought to ask. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Never before has a ship so far from home been in so much trouble. Hurtling through space and time like a blur, the starship Nebula Express gives truth to a darkly bright motto out of a nightmare: 'Nothing seems right.near the speed of light.' Not the ship, not the mission, nor its people--especially not Ridge and Brenna, who are drawn to each other in a deep passion that defies the deadly madness all around--yet their love, too, is a symptom of all that's wrong aboard the Nebula Express. In the tradition of Ridley Scott's Alien-scarier, yet more thoughtful, with a love story amid the terror, chaos, and horror of a ship gone insane.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Remember a time when you enjoyed playing board games around the kitchen table, and you rolled the dice and moved your piece around the train tracks on the board You could buy and sell real estate in some virtual city that left much to the imagination. Maybe you fantasized what it might be like to shrink down to atomic size. You'd become a tiny person in an virtual game world with life-sized trains and cities all around you. Most excitingly, you'd meet all those fascinating people-spies, lovers, runners, shooters, or a million ordinary men and women going about their lives in a divided Gotha (think Berlin) right out of the Cold War. Interested That metro has now arrived at your imagination station with this DarkSF novel by John Argo. Take a rocket ride on the author's inventive and original idea express. Enjoy a romantic story in a setting so far out that only John Argo could get us there and back. Best of all, the underlying concept takes us to the far edge of science. In a pocket universe of danger and intrigue, Tedda lives in a rainy metropolis right out of Brazil or Dark City. In a dark and glistening dystopia, East Gotha and West Gotha are eternal rivals trying to destroy each other in a war whose reasons nobody can fathom (aren't all wars like that ). You're about to meet a young West Gotha woman mathematician named Tedda, who commits the ultimate crime of treason - she has an affair with the dashing Captain Alton Hedrock, a spy for enemy East Gotha. Tedda becomes a prisoner in a strange West Gotha university, where she joins other programmers in the eternal military effort against East Gotha. For amusement, West Gotha's data miners invent a subatomic board game where you can actually descend to a tiny universe (that game board) and interact with people - and dark, dangerous forces that challenge your own reality. In the pocket universe of Meta 4 City, or Metaphor City, Tedda meets and falls in love with Edgar, a Rule like all things and all people in that miniature world. But Tedda's world is in danger of imminent destruction, and only Metaphor City offers a means of escape before it is too late. The spies of East and West are everywhere, and you always looks over your shoulder. The game is on, the stakes are sky-high, deadly spies move in the night, and the eternal war between East and West Gotha continues unrelentingly. Think East and West Berlin at war, complete with strutting officers in jackboots, alluring women with secrets and perfume, soft jazz on rainy street corners, droning bombers, sweeping search lights, and howling sirens. In the midst of all battle and terror, men and women manage to still fall secretly in love--that, too, is the oldest game in town. Except the entire world is about to change. This novel will remind you of DarkSF movie classics like The Matrix, Inception, Blade Runner, and Dark City, but Meta 4 City stands tall in a world of its own fresh, unique imagining. What is DarkSF John Argo proposes that most literary, topnotch science fiction is DarkSF. That's not horror or gruesome, but 'the dark chocolate of science fiction.' We've already mentioned a few classics. Add to that Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies or The Inheritors, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-the list is endless, and surprising. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction in particular, and literature in general. Clocktower Books will soon launch a website to offer more info and insight about DarkSF, so please stay tuned.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Doom Spore (a DarkSF Series novel) is a 'summer movie in a book' - dark, chilling, and hugely creepy science-horror fiction in the tradition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, They Walked Like Men, and The Thing. As it turns out (the author didn't know this when writing it in 2003-5) Doom Spore reflects a true phenomenon - the entomopathogen fungus family, which turns ants and other insects into suicidal robots (zombies) to help the fungus thrive while the helpless victim (e.g., a carpenter ant) suffers a prolonged and terrifying death right out of your worst nightmares. More on that true science in a moment.Lt. Linsey Simon, San Diego Harbor Police, and her husband, hard-hitting reporter Jack Simon, are thrust headlong into the gripping case of a dangerous scientific experiment gone horribly wrong for corporate profit.This scary and entertaining story begins quietly and ominously in little homes in ordinary neighborhoods around San Diego. A boy named Jimmy Mendez, 9, and his cousin Maribel Walesky, 10, await the return of their dads (merchant sailors) from the sea.But the things that come home are not men. They look like sailors, but they are silent and empty-eyed, and are not the same dads who went to sea. At first, only the children can see this -not their mothers, nor any other adults--and nobody will believe them.Soon, people begin dying all over town, turning into alien spore carriers seeking their next victim to infect. The inhuman forces behind this are well organized by a corporation whose desperate and risky effort to develop a forbidden jungle-derived drug has gone horribly wrong. From a secret airstrip, in the Volcan Mountains east of San Diego, crop-dusting missions fly over the city to spread their spores more efficiently.By the time human authorities realize what confronts them, it's all but too late. Now it's up to Linsey and Jack, along with two brave children and a few hardy citizens, to save the world. San Diego, beautiful tourist capital of blue skies and balmy sea breezes, becomes a colony of the fungal or Fifth Kingdom of life on Earth.John Argo has written an entirely new and fresh premise here, using not the alien pods found in Jack Finney's 1955 classic The Body Snatchers, but a fungus horror from right here on Earth in the jungles of Peru. Amazingly, after publishing this book, the author learned that there are actually zombie fungus life forms in those very jungles. This is no joke. They are called entomopathogens, right out of the worst nightmares of science horror. That's science fiction gone dark and creepy (like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing, and similar stories). Doom Spore is fiction (so far) but entomopathogens are real. For example, the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (discovered in 1859 in a tropical rainforest) attacks insects including carpenter ants. The fungus seats itself on the ant's head, drills into the brain, and builds a kind of living console on top of the head. The ant's entire nervous system is now controlled by the fungus, making the ant into a zombie (literally). The fungus then controls the ant, forcing it to abandon its life and venture into areas where the temperature and humidity are best suited for fungal reproduction. There, the ant is then forced to attach itself to a leaf or similar perch until it dies from starvation and dehydration, overgrown with fungus as in the worst horror movie you can imagine. Even Doom Spore isn't quite as cruel, although Doom Spore is both terrifying and rewarding as a modern classic soon to be. Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers has been made and remade into movies at least three times. That's a sure sign a story is not just great, but an archetype that spawns endless homages. Doom Spore is an homage but not an imitation. Read it and you'll agree that Doom Spore is wildly fresh and original, and deserves to be made into a very scary, addictive movie.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJohn Argo is the author of many books and articles, including the DarkSF and Empire of Time SF series. He lives in San Diego, California with his wife and their cat as well as a literary collection. His degrees include.

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJohn Argo is the author of more than 30 books, including the DarkSF series (moody, melancholy, literary adventures he calls it the dark chocolate of science fiction compare Blade Runner, Dark City, The Matrix, and v.

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