Titoli in Distopica

The Sanctuary meets Shutter Island in this chilling speculative thriller from the acclaimed author of The Sisterhood. BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER. SOME FLY TO THEIR DEATHS. A group of students step off a platform into the path of an oncoming train. Only Billie survives. She remembers...

Brought to you by Penguin. NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO. In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of...

Charlie Johns has been snatched from his home on Earth and delivered to the strange future world of Ledom. Technology has triumphed over hunger, overpopulation, pollution, and even time and space. But there is a change Charlie finds even more shocking: Gender is a thing of the past. Gone are the tensions between male and female. Gone is the human preoccupation with sex.

A girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen. 

China thought it would be a quick war, an easy war. But now, years later, as the insurgency on the streets of Los Angeles escalates but the propaganda never changes, a Chinese officer can’t keep silent any longer. Torn between loyalty to his country and loyalty to his troops, he writes a brutally honest—and possibly suicidal—letter home to unmask the truth. Brooks combines his signature meticulous research with unforgettable characters in this landmark work of speculative fiction.

En un lloc sense nom i en una època indeterminada, aïllat enmig d'una natura inquietantment humana, viu un poble sotmès a una llei rigorosa i a la vigilància constant de dues amenaces: els caramens, uns éssers que no ha vist mai ningú, i les envestides del riu, que amenaça d'endur-se les cases. Les mares turmenten el desig de les criatures amb punxons de ferro. Els homes turmenten el desig de les mares embenant-los els ulls. El ferrer, que és qui mana, fabrica argolles per assegurar-se que la por sigui sempre més forta que el desig.

Dora ha quindici anni e vive in una società futura che non conosce il dolore e l'invecchiamento. L'Apathoxina ha cancellato qualsiasi forma di sofferenza. Grazie al puntophone, un innesto biotecnologico inserito nel polso, gli uomini possono evitare qualunque situazione avversa e controllare le attività dei robot. Il sesso è regolato da programmi di Libero Accoglimento e la morte arriva dopo i cento anni attraverso il Programma di Accompagnamento Meditativo. Un giorno Dora ha un incubo terribile.

In Neo Babylon, your neural implant is your identity. You use it as your credit card, to surf the Altnet, to chat with friends, to login to work or school, and to be pestered by advertisements. Anyone without one is cut off from society. Nick can’t get a neural implant. That fact turns his daily life into hell, but the city's underworld has its plans for him. Being invisible to the city’s omnipresent tracking has its perks. Without a neural presence, he’s someone who is felt but not seen—a wraith.

A year and a half has passed since the defeat of Charlottesville. The idea of an actual future is starting to take root among the survivors. Jason and Rachel have found a semblance of peace with a family. Pro has found a calling and Pavel has found a place to call home. A dangerous enemy, flying the Stars and Stripes from across the Appalachians has turned their attention to Potomac and everything the survivors have built.

A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match. But the stranger is no stranger to this particular ghoul. Both women are undercover in their own way. And both have something to lose if their connection comes to light.

After the terror Sydney's incursion, Gwen's journey continues as she travels to Singapore to rescue Yue and Elvia with Alesia's crew and her father, Morye. Along the way, she inadvertently discovering a wholly unexpected side of her family she had not known from her previous life...

Alex Hawk has returned victorious from Drakana. He is a hero in Kragdon-ah and he and his daughters have decided to stay there forever. An effort is afoot to unite the far-flung tribes of Kragdon-ah and Alex's daughters Amy and Sanda are recruited to cross the wide land to help make that happen. Alex is forced to take another journey across the wilds of Kragdon-ah, encountering more fantastic creatures, new enemies, and old allies.

Ciudad de México, 2025 . Antes una de las avenidas más transitadas, Madero está ocupada por las estatuas de los cientos de mujeres, hombres y hasta de niños desaparecidos día tras día. Este insólito fenómeno coincide con la propagación de los mattangs —mapas que, según los creyentes...

Three long years after the world Fell, Wildcat Leander Calloway Toler, a deputized lawman—or what passes for one in this Fallen World—finds himself being pursued across the Appalachian wastes with the daughter of a wealthy businessman in tow. Trapped and outgunned, Leander learns that those who took his family and left him for dead in the chaotic days after the Fall have returned. Infuriated by the bureaucracy of a corrupt system, Leander decides to take matters into his own hands and recruits a team of loyal companions.

As winter ebbs away, the true horror emerges. Shaun, reunited with Abbie, struggles with he emotional roller coaster of searching for Lydia. Each day they don’t find her is another day she could be further away.

Una novel·la amb un punt de partida apassionant que juga amb els girs argumentals amb mestratge i que, a més, està farcida de referències literàries i culturals. Amb tots aquests ingredients, Pastor ens presenta Farishta, que amb divuit anys acabats de fer, se’n va a treballar en un complex d’illes privat de la Polinèsia Francesa, on descobrirà que res és el que sembla. L’autor planteja amb un gran talent un seguit de qüestions molt interessants en un ambient clarament distòpic que, per contrapartida, situa enmig de paisatges de bellesa paradisíaca.

Una famiglia tenta di sopravvivere in una Spagna desertica post-apocalittica fino a quando non scopre un'antica stazione di servizio molto speciale.

Montana calls to him and all he wants is to take his family home. Rafe Duncan isn't the oldest of his siblings, but he felt the pressure of responsibility just the same. He dedicated his life to keeping their family compound running and his goal was to get them back there, alive. At the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, Rafe couldn’t have foreseen what was to come. As he watched society break down, bringing his family together was his first goal. Now after all they had lost, he wanted safety for them all.

Finlandia se ha convertido en un estado totalitario llamado Republica Eusistocratica, que ha priorizado la salud nacional y ha prohibido todo lo que pueda dar placer o causar adicción. Bueno, casi todo: el estado ha creado una nueva subespecie humana: una especie receptiva, sumisa y siempre dispuesta a tener relaciones sexuales. Solían llamarse mujeres. Desde los años 40 varios científicos junto con el gobierno han puesto en marcha un plan de selección artifical que solo permite la reproducción a las mujeres más dóciles.

When Lady Mae turns eighteen, she’ll inherit her mother’s ghastly job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five’s guilty criminals as payment for their petty crimes. But then their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae’s house, and there in the living room they murder her mother for refusing to butcher a child. Within twenty-four hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her gruesome job. But a chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy that murdered her mother.