The Resisters #4: Operation Inferno

Informationen zum Autor Eric Nylund is a New York Times bestselling and World Fantasy Award nominated author. He has written science fiction and fantasy novels, comic books, and has helped make many blockbuster video games. Eric has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in chemistry. He graduated from the prestigious Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in 1994. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his family. You can learn more about Eric at www.ericnylund.net. Klappentext Million-copy bestselling Halo author and game developer Eric Nylund brings action-packed science fiction to a young audience with the fourth book in the Resisters series. As Ethan and the other Resisters explore Titan Base, they learn more about human technology prior to the alien Ch'zar's conquering of Earth. But before they can fully understand the weapons now at their disposal, the Ch'zar find their new base! The Resisters have just one chance left-if they can destroy the aliens' huge industrial complex, they can buy themselves some time. But to do it, they'll have to infiltrate the Ch'zar collective and risk being absorbed by the hive mind.Ethan Blackwood set the report he'd been writing on his desk. Well, technically, it wasn't his desk. He ran a hand over the worn plastic simulated wood-grain surface. He was just borrowing the thing. Like the room. Like the entire base. He sat alone in a huge office. The walls were covered with dead computer screens, bookshelves (minus the books), and blank spots that might've once been covered with pictures or maps. The room was three times the size of Colonel Winter's office. He glanced at the status report he'd just written. Sterling Squadron was falling apart. Sure, this base had saved their lives. They'd all gotten a second chance. But to do what? Fight the entire Ch'zar alien race by themselves? Impossible odds were one thing. Ethan's stomach churned. He'd faced impossible odds before--and won. This time, though, there was zero chance of winning. Not without the Seed Bank and all its resources and technology. And not without Colonel Winter or Dr. Irving. Ethan buried his face in his hands. He'd been strong for the last few days. Now, he was exhausted. Over the last few months, he'd come to think of the secret Resister base, the Seed Bank, as home. Dr. Irving, and in some ways even Colonel Winter, had been like parents. He didn't think they loved him or Emma like their real parents, but they had cared. He knew they would've rather died than betray him. But if the adult Resisters from the Seed Bank had been captured, then their minds would now be part of the alien collective. The Ch'zar would know his tactics, tricks, everything. He took a deep breath and squeezed his eyes shut to keep back the tears. The colonel and the doctor always knew what they were doing when it came to fighting the aliens. No one was here now to help Ethan make the hardest decisions of his life. Ethan pulled a photo from the stacks of technical manuals piled on the desk. It was the picture he and Emma had found at Titan Base. It was as if the picture had been waiting for them there for fifteen years. The yellowed photograph was of Melinda and Franklin Blackwood, their parents. They wore white uniforms with silver infinity symbols on the lapels. The picture had been taken here. Ethan could see the computer displays and panels in the background. But then they'd left. They had to have known about the Ch'zar, and yet they'd picked Santa Blanca to raise him and his sister. How could they have done that, knowing their children's minds would be at risk when they became teenagers? Being a teenager and hitting puberty was when the big changes in brain chemistry happened and the Ch'zar's mind-control powers got you. Ethan traced the edges of his parents' faces in the pho...

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• Autori: Eric Nylund, Eric S. Nylund
• Editore: Yearling Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 10 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.10.2013
• EAN: 9780307978554
• ISBN: 978-0-307-97855-4
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 192 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: The Resisters; Resisters
• Categorie: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi; Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy