Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world— in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka—are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. Generation A mirrors Coupland’s debut novel, 1991’s Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland’s writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.
This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media platforms and new screen technologies, while dissolving those between its producers, stars, audiences and fans. Sense8 united, inspired and energized a global community of fans that realized its own power by means of online interaction and a successful campaign to secure a series finale. The series' playful but poignant exploration of globalization, empathy, transnationalism, queer and trans aesthetics, gender fluidity, imagined communities and communities of sentiment also inspired the interdisciplinary range of contributors to this volume. In this collection, leading academics illuminate Sense8 as a progressive and challenging series that points to vital, multifarious, contemporary social, political, aesthetic and philosophical concerns. Sense8: Transcending Television is much more than an academic examination of a series; it is an account and analysis of the way that we all receive, communicate and consider ourselves as participants in global communities that are social, political and cultural, and now both physical and virtual too.
In the future, he’s immortalized as an A.I. Now, he’s plotting Earth’s course for centuries… and perhaps sending them all to their doom. Harold Olivaw believes valiantly in humanity’s grand destiny. Astounded by the alien probe he’s unearthed beneath the ice of Antarctica, the aspirational scientist sets into motion a secret mission to push humankind to its limits. Vice Admiral Gwar will not let humans undermine the Galactic Alliance a second time. Tipped off when human researchers in Sol cause a massive explosion, he mounts a secret expedition to root humanity out to protect his ultimate goal of galactic supremacy. Stark Olivaw can’t afford to squander another minute. Acutely aware that colonizing the stars is non-negotiable, he willfully continues his family’s decades-long subterfuge. With interstellar forces amassing and human beings ignorant of cosmic power plays, aliens and homo sapiens will soon clash in an epic war like no other… As the stage emerges for the greatest threat of all time, will anyone emerge unscathed? Dark Nebula: Generations is the all-revealing third book in the Dark Nebula space opera series. If you like answers to serial mysteries, getting into the enemy’s head, and era-spanning explorations, then you’ll love Sean Willson’s mind-blowing saga. Buy Dark Nebula: Generations to watch the dominoes fall today! *** KEYWORDS: science fiction, scifi book, scifi books, space opera, space opera book, space opera scifi, space opera adventure battles, space opera exploration, epic space opera, science fiction female lead, strong female characters in books, robots, robots scifi, artificial life, ai, artificial intelligence, galactic empires, space colonization, planetary colonization, faster than light travel, alien invasion, first contact, interstellar travel, nanotechnology FOR FANS OF: Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, David Brin, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Scalzi, James S. A. Corey, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gareth Powell, Jasper T. Scott, Nathan Nystad, James Rosone
"Set in the same woods as Mellick's splatterpunk satire Apeshit, Clusterfuck follows Trent Chesterton, alpha bro, who has come up with what he thinks is a flawless plan to get laid. He invites three hot chicks and his three best bros on a weekend of extreme cave diving in a remote area known as Turtle Mountain, hoping to impress the ladies with his expert caving skills. But things don't quite go as Trent planned. For starters, only one of the three chicks turns out to be remotely hot and she has no interest in him for some inexplicable reason. Then he ends up looking like a total dumbass when everyone learns he's never actually gone caving in his entire life. And to top it all off, he's the one to get blamed once they find themselves lost and trapped deep underground with no way to turn back and no possible chance of rescue. What's a bro to do? Sure he could win some points if he actually tried to save the ladies from the family of unkillable subterranean cannibal mutants hunting them for their flesh, but fuck that. No slam piece is worth that amount of effort. He'd much rather just use them as bait so that he can save himself"--Page 4 of cover.
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Laramie Briscoe, comes a box set in the Heaven Hill Generations Series. Trust Laramie Briscoe to provide engaging characters in a well-built world I want to revisit again and again.ÊCarly Phillips, NY Times bestselling author. Get the first three books in the best-selling Heaven Hill Generations Series in one box set. Book #1 Ð Hurricane An emotional second-chance romance! Tatum lusted after Remy Ñ but after a steamy hookup, he pushed her away for a year. When Remy finally realizes that somethingÕs missing in his life, heÕs determined to make things right this time. Book #2 Ð Wild Addie Blackfoot is ready for love with new-to-town loner, Wilder Evans. The only thing standing in her way is the MC she's been affiliated with her entire life. Book #3 Ð Fury Drew and Charity Walker have been through a lot. However, inÊover ten years together, they've never dealt with the serious issues affecting them now - the kidnapping of their daughter and the possible destruction of The Heaven Hill MC.
