Dystopian

Just when John thinks things are finally calming down, the world never fails to throw a new twist his way. And the latest one is deadly....

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow....

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations....

Abe knows he’s a black-hearted devil. But he gets the job done. His current job? Extract seven families being held hostage by Nuevas Fronteras as a means of controlling the refinery workers.

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for 12 hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. You get blackout drunk. Then you hear about Life on Nyx, a programme that allows 100 lucky winners the chance to escape it all, move to another planet....

Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.

Brave New World, narrated by Huxley himself, with a complicated sound-effects score....

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing...

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy....

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life.

Die Erde ist unbewohnbar geworden, seit Generationen leben die Menschen in unterirdischen Silos. Was aber, wenn die Verwüstung der Erde...

Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things”, but he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels....

Aus dem Zeitalter der Uniformität. Aus dem Zeitalter der Einsamkeit und des Doppeldenk. Aus dem Zeitalter des Big Brothers. Von mir, Winston Smith. Grüße ...

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent—the Virtual elite—and have the world at your feet.

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction....

A cybernetic mercenary sets her sights on the corporation that forced her transformation in this dystopian sci-fi from the author of Victor of Tucson.

In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle for survival.

Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend....

Quando Katniss urla "Mi offro volontaria, mi offro volontaria come tributo!" sa di aver appena firmato la sua condanna a morte...

This is the way the world ends, for the last time. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her daughter....

The end of the world has come not with a bang or a whimper, but with the guttural snarl of walking corpses hungry for human flesh....

Capeks, a race of artificial creatures originally created by humans, have inherited the galaxy and formed a Utopian civilization....

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men - old friends - confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.

Старого мира не существует. От него осталась оболочка, искореженная галлюциногенами. Но скоро, будьте уверены, подует ветер перемен: придет новый мессия и принесет с собой благодать. У людей больше нет единой реальности — есть текучая смесь воображения, прошлого и настоящего. Когда Колин Чартерис, один из многих людей с искаженным сознанием, становится провозглашенным героем и отправляется в крестовый поход, запускается вереница фантастических событий, параноидальных видений и бедствий, способных привести к концу цивилизации.

Bei meiner Ankunft in der Hauptstadt wurde ich festgenommen. Angeblich hatte ich den kleinen Prinzen ermordet. Die Strafe war die Verbannung ins Exil – auf die Insel der Freiheit. Diese Gefängnisinsel war ein Sammelplatz für die schrecklichsten Kriminellen des Kaiserreichs: Facettierte, Schwarzbüchler, Mörder und Vergewaltiger. Man munkelte, dass seit Bestehen dieser Strafkolonie nur drei Personen die Flucht von dort gelungen sei. Ich hatte den Prinzling nicht ermordet. Aber es gab keine Möglichkeit, der Verbannung zu entgehen.

From the beginning, The Pantheon has been a secret society of bloodshed and order. Modern-day gladiators abandon their lives, fall into rank and battle to the death – cheered on and funded by online watchers. Tyler Maitland was recruited to fight in the Games, but his real ambition is finding his missing sister – even if it means bringing down The Pantheon for good. The start of the Twentieth Season delivers never-before-matched teams to the fields of eastern Europe, where a hidden force will blow the truth of the Games wide open, once and for all...

Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress has been shattered: there's no telephone, no radio and an American warship sits in the harbour. England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy has decided that salvation lies in a union—political, military and economic—with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.

Недалекое будущее. Управляемый термоядерный синтез подарил человечеству дешевую энергию, прорыв в генетике позволил создавать новых, усовершенствованных людей. В этом безмятежном мире происходит нечто чудовищное: два научных центра в Китае и Европе исчезают без следа, их словно стирают с лица земли. Причем они не были взорваны, а просто исчезли. В ходе расследования правительственные агенты понимают, что ни с чем подобным они никогда в жизни не сталкивались, и противник превосходит их как интеллектуально, так и технически.

