![]() With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.īut the microbe is growing-evolving. A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity-until now. And the world thought it was safe…ĭeep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. ![]() In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. Accidental exposure to the particle-designated The Andromeda Strain-killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. ![]() ![]() In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name-and spawned a new genre, the technothriller-the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. ![]()
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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() A traitor has set free eight Lore, the spirits of what humans know as fairy tales, and they are making their way to Slumber to awaken their descendants. Madly James is thoroughly enjoying her internship in Slumber when the unthinkable happens-there’s a prison break in Atlas, Madly’s home beneath the sea. Madly is your average nearly-eighteen year old girl-for a mermaid princess, that is. Rather, it just has a magical quality throughout the book. ![]() ![]() There’s plenty of plot to sink your teeth into. And when I say that it is light and airy, I don’t mean that is lacks meat in the plot. I don’t really even know how to describe it to you… it’s ethereal, original, light, airy, beautiful. And because it’s my nature, I’m not going to hold back– I’m going to tell you what I really thought. I’ll give you those details here in a bit.īut first, because it’s my nature, I must give you my opinion on this book. But don’t hate me too much– because it’s availalbe for download now. So… I had the pleasure of reading M.Leighton’s new book, Madly and Wolfhardt, before it was released to the public. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Road to Woodbury, an innocent traveler named Lilly Caul wound up in the terrifying thrall of Phillip Blake's twisted, violent dictatorship within Woodbury's ever tightening barricades.Īnd now, in The Fall of the Governor, the Governor's descent into madness finally erupts in a tour de force of action and horror. In Rise of the Governor, uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings directly into the dark heart of the zombie apocalypse, and became the self-proclaimed leader of a small town called Woodbury. ![]() From co-authors Kirkman, creator of the Eisner Award-winning comic as well as executive producer of AMC's blockbuster TV series, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker Award-finalist and internationally acclaimed author, comes the gripping third novel in this richly woven, page-turning literary saga, which began with The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. The Walking Dead original novel series, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comic book, continues with The Fall of the Governor. ![]() The epic finale to Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga's New York Times bestselling Governor storyline! ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip’s older brother, Sandy ( Caleb Malis), gets caught up in a sinister scheme to assimilate urban Jews into the Christian, agrarian climes of Real America. ![]() ![]() There’s young Philip Levin ( Azhy Robertson, from Marriage Story and “Wells for Boys”), wide-eyed and worried as the adults around him unravel under the stress of violent political and social change. We see all this unfold from the perspective of one family, a version of Roth’s own. Out of that disaster of “America First” populism spins a litany of horrors. Roosevelt losing the 1940 election to Nazi-sympathizing American icon Charles Lindbergh. ![]() The series, from David Simon and his frequent collaborator Ed Burns, is based on the late Philip Roth’s 2004 novel, which imagines Franklin D. Those wishing to focus on an entirely different calamity than the one we’re living in-and one that’s blessedly make-believe-could turn to HBO’s six-episode mini-series The Plot Against America, a slow-build drama (premiering March 16) that presents an alternate American history, one that in some ways doesn’t feel all that alternate. ![]() |