Evolution Fiction

Felicity Devon enters a remote suicide wood. Her avalanche of despair is due to her own personal demons and the secrets and lies surrounding her sister Elley’s disappearance. By chance in this place where the end game is played out she meets Jonah, a young man also struggling under the weight of a terrifying secret, his beloved father’s recent death, and the loss of his own sister. United in sorrow they decide to join forces and discover the truth behind the mysteries of their turbulent pasts. In the process, they step into a frightening and uncertain future.

Lupta dintre noii conducători ai Regatului României și rebelii credincioși vechii cauze a libertății devine aprigă, forțând-o pe Diane să ia partea unui aliat față de care jurase să se răzbune: Alex, fostul ei soț, care încă mai are un cuvânt greu de spus, armate loiale și… secrete nedezvăluite, desigur. Încercând să îi protejeze pe cei dragi, Diane află că jocurile pentru putere nu au limite, iar ea pare să fie doar un pion într-un angrenaj urnit cu mult timp înainte. Va avea oare forța să reziste trădărilor, conflictelor din rândurile rebelilor, dar și ei însăși?

When Shaun’s life continues to go from bad to worse, he is offered the chance to escape into an epic game world. One with the power to repair his mind and body while he lives out his wildest dreams. What could possibly go wrong? It turns out fighting monsters and obesity is tough wherever you are! Then there’s the unrequited love. Weren’t the women supposed to fall head over heels with the hero? Not in Anatoli, a brutal and unforgiving land on the brink of apocalypse.

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht einen Planeten, der ein jüngeres Geschwister der Sonne sein könnte. Die Grosnopfe suchen hier nach einer zweiten Heimat, während die kleine menschliche Besatzung ein Experiment plant: Wie schnell passt sich irdisches Leben einer fremdartigen Umgebung an? Der Versuch scheint zu scheitern – doch dann wird ein Besatzungsmitglied von Unbekannten entführt, und der interessante Ausflug verwandelt sich in eine dramatische Rettungsaktion.

For the past 100 years, humans mutated at age 18 into one of the four realms - demon, vampire, werewolf, or witch. Only Sasha never mutated. She is one of the Pure, a rare human who does not mutate, and the demons are trying to hunt her down at all costs. Her closest friend, Jeremy, who mutated into a vampire, is by her side as they try to navigate who they can trust, and who are their enemies. Will Sasha hold the key to changing the course of evolution? Find out as this suspenseful trilogy continues.

Fiction: The Evolution of Truth recounts the origin of the word fiction and its true meaning and what this discovery means for us - for readers, writers, and listeners of fiction - today. Fiction: The Evolution of Truth chronicles the forgotten truth and the true meaning of fiction.

When Betelgeuse turns supernova and showers the Earth with unexpected radiation, it changes everything. You are astrophysicist Geoff Arnold, and suddenly you find your body changed beyond all recognition. You then discover that your wife and children have vanished into a world you can hardly recognize. Can you find them and save the world from the effects of Mindslip? Prepare to be immersed in bizarre and unexpected characters and to imagine their impossible yet frighteningly realistic predicaments.

In 1623, Christian's life changed forever when he followed a huge, white eagle to a mysterious cave and discovered a visitor from another world peering at him from beneath a small pool. Sent by the One, the being taught Christian to become a Paladin, a protector of Earth with superhuman abilities, told to wait in the shadows unless balance needed to be restored. Now, it's the 21st century, and the time has come.

Hatched from an egg along with their many brethren, a singular arachnid is driven by a survival instinct to hunt and feed. Unlike their siblings, they remain cautious and observant, aware of the dangers that lurk in the dungeon they call home. They watch as larger and more powerful beasts prey on other reckless, foolish spiders, developing a sense of self-preservation and a cunning intelligence they alone seem to possess.

