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Premier quart du XXIe siècle. La dictature s'est installée aux États-Unis. La télévision, arme suprême du nouveau pouvoir, règne sans partage sur le peuple. Une chaîne unique diffuse une émission de jeux suivie par des millions de fans : c'est "La Grande Traque". Ben Richards, un homme qui n'a plus rien à perdre, décide de s'engager dans la compétition mortelle. Pendant trente jours il devra fuir les redoutables "chasseurs" lancés sur sa piste et activement aidés par une population encouragée à la délation. Tous les moyens sont bons pour éliminer Ben Richards.

Publicado em 1949, o texto de Orwell nasceu destinado à polêmica. Traduzido em mais de sessenta países, virou minissérie, filmes, quadrinhos, mangás e até uma ópera. Ganhou holofotes em 1999, quando uma produtora holandesa batizou seu reality show de Big Brother. 1984 foi responsável pela popularização de muitos termos e conceitos, como Grande Irmão, duplopensar, novidioma, e buraco da memória. O trabalho de Winston, o herói de 1984, é reescrever artigos de jornais do passado, de modo que o registro histórico sempre apoie a ideologia do Partido.

Uma guerra fria de escala mundial reestrutura a ordem socioeconômica do planeta, criando novos eixos de poder. A União Europeia se desfaz, a China enfim é alçada ao posto de maior potência global e o longo período de prosperidade dos Estados Unidos chega ao fim. Da noite para o dia, o dólar despenca e, além do valor, perde também seu prestígio: uma nova moeda internacional, o bancor, chega para substituí-lo.

Une peste créée par l'homme a ravagé la Terre. Les rares survivants forment une communauté avec une espèce inoffensive, fabriquée pour remplacer les humains, les Crakers. À sa tête, un couple au passé tumultueux, Toby, experte en champignons et abeilles, et Zeb, mangeur d'ours et fils d'un prêcheur maléfique. Dépositaire et garante de la mémoire, Toby transmet aux Crakers, curieux comme des enfants et avides de légendes, l'histoire des hommes. Au contact les uns des autres, humains et Crakers posent les fondements d'un nouveau monde.

Don't mess with the creepy new girl. Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her. Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious 'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create....

When Dorrit Wegner turned fifty, the government transferred her to a state-of-the-art facility where she can live out her days in comfort. Her apartment is furnished to her tastes, her meals expertly served, and all at the very reasonable non-negotiable price of one cardiopulmonary system. Once an outsider without family, derided by a society bent on productivity, Dorrit finds within The Unit the company of kindred spirits and a dignity conferred by 'use' in medical tests.

In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she’ll be exposed, Surtsey’s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact - someone who claims to know what she’s done....

The sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse have destroyed most of the planet…yet out of these waters, Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation, has been miraculously reborn. Listen along as Tanis Parenteau's impeccable narration, capturing the rhythms of Navajo speech, fully envelopes you into the Sixth World. Trail of Lightning follows our heroine as she walks the land alongside gods, heroes of legend, and monsters alike.

MEHRFACH PREISGEKRÖNT! Ausgezeichnet mit dem Stefan-Lübbe-Preis 2016 und dem Seraph 2018 für das beste Debüt. Im Jahr 2052 hat sich die Bundesrepublik Europa vom Rest der Welt abgeschottet. Hochentwickelte Roboter sorgen für Wohlstand und Sicherheit in der sogenannten Optimalwohlökonomie. Hier werden alle Bürger von der Agentur für Lebensberatung rund um die Uhr überwacht, um für jeden Einzelnen den perfekten Platz in der Gesellschaft zu finden.

Killing children is an ugly business, but the alternative is so much uglier. Abner Slate just watched his five-year-old daughter Olive kill his wife and son. Olive is a sopath. Born without souls, sopaths are children who will lie, cheat, rape, and murder to get what they want. There's one in every family these days, destroying America's heartland from within. After murdering his daughter in self-defense, Abner is taken in by a secret network of sopath victims called Pariah.

Deutschland, 2057: Als die Systemkritikerin Lila im Gefängnis aus einem künstlichen Koma erwacht, stellt sie fest, dass ihr schlimmster Albtraum wahr geworden ist: Deutschland wird von einer KI regiert. Samson Freitag wird als eine Art Gottkönig verehrt und erpresst von den Bürgern optimalkonformes Verhalten. Für Lila steht fest, dass sie die Herrschaft der Roboter und die Entmündigung der Menschen beenden muss. Ihr gelingt die Flucht aus dem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis, doch Samson spürt sie auf und bietet ihr einen Deal an, den Lila nicht ausschlagen kann.

Van Overton had given years of service to his country. He'd paid his dues and he no longer needed to put his life on the line. He could live out the rest of his days doing what he did best - making money from inside the heart of the world's fastest paced financial system. Allie James had wished time and again for something - anything - to happen just so she didn't have to open another eviction notice. She adored the hustle and bustle of the city, her cozy apartment in a good neighborhood, and the rugged looking man across the hall wasn't half bad to look at either.

Synth is a drug able to induce hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. But it's brand new, highly addictive, and more than likely dangerous. Even the dealers peddling the pills don't know what long term effects the drug will have on its users.

By the year 2017, a series of ecological catastrophes have eliminated most of the earth’s population while destroying the America we once knew. The few who have survived live in underground bunkers beneath the ruins of the nation’s major cities, controlled by ruthless corporate entities that have remolded the devastated society into USA, Inc. This is the nightmare into which crusading magazine publisher Glenn Howard awakens after 40 years of sleep.

Une muraille opaque de brouillard et ses cohortes de monstres avancent inexorablement vers Eden. La Grande Tempête qui a balayé l'Amérique reviendra-t-elle détruire la nouvelle civilisation que les Pans, les enfants étrangement épargnés par le cataclysme, tentent de créer ? Sauront-ils déjouer les complots du Buveur d'Innocence ? L'Alliance des Trois pourra-t-elle s'opposer à la menace d'Entropia, royaume du chaos et de la mort ?

Imaginez un monde où la nature a repris le pouvoir, où les adultes sont redevenus sauvages et les enfants se sont assemblés en bandes pour survivre, où chaque promenade est une expédition, chaque jour passé, un exploit. Un monde recouvert par un océan de forêts, peuplé de créatures fabuleuses, traversé de courants étranges, d'énergies nouvelles.

Ils n'ont plus le choix : il faut se battre ou mourir. De la survie d'Eden dépendent celle des enfants, de leur union, l'avenir de cette étrange planète. Pour l'Alliance des Trois, c'est l'épreuve ultime, la fin d'une longue quête, naissance ou mort de l'espoir.

Personne ne l'a vue venir. La Grande Tempête : un ouragan de vent et de neige qui plonge le pays dans l'obscurité et l'effroi. D'étranges éclairs bleus rampent le long des immeubles, les palpent, à la recherche de leurs proies.

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....

As the dust settles in the wake of their meteoric rise, Charoen and Jessie stand at the threshold of Krieg Chess' Minor League. Their raw talents, honed by relentless training, face a grueling ordeal against towering rivals, escalating stakes, and the intoxicating allure of fame and glory. Virgil, their enigmatic benefactor, continues his cryptic guidance, drawing them deeper into the high-stakes world of professional Krieg Chess. Yet, every triumph illuminates a disturbing reality—they are pawns in a grander, more malevolent game.