Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Distopia

The man known as Dewey Decimal works in a near-future Manhattan decimated by terrorism and plague, running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard - though he’d prefer to spend his time among the stacks at his beloved New York Public Library. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices - and it will put him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be....

Ek Ladki Pani Pani manages to draw that connection between life and water in its own unique way. The story that starts with the specter of drought has water as its central character. What will our lives be without water? The novel is a reflection of that horrific reality. The novel is stand-alone in its category, where science fiction has been interwoven into the lives of female protagonists with such expertise that the underlying message of the novel does not get lost in the highs and lows of the characters' lives.

In una Londra tetra e indecifrabile, Billy Harrow, studioso di cefalopodi, guida i visitatori all'interno del Museo di Storia Naturale, dove è ospitato un raro e impressionante esemplare di Architeutis dux, meglio noto come "Calamaro gigante". Nessuno può immaginare quello che sta per accadere, l'evento che avrebbe cambiato per sempre l'esistenza di chi vi avesse assistito: quando il calamaro svanisce nel nulla prima dell'arrivo di Billy e dei visitatori, ogni spiegazione razionale appare subito vana.

In un futuro dai confini incerti, in un paesaggio che assomiglia al Far West ma che è invece la pianura a volte nebbiosa, altre assolata, fra l'Emilia e la Romagna, tutto è cambiato. Siamo attorno all'anno 6.000 quando avviene la Grande Devastazione: un'invasione aliena ha distrutto le città lasciando dietro solo rovine, un'incredibile onda d'urto ha raso al suolo ogni sporgenza, ha fatto ribollire gli oceani, la popolazione umana è decimata ed è rintanata in case cubiche simili a termitai.

Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Gilead, récemment fondée par des fanatiques religieux, a réduit au rang d'esclaves sexuelles les quelques femmes encore fertiles. Vêtue de rouge, Defred, "servante écarlate" parmi d'autres, à qui l'on a ôté jusqu'à son nom, met donc son corps au service.

I live in a world of waifs and shadows. "Live" might be an overstatement. I scrounge and scramble and survive in an atmosphere made thick and gray by the ashes of the Fallen. And sometimes I dream of sunlight. My parents were taken, even though they followed all the rules. Never scavenge at night. Never talk to Shadows. Don't fight the Sweepers. Run. Run. Run. And then I meet "him".

In un mondo dominato dalla realtà virtuale, dai social network e dagli interessi di immense corporazioni, l'identità personale non è più univoca e le relazioni tra gli esseri umani, le loro proiezioni virtuali e le intelligenze artificiali si mescolano fino a divenire indistinguibili e alienabili. Le vicende personali e sentimentali di una serie di personaggi si mescolano in un susseguirsi di eventi scandito da Rose, eroina suo malgrado.

Dopo che guerre nucleari e successivi stravolgimenti hanno devastato gran parte del pianeta, quel che resta dell'umanità si occupa di rivitalizzarlo in piccole colonie sparse nella Federazione Unita, un tempo Nord America. Il futuro adesso è nelle mani di pochi eletti della nuova generazione che avranno il compito di ricostruirlo. Ma per entrare a far parte di questa élite, accedere a un'istruzione universitaria e diventare i futuri leader della Federazione, i candidati devono superare la Prova.

Nichts ist, wie es scheint. Großbritannien in naher Zukunft: Ehemals ausgerottete Krankheiten haben die Bevölkerung befallen. Um die Epidemie einzudämmen, wurde außerhalb Londons eine riesige Kuppel gebaut, in die alle Kranken geschafft und sich selbst überlassen werden. Der Name der Sperrzone: Habitat Miseria. In diesem Chaos versucht Rick, ein normales Leben zu führen - was gar nicht so einfach ist, denn auch seine Freundin wurde in die Kuppel gebracht. Aber plötzlich überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos”.

Deutschland, 2057: Als die Systemkritikerin Lila im Gefängnis aus einem künstlichen Koma erwacht, stellt sie fest, dass ihr schlimmster Albtraum wahr geworden ist: Deutschland wird von einer KI regiert. Samson Freitag wird als eine Art Gottkönig verehrt und erpresst von den Bürgern optimalkonformes Verhalten. Für Lila steht fest, dass sie die Herrschaft der Roboter und die Entmündigung der Menschen beenden muss. Ihr gelingt die Flucht aus dem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis, doch Samson spürt sie auf und bietet ihr einen Deal an, den Lila nicht ausschlagen kann.

In the ruins of the world, the last remnants of humanity find themselves caught in an impossible war between the mechanical and the mystical - between the unliving and the undead.

Broadcast live, Rosa Lincoln takes to the stage at her brother’s memorial service with a bomb concealed beneath her clothes. Being in Jimmy’s shadow was never easy, even when he was alive, but in death he has become a national hero. When she crosses paths with the enigmatic Teresa, she discovers that those she has been taught to view as enemies may not be the real villains after all. The lies need to be stopped, and Rosa intends on doing just that.

Überall auf der Welt herrscht ein erbarmungsloser Krieg. Nur im Tal der Erweckten, das von der Außenwelt abgeschottet ist, können die Menschen noch in Sicherheit und Frieden leben. Das glaubt zumindest Sophia. Doch als ihr Freund Mirko verschwindet, beginnt Sophia ihre streng religiöse Gemeinde infrage zu stellen. Sie verlässt das Tal und findet anstelle eines Schlachtfeldes eine scheinbar perfekte, hoch technisierte Gesellschaft vor. Kann es sein, dass Sophias bisheriges Leben eine einzige Lüge war?

Angela is a woman trying to get by in this bewildering new world. Though she still lives with her husband and children, they lead separate lives. Confined to their rooms, they communicate via their computers and phones. In some ways, very little has changed. That is, until she spots a mysterious stranger walking through town without even a face mask for protection. A man, it seems, immune to this disease. A man unlike anyone else she knows. A man it might just be safe to touch....

2028. Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong? The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?

In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night....

In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she’ll be exposed, Surtsey’s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact - someone who claims to know what she’s done....

How far will he go to save his daughter? How far will he go to get revenge? It's 2053, and runaway climate change has brought civilization to the brink of collapse. Billions are threatened with starvation, and mankind is slowly moving north in a world stricken by war, drought and superstorms - easy prey for the pandemics that sweep across the globe. Easy prey, too, for the violent gangs and people smugglers who thrive in the crumbling world where 'King Death' reigns supreme.

New from the author of The Story of My Face, Paradise & Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: Join the Orange Prize-nominated Kathy Page as she notches a new path through the wild, lush, half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth.