Zusatztext 43313854 Informationen zum Autor Rick Yancey (www.rickyancey.com) is the author of the New York Times bestseller  The 5th Wave , The Infinite Sea , several adult novels, and the memoir  Confessions of a Tax Collector . His first young-adult novel,  The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp , was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. In 2010, his novel,  The Monstrumologist , received a Michael L. Printz Honor, and the sequel,  The Curse of the Wendigo , was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. When he isn't writing or thinking about writing or traveling the country talking about writing, Rick is hanging out with his family. Klappentext The #1 New York Times Bestseller! now a major motion picture starring Chloë Grace Moretz The Passage meets Ender's Game in the first book in an epic series by award-winning author Rick Yancey. "Remarkable! not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances."-Entertainment Weekly "A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . ."-USAToday.com After the 1st wave! only darkness remains. After the 2nd! only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd! only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave! only one rule applies: trust no one. Now! it's the dawn of the 5th wave! and on a lonely stretch of highway! Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human! who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive! Cassie believes! until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious! Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair! between defiance and surrender! between life and death. To give up or to get up. "Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."-Justin Cronin! The New York Times Book Review An Amazon Best Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestseller Winner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book Award 2014 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the Year A YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults A YALSA 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers A Booklist 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults A VOYA 2013 Perfect Ten Books in the series: The 5th Wave (The First Book of The 5th Wave) The Infinite Sea (The Second Book of The 5th Wave) The Last Star (The Third Book of the The 5th Wave) 1 ALIENS ARE STUPID.   I’m not talking about real aliens. The Others aren’t stupid. The Others are so far ahead of us, it’s like comparing the dumbest human to the smartest dog. No contest.   No, I’m talking about the aliens inside our own heads.   The ones we made up, the ones we’ve been making up since we realized those glittering lights in the sky were suns like ours and probably had planets like ours spinning around them. You know, the aliens we imagine, the kind of aliens we’d like to attack us, human aliens. You’ve seen them a million times. They swoop down from the sky in their flying saucers to level New York and Tokyo and London, or they march across the countryside in huge machines that look like mechanical spiders, ray guns blasting away, and always, always, humanity sets aside its differences and bands together to defeat the alien horde. David slays Goliath, and everybody (except Goliath) goes home happy.   What crap.   It’s like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.   There’s no way to know for sure, but I bet the Others knew about the human aliens we’d imagined. And I bet they thought it was funny as hell. They must have laughed their asses off. If they have a sense of humor . . . or asses. They must have laughed the way we laugh when a dog does something totally cute and dorky.   Oh, those cute, dor...