Download or read book The Beam Season Five written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unthinkable has happened. The Beam is down. Chaos reigns. A data anomaly has shown up in the East, something strange in a place where it shouldn’t exist, and something is seeking out a handful of people spread across the globe. Can Gillian Rhea find answers at the abandoned research station at Nickel Basin? Noah West is desperate to regain power and get The Beam back online, but no one dreamed he’d ever go this far. Will he unleash his worst creation upon the remains of the NAU to bring it back under his control, no matter the damage? Is there anyone left that can stop him?
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Download or read book The Beam Episode 1 A FREE Sci Fi Cyberpunk Technothriller written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first episode is a FREE series-starter for the sci-fi world of The Beam: a dystopian technothriller full of intrigue and conspiracies ... and the unseen perils of our hyperconnected world. This chilling, intricately-plotted cyberpunk series is set in a futuristic dystopia where politics and technology have widened the gap between haves and have-nots -- and where power means everything. All of humanity is connected ... to The Beam and to the lie. In the year 2097, the only stable nation is the North American Union: a cyberpunk world exploding with new technologies and ruled by two political parties. The NAU allows people to choose either the Enterprise Party (sink-or-swim; effort and luck determine whether members prosper or starve) or the Directorate, where members are guaranteed safety but can never rise above their station. And above it all is The Beam: an AI-built computer network that serves every whim and connects citizens through implants and biological add-ons. The Beam anticipates every need and has created a world within the world. It permeates everything. And is everywhere. But the NAU's power is shifting. New powers are making their moves while others hang in the balance. Behind it all, a shadowy group is pulling strings, and guiding the upcoming election exactly where they want it to go. The Beam is coming alive; immersion is as real as reality. If the NAU's power goes unchecked, the actions of a shadowy few will shape the fate of millions forever. ★★★★★ "This series is one of the best from these authors, which is saying a lot because Sean Platt/Johnny B. Truant/David Wright (any combination of the three) are by far my favorite authors. The Beam is an extremely complex world with complex characters." -- Matt Browner ★★★★★ "I'd have to say this series has them all beat because all the technologies (or magic, if you will) in this series are better developed, the characters are more involved, and the story lines are better woven. And I'm not talking about twists and turns in the plot that require suspending disbelief (yeah right), or leave you confused as to what happened. It's pretty amazing and thought-provoking." -- Burton Kent Sci-fi fans of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson will love the visionary cyberpunk world of The Beam ... where politics, plots, conspiracies, and backstabbing matter as much as future itself.
Download or read book Z2134 written by Sean Platt and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 2134 in a dystopian America, one century after a series of zombie plagues first infected then obliterated much of the world’s population. The survivors formed six walled Cities throughout the continent, all under the rule of a totalitarian government that enforces strict control over its populace. You must obey your government. You must be a good citizen. You must be a productive citizen. You must not break the law. Or The City Watch will find you and arrest you. Jonah Lovecraft, a former Watcher, was arrested for the murder of his wife. Like most criminals, he has one chance at freedom ― to participate in The Darwin Games, a televised survival show pitting two players from each city against one another in The Barrens, the uninhabited areas outside the City Walls. He’ll also have to face another enemy ― the zombies still roaming The Barrens. As he fights for his freedom against impossible odds, his daughter, Anastasia, stumbles into people who have information about her father ― information that will change her life forever. While putting her in the crosshairs of her father’s enemies. Z 2134 is the first book of a dystopian trilogy from the bestselling authors of Yesterday’s Gone. This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial.
Download or read book Last Night Never Happened written by Nolon King and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora Bauer, once Hollywood’s elite fixer, now finds her reputation shattered. Exposing a crime rather than concealing it has rendered her a pariah in an industry where secrets are currency. When Daphne Belle, a faded actress desperate for a comeback, enlists Nora’s help to avoid tabloid scandals, it seems like a straightforward gig. But after a night they can’t remember, filled with drinks, drugs, and decisions they wish to forget, Nora and Daphne awaken to a scene straight from a horror film: they’re drenched in blood with zero memory of how it happened. The duo’s frantic quest to piece together the night leads them into the darkest corners of Hollywood, a place far removed from its shimmering veneer. As they delve deeper, whispered secrets in dive bars and encounters with shadowy criminals reveal a chilling conspiracy. Nora and Daphne face a critical choice: uncover the truth and risk everything, or become the next victims of Hollywood’s sinister underbelly. Last Night Never Happened is a riveting thriller by best-selling authors Sean Platt and Nolon King, where every page tightens the noose of suspense around the throat of Hollywood.
