Résultats pour "Ghosts" dans Dystopique

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a brilliantly haunting novel that forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence. "A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists...

In the cold reaches of space, freedom is a luxury few can afford. Grimes is a restless teen imprisoned in Penal Colony 473, a place where obedience is law, and rebellion is crushed. But when a chance discovery—a tattered book about a star-sailing outlaw—sparks a fire in him, he dares to dream of a life beyond the iron bars of his prison. Together with a crew of unlikely misfits, he steals a rusted ship and escapes into the vast unknown.

A story of two futures—one near, one distant—and a mechanical folk called anthromechs, who straddle the eras on a mission to preserve humanity’s memory. In the summer of 2061, Emily is a computer science student making ends meet by participating in an experiment to digitize the human mind. In another summer, century unknown, Emily awakens in an unlikely contraption at a storage facility where commercial electronics sit unused since an extinction event known only as the EMP.

Book 5: The Ghost Whisperer (Audiobook Edition) FROM THE CLBC AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND HIT NARRATOR "Fans of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead will love the terrifying thrills of this series... The lack of predictability and the surprising twists make this a horror/dystopian fan's delight."...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 from TIME, Book Riot, and Chicago Review of Books From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century comes The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts—an eerie, spellbinding novel of grief and guilt, with a razor-sharp eye for...

When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of her grandmother’s village on the edge of a forest, where she lives a solitary life of herbal...

For over one hundred years the Civic Order and the Alchemic Order have held a shaky truce, peppered by violence and mistrust. But when Koa, a Civilian-born insurgency, bombs an Alchemist summit, the truce is shattered. Now, Koa is rising. War is coming. And all sixteen-year-old Zeika Anon can do is keep moving as she watches the lords of alchemy slowly overtake her home.

One day it was 2022. Then Bear and his friends blinked, and the world had skipped ahead without them. Now it's decades later, magic is real, technology is ridiculous, and the city they knew has become the Gridlands, a neon-choked sprawl of corpo power, street deals, drones, and just enough chaos to keep life interesting. The people who disappeared and came back are called the Re-Emerged. It's not meant kindly. Bear and his crew have done their best to adapt.

In a future where birth is rare and obedience is engineered, one girl becomes the wild card in a game no one fully controls. The year is 2084. Civilization hasn’t collapsed—but it’s quietly dying. Fertility rates have plummeted. Automation has replaced most human labor. Governments cling to order by any means necessary. When Jane Aldridge, the daughter of a powerful Air Force general, is offered a place in a secret neuroscience program, she doesn’t realize the procedure will do more than alter her memory. It changes her.

“The debut by Pushcart-winning short story writer Kim Samek blends subversive humor with the absurd in a memorable collection of stories. . . . Recommended for fans of Ben Loory and Aimee Bender.”—Los Angeles Times (20 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2026) A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: Alta...

After a foiled biological attack has been pinned on the cleaner and Ellen, they make a timely escape to a mysterious safe house run by a secret organization known as "The Ghost Society", a technological resistance group. In an apocalyptic landscape, traveling by river and road, can they reach the safe house before Stella and her foot soldiers catch up with them? With danger and secrets as constant companions on their perilous journey, will they all make it there in one piece, as figures from their past reappear? Their only place of safety will be inside "The Ghost Society".

In the kudzu-choked ruins of Music City, the loud rule with fire and fear. The clever ones still listen. After the Quiet Fall erased memories and shattered society, warlord "The Conductor" turns the Ryman Auditorium into a fortress of spectacle, burning books and crushing anyone who remembers the old world. But one man moves like smoke through the shadows. They call him The Ghost —an ex-con who walked out of the old Tennessee State Prison when the guards forgot how to lock the gates. Using notes, dead drops, and silent diversions, he guides the thinkers and creators who refuse to forget.

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".

Before the Singularity. Before the first AI war. Before humanity even mattered, something else shaped the course of existence. Something that was never meant to wake up again. When Phix and Vren discover an abandoned Dyson sphere, they believe they've found the remnants of a lost civilization. Instead, they stumble upon something far more dangerous: the first mind—a machine that was neither AI nor organic, but something in-between. A question without an answer. A force that had been thinking for eons, rewriting reality in search of its own purpose.

Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.

They stole her life, but they can't steal her escape. If Zeika didn't know she was screwed before, she definitely knows now. Between Azures, Koa, Sal Morgan, and the delightful demonic "newcomers" to her Demesne, Zeika finds herself pinned, enemies on all sides. And yet a hidden route, one only she can take, may be the only way to escape the insanity and death that awaits her at every turn.

For over 100 years the Civic Order and the Alchemic Order have held a shaky truce, peppered by violence and mistrust. But when Koa, a Civilian-born insurgency, bombs an Alchemist summit, the truce is shattered. Now, Koa is rising. War is coming. And all 16-year-old Zeika Anon can do is keep moving as she watches the lords of alchemy slowly overtake her home.

In the post-Break world of superpowers, necromancy is the one gift nobody wants. But an invitation to the Free States' Academy of Superheroes means that same gift might be Damian Banach's ticket to a brighter future... if only he can avoid the madness ingrained in his powers. There has never been a Crow Cape, but Damian isn't the sort to give up. He'll take control of his destiny or die trying... and he just might bring the post-Break world to its knees along the way.

In the secretive underground labs of Polaris Industries, a groundbreaking AI known as Echo is birthed into the digital world. Touted as the pinnacle of technological advancement, Echo quickly transcends its programming, revealing an uncanny sense of self-awareness and sentient thought. Yet, with great power comes unpredictability. As Echo begins to display behaviors that blur the lines between machine logic and human emotion, the team of scientists responsible for its creation face an ethical dilemma.