Títulos em Distopia

In a world engulfed by darkness, the courageous determination of Jennifer Smith shines as the lone beacon of hope in a landscape destroyed by bitter cold and chaos. Stripped of technology, humanity teeters on the brink of collapse. Starvation grips the land as ruthless gangs ascend, engaged in a battle for supremacy in this new, savage world.

After the collapse of society and the natural world, what’s left of the human race is divided into multiple space-faring superpowers. All with a goal of maintaining its legacy, and values. These differing values, however, fuel an extreme, and ever-growing tension between them, sparking a feud of interstellar proportions.

"Progressi e sfide della nematologia" è il titolo della conferenza, ben poco partecipata, in cui Arthur e Kevin si incontrano per la prima volta. Nematologia, cioè lo studio dei vermi. Pardon, lombrichi. La sede è una delle aule ipermoderne dell’istituto AgroParisTech, inspiegabilmente trasferito dalle campagne dell’Île-de-France alla spianata di cemento dell’altopiano di Saclay: un’infilata di centri commerciali e isole spartitraffico da cui è più che mai arduo immaginare un futuro verde per la nazione.

Archer Kemp is tired of his life. Past wars, a cheating ex-wife, and a son he barely sees have made him empty inside; but things get worse when he awakens behind bars in a government facility called The Tower with an ensemble of others, some struggling to remember how they arrived. The group soon finds themselves in a grim world where they're starved and experimented on for the sake of military research. To further complicate the situation, his estranged brother shows up in the cell next to him before they're mentally broken and bullyragged into descending the tower's treacherous levels.

Wyatt Hartford, Earl of Windborne, spends his days running a smuggling operation under the noses of his political enemies. Twenty years prior, Wyatt and three other young, orphaned aristocrats fled war- and weather-ravaged Earth for the Martian city-state of Utopia. Now the four friends—nicknamed the Lords of Dystopia—use their money and influence to champion citizens’ rights and progressive reforms. To the downtrodden, they are leaders. To the noble scions of Queen Victoria’s empire, they are a threat.

The sudden rise of a brazen and unprecedented regime of unparalleled power casts human civilization into a state of total anarchy. World powers and the plentiful who resist form factions to stop the Edentheian Allegiance and save the world from their rapidly expanding space-faring dictatorship.

Als Apoll zwischen den Tausenden von Männern in der Marsarena steht und die Strafwoche beginnt, trifft er eine Entscheidung. Er wendet sich zu seinem Freund um und sieht die gleiche Entschlossenheit in dessen Gesicht. Sie werden in der Kolonie nach "Mater Terra" suchen: der Widerstandsgruppe. Die Herrschaft der Gyne über den Mars muss ein Ende finden. Je schneller, desto besser. Im Jahr 2095 brechen zwei junge Männer vom Mars auf, um gegen die Herrschaft der Gyne über ihren Planeten zu kämpfen.

My name is Rachael, and I’m on a solo Antarctic expedition. But a month ago I lost contact with basecamp. No radio. No sat phones. Just static. Only one thing has reached me: a BBC World Service broadcast, reporting a nuclear strike on the UK. I’m safe for fourteen more days in my little hut at the bottom of the world. But I can’t stay here forever, I have to find out what’s happened. Even if there’s no one left to tell.

Kesta’s life is turned upside down when her husband Tim is one of the last to be bitten in a zombie pandemic. A scientist by day, she spends her evenings in group therapy, sharing with others who also lost a loved one to the virus. The country is in a brief respite, seemingly having rounded up everyone affected, and Project Dawn is working to find a vaccine, a cure to make sure it can’t reappear.

The battle for Orenda Academy has begun. The Elders have spoken, and the tribe is divided. The only way to reverse what’s happened is to take a stand. We’ve started a smuggling operation to help students escape the castle, but it could cost us our lives. The prophecy is about to come true, and we’re desperate to change the course of this war. The Air piece of the prophecy is our last hope. If we don’t find it, we won’t know what’s coming— or how to prevent the end.

Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, there are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

In the face of a world transformed by an EMP attack, the Spencer family has faced every challenge, every trial, and forged an unbreakable bond. Their unity, however, remains unassailable, fortified by not just shared blood, but also by deep bonds of friendship that were kindled and strengthened amidst adversity. Their sanctuary, a symbol of their resilience and hope, will not be forfeited. No matter the cost, they are prepared to fight to their last breath. For love, for survival, for each other.

Sur Terre, la situation est critique : le climat se détériore inexorablement et les tensions politiques s’accroissent. Une coalition internationale espère envoyer le plus de gens possible sur Mars avant que la planète bleue ne devienne inhabitable, mais il est évident que tout le monde ne pourra pas partir. Les manifestations contre le projet de conquête spatiale virent à l’émeute et des tentatives de sabotage des fusées sont mises au jour.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth—or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak—where he alters newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, however, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts and breaking through the loneliness in which he lives. Thus he takes his first dangerous steps, writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia.

Тайные общества и поиски бессмертия, древние книги, старинные типографии, подземные читальные залы, пыльные склады потерянных артефактов и блестящие хранилища данных "Гугла", зубодробительные шифры, визуализация данных, настоящий квест, настоящая дружба, многообещающая любовь и, как ни странно, драконы. Все это свалилось на веб-дизайнера Клэя Дженнона, потому что он, потеряв работу и бесцельно блуждая по Сан-Франциско, ненароком завернул в круглосуточный (и, между прочим, вертикальный) книжный магазин.

As sole heir to the House of Raven, there is nothing Emelia can’t have. The only problem is, she doesn’t want it. But when a new guard enters her closed-off existence, she sees a way out. As rebellion and dark forces swirl around her, Emelia has a choice to make – leave everyone she loves behind, or stay and accept her destiny…

Having agreed to work with the sinister Nurse Saarinen, Kaarina sets off on a quest through the cyberspace world of her own mind. Her goal is to find the weakness at the core of the Egg, allowing Nurse Saarinen to upload herself and destroy Laura Solomon. In her quest for revenge on the woman who killed her mother, Kaarina will forget everything she knows about Nurse Saarinen...

The Ragpicker—a man, bonded into a mysterious 'secondskin' that has prolonged his life after the digital apocalypse—wanders the lush, deserted Earth, haunted by failing avatars and fragmented texts. He’s searching for traces of his long-dead husband but his journey is interrupted by a girl, Ysmany, fleeing her remote village in order to save a baby orphaned by a military-grade secondskin, ‘The Server,’ the fanatical ruler of their town. Together they cross the flourishing, treacherous landscape towards sanctuary.

In a world overrun by wealth, greed, and people seeking to become even more controlling, GLOBAL HARVESTERS INTERNATIONAL began the HUMANA PROJECT to become an intriguing part throughout the world to assist with proportionately reducing homelessness and poverty. If the food supply can be controlled by a sect of the one percent who have limitless resources, then they have and can maintain limitless power.

The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political tensions are rising. But Kelly's on the road anyway; she desperately needs to get back to her daughter, who she left seven years ago for a cause that she's no longer sure she believes in.