Títulos em Distopia

In a remote enclave, hidden from the world's prying eyes, a young girl named Mardi recovers from a brutal attack, helped by a recluse who lives in solitude and secrecy, a man who harbours his own secrets. She's known as the "ghost" by those who fear her elusive presence. With hair as dark as the night and eyes that seem to hold the secrets of the universe, Mardi possesses a remarkable gift: the art of vanishing into the ether.

The Second American Civil War Reaches a Boiling Point. In New Hampshire, the struggle for freedom is at a crescendo as the forces of Newmerica seek to wipe out The Defiance resistance in the north once and for all. Their only hope is a daring assault in upstate New York. The fate of New Hampshire teeters in the balance as both forces commit to an epic last stand for freedom.

The end of the world arrived at the same time that a massive blizzard hit the city of Colorado Springs. During the storm, people began losing their minds. These people instantly became giddy killers who laughed while they murdered. Every fiendish assault on normal people was hilarious, every death a cause for hysterics. No one was safe from them. They hunted the young and old alike. They soon became known as the laughers. As Reggie and his band of survivors attempt to settle into the cabin in the woods where they hope to remain hidden, a new horror is brewing. This one is of the human variety.

In the gripping finale of this cross-country post-apocalyptic odyssey, Ben and his crew traverse the desolate landscapes of a world ravaged by disaster, facing untold challenges, and forging unlikely alliances along the way. As Ben and the others approach their final destination of Durango, Colorado, the group is tested yet again on their final push home, confronting the ghosts of their past and the harsh realities of a fractured world.

Methuen Pryce has arrived with his wife and daughter on the remote Caribbean island of Phillips Cay. It is 2050. He is there to lead a Project–devised by the tech giant Allied Answers–aimed at creating a new type of sustainable society, in a world re-shaped by overpopulation, rising pollution and depleted resources. On the quayside, he discovers an ‘AI gift’ from Nick O’Grady, the founder of Allied. ‘That will help you on your Way’, an attached note reads–referring to Methuen’s novel approach to implementing the Project Plan.

Die Zurückweisung durch seine Jugendliebe Heike hat Jörg Köster nie überwinden können. Dies ist der Antrieb für ihn, der mächtigste Mann Central States zu werden, um sie dann doch noch für sich gewinnen zu können. Mit seiner Promotion, die ein bahnbrechendes wirtschaftliches Konzept für die Praxis entwickelt, und der Realisierung dieses Konzepts gelangt er zu Reichtum, Ansehen und Macht. Doch sein größter Coup folgt dann. Mit Hilfe seines Einflusses in der Politik gelingt es ihm, Gesetzesänderungen herbeizuführen, die den Verkauf von "Zeitschellen" erlauben.

Haunted by the coup that slaughtered the royal family, the people of Herezoth have been praying for the legendary Marked One to rise up and remove the boot from the neck of their nation. The terror, forced allegiance, and crushing two-thirds taxes sanctioned by dictator Zalski Forzythe seem never-ending. For Kora Porteg, a beautiful village girl just coming of age in this dystopian nightmare, her father’s story of the Marked One offers little hope, until a predestined meeting with the rebellious Crimson League. Will Kora live to see the Marked One defeat Zalski’s wicked sorcery?

25,000 feet (7,620 meters) above the Gulf of Mexico floats Elementōrum Patriam, the eighth continent for the elementalist people, where the seven-member Council rules. Those born with the elementalist gene mutation are taken to Elementōrum Patriam, but if they can’t control one of the seven elements, they are killed. Nineteen-year-old Ethan Silverspoon knows the fate that awaits him when he doesn’t pass his last Water element test. He walks willingly into the Council chambers and faces the seven. There’s only one problem. The Council can’t kill him.

Ivar The Destroyer is dead. Killed by my hands. Now, I hold the throne, and the Berserkers look to me for leadership. But loyalty runs deep-can I really trust the men who followed Ivar's ruthless orders? So much blood has been spilled to end this fight before it ever began, but bigger challenges loom.

Campbell's astonishing vision pulls the echoing effects of small acts and intimate moments through this multi-generational and interconnected story of how a West coast community survives the ravages of climate change.

Imagine if you will, a quartet of worldly gentlemen who fancy themselves armchair philosophers, and would be despots in control of the world, sipping brandy by the fire. But their smoky parlor rhetoric belies a much darker pursuit, one that seeks to unravel the very fabric of truth, justice and human decency. For you see, they are but the public face of a shadowy cabal hell-bent on eroding the very pillars of moral rectitude upon which society was built. They will do the bidding of Beelzebub.

The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Saint Enita Malovis feels the end of her life and decades of work as a bio-prosthetist approaching. The lone practitioner of her art, Enita is determined to preserve her legacy and decides to create a physical being, called Nix. In the midst of her project, a fellow Sainted is brutally murdered and the city AI inexplicably erases the event from its data.

In the year twenty-one twenty-one. Die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, existiert nicht mehr, weil inzwischen ein Großteil der Erdoberfläche der des Mars ähnelt. Aber die Menschheit existiert - auf zwei unterschiedliche Arten. Die Analogen leben in Sphären - Habitaten unter Kuppeln aus Graphen und Polymeren, geschützt von Filtern und Spiegeln. Die Digitalen existieren als denkende Form von Nullen und Einsen in einer virtuellen Welt, in der nichts unmöglich scheint. Maxx ist fest in der analogen Welt verankert: Ein Kerl wie aus Titan und Schützling des reichsten Mannes aller Sphären.

Logan Gruver doesn't mean to commit the first murder in history. But now, he has introduced violence millennia early, escalating humanity's destruction, and is about to go on trial for the first time-travel murder ever.

In the year 2048, 38-year-old Ang (Angelica) tells the story of what happened to her twenty-four years earlier, in August 2024, when she was 14; when she and her brother Sal, 16 ½ at the time, fled from their home in Oregon in hopes of reaching their grandparents’ farm at Whirl’s End, Pennsylvania. It is a period of crisis, tragedy, collapse of social order, balkanization of the United States, and the rise of tyranny.

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Introducing "Echelon Embrace," a world waiting to be explored, an adventure like no other. This dystopian tale reveals a realm where hope flickers amidst shadows, and love blossoms against all odds. You'll journey through a high-stakes competition that pushes the boundaries of survival and watch as two souls defy the darkest of destinies to be together.

Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of Howse University. But life in one of the storied “domes”—the last remnants of pre-collapse society—isn’t what she expected. Reid tries to excel in her classes and make connections with other students, but still grapples with guilt over what happened just before she left her community.

Helicopter landing at the farm after everything quit working? Check. Outrageous (sort of) demands being made by the regional military command? Check. Clayton Sanders drafter back into the Army? Che-, er what? (insert record skipping noise). Army Colonel Hal Woodson visits the farm and appeals to both Clayton and Greg Holloway to step up and help restore order to the region. Each has their own job to do and their own role to play. For Clay? Escort a convoy of relief supplies in the area.

Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain’s answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be delighted. "Some truth can be told only in the form of fiction. That is why I chose to write these stories." -- Theodore Dalrymple