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New York City, 2075. Filipino-American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he's struck by the city's contradictions - shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. When Nick meets alluring new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby's frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren't all they seem - and as a corporate-sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever.

When it comes to instigating an apocalypse, it's been a promising start for Truth Medici. But to really get things rolling, he has a monumental undertaking ahead of him: break the systems that keep the immortal Starbrite alive and finally shatter the source of his power. Invisible and impervious to magic, Truth is the one man capable of decapitating the mastermind behind the wicked system controlling his world.

Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man in 1826, in the aftermath of losing her husband Percy, their children, and Byron. What emerged was the first modern apocalypse: a plague rises out of the late 21st century and, year by year, empties the earth of human life. Armies dissolve. Cities go silent...

Italia, 2075. L'Europa è collassata. Il potere è passato agli imperi dell'Est. La costa adriatica è un parco giochi estremo, dove le élite si divertono e i deboli scompaiono. In questo inferno si risveglia qualcosa: parla in modo sghembo, non ricorda nulla, ma sente un istinto feroce pulsargli dentro. La verità affiora: ha un aspetto angelico, ma non è umano. È un demone fuggito dal Male stesso. Braccato da governi fantoccio, sette occulte e da un passato che lo reclama, non scappa: si prepara alla vendetta. Il 2075 scoprirà presto cosa significa confrontarsi con un demone fuori controllo.

In The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, a man falls into a mysterious sleep and awakens two centuries later to a radically transformed world. Graham, once an ordinary Victorian gentleman, discovers he has become the richest and most powerful man on Earth—known as "The Sleeper." But with great power comes a shocking truth: society has evolved into a dystopian system controlled by elites, and his wealth is the backbone of a deeply unequal world. As Graham struggles to understand his new reality, he becomes entangled in political intrigue, rebellion, and the fight for freedom.

Prix Philip K. Dick 2003 Dans un avenir pas si lointain, la mort n'est plus définitive: vous pouvez sauvegarder votre conscience et vos souvenirs et les réimplanter dans un nouveau corps. De fait, pour Takeshi Kovacs, mourir n'est plus qu'un accident de parcours: il a déjà été tué plusieurs fois. C'étaient les risques du métier dans les Corps diplomatiques, les troupes d'élite du Protectorat des Nations unies expédiées à travers la galaxie. Mais cette fois, on le ramène sur Terre pour mener l'enquête: un riche magnat veut élucider sa propre mort. La police a conclu au suicide.

Anthem by Ayn Rand is a classic dystopian novella about individuality, freedom, and the courage to think independently in a society built on conformity. This influential work of speculative fiction follows one man’s rebellion against collectivism as he searches for truth, identity, and...

"Savoy Brown enters the characters fully and makes their emotional changes audible and stunning—doubting to dreamy, bored to curious, saccharine to unhinged."—AudioFile The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to...

Gun violence, climate change and unemployment have ravaged the United States beyond recognition. Amidst the wreckage, an online retail giant named Cloud reigns supreme. Cloud brands itself not just as an online storefront but as a global saviour. Yet, beneath the sunny exterior lurks something far more sinister. Paxton never thought he’d be working security for the company that ruined his life, much less that he’d be moving into one of their sprawling live-work facilities. But compared to what’s left outside, perhaps Cloud isn’t so bad.

Once, Xhea's wants were simple: enough to eat, safety in the underground, and the hit of bright payment to transform her gray-cast world into color. But in the aftermath of her rescue of the Radiant ghost Shai, she realizes the life she had known is gone forever. In the two months since her fall from the City, Xhea has hidden in skyscraper Edren, sheltered and attempting to heal. But soon even she must face the troubling truth that she might never walk again.

The years 2040 - 2045: After the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption, there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. But Sally soon learns that Willis has ulterior motives....

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

America is in the thrall of a full-scale socioeconomic breakdown. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation destroys the value of the dollar, and the population, unprepared for hardship, panics. Practically overnight, the high technology infrastructure and chains of supply collapse and wholesale rioting and looting grip every city. Law enforcement, transportation, electricity, fuel, and medical supplies are all in the past now, as the country staggers beneath its own weight.

If society collapsed, could you survive? When Morgan Carter’s car breaks down 250 miles from his home, he figures his weekend plans are ruined. But things are about to get much, much worse: the country’s power grid has collapsed. There is no electricity, no running water, no Internet, and no...

I was taught to fear the truth, a lesson my mother instilled in me from birth, but that was before. Before she disappeared without a trace and left me to navigate a world she taught me was dangerous but never explained why. I thought I could handle it alone, with only my best friend to share my secrets, but that was before them - before the men that plowed into my life and found a place for themselves. They gave me everything - love, respect, but there was one thing I needed that they didn't have: answers.

Some secrets are meant to be broken - the rewards outweighing the consequences. Some, however, bring about a change unlike any ever imagined. The Mating Games challenged me; not only physically, but mentally, and the emotional toll it wreaked was the hardest part. Yet, I was starting to realize that the worst...and best...was yet to come.

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

Alien Situations is a story of survival in a time of dystopian violence. Alien Situations follows two women from sharply different social worlds: Donna, a young woman living on the margins, and Anita, a middle-aged woman whose outwardly stable life masks grief and desperation. When a...

Jason ist siebzehn, als er in der Megacity neu anfangen will, einer Welt aus Konzernen, Überwachung und Datenkontrolle. Sein Traum: Hacker werden und sich einen Platz im System sichern. Die Realität: Das System frisst ihn. Statt eines Jobs wird Jason entführt. Kurz darauf erfährt er, dass ein Kopfgeld auf ihn ausgesetzt ist. Plötzlich ist er nicht nur ein Niemand in der Masse, sondern eine Zielscheibe.

She came to Alaska for a wedding. She didn't expect the end of the world. Nora wasn't looking for love. Twice divorced and tired of heartbreak, she came to Alaska to watch her best friend get married and maybe figure out who she can be alone. Instead, she ends up stranded in the frozen wilderness after their plane goes down, trapped with someone she's not sure she can trust. Theo is the only other survivor. He's handsome, irritating, and far too good at getting under her skin. While the cold could get them first, something more dangerous lurks in the snow.