Bøger af Scott Westerfeld

The final installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies seriesa global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. ';Tech-heads' flaunt their latest gadgets, ';kickers' spread gossip and trends, and ';surge monkeys' are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. Popularity rules, and everyone craves fame. Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse is no exception. But Aya's face rank is so low, she's a total nobody. An extra. Her only chance at stardom is to kick a wild and unexpected story. Then she stumbles upon a big secret. Aya knows she is on the cusp of celebrity. But the information she is about to disclose will change both her fateand that of the brave new world.

The third installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies seriesa global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else. Still, it's easy to tune that outuntil she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Westerfeld continues one of the first great space operas of this century Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, follows The Risen Empire with the next thrilling space opera in Succession, the Killing of Worlds. The immortal Emperor can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, and so has ruled the eighty worlds unchallenged for sixteen hundred years. The only thing he fears are the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship AI compound minds. They are dedicated to replacing his prolonged rule with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own.Brilliant tactician Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx faces a suicide mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own vessel. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover, Senator Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. The Emperor has a terrible secret, a secret Nara is in danger of finding out, a secret for which he would countenance the killing of worlds.

Now in paperback! All hell breaks loose in the second volume of this dystopian graphic novel duology by science fiction visionary Scott Westerfeld and artist Alex Puvilland.

X-Men meets Marissa Meyer's "Renegades" when "New York Times"-bestselling author Westerfeld (the Uglies series) teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti in this explosive trilogy about six teens with unique abilities. This set contains paperback editions of "Zeroes, Swarm, " and "Nexus."

X-Men meets Marissa Meyer's Renegades when New York Times bestselling author of the Uglies series Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti in the final book of an explosive trilogy about six teens with unique abilities.The Zeroes are in disarray. One of them has vanished. One of them is in prison. The rest are on the most-wanted list. And something big is brewing. Accused of murdering Swarm, Bellwether is in a high-security prison, isolated and unable to use his powers of influence. Flicker, Crash, Mob, and Scam are on the run as suspected domestic terrorists. And Agent Phan of the FBI has a secret weapon up his sleevea teenager with a superpower that the Zeroes haven't encountered yet. After a daring breakout, the group is drawn to New Orleans, where celebrating Mardi Gras crowds promise enormous power to anyone who can channel it. There, an army of Zeroes is gathering around a charismatic leaderwhose plans are nothing short of cataclysmic. Time is running out for the Zeroes, but they must learn to trust one another again if they want to avert the looming disaster.

The first volume of an original graphic novel series from New York Times - bestselling author Scott Westerfeld

STYRTET ER KUN BEGYNDELSEN Et fly styrter ned midt i Arktis, og otte unge overlevende træder ud af vraget. Men i stedet for at møde is og sne, befinder de sig midt i en underlig jungle. Uden mad og drikke. Og der er intet håb om redning. Junglen er fuld af fremmedartede og dødbringende trusler – fra dæmoniske flænsefugle til kødædende planter og et mystisk væsen, hvis skræmmende skrig kommer nærmere og nærmere … En forrygende overlevelseshistorie fyldt med mysterier, farer og stærkt sammenhold, hvor selv den mindste beslutning kan betyde forskellen på liv og død. DER KOMMER I ALT FEM BØGER I SERIEN LÆS BOGEN · SPIL SPILLET Brug bogen til at låse op for skjulte bonusting. Tilgængelig på tablet, smartphone og i browser. ALVILDA.DK/HORIZON

"This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves."-Shay Uglies told Tally Youngblood's version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world-as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally's rebellious best friend who's not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost. A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty-a rite-of-passage operation called "the Surge" that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of beauty. Yet after befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, ungoverned wild, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.

Scott Westerfeld, the award-winning author of MIDNIGHTERS rewrites the vampire myth in this stunning new novel