Titres dans Dystopique

L'azione si svolge in un futuro prossimo del mondo (l'anno 1984) in cui il potere si concentra in tre immensi superstati: Oceania, Eurasia ed Estasia. Al vertice del potere politico in Oceania c'è il Grande Fratello, onnisciente e infallibile, che nessuno ha visto di persona ma di cui ovunque sono visibili grandi manifesti. Il Ministero della Verità, nel quale lavora il personaggio principale, Smith, ha il compito di censurare libri e giornali non in linea con la politica ufficiale, di alterare la storia e di ridurre le possibilità espressive della lingua.

Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.

In the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more. It was our common interests that sent us on vacation together to my remote cabin. What we didn’t, couldn’t know, was that we were on a collision course with the end of the world as we knew it.

The third and final instalment in the epic Helliconia trilogy. The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northern continent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch's will is set against it — and against the phagors, humanity's ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them.

Em uma paisagem destruída e hostil, em um futuro ao qual poucos tiveram o azar de sobreviver, uma comunidade resiste, confinada em um gigantesco silo subterrâneo. Lá dentro, mulheres e homens vivem enclausurados, sob regulamentos estritos, cercados por segredos e mentiras. Para continuar ali, eles precisam seguir as regras, mas há quem se recuse a fazer isso. Essas pessoas são as que ousam sonhar e ter esperança, e que contagiam os outros com seu otimismo. Um crime cuja punição é simples e mortal. Elas são levadas para o lado de fora. Juliette é uma dessas pessoas. E talvez seja a última.

En un mundo apocalíptico donde llueve ceniza, un hombre y un chico cruzan a pie el territorio norteamericano en dirección al sur. El hambre es mucho más que una preocupación diaria: es la medida de todas las cosas, y las bandas de caníbales asolan el país convertido en un yermo donde solo la barbarie ha echado raíces. El amor de un padre por su hijo es, sin embargo, la única luz de una tierra que ha perdido a sus dioses. Quizá el fuego de la civilización no se haya apagado para siempre.

A la suite d’une catastrophe survenue en 2101, la température sur terre atteint 60 degrés. Les humains ne peuvent plus vivre sans tenue de protection et les femmes ne peuvent plus enfanter sans perdre la vie. Alors qu’elle est amoureuse de Taschko, dont le corps entièrement brulé ne peut plus être touché, Pagona se retrouve enceinte d’un autre homme. Malgré les risques, elle décide de mener la grossesse à terme. Elle parle à l’enfant qu’elle porte, la poésie devenant la meilleure arme contre la violence du monde.

Nous sommes en 2084 et la célèbre citation de Margaret Thatcher est devenue réalité : la société nexiste plus. Personne ne se parle. Personne ne se regarde. Les gens ne collaborent plus, ils rivalisent. Mais je vous en prie, ne désespérez pas. Il y a de lespoir, et celui-ci porte le nom de notre héroïne : Renée Ann Blanca.

Twenty-year-old Wren Darlington is one of the most powerful Mods in existence. But her world is divided. On the Continent, being a known Modified means certain death, as the Primes—those immune to the biotoxin that nearly wiped out the population 150 years ago—want nothing more than to eliminate those who were enhanced by the toxin and developed psychic powers. Wren has survived all these years by concealing her abilities and keeping a low profile while doing what she can to aid the rebel Uprising in fighting against the Primes’ oppressive rule.

Amerika in der nahen Zukunft: Special Agent Logan Ramsay kommt bei einem Einsatz mit einer unbekannten Substanz in Berührung. Zunächst ohne Folgen, wie Logan erleichtert feststellt. Doch dann beginnt er, Veränderungen an sich zu bemerken. Seine Sinne sind geschärft, sein Erinnerungsvermögen ist unschlagbar, er ist körperlich fitter. Dass ausgerechnet er dieses "Upgrade" erfährt, hat einen Grund, der weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreicht. Zu einem schrecklichen Familiengeheimnis, das Logan am liebsten vergessen würde.

In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into crammed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never come back.

Philosopher, pacifist, psychonaut and prophet Aldous Huxley was one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent intellectuals and writers. The author of over 50 books, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize nine times, and elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962, a year before his death. Known for his mordant satire and visionary ideas, Huxley spanned the period from post-First World War disillusionment to mid-century mysticism, and the works in this collection reflect his literary evolution.

Auch in einer Welt, in der Armut, Kriege, Krankheit und Tod besiegt sind, müssen Menschen sterben, und die Entscheidung über Leben und Tod treffen die Scythe. Sie sind auserwählt, um zu töten. Sie entscheiden, wer lebt und wer stirbt. Sie sind die Hüter des Todes. Aber die Welt muss wissen, dass dieser Dienst sie nicht kalt lässt, dass sie Mitleid empfinden. Reue. Unerträglich großes Leid. Denn wenn sie diese Gefühle nicht hätten, wären sie Monster.

A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match. But the stranger is no stranger to this particular ghoul. Both women are undercover in their own way. And both have something to lose if their connection comes to light.

Set in our world, spanning the near to distant future, the author, Arwen Elys Dayton, explores the possible consequences of advanced medical breakthroughs and how they may shape and reshape humanity. From organ donation to plastic surgery to full bodily reconstruction, these stories take you by your (for now, organic) hand and lead you into a future where the line between person and machine becomes increasingly blurred. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying and action-packed, this novel strikes new ground while also seeming so strangely...likely. Just try to disconnect.

1984, escrito por George Orwell, é um romance distópico publicado em 1949 que retrata um futuro sombrio onde o totalitarismo domina. A história se passa em uma sociedade controlada pelo Partido, liderado pela figura do Grande Irmão, que monitora cada aspecto da vida das pessoas. Winston Smith, o protagonista, trabalha para o governo, mas aos poucos começa a questionar a opressão imposta pelo regime.

Im Jahr 2049 wird der junge amerikanische Architekt Donald Keene von Senator Thurman mit dem Bau einer riesigen unterirdischen Anlage beauftragt. Noch ahnt er nicht, was dahintersteckt: Ein politischer Konflikt zwischen Iran und den USA steht bevor - und eine Katastrophe, die die Erde unbewohnbar machen wird. In fünfzig unterirdischen Silos sollen die Menschen Zuflucht suchen. Aber das streng reglementierte Leben fordert Opfer.

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

Leo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery: a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted with Kallocain? For that matter - can Kall himself be trusted? Written as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Karin Boye's classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance.