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A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.

In a futuristic world where predictive software can map out the lives of every living person and their descendants, Naomi Prynne is on trial. The charge: endangerment by way of a pregnancy. Thirteen jurors will determine whether Naomi is allowed to carry the pregnancy to term, but the jurors are also all plaintiffs, the software having predicted how Naomi Prynne’s child will affect each of them in life-changing ways.

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.

Cresciute all'interno della rigida comunità di Mana's Hearth, le sorelle siamesi Taema e Tila sognano una vita al di fuori della foresta di sequoie che le nasconde dal mondo. Il cuore che condividono ha iniziato a dare i primi segni di cedimento e se vogliono sopravvivere non hanno altra scelta che raggiungere l'altro lato della baia, dove le attende una San Francisco sconosciuta, sconvolta dal terremoto del 2055, e dove verranno separate chirurgicamente.

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fiction Dark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of...

‘Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down’ Stephen King ‘Forget a good night’s sleep. Aurora is epic’ Linwood Barclay *** When the lights go out no one is safe… A planet without power. When a solar storm hits the earth, the lights go out across the planet. But this...

Brought to you by Penguin. In this gripping dystopian thriller inspired by the beloved DC comics, hero Lamont Cranston and his young protégé seek vigilante justice in New York City. For over 150 years, Lamont Cranston has been The Shadow. Possessed with an array of mental and physical powers...

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past....

Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon Bovey Simon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror... Cold Blood –...

A propulsive thriller starring Jack Rowan, Siena Kelly and Iain de Caestecker. All three series of this fast-paced thriller from award-winning writer Ben Lewis, performed by a stellar cast – it will have you gripped from the first episode. When Jake signs up to a personal training programme...

AT FIRST, THE PANDEMICS DECIMATED THE OLD. Written in 2015, before the coronavirus outbreak, Gray Silence is a dystopian novel in which seniors' end-of-life care is now in the hands of the State. An ideal lifestyle in an idyllic setting... But the reality is quite different as the State discreetly gets rid of the most vulnerable. Alexandre Geoffroy is a gifted and charismatic lawyer who has everything going for him: he's great with women, drives a Jaguar, and frequents the high circles of power. He is also the mastermind behind the Healthy Villages for Seniors, facilities that offer to take care of elderly relatives with dignity.

“This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim.” ― Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW “A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow’s headlines.” ― David Demchuk, author of Red X and The Bone Mother “A bold dystopian novel that...

Am 1. November 1957 wird in Frankfurt am Main die 24-jährige Edelhure Rosemarie Nitribitt tot in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden ? ermordet. Schnell geraten Mitglieder aus Hochindustrie und Politik in den Verdacht verantwortlich für den Tod der Prostituierten zu sein. Doch eindeutig identifiziert werden konnte ihr Mörder bis heute nicht. Kann der Berliner Hacker und Student Georg Brand fast 50 Jahre nach dem Verbrechen noch Licht in den mysteriösen Mordfall bringen?

Deutschland ist nur noch eine Scheindemokratie. Der Staat veranstaltet neuerdings für ältere Menschen Sterbeseminare in Luxushotels. Ihnen soll dort schmackhaft gemacht werden, Sterbewohl, eine tödliche Pille, zu schlucken, um beizeiten die Allgemeinheit zu entlasten. Nadja, Anna, Max und Fred sind über 65. Alle vier haben vom Gesundheitsministerium eine Einladung zum Sterbeseminar ins komfortable Hotel Paradies auf Fehmarn erhalten. Offiziell ist das Einnehmen von Sterbewohl freiwillig. Wie manche munkeln, kehrt aus den Hotels aber niemand mehr zurück.

The next audiobook from new, exciting writer Rachelle Atalla. 'Rachelle Atalla is a major talent and I can't wait to see where her mind goes next' Kirstin Innes, author of Scabby Queen THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to...

Cloning is a luxury for the wealthy. For Chance Harker, it’s a way of getting on with his lives. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. Chance was revived—and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. The public, though? They can’t get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle. But after Chance’s latest “refresh,” he awakens to accusations that he’s killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met.

Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks 12-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he will be.

Brought to you by Penguin. In a disintegrating and increasingly lawless land, a young man is travelling north. Ben is a young painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fiancée Cara has been living on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the property of millionaire...

The man known as Dewey Decimal works in a near-future Manhattan decimated by terrorism and plague, running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard - though he’d prefer to spend his time among the stacks at his beloved New York Public Library. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices - and it will put him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be....

In a nation still recovering from the nuclear tragedies of forty years earlier, Clyde is working a dead-end guaranteed job at a diner, and Moonis is incarcerated in a Labor Camp for the Malcontented. But when Moonis's sister, Cecily, goes missing, the old friends escape their prisons to search for her in post-fallout America.