Titoli in Distopica

Una brillante y devastadora novela sobre las múltiples realidades que habitamos mientras las guerras se extienden a nuestro alrededor August Brill tiene setenta y dos años y se está recuperando en la casa de su hija, en Vermont, tras sufrir un accidente de coche. No puede dormir y, acostado...

1/2986: Publisher's Pack 2 contains Ice_ and _Vow_, books three and four of the 1/2986 series. People think I survived. But that's an illusion. After two years of hell in prison camp, Micka wants only one thing: To end the Brothers and Sisters of the Apocalypse. She embarks on a race across 5...

Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world’s stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. The Hives’ façade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order, for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past.

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. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water, or even humanity. The system has no flaws. Until the elusive "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.

Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he’s aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a bloodred sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on belowdecks.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.  

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it. 

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

Surviving is all I've ever known. Abandoned young, I was left to fend for myself in a place ruled by fear and control. Silver runs everything—rations, medicine, currency—and those like me, carriers of the infection, are treated less than human. Everyone I love is gone. All that's left is my...

Paradossale? Surreale? Distopico? Probabilmente sì. Tutto quello che non è conforme alle regole ci appare eccezionale oppure reietto. E’ difficile accettare di convivere con quello che consideriamo diverso da noi in un modus sociale che, pur imponendo dei canoni stereotipati, ci sottopone periodicamente e con sempre maggior intensità a qualcosa di diverso, forse proprio per essere giudicato, senza rendersi conto che un giorno potrebbero essere quelli che oggi consideriamo diversi a giudicare noi.

The four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. “Green Monkey Syndrome” describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; “The Gaoka Case” tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy’s patriarchal culture; “I Love Thee Winona” and “The Lost Bird” describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bioweapons through migrating birds.

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.

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.

Il tenente Costas viene mandato su un'isola greca per indagare sull'omicidio di un famoso critico d'arte. Tuttavia dovrà risolvere un'enigma etico molto più complesso del previsto per arrivare alla soluzione del caso.

Mi chiamo Rossa e ho quattordici anni. I Vecchi mi hanno abbandonato oggi, nel giorno del mio compleanno. Come nella fiaba di Hansel e Gretel. Fatevene una ragione! Non fatevi manipolare, illudere, comprare! Non ci saranno, nei giorni a venire, babbi e mamme, maestri, preti e poliziotti, amici o complici che ci verranno in aiuto. Noi siamo soli!

In un futuro molto vicino il partito al governo mette al bando l'infelicità. Un romanzo distopico dai richiami orwelliani.Carlo vive alle Bili Bianche, un quartiere colorato, ordinato e cinto da mura, nel quale sono confinati i cittadini tristi, considerati eroi per il loro consenso all'isolamento. La restante popolazione è a Vremina, una città all'avanguardia che insegue la felicità massificata. Dalle Bili Bianche si può uscire, quando si vuole, solo con l'eutanasia.

It’s a miracle. The fountain of youth discovered flowing through the veins of postmillennials. In idyllic planned communities, freed from adulting and student loans, the young can live in guilt-free organic luxury. All it costs them is a weekly blood donation to extend the lives of their...