Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Dystopique

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching... A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations.

The running man. In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke, an American pilot and one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease, has survived alone among the debris and the dead of London for three years. Now, in '48, a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a complete transfusion of blood from one of Hoke's kind. Ever more desperate as their deaths approach, they're after his blood.

The peaceful life of a village in Wiltshire is suddenly shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation, leaving behind it a trail of misery and horror. A yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Whatever it is, it must be controlled; for wherever it goes it leaves behind a trail of disaster as hideous as the tragedy that marked its entry into the world. The fog, quite simple, drives people insane.

During an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative had unwittingly triggered an incredible worldwide event that irrevocably shaped the future of the United States. In the aftermath of the crisis, families have struggled to survive in a world short on food, water, and electricity. Hyperinflation cripples the United States economy, and postwar armored military vehicles are patrolling the streets. One man has now stepped forward and continues to push back the dark wave of tyranny.

In the not-too-distant future, during an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative unwittingly triggers an incredible event that alters the course of society. A terrible weapon has been unleashed - a weapon that, left to run its course, will destroy the moral fabric of humanity.

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

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.

Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself all alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of where she belongs.

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and 23 reality TV contestants from around the world—including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers—are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber’s boyfriend of 14 years, was content going nowhere until Amber left him—and their hydroponic weed business—behind.

"Progressi e sfide della nematologia" è il titolo della conferenza, ben poco partecipata, in cui Arthur e Kevin si incontrano per la prima volta. Nematologia, cioè lo studio dei vermi. Pardon, lombrichi. La sede è una delle aule ipermoderne dell’istituto AgroParisTech, inspiegabilmente trasferito dalle campagne dell’Île-de-France alla spianata di cemento dell’altopiano di Saclay: un’infilata di centri commerciali e isole spartitraffico da cui è più che mai arduo immaginare un futuro verde per la nazione.

Darrow nació esclavo, pero se convirtió en un arma. Acabó con siglos de gobierno dorado y se convirtió en el héroe de una república nueva y poderosa. Ahora deberá arriesgar todo por lo que ha luchado en una última misión desesperada. Pero nuevos destinos se entrelazarán con el suyo.

Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.

Julia nos leva a uma viagem surpreendente pela agora icônica distopia de Orwell, com reviravoltas que revelam lados inesperados, não apenas de Julia, mas de outras figuras familiares do universo de 1984.

The end of the world has been avoided - for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas.... While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn't make sense. London in 2111 is on the brink of annihilation.

McEwan explora la ciencia ficción: ¿puede una máquina llegar a entender y juzgar la complejidad moral de las decisiones de un ser humano? Londres, años ochenta del siglo pasado. Pero un Londres distópico y alternativo, en el que la historia ha seguido algunos senderos diferentes. Por ejemplo, el Reino Unido ha perdido la Guerra de las Malvinas y el científico Alan Turing no se ha suicidado atormentado por las consecuencias del juicio al que fue sometido en los años cincuenta por su homosexualidad, sino que sigue vivo.

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.

Four audiobooks in one box set: Last Stand: Surviving America's Collapse, Last Stand: Patriots, Last Stand: Warlords, and Last Stand: Turning the Tide. John Mack, a prepper and former soldier, struggles to save his family and community after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) takes out the country's electrical grid. With most electronics, communications, and transportation destroyed in a matter of seconds, the nation quickly collapses into anarchy. Threats emerge from enemies both foreign and domestic.

Stellen Sie sich vor, es gibt eine Todeslotterie. Sie können den Namen eines verhassten Menschen in einen Lostopf werfen. In der "AchtNacht", am 8.8. jedes Jahres, wird aus allen Vorschlägen ein Name gezogen. Der Auserwählte ist eine AchtNacht lang geächtet, vogelfrei. Jeder in Deutschland darf ihn straffrei töten - und wird mit einem Kopfgeld von zehn Millionen Euro belohnt. Das ist kein Gedankenspiel. Sondern bitterer Ernst.

It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: She was one of the original scientists who developed the drug.

Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. His job has him convinced that his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly runs the world and the apocalyptic technological transformation of, well, everything.