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تدور أحداث كتاب 1984 في عالم ديستوبي تسيطر فيه سلطة شمولية تراقب الناس باستمرار وتقمع حرية الفكر والتعبير. يتابع القارئ حياة وينستون سميث الذي يبدأ بالتمرد سرًا على النظام الحاكم المعروف بالأخ الأكبر.

It was morning and the power was not yet on. Zach and Renee lay in the heat of the bed listening to the city wake outside the building’s windows. Water rations are down to one gallon per person per day...the mayor is proposing digging a trench to the Pacific Ocean...dried out West Coast cities are crumbling and being abandoned by the east...and in Portland, Oregon, water is declared a communal right but hoarding and riots persist. Amidst this, a young water activist nicknamed Maid Marian becomes a hero.

This sequel to Inversion forces a pacifist society in a pastoral, isolated universe to wrestle with the cost of self-defense. The people of Germinal live on a tiny, verdant planet where evolution has traced a slightly different path. For centuries, they have peacefully coexisted amid an ecosystem where an advancing wall of fire consumes all in its path, a perpetual cycle of destruction and renewal. That is, until everything they knew of their history was violently upended by the arrival of colonizers.

Webmind - the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web - has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated. Caitlin Decter-the once-blind 16-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind - wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn't act, everything - Webmind included - may come crashing down.

Was geschieht, wenn zwei skrupellose Politiker zu Verbündeten werden? Die Welt im Jahr 2025: Donald Trump ist erneut amerikanischer Präsident und schließt mit Wladimir Putin einen geheimen Pakt: Auf einem Gipfel in Kairo tritt Trump Europa an den russischen Präsidenten ab, holt seine außerhalb Amerikas stationierten Truppen heim und verlässt die NATO. Putin lässt dem Amerikaner dafür freie Hand bei seinem Kampf gegen China.

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.

In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a shocking tale with an all-too plausible premise. There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers.

First published in 1516, Utopia is a political and philosophical satire presented as a dialogue between More and the traveller Raphael Hythlodaeus. Raphael recounts his time visiting the island of Utopia, where private property ceases to exist, all citizens work, and the laws promote equality, education and religious tolerance. Through this imagined society, More indirectly challenges the injustices of European politics, and cleverly reflects on the meaning of justice, governance and what it takes to create a ‘perfect’ society.

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

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.

7 Sydøst er en spændingsroman med såvel politiske som psykologiske temaer. Det er en fremtidsvision, der lader læseren komme helt tæt på hovedpersonerne og deres blinde punkter. Romanen foregår i en nær fremtid, hvor klimaforandringer præger verden. I Region Nord må samfundet finde en måde at håndtere den stadig voksende strøm af klimaflygtninge på. Det politiske landskab er præget af magtkampe, samtidig med at der bliver talt om værdier og menneskelighed.

After a successful revolt in 1846 that reversed the roles of slaves and masters, modern-day America is now dominated by a wealthy, Black ruling class, and Whites are dealing with decades of oppression and prejudice. When his father, a civil rights attorney, is killed after defending a White man, 17-year-old Willie Gibbons is forced to move to Michigan with his uncle and thrust into the heart of the racial divide. The Crown Lord is a stark and jarring look at race, class, and the American Dream that will keep listeners on edge.

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.

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life.

Mit Sonnenfinsternis, einem Klassiker der politischen Literatur, zuerst erschienen 1940, erzählt Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) beispielhaft die Mechanismen totalitärer und diktatorischer Systeme. Er reißt Ihnen die Maske herunter: unmenschliche Ideologie hinter vordergründig menschenfreundlicher Ideologie. Lüge und Mord zur Machterhaltung. Sonnenfinsternis führt vor, dass niemand totalitärer Macht entkommen kann. Arthur Koestler hatten die stalinistischen Schauprozesse für diese Mechanismen die Augen geöffnet.

In September 1870 a train leaves Manchester bound for London. Onboard is Lizzie Burns, a poor worker from the Irish slums who is embarking on the journey that will change her forever. Sitting in the first-class carriage beside her lover, the wealthy mill owner Frederick Engels, the vision of a life of peace and comfort takes shape before her eyes: finally, at nearly 50, she is to be the lady of a house and the wife to a man. Perhaps now she can put the difficulties of the past behind her and be happy.

Sconvolgente, lungimirante, avvincente. "La Fattoria Degli Animali". In una nuova traduzione, con doppia voce narrante, questa edizione ti farà conoscere uno dei capolavori della letteratura mondiale. Stanchi delle ingiustizie, gli animali di una fattoria decidono di ribellarsi agli umani dando vita a un nuovo sistema fondato sull'uguaglianza. Ben presto, però, si renderanno conto che non sarà così facile. "Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali di altri." L'autore: Pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell è uno degli scrittori più conosciuti al mondo.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.

In a world where unemployment is obliterated by putting all jobless people in the military to maintain the endless ongoing warfare, Warrant Officer Viveka Vanachek finds herself in a weirder place yet. Captured, raped, and interrogated she is finally exiled to a remote snow-bound prison camp where she is placed in solitary confinement. It seems like the end of the world when she also becomes too sick to eat, and starts seeing ghosts and hearing mysterious chanting within the noises of the camp.