Résultats pour "The Stranger" dans Dystopique

Earth has changed while they were in space . . . but so has Anna. After centuries of survival aboard the Selene space station in the shadow of Saturn, a forgotten group of humans has evolved in ways Earth could never imagine. As communication from their home planet has been dormant for...

Set in a future that grows more plausible by the day, Stranger Beauty asks what traces will remain after a life has ended. There are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. Stranger Beauty is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. The architecture of the novel is not a stunt.

Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks

A literary suspense novel in which an eerie social game goes viral and spins perilously—and criminally—out of control. Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the...

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?