Showing results for "Literature" in Dystopian

Even under the most normal circumstances, high school can be a painful and confusing time. Unfortunately, Lilianna’s circumstances are anything but normal. Only a few people know what caused her sudden change from model student to the withdrawn pessimist she has become, but her situation isn’t about to get any better. When people begin coming down with a quick-spreading illness that doctors are unable to treat, Lil’s worst fears are realized.

Schizophren oder paranormal begabt? Harper Green, die Heldin der neuen Fantasy-Reihe von Carola Lowitz und Susanna Mewe ist anders. Und gefangen in einem System, das Menschen skrupellos manipuliert und als Waffen benutzt. Die 20-jährige Harper nimmt Dinge wahr, die anderen verborgen bleiben. Durch Zufall findet sie heraus, dass ihre vermeintliche Krankheit eine Gabe ist – und hinter dem Tod ihres Vaters mehr steckt, als gedacht. Der Wahrheit auf der Spur, taucht Harper nach und nach ein in ein Geflecht von Lüge und Manipulation, bei dem die Drahtzieher ganz oben sitzen.

The future world has been divided into sectors - each the same as the other. Surrounded by thick steel fences, there is no way in and no way out. Yet a cyborg army penetrates each sector, picking off its citizens one by one, until no one is left. Behind the sectors’ thick walls, the citizens wait to die. Few will be chosen to survive what’s coming; the rest will be left behind to suffer. A new world has been created, and its rulers are incredibly selective on who will become a citizen. They want only those with important roles in society to help create a more perfect future.

Seventeen-year-old Genesis Lee has never forgotten anything. As one of the Mementia small group of genetically enhanced humans, Gena remembers everything with the help of her Link bracelets, which preserve them perfectly. But Links can be stolen, and six people have already lost their lives to a memory thief, including Gena’s best friend. Anyone could be next.

Les Lunivis font face à une menace grandissante : les mécazoares, ces créatures sanguinaires programmées pour les exterminer, semblent se multiplier. Au sein des clans, les guerrières Zaomis sont formées pour les combattre, souvent au péril de leur vie. Fauve choisit de renier sa destinée, celle de Prima, de cheffe, héritage de sa mère et de sa grand-mère, pour les rejoindre et protéger la communauté. Aujourd'hui, les offensives sont sans pitié et les pertes, de plus en plus lourdes.

Dopo essere sopravvissuta a una catastrofe apocalittica, che ha costretto gli uomini a lasciarla in tutta fretta per trovare rifugio in altri mondi, la Terra è tornata a essere un luogo abitabile e tutto può ricominciare. Gruppi di bambini e ragazzi, ciascuno guidato da un Vecchio - un adulto con un proprio bagaglio di esperienze, capacità e ricordi -, vengono lasciati in vari punti del globo con il compito di riavviare la vita.

Fourteen-year-old Nessa lives in a world where every teen will be "Called". It could come in the middle of the day, it could come deep in the night. But one instant she will be here, and the next she will wake up naked and alone in the Sidhe land. She will be spotted, hunted down, and brutally murdered. And she will be sent back in pieces by the Sidhe to the human world...unless she joins the rare few who survive for 24 hours and escape unscathed.

En una sociedad del futuro, para que una persona sea parte del sistema, debe usar una pulsera que cambia su estado de ánimo con el fin de que siempre se sienta feliz. Divain, sin embargo, decide no utilizar dicho accesorio.

It happened within a week. Survival was just the start of it. It has a plan.... Leon is stuck in England. Grace is on her way to New Zealand and Freya to the 'New United States' in Cuba. The virus has assimilated all of humanity except for these three communities, and now it is prepared to talk with them. How they each choose to respond to the virus will ultimately decide their fate in Plague World, the apocalyptic finale to the Remade trilogy from best-selling author of the TimeRiders series, Alex Scarrow.

Mögen die Hungerspiele beginnen!Suzanne Collins entwirft in dem Science-Fiction-Hörbuch "Tödliche Spiele (Die Tribute von Panem 1)" eine düstere utopische Welt, in der sie die junge Katniss für ihre Schwester an einem grausamen Ritual namens "Hungerspiele" teilnehmen lässt. Hier treten 24 Jugendliche gegeneinander an – und nur einer kann überleben.

