Títulos em Ficção sobre Desastres

If the fields could talk, they would have a story to tell - a story that nobody saw coming, no, not in a million years! After an ice storm wreaks havoc on the Indiana Heartlands, a couple finds themselves fighting for survival. One with a disease and the other a punishment from the elements so harsh not even love could fix.

Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports listeners to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves and virulent, deadly pandemics. One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as 'elemental'. But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?

Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer’s potions nor the medical team’s treatments could cure. Compounding the family’s grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: The virus spreads rapidly, and the boys’ father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.

This is Britain: but not as we know it. THEY are coming closer . . . THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; savage mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks—and those who resist. THEY capture dissidents—writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless—in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...

The hurricane of 1900, America’s worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all 93 children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage—except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in American history.

Miranda Reynolds has lost her home, her job and her husband - all thanks to an economic collapse that has brought America to its knees. The shops are empty; the streets no longer safe. Miranda and her daughter, Emma, have nowhere left to turn. There is one final hope, a self-sufficient haven for women who want to live a life free from men. Femlandia. For Miranda, the secluded Femlandia is a last resort. Life outside the gates is fraught with danger, but there’s something just as sinister going on within.

Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-old Miles—a chance to learn about his family’s roots while coming to terms with his father’s departure—but it’s also an excuse for Genevieve to escape the city, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America.

In these 10 beautifully moving short stories, mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.

Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month, she - along with 81 other members of the Donner Party - finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stuck there for the entirety of a despairing, blizzard-filled winter. Forced to eat shoe leather and blankets to survive, will Ada be able to battle the elements - and her own demons - as she envisions a new life in California?

Molti credono che sia soffice e bianca, ma quando si è sommersi sotto di lei, la neve è nera come la notte. Lo sa bene Nanni Settembrini, guida e capo del Soccorso alpino, che anno dopo anno delle valanghe ha imparato un'unica cosa: sono un capriccio di neve senza spiegazione, ed evitarle è questione di secondi. Sembra confermarlo anche la telefonata che Settembrini riceve il primo giorno d'estate: dal monte Bianco si è staccato un seracco, e gli alpinisti scampati alla morte sostengono che altri non sono stati altrettanto fortunati.

In the story, the multiethnic community of Wailuna Bay struggles to find safety as a tsunami races toward the islands, but to survive the crisis, they must overcome their own prejudices, class differences, and family conflicts. If residents of this isolated coastal community are to survive, they must band together and seek refuge on the hillside land of an embittered, old milk farmer who wants nothing to do with his neighbors.

La temporada perlera de Tuamotú había terminado y todos los que habían trabajado en ella regresaban a Tahití. Los seis pasajeros que disponíamos de camarote éramos compradores de perlas. Había entre nosotros dos americanos, un chino (el más blanco que he visto en mi vida) que se llamaba Ah Choon, un alemán y un judío polaco. Yo completaba la media docena.La temporada fue tan próspera, que ni nosotros ni los ochenta y cinco pasajeros de cubierta teníamos motivos para quejarnos. Las cosas nos habían ido bien y todos estábamos deseando llegar a Papeete para descansar y divertirnos.

A magical tale of a seafarer's life in and around the town of Key West. A place that, if the tales aren't true, they "ought to be". Captain Eddie embarks on a day or two at sea, hoping to arrive at a safe harbor from an approaching hurricane. However, conditions rapidly deteriorate as the hurricane has spooled up to a category three and has taken a course directly for him and his lady.

Set in the not-too-distant-future, Utah! is a novel about climate change and the intricacies of relationships - between family, partners, religious structures, nature, and the American West. Featuring a litany of intriguing Utah residents including ex and current Mormons, doomsday preppers, military vets, Presbyterian ministers, and Colombian housewives, these characters eventually find their paths crossing in violence, disaster, and friendship.

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster.

In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient.

Decades of spiralling drug resistance have unleashed a global antibiotic crisis. Ordinary infections are untreatable, and a scratch from a pet can kill. A sacrifice is required to keep the majority safe: no one over 70 is allowed new antibiotics. The elderly are sent to hospitals nicknamed ‘The Waiting Rooms’, hospitals where no one ever gets well. Twenty years after the crisis takes hold, Kate begins a search for her birth mother, armed only with her name and her age.

Mi stia a sentire. Ci sono più di 600.000 persone strette intorno a quel vulcano… Un boato, una fumarola che esce dal Vesuvio e sarà il panico: tenteranno di scappare, si schiacceranno, si spareranno pur di allontanarsi qualche metro in più… Faranno qualsiasi pazzia per procurarsi un mezzo veloce… Non ho fatto ancora la stima dei probabili morti, ma si tratta certamente di cifre con almeno quattro numeri… E se non schiodiamo subito questa protezione civile dal Department of Homeland Security, in questa emergenza Vesuvio i morti li provocherà non il vulcano, ma il governo.

After a harrowing journey home, the worst is not over. When Tommy Sheridan learns about the death of an old flame, he can’t believe the United States Patriots are responsible. Offering to investigate, John warns him to leave it be. But walking away is hard for a gambling man. An act of kindness sees John and Laura take supplies to Leon and his daughter near the town of Lead, but when a threat from Leon’s past returns, they soon find themselves locked in a vicious fight with only their wits and each other to survive. Meanwhile, Elijah’s secret will have deadly consequences.

The year is 2026. The US military has a new weapon in its arsenal: an intelligent life-form so versatile that it can not only create a new generation of weapons but can become a weapon itself - entering a host’s body to manipulate (or kill) them. Admiral James Curtiss is tasked with deploying the new weapons, first in Cuba, then Venezuela, then China. But the news of the military’s breakthrough has gotten out and there are menacing forces trying to steal it. What’s more, a single man has somehow harnessed the new power and has become something more than human - godlike.