When snow drives Malik, Beckley, Emma, and Wendell into Des Moines, Iowa, they are taken in by a Coalition that is caught between an anti-electricity, cult-like group and brutes who raise pigs to trade, feeding them on children.
Seventeen-year-olds Fix, a natural mechanic, and Cleo, a gifted tactician, must find a way to cooperate in a near-future Iowa or they and the group they lead may die at the hands of armed bands rumored to be making their way down from the north.
When teens Reese and David are kidnapped after revealing that they were adapted with alien DNA, Reese is forced to reconcile her new love for David, a human, with feelings for Amber, an Imrian, and make a world-changing choice.
Sixteen-year-old Callie, having lost every family member besides her little brother when a genocide spore killed all of those who were not vaccinated, thinks she has found a way to support them by renting her body to seniors who want to be young again, but after a neurochip malfunction results in her being stuck in the life of her rich renter, she uncovers the horrible plan of her boss and must race against time to stop it.
"In the conclusion to The Fallen World trilogy, Kaelyn and her friends must protect the cure they have found from deadly enemies while searching for a true safe haven"--Provided by publisher.
how to craft believably terrifying creatures to enhance your horror, fantasy, and science fiction
Athans, Philip
"Uses classic examples from books, films, and the world around us to explore what makes monsters memorable--and terrifying. You'll learn what monsters can (and should) represent in your story and how to create monsters from the ground up"--Back cover.
A collection of classified records, concealed information, lost emails between WICKED employees, memos meant to be destroyed after reading, and a selection of the Gladers suppressed memories that offer a unique glimpse of the world of "The Maze Runner.".
Abby Goyer, whose father moves her to Alaska to take a job at a remote laboratory, gets involved in helping Jason 3:3, also called Martyr, one of hundreds of clones raised in that lab, who dreams of seeing the sky once before he "expires" in less than a month.
A violent teen named Alex is "rehabilitated" by the government in this satirical view of the future of the industrialized world. Includes commentary, production featurette, and other special features.
