Titoli in Distopica

In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying. After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness - stored for that inevitable transition - something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. Her recent memories are missing. Her original, she’s told, is dead.

The protected escapees of the blood-farm experiments are free, secure, and set for life. Kind of. Because there’s something new to fear in this short thriller, the twisting finale of the Young Blood Trilogy.

Their captivity was traumatizing. And draining. But revenge is in the blood for a group of brave survivors in this chilling short story of conspiracies and youthful pleasures gone awry.

For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues. Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one - she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job.

As the world around them collapses under the weight of a slow, creeping virus that erodes memory, 15-year-old Dany and her five-year-old sister are on the edge of their own personal apocalypse - fearing separation at the hands of child services. When a dangerous new strain of the virus emerges, Dany careens headlong into crisis, determined to save her sister. Together with her best friend and reluctant history teacher, they must flee the city.  

Arden and Dade are running for their lives from a city on fire; they're wounded, desperate, and shadowed by two families who want them dead. But it's Dade's debt to a devious crime lord that plunges them further into danger - especially with their mining planet in chaos... The ruling Solizen have grown more calculating, while the Undercity population remains trapped in the darkness below. With the supply of life-saving VitD wiped out, the rebellion is ready to erupt at any moment.

The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and addicted to Arcadia. The brainchild of reclusive genius Juan Diego Reyes, Arcadia is a wickedly immersive, all-encompassing social-media platform and virtual-reality interface. Although Arcadia has made the Reyes family fabulously wealthy, it's left them - and the rest of the country - impoverished of that rare currency: intimacy.

In a stratified society where contact with the sun is a luxury reserved for the elite, those kept prisoner in the darkness will do anything to find the light. Arden - beautiful, street-smart, and cynical - is one of the citizens of the lowest Level, known as Undercity, of an off-world colony. A blackout band traps Arden in her district, but as sister to the leader of the most powerful gang in Undercity, she has access to Above.

In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality while blissfully unaware of their crimes. Roger Parker is a professional prison breaker, skilled at navigating these strange penal dream worlds and extracting those imprisoned there - for a price. Parker wants out of the game, but a powerful senator, desperate to save his son, convinces Parker to pull one last job.

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.

Peter fue testigo de la marcha de su nueva familia, convencido de que no volvería a verla jamás, pero a veces los planes cambian para bien. Ahora el plan es volver a encontrarlos, aunque a veces los planes también cambien para mal. En ocasiones, el único plan que conviene es creer que todo va a salir bien, por difícil que a veces resulte tener fe.

La vie à la ferme pourrait presque sembler idéale à Cassie Forest : elle y est entourée d’Adrian et de ses amis, et les beaux jours se profilent. Mais avec le dégel printanier, des millions de zombies vont décongeler et reprendre leur sinistre transhumance. Et si les évènements de l’année passée lui ont bien enseigné une chose, c’est que la vie dans ce nouveau monde est tout, sauf idéale.

Sie will fest daran glauben, dass alles gut wird. Doch auf ihrer Flucht mitten durch die Zombieapokalypse müssen Cassie und ihre Freunde hart ums Überleben kämpfen—und wenn das Schicksal gegen einen zu sein scheint, fällt es schwer, den Glauben an die Zukunft zu bewahren. In „All the Stars in the Sky”, dem letzten Teil der Reihe „Until the End of the World“, versuchen Cassie, Peter, Penny und die anderen, sich zur letzten verbliebenen Safe Zone in Alaska durchzuschlagen. Doch der Weg dorthin ist lang, und nicht nur Zombies wollen ihnen an den Kragen.