After waking up, Steve doesn't know where he is. Heck, he doesn't know what he is. Despite his spotty memory, he's pretty sure he didn't used to be a floating ball of light. He's also certain that he's not originally from this dangerous fantasy world...maybe. Okay, fairly certain. To make things stranger, he seems to be involved in something big, something magical...a game. Who was he before? Will his memories come back? Why does he have an assistant explaining the game's rules to him? He can evolve? There's a countdown timer?

A one-eyed old man, with a gray cloak and a wide-brimmed hat leaning on a staff. A wanderer who appears when least expected, bringing triumph or doom. The god of prophecy, poetry and fate. A shape changer. A sorcerer. The god Odin cuts a dramatic figure in Norse mythology and is still a part of the popular imagination. He is the inspiration for figures like J.R.R. Tolkien's Gandalf the Grey, and he still appears in modern literature as varied as Marvel Comics and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.

The end of man was not signaled by marauding gangs or explosions but with silence. People simply grew older knowing a younger generation would not be there to replace them. The final two residents in the neighborhood of Camelot, an old man and his invalid brother, are trapped in their house by forests full of cats and dogs battling with the bears and wolves to eat anything they can find. As the man struggles to survive, he recounts all the ways society changed as the human population continued to shrink.

Armed with his camera, notepad, and '73 VW Super Beetle, an Army journalist sets his sights on being in Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and NYC, all on July 4, 1976, so as to witness how far we have come and how far we have to go. After the festivities of the Kentucky Derby in 1976, Army Specialist Desi McKoy juggles his duties as a photojournalist at the Fort Knox weekly newspaper with his quest for his own version of the 'Pursuit of Happiness’ in the year marking the 200th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Resistance forces have pushed the enemy back against seemly insurmountable odds. But it doesn't take long for the biomechanoid race, known as the Mok'tu, to stop the Resistance dead in their tracks, when they discover a way to neutralize the only effective weapon against them.

After butting heads with the megacorporation known as VectorCorp, it was only a matter of time before Lex Alexander and his girlfriend, Michella Modane, would face the consequences. It is remarkable what a single corporate agent with the resources of a multiglobal conglomerate can do to a person's career. In the space of a few days, Lex is looking for work, and Michella is feeling pressure from the network to ease off the hard-hitting stories. Not one to be silenced, Michella quickly hatches a plan.

Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Learning of Bruno's ability to speak, Lydia takes Bruno into her home to oversee his education and nurture his passion for painting. But for all of his gifts, the chimpanzee has a rough time caging his more primal urges.

Kill the bad guys. Save the Galaxy. All in a hard day’s work. After striking a serious blow to the Brotherhood, Eddie and Julianna have learned the name of their enemy: Felix Castile. He is a man of fortune, power, and madness, and his revenge is coming. Castile won’t be deterred so easily. His armory is already restocked and his resolve to take General Reynolds down reinforced. However, this evil mastermind makes a big mistake when he allows Knox Gunnerson to escape.

Viruses are the world's most abundant life form, and now, when humanity is in the midst of a close encounter with their immense power, perhaps the most feared. But do we understand viruses? Possibly the most enigmatic of living things, they are sometimes not considered a life form at all. Everything about them is extreme, including the reactions they evoke. However, for every truism about viruses, the opposite is also often true.

Новые и познавательные эволюционные открытия.В третьем томе знаменитой «Эволюции человека» рассказывается о новых открытиях, сделанных археологами, палеоантропологами, этологами и генетиками за последние десять лет, а также о новых теориях, благодаря которым наше понимание собственного происхождения становится полнее и глубже. В свете новых данных на некоторые прежние выводы можно взглянуть под другим углом, а порой и предложить новые интерпретации.

Shaun and the Uprising have somehow managed to delay the inevitable, but the day of a titanic battle is on the horizon. The Apochros do not believe they are strong enough to resist the combined might of the Fystr and Galactic Empires, so the Uprising must leave the relative safety that they've found to recruit more willing souls. Maybe even cause some chaos along the way, in true Vakuna fashion. Every little helps after all.