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In un futuro molto vicino il partito al governo mette al bando l'infelicità. Un romanzo distopico dai richiami orwelliani.

In un futuro molto vicino il partito al governo mette al bando l'infelicità. Un romanzo distopico dai richiami orwelliani.Carlo vive alle Bili Bianche, un quartiere colorato, ordinato e cinto da mura, nel quale sono confinati i cittadini tristi, considerati eroi per il loro consenso all'isolamento. La restante popolazione è a Vremina, una città all'avanguardia che insegue la felicità massificata. Dalle Bili Bianche si può uscire, quando si vuole, solo con l'eutanasia.

When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

Masks, the first novel in a mesmerizing new fantasy series, draws readers into a world in which cataclysmic events have left the Autarchy of Aygrima - the one land blessed with magical resources - cut off from its former trading partners across the waters, not knowing if any of those distant peoples still live. Yet under the rule of the Autarch, Aygrima survives. And thanks to the creation of the Masks and the vigilance of the Autarch’s Watchers, no one can threaten the security of the empire.

In Masks, Mara Holdfast's life changed forever. As the daughter of the Autarch’s Master Maskmaker, she had a clearly defined future: a quiet, ordered life in the capital, making Masks with her father and doing work important to the ruling Autarch. But when her Mask, specially made by her own father, cracked and fell to pieces during her Masking ceremony, Mara was exiled from everything she once knew.Now she has become part of an underground rebellion, rejecting the unjust rules of a Masked society.