When she was done, I told him the story of my solo visit to Dead City. About how I crashed the flatline party and escaped with Liberty in the aqueduct. I even admitted that I had visited the Alpha Bakery without any imminent need.
Author: James Ponti
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781442441309
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 304
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Seventh-grader Molly has always been an outsider, even at New York City's elite Metropolitan Institute of Science and Technology, but that changes when she is recruited to join the Omegas, a secret group that polices and protects zombies.
I have the terrible feeling that what we're seeing out there is the failure of our community, that all of that death is simply the manifestation of our lack of place, a sense of who we are and what we mean to each other. Our cities have ...
Author: Joe McKinney
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786025978
Category: Fiction
Page: 288
View: 368
A relentless thrill ride. . . Break out the popcorn, you're in for a real treat. --Harry Shannon, author of Dead and Gone Texas? Toast. Battered by five cataclysmic hurricanes in three weeks, the Texas Gulf Coast and half of the Lone Star State is reeling from the worst devastation in history. Thousands are dead or dying--but the worst is only beginning. Amid the wreckage, something unimaginable is happening: a deadly virus has broken out, returning the dead to life--with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. . . The Nightmare Begins Within hours, the plague has spread all over Texas. San Antonio police officer Eddie Hudson finds his city overrun by a voracious army of the living dead. Along with a small group of survivors, Eddie must fight off the savage horde in a race to save his family. . . Hell On Earth There's no place to run. No place to hide. The zombie horde is growing as the virus runs rampant. Eddie knows he has to find a way to destroy these walking horrors. . .but he doesn't know the price he will have to pay. . . "Hair-raising. Do yourself a favor and snag a copy. . . thank me later." --Gene O'Neill, author of Deathflash "A merciless, fast-paced and genuinely scary read that will leave you absolutely breathless." --Brian Keene
Read as allegory, the death of London in The Last Man seems more like a mirror of the author's own incommensurable loss, the hollowing out of the city an architectural equivalent to the stages of human grief- London's dead buildings ...
Author: Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781786732408
Category: Architecture
Page: 304
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The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins in Chernobyl, Detroit, London, Manchester and Varosha, this book demonstrates that how we discuss and depict urban decline is intimately connected to the histories, economic forces, power structures and communities of a given city, as well as to conflicting visions for its future.
Having the Demons on their side in secret may have been enough to take the Dead City, but it would not be enough to take the Sorcerer King's stronghold; they needed help. “He'll be fine,” Hotaru told her, placing a gentle hand on her ...
Author: Noor Al-Shanti
Publisher: Noor Al-Shanti
ISBN: 9781999418304
Category: Fiction
Page: 794
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King Sharr of the Kingdom of Shining Waters was not a particularly brave man. When he heard that the Mad Sorcerer was creeping up the mountainside he fled the fortress city, practically handing it over to the Mad Sorcerer, and made his abode in Dalaiabeth: the King’s City. His palace lay behind high walls on one side of the great lake and Dalaiabeth lay almost defenseless on the other. Even behind the high walls of his palace the King worried. Most of all, he was afraid for his young daughter, the Lady Shila. It was the palace blacksmith that offered the King salvation from his fears. “Why not adopt an orphan boy from the city?” he asked. “He will grow up with the Lady Shila, learn to love her as a sister, and he will protect her when the matters of the Kingdom take you away from her.” So the King sent three trusted men to bring him a suitable boy from the city orphanage. But it was more than three men that knocked on little Dargoth’s door the next day. His mother tried to protect him, but she was no match for the unit of trained soldiers that took her little boy, Dargoth from her, claiming that he was wanted to fight in the war. As Dargoth and his mother struggle to reunite, the Mad Sorcerer’s relentless attacks throw their Kingdom into chaos and despair, and they find themselves up against forces and intrigues far beyond what they could have imagined. Immerse yourself in this epic story now!
He returns to the balcony. LEONARDO rises and joins him. In silence, side by side, they look at the country, dotted with red fires, in the calm, pure night. ACT THIRD ACT THIRD The same room as in the l6o THE DEAD CITY.
... summit of Mount Ausangate which rises to a height of nearly 21 , 000 feet . My excursion to Tiahuanaco engraved a memory which I will never forget . AFRICA and the SOUTH SEAS Africa THE LOST CITY OF 74 DEAD CITIES AND FORGOTTEN TRIBES.
... Dead City 2001, outside Dead City 2001, New York 2001, outside Dead City 2001, Dead City 2001, New York 2001, Dead City 2001, Dead City 2001, outside Dead City 2001, New York 2001, outside Dead City 2001, Dead City 2001, Dead City ...
Author: Alex Scarrow
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141968315
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 416
View: 948
Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance - to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history . . . A time wave has struck that alters the entire history of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has followed Liam into the present from 1831 - and now the world is in a dangerous state of limbo . . . If the TimeRiders can't return Lincoln to the past, the Civil War will never end. Can Maddy persuade two colonels on either side of no man's land to cease fire long enough to save the future?
Many years ago a legend reached Martian cities that a strange place existed at the far rim of the Plain of Parna. The city, it was called ... "No man had the courage to enter the dead city," Brandon went on. "At last my colleague and I ...
Author: G. M. Martin
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 9781612101521
Category: Fiction
Page:
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They called Launn a elty of the dead. Its Martian peoples lay frozen in their tracks. But were they really dead--or only asleep?
“Dead City is an action packed7 pedal-to-the-metal zombie novel that never loses sight of its humanity. McKinney uses his background as a homicide detective to bring a level of realism to his vision of the apocalypse that is both urgent ...
Author: Joe McKinney
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786033126
Category: Fiction
Page: 368
View: 338
A rising star on the horror scene. --Fearnet.com The Voyage Begins It starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that's about to set sail. . . The Virus Spreads One by one, the passengers are exposed. A U.S. senator. A young couple. An undercover agent. A beautiful assassin. Some will be infected. Others will survive. But no one will be spared if the outbreak isn't contained--and the dead outnumber the living. . . The Corpses Rise Enter Delta Force operative Juan Perez. He's fought the deadliest killers in the darkest hellholes on earth. But he's never seen anything like this--an apocalyptic cargo of pure zombie mayhem heading for the coast. If Perez and his SEAL team can't stop it, America, and quickly the entire population of the world, are finished. The plague years will begin. . . Praise for Joe McKinney's Novels "A merciless, fast-paced and genuinely scary read that will leave you absolutely breathless." --Bram Stoker Award-winning author Brian Keene on Dead City "A fantastic tale of survival horror that starts with a bang and never lets up." --Zombiehub.com on Mutated
Some of the inscriptions in that city of the long dead, of a civilization, possibly in its prime at least 60,000 years ago, include signs which have no ceriphed terminals. It is probable that this ancient sacred place of the Serra de ...
Author: Harold T. Wilkins
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 9781605203218
Category: Travel
Page: 488
View: 398
Monstrous beasts, lost worlds, vanished civilizations, Amazon warriors, even Atlantis and Noahs ark figure in this wondrous and rare book. Hard to find in print before now, this obscure 1952 work is an artifact itself, of the postwar fascination with all things mysterious, from flying saucers to ancient astronauts to the third eye. In this wildly entertainingand more than a little bit preposterousdocument, Wilkins takes us from mountain jungles to unexplored swamps on a search for the hidden secrets of old South America. Seekers after the arcane and fans of the paranormal will delight in this odd and extraordinary volume. British journalist and historian HAROLD T. WILKINS (18911960) is also the author of Mysteries of Ancient South America (1945) and Mysteries of Time and Space (1958).