Abraham "Bram" Gerrick is poised to take over the pack when his father retires, but first he wants to find his truemate. Since none of the females in his pack are meant to be his, he knows she'll come from somewhere else. He just hopes she shows up soon. When eagle shifter Thea Malone misses her nest's annual migration to their winter grounds in South Carolina because of a college final, she has to make the flight on her own. As she flies over Kentucky during the full moon, her homing instincts go berserk, and she finds herself unable to stop her freefall. When she awakens, she’s face-to-face with a wolf shifter who turns out to be the sexiest guy she's ever met. While Bram and Thea are elated to find each other, reality sets in fast when her parents object to their mating. When Thea stands up for her mate and refuses to abide by her parents’ wishes, the eagles return with an army, intent on destroying the pack. When Thea and Bram are separated during the battle, can they get to each other before it's too late?
This book argues that the mythic figure of the zombie, so prevalent and powerful in contemporary culture, provides the opportunity to explore certain social models – such as ‘childhood’ and ‘school’, ‘class’ and ‘family’ – that so deeply underpin educational policy and practice as to be rendered invisible. It brings together authors from a range of disciplines to use contemporary zombie typologies – slave, undead, contagion – to examine the responsiveness of everyday practices of schooling such as literacy, curriculum and pedagogy to the new contexts in which children and young people develop their identities, attitudes to learning, and engage with the many publics that make up their everyday worlds.
Skulls Renegade MC: First Generation is a boxset filled with ten full length novels and a bonus content piece that concludes the Skulls Renegade MC series. Reign A woman on a mission to take down a big, bad biker club gets more than she bargains for. Redemption He's loved her for years after her heart was broken by another. Now it's their chance to see how things go. Revenge Even in the dark, some find the light. A quest for revenge brings some people together and tears others apart. Relentless A biker is sent to be security for an up and coming pop artist. Absolutely nothing could go wrong . . . until it does. Reckoning Two misunderstood monsters find love in one another's arms. Rectified . . . the bonus content piece that you've been waiting for. What happens when the Romanian Clans meets the outcasts? Reclaimed They tried it once and failed, but the years have passed and hearts have been molded. Will these two have their happily ever after? Reckless Two brothers and one woman. They're each what she needs, but will one make her question everything? Regret Chaos refuses to live with regret, so he'll do everything he can to make sure it works. Reclusive Claiming a woman he's never met before, he's sure to find out what the true meaning of love is. Retribution He's loved her from afar, but now it's time for their romance to fully blossom.
Being a part of one MC while repeatedly being hired to work on crime cases for another is a hard line to balance. One unfortunate incident causes an emotional collision between both MCs where a long-term alliance is on the verge of termination. All while Austin has finally allowed himself to claim the woman who has always intrigued him. The problem is, her father is a biker in the other MC and he was just evicted from their premises. Jersey’s self-esteem has taken a few blows and while she’s trying to get her life back on track, it gets derailed by her childhood crush. When a serial killer is mixed into a situation where tension between two MCs is high–and emotions are running rampant–bloodshed is unavoidable. But where will the loyalties lie when lives are at stake? Broken Deeds MC handles cases the government can’t close; they take charge and won’t stop until justice is served. This second generation is a series where each book is a new couple, handling a new case, and can each be read as a complete standalone with a happily ever after.
The restlessness flowing through Vachs’ veins didn’t end when the nomad committed himself to a permanent spot in Archer’s Broken Deeds MC chapter. Adopting a puppy and solving crimes helps him stay focused but not completely grounded. Until he strolls into the club’s tattoo shop for some ink therapy and finally finds what will be the root of his foundation in life. Growing up in the MC lifestyle without the ability to hear has never stopped Hadley from living her life or from becoming a tattoo artist. After some bad luck in the dating world Hadley has sworn off men, that is until Vachs saves her life and captures her heart along with it. Can new love face a deadly enemy coming for Broken Deeds MC? Or will lives be ripped apart, stealing away the ability to build a future? Broken Deeds MC handles cases the government can’t close; they take charge and won’t stop until justice is served. This second generation is a series where each book is a new couple, handling a new case, and can each be read as a complete standalone with a happily ever after.
