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"In the middle of the ocean lies a remote island complex lined with traps and an ever-changing landscape. Created by a mysterious man known as "Ahab," the island was designed to test the wills of the world's most notorious criminals. In a battle royale style game, eight violent felons will fight to the death over three days of relentless action. What Ahab doesn't know is that someone is on to him. Someone has infiltrated his island, intending to reveal...
3) Soft City
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""GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY. . ." So dawns a new day in Soft City, where pill-stuffed citizens sit in traffic, march off to work at Soft Inc., zone out in front of the TV news, and shop, shop, shop. The only graphic novel by the legendary Norwegian pop artist Hariton Pushwagner-- completed in 1975, lost for decades, and never before published in the United States--is a scathing masterpiece in the tradition of Brazil and A Brave New World but with an...
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In 1999, Gabriel and his friends discovered the Undernet--a secret architecture to the internet. They charted their exploration on a message board called W0RLDTR33. Then they lost control. Someone broke into W0RLDTR33---someone who welcomed the violent hold the Undernet had on them. At great personal cost, Gabriel and the others thought they sealed the Undernet away for good. They were wrong. And now the whole world will know the meaning of PH34R....
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In a treacherous district of the Prison City, one that is ruled over by a fanatical religious cult, Chloe is finally reunited with her long-lost brother. Because of the guilt she’s been harboring for leaving him behind all those years ago, she keeps her identity a secret, determined to continue protecting him from the shadows. But as the day of the children’s daring final escape approaches, so does the evil that’s been slowly creeping toward...
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"With help from Keiha Nijo of the Dodger Alliance, Hiroto has followed the Professor's whispered intimations to Exit 42 in the mountainous interior of Yokohama Station. There, in the heart of the beast, an ancient monitor flickers to life, and an image of the Professor in his youth, a haunting digital simulacrum, awakens from its slumber. And just nearby, there is a button--one that, when pressed, could end the Yokohama Station Hiroto has always relied...
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"In a world almost entirely stripped of color, the rare scraps of pigment that remain hold tantalizing power. A secretive cult known as the Order would use that power to see color returned to the world through the advent of their chromatic god...but the birth of a god requires bloody sacrifice. An eldritch creature rises, bathing a grey city in angry red. Avidia stands alone against a monster born from his best friend's death!"--Publisher.
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An action-packed thriller and source of the hit Netflix drama where the only way to survive is to play the game! Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends...
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"In a postapocalyptic world, humanity has risen from the ashes of all-out nuclear war to a nightmare of endless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage marauders rule the broken ruins of civilization, terrorizing and enslaving the survivors. Life has become a brutal struggle for existence and death the only release. Years after the fall of Raoh, Kenshiro has vanished and Rin and Bat have grown to young adulthood. Attempting...
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"In the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken--the Divine Fist of the North Star! In a postapocalyptic world, humanity has risen from the ashes of all-out nuclear war to a nightmare of endless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage marauders...