Ergebnis für "Heartbreak" in Science Fiction

It’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her 15 years in “the territory,” a settlement founded decades ago by a charismatic cult leader. In this strange town run on a sinister economic resource, the women crimp their hair and wear shoulder pads, and the teenagers listen to Nazareth and Whitesnake on their Walkmans. Pony’s family lives in the bungalow at the farthest edge of town, where the territory borders the rest of the wider world - a place none of the townspeople have ever been. Except for Billie Jean Fontaine, Pony’s mother.

It’s 1985 in The Territory and it always will be. It’s so cold you can’t feel your feet and from here the outside world is just a dream, but two humans and one animal will show us the way. They’re each searching for someone, a woman who washed up on the shores of this far-flung town and then disappeared. To find her they will have to look deep into the darkness that lies at the edge of love. Heartbreaker is an astounding feat of imagination with its own riotous rhythm and the resounding message that humanity can be found in the wildest of places.

What happens when society breaks down? The Weeping City has no heroes. Its youth? No future. Its citizens? No hope. Gangs and ragtag bunches of misfits rule the streets. Crooked cops and immortal men rule everything else. But when one of these colorless beasts unearths a forbidden technology that gives him the power to kill again, things take a homicidal turn for the worst. Now, bitter enemies must band together and save what’s left of humanity from a dystopian nightmare … if they don’t kill each other first. C.H.V.L.K., pronounced “chalk,” is an Action-Horror Noir Thriller set in an...