Résultats pour "elliott" dans Dystopique

Mara Keaton receives a message that describes her next action before she takes it. At first, the accuracy feels impossible. Then the consequences begin to surface. Missed opportunities. Quiet delays. Decisions rerouted without explanation. Nothing overt. Nothing illegal. Just friction applied at exactly the right moments to guide behavior without force. As Mara tests the edges of the system, she discovers it doesn’t need surveillance, threats, or control. It relies on patterns people repeat when they believe nothing is at stake and it quietly prices their futures accordingly.

Civilisation has ended. In a bid to make us more productive, to give us more time, science took sleep from humanity. But sleeplessness turned people into feral monsters, and now a small group of scientists are trapped in the Tower of London, consumed by guilt at what they have done and desperately searching for a cure. And then one day, as the last ravens circle, two miraculous survivors walk into the Tower.

Skyla Roseau writes about her Big Data world of surveillance and rules in her graduate thesis. Jaffa, her fiancé, and Tangier, her big brother, warn her not to break any word rules. One day, she uses forbidden words to write from her heart about the cruel oppression of Big Data. But, the rigged keyboard outs her and triggers Big Data’s wrath. She escapes underground with Tangier and Jaffa. To survive they must choose to join the resistance, led by the Haudenosaunee Nation.

You won’t need to have read any of the other History of Arcadia books to become engrossed in the drama of Aspern Grayling, whose obsession with creating a new life-form - in the person of ruthless adventurer Pavo Vale - could destroy his whole world. A compelling descendant of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this is a tale of a man bent on conquest and of an adversary that may yet defeat him: the ghost of the Arcadian Devindra Vale, the only woman he has ever loved.