Download or read book Z2136 written by Sean Platt and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several months after the events of Z2135, Adam Lovecraft is once again following in his father’s footsteps, this time as a contestant in the infamous Darwin Games. In The State’s latest iteration, the odds of surviving the games are slimmer than ever, and Adam soon finds himself pairing up with an old friend of Jonah’s. Meanwhile, Ana, Liam, and Katrina’s escape from the Hydrangea base has not gone unnoticed, adding to their struggles to not only survive but find Adam before it’s too late. But when they pick up some unexpected new allies during a thwarted rescue attempt, they get more than they bargained for. Now that Ana knows she could be the key to stopping the zombie plague that has brought humanity to its knees, can she trust anyone? Questions will be answered and fates will be determined in the thrilling final book in the Z 2134 series.
Download or read book Z2135 written by Sean Platt and published by Sterling & Stone LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darwin Games are over. The battle for survival has just begun … The Lovecraft family is in ruins. Their convict father, Jonah, roams The Barrens, near starvation, in search of his daughter. Only the hope of seeing Ana again keeps him alive. Meanwhile, Ana, Liam, and Duncan have found temporary relief at a camp outside The Walls. Inside City 6, Jonah’s young son, Adam, has been co-opted by Jonah’s enemy, Chief Keller, and is being groomed as a City Watch spy. Between the terrifying zombies roaming The Barrens—monsters created by the plague that destroyed the Old Nation—and the ruthless, manipulative government that controls everything and everyone within the City Walls, no one is safe. The second book in the Z-trilogy, Z2135 is both a frightening vision of a dystopian future and a heartening tale of family, hope, and humanity.
Download or read book The Engine Convergence written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ten years that have passed since Eila Doyle was banished and disappeared, the world has changed. Athenia has taken control of all ten engines through military occupation. International tensions have never been higher. When the entire body of the International Senate is assassinated, the whole world is clearly headed to war. King Godwyn wants to lead the celestials off the Island of Evergreen to take over the engines and rule the world. Leviathan is opening interdimensional doors between worlds to let The Might seep out. Spirit Daemons spawned from engine pollution become manifest and wreak havoc across the land. And the city of Stensue threatens all life with The Implement. Can Eila return to take her place in the order of things and help restore harmony to all the engines? Or is this truly the end? The Engine Convergence is book five and the final installment in The Dream Engine Series. Find the answers you’ve been waiting for.
Download or read book Gore Point written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian and Ray Porter have spent their lives battling demons that claw into our world through a thin spot: a hellish and dead place with a black lake at its center, nicknamed "The Gore Point." But as the rifts begin to change and grow for the first time in decades, can they keep the planet from becoming Hell itself? Adrian and his hotshot brother Ray work for Brigade One, in the walled-off city of Fortune on the outskirts of the Gore Point. Like their father before them, it's the Porters' job to protect citizens from the creatures that emerge from rifts opening inside the dead zone. Nobody knows what the Gore Point is or where it came from. It cannot be eradicated. It cannot be closed. The Brigades can only offer triage. Demons have always come through ... and the only solution is to slaughter them when they do. These days, few people die from the spawn that infiltrate Fortune from its rotted middle ... though as children, Ray and Adrian vividly remember watching their father do exactly that. But something has always struck intellectual Adrian as wrong about that day. The thing that killed their father (an enormous red beast called a hellbringer) wasn't supposed to be there. Adrian suspects there's something beneath the simplicity of modern riftfare, but bullheaded, showboating Ray thinks he's crazy. Until one day, when the rifts suddenly and inexplicably change. It starts to look like Hell has been sandbagging to lull us into complacence ... with help from a saboteur on the inside.
Download or read book The Beam Season Four written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastating aftermath of Shift reveals a world teetering on the edge of chaos. A rash of deaths across the political spectrum and the near-total destruction of the Organas has left a power vacuum that must be filled. But not even becoming a hologram could make Violet James forget who she is – or how important it is that she find Stephen York. Legendary hacker Ryu and his team are searching for York too, poking through holes in the Beam. Noah West, father of the Beam, is back and desperate to find Chloe Shaw – but he’s being hunted too. Alliances are forged and fates entwine as the hunt for Stephen York intensifies, Chloe Shaw rises, and another wave of deadly cleansing washes over the NAU. Can the Beam be stabilized, or will it become a tool of the one person who shouldn’t be allowed to control it?
