В одной из секретных лабораторий происходит утечка опасного вируса, который заставляет человека мутировать, обращая в монстра. Начинается эвакуация, в ходе которой дети из сиротского интерната остаются брошенными на произвол судьбы. Со временем они получают информацию об убежище для выживших, которое располагается за страшным городом, названным Зоной Карантина, где был выпущен вирус. Смогут ли отвергнутые дети сохранить в себе человечность и най ...
A large credit reporting company sees the era of Big Data coming. Its CEO dreams of knowing so much about the people it tracks that it will be able to predict what they will do. With the data, he believes, the company will know people better than they know themselves. Meantime, his chief financial officer has come to the corporate world in order to hide in the numbers on his spreadsheets, trying to escape a dark, ambiguous experience from his pa ...
You Believers is a powerful, cathartic story of casual evil and of how the worst things can be faced so that we might not only survive, but grow. A young woman goes missing, and her mother uproots her life to find her daughter. But it is not just the heartbreak or the deep mystery of the hunt for lost loved ones that Bradley so convincingly explores. Rather, with the help of an amazingly dedicated searcher, family and friends somehow learn to mo ...
A disillusioned and raggedy American reporterand his drunken photojournalist partner are the lastto see three Japanese schoolgirls who disappearinto Taroko Gorge, Taiwan’s largest national park.The journalists—who are themselves suspects—investigate the disappearance along with the girls’homeroom teacher, their bickering classmates,and a seasoned and wary Taiwanese detective.The conflicts between them ...
In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grownCore Communications, a data technology company,from 30 people to over 5,000. Now a $20 billioncompany made legendary by its sudden success,Core is based on a technology no other companycan come close to copying, a revolutionarybreakthrough known as “drawing blood from amainframe.” And Robbie, its 35-year-old CEO, isacclaimed worldwide for his vision, leadership andwealth.Except tha ...
The snow began on a Saturday…a cold, brooding day in September 2203.<P> The world's leading scientists – grimly aware of the monstrous new age of ice that would close around the Earth and bury the human race alive – had issued their warnings.<P> But the governments had ignored them, issued bland reassurances, and berated the scientists for their alarmist cries of doom. For several years, though the snows started and stopped, ...
Terror stalks the campus of a Minnesota university, where two professors working on classified military research have been brutally murdered. Student Karen Butler fears for her life after her adviser is killed, realizing she's the only one left with detailed knowledge of a new nerve gas defense system plus a terrible nanotech weapon. Karen and her boyfriend, Jack Nelson, a member of the elite military group Eagle Squad, play a dangerous gam ...
