Titoli in Distopica

Juliet Bianchi has evolved from a lowly scrap cutter to a fully-loaded, combat-ready dark side operator. Known as "Lucky," she takes high-risk jobs for high-tech upgrades (you know, like weaponry, super reflexes, mind reading, etc.) that make her nearly invulnerable. Juliet is looking forward to some downtime to recover, recoup, and reunite with her mates from the space salvage trawler Kowashi. But after a while, she gets that old itch she can never quite seem to scratch: to infiltrate, and hopefully subvert, the all-powerful WBD megacorporation that created the AI that changed her life.

Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK’s brightest new literary talents. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of...

Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumor's been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places. Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to...

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien...

The inspiration for Netflix blockbuster starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy...

Trois États de la côte ouest des États-Unis - la Californie, l'Oregon et l'État de Washington - décident de faire sécession et de construire, dans un isolement total, une société écologique radicale, baptisée Écotopia. Vingt ans après, l'heure est à la reprise des relations diplomatiques entre les deux pays. Pour la première fois, l'Écotopia ouvre ses frontières à un journaliste américain, William Weston.

THE MUST-READ FIRST NOVEL FROM JENNA BUSH HAGER’S NEW VENTURE, THOUSAND VOICES In the far future, one young woman finds herself torn between two loves—and two sides of a rebellion boiling under the surface—in the first novel of a sweeping dystopian romance series. “Compulsively readable...

The third thrilling Chronicles of the Invaders adventure from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard mixes classic sci-fi with gripping suspense and richly drawn characters. Syl Hellais and Paul Kerr have traveled through Derith, the mysterious wormhole from which...

Questa "Antologia" racchiude i due romanzi più famosi di George Orwell, "1984" e "La fattoria degli animali", i quali rispecchiano tutta la Distopia di un mondo che, piano piano ma inesorabilmente, si sta materializzando nell'era attuale. Due romanzi senza tempo, che offrono un chiaro spaccato del futuro distopico a cui, purtroppo, il mondo sta andando incontro.

Einige Tage, nachdem er das Easter Egg von James Halliday gefunden und den Wettbewerb um die OASIS für sich entschieden hat, macht Wade Watts eine Entdeckung, die alles verändern könnte. In einem seiner Tresorräume hat Halliday eine Technologie für ihn versteckt, die die OASIS noch wundervoller und suchterzeugender macht, als es sich Wade je hätte träumen lassen. Doch gleichzeitig wird er vor ein Rätsel gestellt und muss ein weiteres Abenteuer bestehen. Es gilt ein letztes Easter Egg zu finden, das Halliday in der OASIS versteckt hat.

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company...

Two decades into the twenty-first century, the world’s nations are becoming irrelevant. Corporations are the true global powers, with information the most valuable currency, while the smaller island nations have become sanctuaries for data pirates and terrorists. A globe-trotting PR executive for the large corporate economic democracy Rizome Industries Group, Laura Webster is present when a foreign representative is assassinated on Rizome soil during a conference for offshore data havens.

Escrita por el británico George Orwell entre 1947 y 1948, y publicada en junio de 1949, "1984" es una novela distópica que retrata un estado totalitario absoluto sin libertad alguna. Winston Smith vive en el superestado de Oceanía, donde no existe nada más importante que el poder, que hay...

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.

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners...

En un mundo postapocalíptico en el que la naturaleza se ha cobrado su venganza por el trato que el hombre le ha dispensado, una nueva forma de muerte condiciona la vida y la sociedad: los muertos se volatilizan arrasando con todo aquello que permanezca en un radio de metro y medio. La distancia de seguridad provoca muertes solitarias o masivas y tratos vejatorios de aislamiento; la búsqueda de una solución, secuestros y experimentos escalofriantes.

2040. L'Europe, suite à des années de crises sanitaires, économiques et politiques, est devenue un vaste État fédéral plus écologique, plus sécurisant, plus sain. Une société idéale, selon la plupart des Euro-citoyens. Pourtant, "les Briseurs de rêves" luttent clandestinement contre ce qu'ils considèrent comme des injonctions au Bonheur et dénoncent le "puçage" : l'implantation sous-cutanée d'un dispositif mesurant le taux individuel de Bonheur (TIB) de chaque citoyen.

In un mondo dominato dalla realtà virtuale, dai social network e dagli interessi di immense corporazioni, l'identità personale non è più univoca e le relazioni tra gli esseri umani, le loro proiezioni virtuali e le intelligenze artificiali si mescolano fino a divenire indistinguibili e alienabili. Le vicende personali e sentimentali di una serie di personaggi si mescolano in un susseguirsi di eventi scandito da Rose, eroina suo malgrado.

Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five, surviving a merciless foster care system by relying on each other. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on for the cure. When Tommy is drafted for the war, the twins are faced with a choice: stay and accept their fate of almost certain death or run. Virginia and Tommy flee into the dark night.

As Kinnall Darival writes "I" in his journal, he knows this pronoun is forbidden by his people of Manneran because it is too personal. But through the use of a powerful, mind-altering drug, he has learned to understand what people are really feeling and to speak for himself. Now he is compelled to share his message of liberation, regardless of the risk. This science fiction classic is a cult favorite from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.