Wo sind wir hier? Wieso sind wir hier? Und WARUM zum Teufel erinnere ich mich an nichts mehr? Eine junge Frau wacht völlig orientierungslos an einem Strand auf und ist nahezu allein. Ihre einzige Gesellschaft: Ein Dodo, der sie beobachtet hat. Immer wieder erinnert sie sich an einzelne Szenen aus ihrem Leben, mal an Momente in einer völlig wilden und fremden Umgebung, aber auch an Geschehnisse in einem hoch technologisierten Labor. Doch in beiden Fällen tauchen Dinosaurier auf...

München, 2037: Die 16-jährige Nora kann ihr Glück kaum fassen. Sie hat es geschafft, einen Praktikumsplatz beim Milliardenunternehmen AutoDat zu erlangen. AutoDat kümmert sich um die selbstlernenden Algorithmen für das autonome Fahren des Sub-Unternehmens FlexDrive, das inzwischen die Straßen beherrscht. Als begabte Hackerin arbeitet sich Nora schnell ein. Zusammen mit Cole, dem smarten und arroganten Sohn des Londoner Chefs von FlexDrive, gerät Nora in ein Komplott, das weit größere Ausmaße hat, als sie sich zu Beginn ihrer heimlichen Ermittlungen ausmalen kann.

Depois da improvável e inusitada vitória de Katniss Everdeen e Peeta Mellark nos últimos Jogos Vorazes, algo parece ter mudado para sempre em Panem. Aqui e ali, distúrbios e agitações nos distritos dão sinais de que uma revolta é iminente. Katniss e Peeta, representantes do paupérrimo Distrito 12, não apenas venceram os Jogos, mas ridicularizaram o governo e conseguiram fazer todos – incluindo o próprio Peeta – acreditarem que são um casal apaixonado.

It's been more than two years since Jon Evans and his family left Pennsylvania, hoping to find a safe place to live, yet Jon remains haunted by the deaths of those he loved. His prowess on a soccer field has guaranteed him a home in a well-protected enclave. But Jon is painfully aware that a missed goal, a careless word, even falling in love, can put his life and the lives of his mother, his sister Miranda, and her husband, Alex, in jeopardy. Can Jon risk doing what is right in a world gone so terribly wrong?

La oportunidad de escapar de la vida que les ha tocado por nacer en una determinada familia. La oportunidad de que las trasladen a un mundo de trajes preciosos y joyas que no tienen precio. La oportunidad de vivir en un palacio y de competir por el corazón del guapísimo príncipe MaxonSin embargo, para America Singer, ser seleccionada es una pesadilla porque significa alejarse de su amor secreto, Aspen, quien pertenece a una casta inferior a la de ella; y también abandonar su hogar para pelear por una corona que no desea y vivir en un palacio.

Sa mère à l'article de la mort, son père dévasté, il est temps pour la princesse Eadlyn de passer à la vitesse supérieure dans le processus de la Sélection. Encore novice aux jeux de l'amour et du pouvoir, détestée par une partie de l'opinion publique, elle doit pourtant choisir au plus vite son Élite de six prétendants. Devenir femme, épouse et reine en l'espace de quelques semaines, telle est la lourde tâche qui repose sur les épaules de la princesse. Mais le cœur peut se révéler un précieux allié, pour qui sait l'écouter.

Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is no one wants to follow. The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes. Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea. What will the Council do to them? And why are people suddenly dying before their Clocks have zeroed-out?

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake - whether set in the years soon after the change, or in decades far in the future.

The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive. Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she’d come to love. But she was wrong. Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don’t trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive....

Following a devastating betrayal, Beth Bradley, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist, is suspended from school. Running from a home that she shares with her father who has never recovered after Beth's mother's death, Beth stumbles into the hidden city and meets Filius Viae, London's asphalt-hued crown prince. And her timing couldn't have been more perfect.