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Marc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana. It's a classical Berlin flat-sharing community, where the deep questions of life are debated: Is lying in a hammock already a kind of passive resistance? Must the Kangaroo place its pouch onto the conveyor belt at the airport security check?

QualityPartner identifies your ideal mate, earworm personal assistants get you where you need to go and android drones know you need a six pack of beer at the end of a long day even before you crave one. Humans, robots and algorithms coexist; everything is seamlessly corporatised, stratified and monetised. Your very name reveals much of what we need to know about you, and your profile discloses the rest.  

Zwischen Krisen, Kriegen, Hitze und Hetze scheint es gerade nur noch bergab zu gehen. Worauf können wir in diesen Zeiten noch hoffen? Und vor allem: Wie kommen wir da wieder raus? Hoffnung ist so vielfältig wie die Menschen, die nach ihr suchen. Deshalb versammelt dieses Hörbuch Stimmen, die...

Black Mirror meets Stieg Larsson in Views, a compulsive thriller that explores the toxic relationship between technology and humanity, and the fallout after unthinkable lines are crossed. Sixteen-year-old Lena Palmer has gone missing when a violent video of her assault by masked men goes viral...

¿Todavía no conoces QualityLand? Es ese universo descacharrante que tanto se parece a nuestro mundo actual. «Delirante a la par que escalofriante.» Laura Fernández, El País «Una novela que renueva la sátira europea, entre Orwell y Monty Python … De esos títulos llamados a marcar a una...

Bienvenidos a QualityLand, una sátira inquietante, visionaria, hilarante y llena de actualidad sobre el futuro. Bienvenido a QualityLand, en un futuro no muy lejano. En QualityLand todo funciona bien: el trabajo, el ocio y las relaciones se optimizan mediante algoritmos. Hay cosas curiosas...