Download or read book Elysium Girls written by Kate Pentecost and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, dazzlingly original young adult fantasy about an epic clash of witches, gods, and demons. Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain. Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor—only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.
Download or read book The End of Elysium written by Joe Vasicek and published by Joe Vasicek. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the promise of paradise, the last civilization will surrender to the apocalypse. Elysium was a world without without pain or suffering, hunger or disease, poverty or crime. So naturally, it was a world that was already dead. Gehenna was a dead world, poisoned by the Great Catastrophe that had driven their ancestors into the underground vault. Few knew or cared what lay beyond the ancient airlocks. The bleak and windowless tunnels of Gehenna held nothing to the shared simulation of Elysium. Gehenna still had a Watchman who searched diligently for the promised land. But would the people of Elysium give up their truth in order to have a future? Or is cultural suicide a price worth paying for paradisiacal bliss?
Download or read book Elysium Or The World After written by Jennifer Marie Brissett and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos, of survival and love. The program's data, however, has been corrupted. As the novel's characters struggle to survive apocalypse, they are sustained and challenged by the demands of love in a shattered world both haunted and dangerous.
Download or read book Defending Elysium written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Dragonsteel, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Brandon Sanderson’s #1 bestselling Skyward series celebrates its third volume, Cytonic, travel back in time to the origin of Cytonics in the novella Defending Elysium. Centuries before Spensa looked skyward from the planet Detritus—back on Old Earth before it was lost—Jason Write faced a crucial question: was humanity ready to join galactic society? When faster-than-light communications were discovered by a small telephone company in 2071, alien species such as the Tenasi and Varvax overheard them and came to visit Earth. Because the Phone Company controls all communications with the aliens, their operatives like Jason operate above the law. Now, on the space platform Evensong, one of the Phone Company’s scientists has gone missing before surfacing in a hospital with amnesia, and Jason is sent to investigate. Right as he arrives, the body of a murdered Varvax ambassador is discovered, sure to cause a galactic incident. Coln Abrams of the United Intelligence Bureau seizes the opportunity to investigate Jason as he deals with the crisis. This could be the UIB’s chance to discover the Phone Company’s secrets—how does FTL communication work, and what is Jason hiding? Winner of Spain’s UPC Award for Science Fiction in 2007.
Download or read book Rebellion written by J. A. Souders and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evie and Gavin return to the isolated, dangerous underwater city that they fought so hard to escape from, in this conclusion to J.A. Souders' thrilling, twist-filled Elysium Chronicles series.
Download or read book End Game written by Lorenzo DiTommaso and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This is the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen papers engage the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspectives of content, theme, sound, ludic textures, and social function. The volume offers scholars, students, and general readers a thorough overview of this unique expression of the apocalyptic imagination in popular culture, and novel insights into an important facet of contemporary digital society.
Download or read book A Palpable Elysium written by Jonathan Williams and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a collection of extraordinary personalities captured on film in Williams's revealing, unpretentious casually evocative photographs, and decoded through Williams's intimate, often hilarious, extended captions and essays."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Three Parts Dead written by Max Gladstone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of intrigue, a murdered god, and the business of necromancy: an urban fantasy set in an alternate reality
Download or read book Allegories of the End of Capitalism written by Milo Sweedler and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Allegories of the End of Capitalism, Milo Sweedler deconstructs the events of films Melancholia; Cosmopolis; Suffragette; Django Unchained; Elysium and Snowpiercer, the socio-political contexts they arise from and enter into, and their impact on contemporary culture and life. He examines how filmmakers from six different countries, across four continents, give narrative and audio-visual form to the frustration and anger that burst into public view in 2011, the ongoing class war between the super-rich and the rest of the world's population, and the insurrection that it yet to come.
Download or read book Detecting Texts written by Patricia Merivale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.
Download or read book Elysium s Passage written by N.G. Meyers and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elysium s Shadow written by Matthew Munson and published by Inspired Quill. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s been a hell of a first day.” Jon May has been the Governor of Elysium for a few hours, and he’s already facing a belligerent Chief of Security, an ex-Operations Manager imprisoned for killing the previous Governor, and an amorphous energy mass that has its own agenda. So now Jon has to decide who to trust; his Security Chief will barely talk to him, and his only allies are people who, according to the Republic, are dangerous criminals. With less than 48 hours to delve into the shadows surrounding Elysium’s recent but tumultuous past, May is about to uncover more about this job than he bargained for.
Download or read book Leadership Popular Culture and Social Change written by Kristin M.S. Bezio and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest generation of leaders was raised on a steady diet of popular culture artifacts mediated through technology, such as film, television and online gaming. As technology expands access to cultural production, popular culture continues to play an important role as an egalitarian vehicle for promoting ideological dissent and social change. The chapters in this book examine works and creators of popular culture – from literature to film and music to digital culture – in order to address the ways in which popular culture shapes and is shaped by leaders around the globe as they strive to change their social systems for the better.
Download or read book Space Tourism written by Erik Cohen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary work on the emergent phenomenon of space tourism. It is written by leading specialists and covers a wide spectrum of topics including space history and technology, the environmental, social, and legal aspects of the development of a future space tourism industry, and space tourism marketing.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy written by Dean A. Kowalski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 2127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; using popular culture is a necessary evil, something merely useful for reaching the masses with important philosophical arguments. But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds. We wouldn't baulk at a book dedicated to examining the philosophy of The Great Gatsby or 1984--why aren't Star Trek and Superman fair game as well? After all, when produced, the former were considered pop culture just as much as the latter. This will be the first major reference work to right that wrong, gathering together entries on film, television, games, graphic novels and comedy, and officially recognizing the importance of the field. It will be the go-to resource for students and researchers in philosophy, culture, media and communications, English and history and will act as a springboard to introduce the reader to the other key literature in the field.
Download or read book Hades Speaks written by Vicky Alvear Shecter and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hades, god of the dead, welcomes readers on a dangerous tour of his underworld kingdom, filled with monsters, furies, giants, and vampire demons. Along the way, he reveals ancient death rites and sinister curses, tells hair-raising stories, and cracks jokes to die for. With his witty voice and ghoulish sense of humor, Hades is the perfect guide through this fresh and imaginative work of nonfiction that reads like a novel. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and index.
Download or read book Elysium s End written by Glenn Reinman and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity has proven resilient in the face of a global catastrophe. Isolated bastions of civilization have endured the centuries, despite a technological retrogression that has resulted in another Dark Ages. At the age of eighteen, strong-willed Cass was selected to be the General of the Army of the Sun. While the position of General is considered to be a glorified figurehead, Cass is determined to show her value as a leader. But the unaccepting patriarchy are willing to go to extreme measures to keep the status quo. Alon is a young engineer who has been studying the decaying and deadly ruins of the ancients. During his latest expedition, Alon makes a surprising discovery from the old world: a centuries-old neural replica of a scientist who lived before the apocalypse. But Alon is not the only interested party in this discovery, and other forces from the ancient world are closing in. Cass and Alon must find a way to work together, and discover whom they can trust in a dangerous new world of bio-engineered humans and neural reprogramming. A world where immortality is within reach.