Welche Grenzen würden Sie überschreiten, um zu überleben? Drei Monate nachdem ein EMP-Angriff das Stromnetz der USA zerstört hat, sind bereits Millionen Menschen an Hunger und Krankheiten gestorben. Als das Ende des Winters endlich in Sicht ist, steht die kleine Stadt Fall Creek in Michigan am Rande des Untergangs. Ihre Einwohner haben gelitten und Opfer gebracht. Aber um sich eine lebenswerte Zukunft zu sichern, müssen sie sich der Dunkelheit in sich selbst stellen. Jeder muss für sich entscheiden, ob er sich seine Menschlichkeit bewahren oder um jeden Preis überleben will.

Michael awakens to a world where everyone has mysteriously disappeared. Not only must he come to grips with the sudden loss of his family, but he must also survive in a changing, overgrown, perilous earth filled with new predatory creatures while searching for his wife and missing daughter. A Day in the Life for a man on the edge surviving in a dangerous new world.

2345 n. Chr. Auf der Erde wird das Überleben immer mehr zu einem Kampf. Die New Riyadh soll den Planeten Phoegate, auch "Supererde" genannt, terraformen. Für diesen Zweck werden 400 Millionen menschliche Embryonen auf den Weg geschickt. Mit an Bord: 102 Androiden. Sie träumen, sie essen, sie haben Sex und begehen Verbrechen. Doch schon bald kommt es zu den ersten Problemen: Die Embryonen können nicht geboren werden ... zumindest nicht ohne drastische Veränderungen. Wird der neue Heimatplanet der Menschheit am Ende von Menschen besiedelt? Oder von etwas völlig anderem?

Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brilliant, beautiful people, the product of top-secret government experiments forty years earlier. But suddenly, all records of him vanish. He becomes a man with no identity, in a police state where everyone us closely monitored. Can he ever be rich and famous again? Or was that life just an illusion?

Danielle war immer schon anders. In einer Stadt, in der blond und blauäugig das Ideal und auch den Großteil der Bevölkerung stellt, ist sie eine Außenseiterin. Diese geschützte Siedlung, nach mehreren verheerenden Kriegen vielleicht das letzte Refugium der Menschheit, birgt jedoch Gefahren und Geheimnisse. Gregor, ihr Ausbilder und Mitglied des Rates, weist sie immer tiefer in die Abgründe der Gesellschaft ein. Als er Dan in Kontakt mit der Untergrundorganisation "Die geöffneten Hände" bringt, stellt sich ihr Leben komplett auf den Kopf.

Josef K., un ciudadano corriente, se despierta una mañana en presencia de unos misteriosos funcionarios que han ido a detenerlo a la pensión en la que reside. Le interrogan y le comunican que se le permite seguir con su vida diaria a pesar de estar detenido. A partir de ahí, se ve envuelto en un proceso judicial laberíntico cuyo inexplicable entramado intentará desentrañar. Para ello tendrá que adentrarse en el enigmático mundo del «tribunal», una instancia omnisciente que todo lo domina desde las sombras.

Saff, a determined new doctor in the first year of her internship, had clawed her way out of a tumultuous past, only to be dragged back into it when the zombie outbreak hits. Forced to join her estranged father and his band of raiders, she's confronted with the harsh reality that desperation can make monsters out of anyone—even her.

Nova bezahlt für ihren riskanten Plan einen hohen Preis. Unfreiwillig erlebt sie einen drastischen Moment ihrer Jugend wieder: Die erste Begegnung mit Corteon Fringe. Der Streit der beiden bei einer TV-Talkshow ist ein bedrohlicher Vorbote der KI-Diktatur, gegen die Nova, Red und Lina nun kämpfen. Doch erst muss Nova wieder zu Bewusstsein kommen...

My name is Bird Howsley, and I'm a beautiful disaster. Okay, "beautiful" is probably being generous. But the "disaster" part is right. In a brutal dystopian waterworld, where survival depends on skill and smarts, I'm pretty much always one bad decision away from watching my life go completely down the drain. Luckily, I have a lifeline: my cute, level-headed sailing teacher, Sargo Paz. Did I say cute? I didn't mean cute. He's just a friend. I definitely don't have weird sex dreams about him.

Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers' imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensional prejudices. In a world where class is determined by how many sides you possess, and women are straight lines, the prospects for enlightenment are boundless, and Abbott's hypotheses about a fourth and higher dimensions seem startlingly relevant today.