“My name is John Doe. I’ve been dead for ten years.” I have no heartbeat, no breath, no smell, just cold, clammy flesh animated by something I don’t understand. So I sell my dead flesh to the highest bidder. If the price is right, I’ll kill for you, steal for you, or save your life for you. There’s no mystery you can’t hire me to solve... apart from this one. The bent copper torn apart in his flat by something not quite human. The hidden rooms underneath the Tower of London. The hollow-eyed boxer, Morse, and strange, strange Mr Smith with his head full of the future. And the secret they found. The secret of who I am. A secret so big and black and terrible that it changed everything we thought we knew about existence. And now I’m the only person who can stop the end of all life on this planet... ...I, Zombie!
In a moment of pure chaos, the majority of the Earth's population became the walking dead. One man promises to unveil the truth.When journalist Jacob Plummer is bitten by one of the undead he turns to the written word not only to ease the pain of change, but to reveal a truth that could spare the world from extinction.As Jacob attempts to reveal the conspiracy behind the virus he fights off the undead masses to save the planet from a collision with entropy.
When the girl from the asylum drowned in the lake that night, she thought it was the end of her life, but she was wrong. With robots at fifty thousand dollars a unit, it was far more economical to use corpse labour - all it took was a two-thousand dollar animating pack in the brain, and a zombie worker, under the direction of a helmeted controller, could do just about anything except think. Or so everyone said. But in the zombie dorms at night, with only the walking dead or roommates, things were not as they should have been. The girl from the asylum seemed to have more mental ability, not less, and someone was trying to kill her. Kill a dead girl? Maybe there was more to heaven than an afterlife of manual labour in the company of a bunch of stiffs!
Accounts from the zombie apocalypse - letters, notes, documents, chatroom and forum fragments from the day a mystery virus is unleashed at an uncontrollable rate. As the virus sweeps the globe, no one is safe from its clutches. With mass hysteria, panic, breakdown of infrastructure, no law in place and very little food and water, how long could you survive? Don't believe all you read online...but it might just save your life if you do! This virus has gone viral!
Living in the post-human era when the undead are part of everyday life, high schooler Alley breaks her no-dating rule when Doug catches her eye, but classmate Will demands to turn her into a vampire and her zombie boyfriend may be unable to stop him.
The answers lie below… A shamanic witch and a poet, Lenore Bonheim hides in the world of books to escape reality, which for her includes seeing ghosts and forecasting death. But when her employer and friend dies under suspicious circumstances, she must use all her skills – magical and mundane – to find the killer and save her two sisters and her town. As the three sisters pull together to stave off a growing menace, Lenore must discover what it means to be in this world and of it. Down is Book Three in the Witches of Doyle Trilogy. Spells included at the back of the book!
Enjoy the fifth steamy rock star romance in the True Platinum Series from Morgana Bevan - an opposites attract romance following the superstar lead singer of The Brightside and the nerdy normal guy determined to resist her. ✓ A female rock star ✓ A nerdy, wounded British app developer ✓ A second chance at love ✓ Opposites attract ✓ And an unlikely meet cute What happens when the limelight isn't all it was meant to be? Lily It's like the entire world is rushing ahead and I just want to stop the ride, I want to get off. I need a rest. A break. An easy half-hour with someone who doesn't have stars in their eyes and money on their mind. So, I sold a date in a charity auction, and when the recipient doesn't even bother to turn up, I question whether normal men are worth the effort. Turns out the rock star variety aren't. But it irks me. Men don't stand me up – nobody does. I'm Lily Tyler, goddamnit. What I know of this man is enough to pique my interest, and I'm not going to take no for an answer now. I'm having this date, one way or another. Rhys A setup, with a rockstar, organised by my mother. That's not what I'm looking for. Some self-entitled little girl looking for a doe-eyed boy to worship her, I think not. It's safe to say, after my marriage crumbled before my eyes, that I'm not interested in opening myself up to any kind of heartbreak again, ever. But when I find myself backed into a corner, when she's asking for nothing more than a coffee, can I say no? Will Lily manage to strong-arm her way into this date? Will Rhys get more than he bargained for if she does? ----- Braving Lily is a steamy rock star romance. It's the fifth book in the True Platinum series. Can be read as a standalone. If you love strong and sassy rock stars falling for the heartbroken boy next door, then Braving Lily is for you. For Readers Who Like Work By Kylie Scott, Crystal Kaswell, Olivia Cunning, Toni Kenyon, Sian Ceinwen, Carian Cole, Tania Joyce, and Terri Anne Browning. Other books in the True Platinum series: Chasing Alys (A Strangers-to-Lovers Rock Star Romance) Winning Nia (A Second Chance Rock Star Romance) Enticing Mel (A Secret Baby Rock Star Romance) Defying Ella (A Close Proximity Rock Star Romance) Needing Emily (An Accidental Vegas Wedding/ Runaway Bride Rock Star Romance) Braving Lily (An Opposites Attract Rock Star Romance) Daring Ceri (A Second Chance Rock Star Romance) Keywords: contemporary romance, rockstar romance, Morgana Bevan, True Platinum Series, British rock band, Welsh heroes, Wales-based romance, strong women, hot and steamy sexy times, fast burn, secret cinnamon roll, music romance, musician romance, celebrity romance, auction date, opposites attract, nerd gets the girl, grumpy sunshine, reverse billionaire
The “Natural Problem of Consciousness” is the problem of understanding why there are presently conscious beings at all. Given a non-reductive naturalist framework taking consciousness as an ontologically subjective biological phenomenon, how can we rationally explain the fact that the actual world has turned out to be one where there are presently living beings that can feel, rather than having developed as a zombie-world in which there would be no conscious experiences of any kind? This book introduces the Natural Problem by relating it to central problems in the philosophy of mind (metaphysical mind-body problem, Hard Problem of consciousness) and emphasizing the distinctive interest of its diachronic dimension. Ranging from philosophy to biology and neuroscience, it offers a thorough analysis aimed at better understanding what could explain why phenomenal consciousness has been preserved throughout evolution by natural selection. This is an original, engaging, and thought provoking philosophical study of a neglected but fundamental question regarding the nature and origin of consciousness.
IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS. You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be—and what they can become—in smart and singular ways. With a foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One, Press Start to Play includes work from: Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, S.R. Mastrantone, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Django Wexler, Nicole Feldringer, Chris Avellone, David Barr Kirtley,T.C. Boyle, Marc Laidlaw, Robin Wasserman, Micky Neilson, Cory Doctorow, Jessica Barber, Chris Kluwe, Marguerite K. Bennett, Rhianna Pratchett, Austin Grossman, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Andy Weir, and Hugh Howey. Your inventory includes keys, a cell phone, and a wallet. What would you like to do?
The Clock is Ticking. When Alex wakes up after the worst food hangover of her life to find out she's dead, the spinach truly hits the fan. With the help of her best friend, Sam, the two must discover why her Halloween costume is more authentic than she'd like this year, not to mention try to figure out why the heck her parents have disappeared. If she doesn't find the answers soon, will this Halloween will be her last?