Download or read book Finding Lost written by Nikki Stafford and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki Stafford's series - the only complete episode-by-episode guide to Lost - continues its exploration of the deeper meanings behind every episode of this critical and commercial success. The season five instalment will included analyses on how John Locke could become Jeremy Bentham (and what it means to the show's overriding themes) and chapters on literary references like Stephen King's The Stand and James Joyce's Ulysses. Includes exclusive behind-the-scenes photos of the filming of the new season on location in Hawaii.
Download or read book Unicorn Genesis written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Edward Doesn’t Want You to Read Unicorn Genesis starts in the Farback, as Edward’s Grappies spin yarn of life as the first unicorns, Adam and Eve, of the time before the Great Flood that tore the worlds apart, before The Realm, before the Sands, and before Marshall Clint Gulliver. Join Edward and Clint as the world’s favorite (and surliest) unicorn tells the gunslinger about his days as a unicorn colt, and how all life (in all worlds) began, as he comes of age in worlds both real and make-believe. Unicorn Genesis is another epic tale in the Unicorn Western series exploring oral tradition, the stories we love, and what we all believe to be true.
Download or read book Axis of Aaron written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebon Shale is desperate to forget, but terrified of being forgotten.... Desperate to forget the sudden death and illuminated betrayal of his new wife and longtime girlfriend, Ebon Shale flees to the quiet seaside town of Aaron, a place that's been calling him back since he was a child. But once there, Ebon feels lost. The small town's citizens are as odd as its energy, and seem to shift the reality before him. Will Aaron help Ebon forget, or will it swallow him whole?
Download or read book The Vampire Maurice written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mob is out for blood — literally! At the height of prohibition, the real threat on the streets of 1929 Chicago isn't Al Capone and his empire built on bootleg whiskey; it's the vampire mafia. And the liquid they trade is of an altogether deadlier variety. In this hidden world, the vampire mafia is bootlegging an addictive and deadly synthetic blood called Thrill. When the vampire Maurice discovers their blood-running operation, he must act to stop the flow of bootlegged blood, or risk the power balance of the vampire world tipping entirely into the hands of those who have been corrupted. But the mafia doesn't take kindly to interlopers, even those with fangs. The Vampire Maurice is book one of a side series set in the world of the bestselling Fat Vampire world.
Download or read book Namaste written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace Comes From Within. Death Comes From Without. Amit is a member of the order of shadow monks, his every waking moment is spent training his body and mind to the peak of human ability - and beyond. But the order is pacifist, a repository for deadly weapons with their safeties permanently set to "on." Until everything is taken from him, and Amit decides that turning the other cheek is no longer an option. Now, every ounce of his training will be put to the test. His epic quest for revenge will see wrongs righted - or see Amit forgotten in an unmarked grave.
Download or read book Sick and Wired written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is in the eye of the beholder. Wealthy and isolated by the greed of those around him, Anders Flynn is tired of people trying to take advantage of his dying mother. Burnt by thieving nurses and fighting off a manipulative aunt who wants the family fortune, Anders decides it would be far easier to have a robot caregiver look after his mother. At least the robot, Asa, will be honest and easy to control. But as Anders gets to know Asa, he realizes that she's far more sophisticated -- and unpredictable -- than advertised. Can he trust a robot whose motives he can't comprehend to care for the person he loves most? Sick and Wired asks the age-old question: What will happen if as technology begins to outpace our ethics?
Download or read book The Bialy Pimps written by Johnny B. Truant and published by Johnny B. Truant. This book was released on with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is good at Bingham's Bagel Deli. The loathed customers are dealt the poor treatment they seem to deserve, bad rap music is played loudly, and The Rat is killed often enough to stem his immortality. And the insane homeless regulars -- like drunken Little Johnny Redbeard -- keep life interesting. When a rival tricks the crew into thinking that the deli's closure is imminent, they do the only logical thing: instead of giving up, they decide to go out in a blaze of glory, handing their customers the humiliation and abuse that the pesky social contract had previously forbidden. But as insults turn to assaults and snide remarks turn to harassment and pro wrestling moves, a strange thing happens. Business goes up -- way up -- as people come back in droves, begging for more. But the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and as pop-culture welcomes the parody musical group "The Bialy Pimps" and its frivolous merchandising machine -- and as the crew pushes to see how much bad behavior society will accept -- the violent road to fame begins to feel like a runaway train, out of control and headed for destruction. The Bialy Pimps is a tale that could only be spun by the twisted, vaguely profane mind of outspoken blogger Johnny B. Truant. Combining hilarity with questions about conformity and whether the tail or the dog is the one doing the wagging, this story can't help but raise a question for the reader: If the rest of your friends decided to submit to the Face-Kicking Machine, would you do it too?
