Titoli in Distopica

Angus is a reformed ne’er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he’s murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife, Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife—a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife, Gracie, and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer.

Une collision entre deux astéroïdes cause une catastrophe tellurique. Quelques millions d’oiseaux ont survécu à cette fracture bio-tellurique. Comme quelques milliers de passagers d’avions en vol qui ont évité l’écrasement. Les survivants connaîtront un sort misérable. Ces colonies de rescapés deviendront les proies des oiseaux, le genre devenu dominant en mal de protéines vivantes.

En 2032, tras perder su hogar y su familia, Lauren Olamina estableció una pacífica comunidad en el norte de California, basada en su fe recién fundada: Semilla Terrestre. En ella ofrece refugio a los marginados y perseguidos por la administración de Jarret, un presidente ultraconservador que promete «hacer que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser grande». En una nación cada vez más peligrosa y dividida, la subversiva colonia de Lauren, una facción religiosa minoritaria dirigida por una joven mujer negra, se convierte en un objetivo del reinado de terror y opresión de Jarret.

Imagine a world devoid of violence - a world where fists can’t hit, guns don’t kill, and bombs can’t destroy. In this tantalizing novel of possibility, this has - suddenly and inexplicably - become our new reality. The US president must find a new way to wage war. The pope ponders whether the Commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is still relevant.

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.

A thousand years in the future, a Black elite class reigns. The lower classes toil in the fields or scrape by in blighted cities, serving their rulers in a cruel, divided world. Among the Elites is eighteen-year-old Avi Jore, born to a powerful father and destined to rule. But as she comes of age, Avi cannot help but notice the injustices in her world - the treatment of enslaved workers, the oppression of the lower classes. Her disillusionment grows when she meets Saige Wilde, a mixed-race enslaved girl whose only goal is escaping beyond the borders of their brutal nation.

A troubled woman marches west across the great, barren prairie. Suffering from a mental trauma, she's barely aware of the grim changes that have consumed the world around her. She avoids the dead, hides from people, and wanders westward in a daze. Hungry and tired, she finds her way to Montana, where she is taken prisoner on an Indian reservation run by a man with an iron fist and a cold heart.

We return to the story of Seth and Melinda, siblings who've fallen in with the likes of Noone Tompkins, a bad man with a fast gun and a cruel disposition. The group's journey south, to a promised oasis in the New Mexico desert, is interrupted by a war between the citizens of Billings, Montana and the scattered survivors of the Crow Nation.

Akemi’s job on the Public Utilities Commission has its own daily disasters—making sure the infrastructure of civilization keeps running is the most thankless job on the planet. When a double event hits—heatwave plus viral breakout—keeping the power on is an all-out battle. It doesn’t help that he’s distracted by his elderly father, who was struck down and neuro-compromised by the same virus that killed his mother the year before.

The world has ended, the dead walk the earth, and a profound silence has fallen over the land. Two children, brother and sister, survive together on an isolated Montana farm. Their days are simple - find food, avoid the dead. They are the remnants of civilization, refugees from a vanished world. Whispers of a new civilization in the New Mexico desert and a chance encounter with a band of renegade soldiers convince them to strike out on the open road, to abandon the relative safety of the farm and fall in with strangers. But the living may be worse than the dead.

It's 2035: A fledging synthetic consciousness “wakes up” in a lab. Jenny, the lead developer, determined to nurture this synthetic being like a child, trains it to work with people at the border of the American Protectorate of Canada. She names it Julian. Two years later, Slaton, a therapist at a university, is framed by a student for arranging an illegal abortion. She follows the student to America and is detained at the border, where she meets Julian in virtual space.

La contundente incursión de Edmundo Paz Soldán en el terreno de la ficción especulativa y la distopía nos presenta una de las obras más destacadas del subgénero de lo que va de siglo XXI. Un futuro oscuro, una región tóxica y una batalla por la colonización de una zona indispensable para hacerse con el poder. Militares, refugiados, dioses y fanáticos se dan la mano en una obra que está llamada a ser considerada de las cumbres del género.

The constant threat of terrorism has left London under round-the-clock surveillance and in the tightening grip of privatised security firms. Journalist Antonia Conti suspects one such organisation—GRM—not only of being behind several women’s disappearances, but of financing the widespread violence it claims to fight. When a gang of hitmen use rampant state surveillance to track Antonia down, she narrowly escapes with her life. But then one of them turns up dead—covered in her DNA—and Antonia finds herself the prime suspect in his murder.

A principis del segle XXI, Berlín es troba en mig d’una revolució apocalíptica contra el poder vigent, entre, per una banda, un grup d’alemanys vinculats a moviments antisistema que volen reactivar l’antiga RAF dels anys 70 disposats a atemptar contra una multinacional alemanya i, per l’altra, un grup de gallecs que volen aprofitar l’interès mediàtic i reivindicar la seva posició davant d’una societat que els margina i els manté en la clandestinitat.

The dystopian future that George Orwell predicted for 1984 has finally arrived, 100 years late and 10 times as brutal. To save all that he loves, Orwell will have to travel between his future self - Erik Blair, Orwell’s descendant and unwitting heir to his legacy - and the past. As for Erik Blair, his life plan isn’t overly complicated: Avoid trouble. Avoid pain. And get from one day to the next without attracting the “wrong” kind of attention, which really equates to any kind of attention when the government and its robotic thugs are involved.

"2222" es un sentido homenaje a la ciencia ficción más clásica, una novela de profundas raíces sociales que, como las mejoras obras del género, lanza su trama al futuro lejano para mostrar a través de él un retrato descarnado de nuestro presente. En el año 2222, la superpoblación y todas sus consecuencias ha dejado a la tierra al borde del cataclismo. En una casa perdida en el campo sobreviven varias personas, pero su sociedad en miniatura está lejos de ser perfecta.

Un afilado thriller tecnológico en clave de ciencia ficción en el que uno de los mayores expertos en biología especulativa del mundo deberá enfrentarse a las mayores corporaciones del mundo para evitar una catástrofe mundial de proporciones apocalípticas. Una trama que no suelta al lector y cuyas implicaciones podrían ser más reales y cercanas de lo que creemos.

A medio camino entre el thriller periodístico y la mejor literatura prospectiva, "Mañana cruzaremos el Ganges" es una afiladísima disección de la sociedad hacia la que nos encaminamos... o en la que ya podríamos estar viviendo. En un futuro no muy lejano, Europa está gobernada por una casta de tecnócratas sin líderes concretos. Una periodista independiente se verá obligada a empezar a trabajar para un gran consorcio para mantenerse, al tiempo que intenta encontrar un equilibrio entre su atribulada vida personal y los graves cambios sociales que sufre su mundo.

Una excelente vuelta de tuerca a la idea de distopía futura, o no tanto, en la que presenciamos un mundo domesticado donde ciudades móviles se desplazan por el terreno abasteciéndose de recursos, en medio de un entorno perfecto y ordenado. Sin embargo, toda sociedad aparentemente perfecta tiene su lado oscuro, y en esta dicho lado reside entre los locos y los marginados, los expulsados por la perfección inalcanzable de las ciudades nómadas. Un rebaño miseria de parias que, más pronto que tarde, se alzarán en un grito de venganza.

A novella set in post-climate-disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.