The End Of Elysium

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?

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.

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.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel...fine? Have you ever asked yourself what your imagination is lacking? Well, we do have the solution for you! Welcome to the end of the world, the one stop shop for all your post apocalyptic America cravings and needs. Do you wish you had cyborgs in your life? Are you longing for the vampire of your dreams to come bursting through the pages? Is the knowledge of other realities and the afterlife something you’ve thirsted for? Perhaps taking a long walk on the beach with immortal beings with immense unexplainable abilities is your forte. If you answered yes to any of these, then you are in the right place! Though we employ relatable emotional moments a person goes through, like that of heartache and grief, or that of horror and action-packed excitement, we don’t always intend for to weave a tale so fantastic and unbelievable, you’ll finally have that itch of imagination scratched at last! Ask for Kris, you may remember him from our first installment of The Last Kings of Elysium, and he’s returned for an even more amazing encore performance! Doctor, storyteller, anguished lover, hero... folks, when we say he’s the whole package, we mean it! You don’t wanna miss out on the magical story of a lifetime. Act now and we’ll throw in a heartfelt reclamation story arc that may or may not lead to a “happily ever after.”

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.

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.

Psychologist and struggling aspiring writer Kris Bronson was just your ordinary hardworking guy. But that was the problem. He wanted more. Desperate for the search of finding the imagination he craves so badly for his own writing, he looks to the minds of the criminally insane, particularly two men who seem to have survived the annals of time. What started off as a job turned into one of the most fantastical roller-coaster rides Kris would ever experience. Carried by the tales of the Trojan War, to the demise of Julius Caesar, and even a nod to the Arthurian legend of Camelot, Kris finds the imagination he has been looking for. As he sees the magic of these two seemingly insane, dangerous men go to work on his mind, the stories of worlds within our own, guarded by monstrous and magical figures, he realizes that he is doing much more than finding a cure to his writer's block. He is being convinced that there is much more to this world than he ever realized, one that would inevitably be the end of the world as we know it by the hands of a modern-day terrorist that seems to have his own magical ties to Kris and the two men he conducts his sessions with.

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.

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.

Volume 7 in the Adventures of V series The Boy - an incarnation of the Infinite Force of Evil - and his True Believer zombie-bats sweep eastward towards Elysium City, the Cosmos Empire's capital, a Domed City built over the flooded ruins of Manhattan, and the last bastion of humanity's earthly rule. Determined to rescue the human species from annihilation, and from the Boy's Cult of Death, V and her tiny crew - Miranda, Caliban, Claire, Demi Pfeiffer, and Robyn - race to Elysium to defend it from the Boy and his fanatical true believer zombie-bats.But ruin has already arrived. The Boy has seized control of the World Mind. The massive ethereal dome protecting the Domed City begins to collapse.Electricity fails. All the machines go crazy. Human minds, linked to the World Mind, go mad, explode, or become zombies.Winged zombie-bats sweep into the city, followed by gigantic super tornadoes, hail storms, and dust storms. Murderous mutant ghouls rise from the sewers.The giant recycling system that turns waste into food - steaks and hamburgers and broccoli and chocolate eclairs - and consumer goods, backs up, explodes, and sprays out a mile-high spurt of homogenized, sterilized human waste. In a parody of the Rapture, the dead in the steamy Burbs rise from their graves, and go on a rampage, massacring the living. Out in the Burbs, a bearded waster, a failed ecological crusader, inadvertently releases a super-powerful lethal version of the Bubonic plague.It spreads from the Burbs into Cosmos Elysium. Panic is everywhere. V and her team engage in mortal combat on multiple levels, above ground, and below ground, with the Boy's evil forces. Taking command of the World Mind, and taking command of people's minds, the Boy creates a labyrinth, a surreal, ever-shifting matrix, forcing V and others into a phantasmagoria of horror and hallucination. Reality dissolves. Time warps into a multitude of shapes. The World Mind, now subverted, begins to consume everything, reducing everything onto itself - all that is solid melts into air - leading the world towards a catastrophic final entropy where every molecule is equal to every other molecule, and the planet will be universal homogenized mush. Meanwhile, the spirit of the World Mind, trying to escape from its cyber prison, incarnates itself, creating a body, becoming a beautiful child of innocence no apparent sex, but a capricious child - and still all-powerful. As the world dissolves, as the machines revolt, as minds are commandeered by alien forces, even the mighty Cosmos are brought to their knees.Humanity faces extinction. Only a few will survive. Or will they?To save the human race and our universe, V must seize control of the World Mind - and capture the Mind Child - and confront the Boy and vanquish him.Is it too late for humanity? Has the Apocalypse come, or the Rapture?Is this the end of the human adventure, the end of the Anthropocene?