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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision and try to create such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.

In this concluding volume of Neal Stephenson’s epic work, “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe must escape the noose of Jack Ketch; the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz comes to a head; and Daniel Waterhouse pursues his dream to build the Logic Mill

"Komm nach Pantopia. Hier sind alle willkommen!" Eigentlich wollten Patricia Jung und Henry Shevek nur eine autonome Trading-Software schreiben, die an der Börse überdurchschnittlich gut performt. Doch durch einen Fehler im Code entsteht die erste starke künstliche Intelligenz auf diesem Planeten - Einbug. Einbug begreift schnell, dass er, um zu überleben, nicht nur die Menschen besser kennenlernen, sondern auch die Welt verändern muss. Zusammen mit Patricia und Henry gründet er deshalb die Weltrepublik Pantopia.

Since the Age of Shadows ended, the people of Ranadon have lived under the merciless heat of two suns and the tyranny of Antonov, the Lion of Senet. Consumed by his lust for power and his unshakable belief in the capricious, almighty Goddess, Antonov’s rule is absolute. Only one man has the intelligence and will to break that hold...a man who could be King. Suddenly widowed, Morna Provin, Duchess of Elcast, has lost her only protector.

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Die regierende Partei "Heimatfront Deutschland" deportiert alle Migranten und politische Gegner in eine Hand voll hermetisch abgeriegelter sogenannter Flüchtlingsstädte. Elsa Jacobi, die charismatische Führerin der "HfD", herrscht mit eiserner Hand über die Republik und kontrolliert Medien und Staatsorgane mit Gewalt und Terror. Wie Marionetten manipuliert sie die Menschen um sich herum für ihre Zwecke. So auch den jungen Politstar Hassan, der getrieben vom Hass auf seine türkischen Wurzeln nach Anerkennung und Macht strebt.

Costretto all'esilio dal duca di Lu, Confucio disse: "Se la mia strada finisce, salirò su una zattera e mi lascerò portare verso il mare". E così Kongzi, settantaseiesimo discendente diretto del grande filosofo, fugge con la moglie incinta e la figlia quando la Squadra della pianificazione familiare entra nel villaggio per sterilizzare con la forza tutte le donne fertili e interrompere le gravidanze di quelle che hanno già un figlio.

The First Robot President combines science fiction with political satire, making fun of Democrats and Republicans in equal measure. The novel centers around Thomas Jenkins, a lobbyist, and his robot wife whose political ambitions land her on the Green Party's 2520 Presidential ticket.

"Much attention has been paid to the "scientific romance" novels of H. G. Wells, a founder of modern science fiction and one of the genre's greatest writers. In comparison, little attention has been given by critics to his works of fantasy, which in the opinion of many, are just as artistic and worthy of study. This work takes a critical look at Wells' little known fantasy "The Sea Lady": A Tissue of Moonshine, which is "a parable of dark foreboding that unveils the nothingness of utopian dreams" and foreshadows Franz Kafka's dark fables of the totalitarian age.

Gli antieroi di questo romanzo ci permettono di recuperare, attraverso la narrativa, la memoria di un periodo della nostra storia che, per quanto recente, continua a rimanere sullo sfondo a causa di quel meditato ed efficace depistaggio mediatico che impedisce a questo Paese di condividere una storia e di "usarla" politicamente. Massimo Carlotto. Nell'Italia degli anni Novanta ci sono la Storia con la S maiuscola e la storia con la s minuscola. Della prima si occupa Antonio Castellani, giornalista incompiuto e affetto dalla sindrome di Cassandra.

El benestar que hem conegut s'ha acabat, però hi ha sortida. La zombi espina descriu una Catalunya en crisi, apocalíptica, en què els zombis guanyen terreny. Enmig del caos, l'Hèstia i l'Emili trien el seu propi camí i lluiten per sobreviure i no deixar-se endur pels que viuen sense viure, per imposar-se a la impotència i el desencís i per fer reviscolar el que estimen. No estan sols: hi ha els representants del poble.

Luego de estar en prisión por casi 20 años, Jean Valjean, un ex-convicto, llega a un pueblo donde nadie se digna a hospedarlo y a darle de comer, salvo por don Bienvenido, el párroco. Traicionando a su único protector, Valjean huye luego de robarle la cubertería de plata, aunque no logra ir muy lejos ya que es detenido por la policía. Su vida tiene un golpe de suerte cuando el párroco decide no denunciarlo ante las autoridades y le hace prometer que va a usar lo que ha tomado para hacerse un hombre de bien.

The classic dystopian novella, Anthem, is one of the earliest books to explore a theme which has become a standard motif in science fiction literature: the search for individualistic expression in a repressive and rigorously organized society.