The founders of Immutrends, Mick Delaney, Grant Tracer, and Emily Adkins, design and build a nearly impenetrable underground complex in Western Montana called the Core. Inside that complex are over 150 people of all disciplines and skills. There is enough food, water, and resources to last over 20 years. As the pandemic caused by Morphgen advances, the Core, led by vaccinologist Emily Adkins, begins developing a serum to counteract the virus Morphgen has released. But Morphgen counters wit...

When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a large-scale war in Europe and was an instrument of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, keeping orthodox Communist regimes in power. The alliance over the years had also become an effective mechanism of political coordination and consultation. In April 1985, the Warsaw Pact leaders met in Warsaw and renewed the Pact for another thirty years. Yet onl...

When Earth Dimension 2 is threatened by aliens, Dr. Farrow enlists a small group of enhanced humans to engage them. War ensues.

Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first bo...

A flu virus emerges in Mumbai, India. For weeks, no one is concerned. After all, the flu appears every year. But this virus is different. It has one unusual symptom. Some of those infected with the virus become enraged. They become violent and destructive. As the virus progresses, the Rage, as it is being called, begins to concern world governments. Something has to be done to stop it. Mick Delaney, CEO of the pharmaceutical company Immutrends is called on by the president of the United St...

500,000 years before ancient men lit fire, alien beings, possessed of technology beyond all comprehension, discovered planet earth. What they found and had been seeking, was a bounty of resources: water, minerals, food, plants, and animals. Their discovery warranted an investment in engineering and infrastructure. To that end, they designed and built a series of underground complexes which resembled cross-like domes, structures they would use as both a base and laboratory for their plans. ...

Armand Bayou Illustrated - A Life on the Bayouis the story of a person and a place. It is a naturalist's chronicle exploring the local ecology and natural history of the Bayou City's most beautifully preserved waterway. It offers a unique perspective into the natural world and its wildlife from someone who has made a life's work of conservation and environmental education.The story weaves Texas coastal ecology, wildlife and a memoir of observing the natural world for more t...

Language is not for God, but for man to get beyond his primitive feelings…"In Frederick Mark Kramer's They Shall Not Pass: A Novel of Manhattan and Madrid, the interior ruminations of disembodied, anonymous voices twist together in slow, constant alternation, and we gradually come to know four main figures: Jacobo, an American who fought in the Spanish Civil War and then returned to New York; Esmeralda, the woman he loved in Spain, who unbeknownst to Jacobo later ...

Move past the ESG culture wars and make better choices for your business.Embracing ESG—environmental, social, and governance goals—isn't just the right thing to do. It's good business. Companies that don't address their material long-term risks may save a few dollars today, but they're putting themselves, their stakeholders, and their investors in jeopardy.ESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you move past the noise and...

In post-Soviet Russian politics, Boris Nemtsov is one of the most tragic figures—and not only because he was shot dead, at the age of 56, in close vicinity to the Kremlin, the locus of Russia’s power. The “transparency of evil” in this specific case was shocking: Nemtsov’s murder was filmed by a surveillance camera. The video tape confirms the demonstrative and insolent character of the assassination. His death illuminated a core feature of the current regime that tolerates, if not incites...

The Cold War began in Europe in the mid-1940s and ended there in 1989. Notions of a “global Cold War” are useful in describing the wide impact and scope of the East-West divide after World War II, but first and foremost the Cold War was about the standoff in Europe. The Soviet Union established a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe in the mid-1940s that later became institutionalized in the Warsaw Pact, an organization that was offset by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) led ...

At the funeral of his old friend Jeff, who has committed suicide, Simeon, a poet in New York City, reencounters his old lover Liliana, who had also been Jeff's girlfriend and whom he has not seen for thirty years. Over drinks at the bar of the nearby Café Purgatorio, a long conversation ensues, trying to make sense of their three youths and what followed from them, again and again twisting together and pulling apart the circular trail of their steps and missteps. The more obsessively these...