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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

A Longa Marcha é uma narrativa distópica sobre uma competição em que os participantes não têm mais nada a perder, além da própria vida. O romance inaugura a nova coleção da Suma que reúne os livros de Richard Bachman, pseudônimo que Stephen King usou para assinar histórias angustiantes e surpreendentes.

At first, it appears to be a terrorist attack — a mysterious sound decimates society’s sense of hearing, leaving the world deaf. But as this extraordinary event unfolds, it becomes clear that something of an unknown magnitude is at work, with a purpose to destroy the human race. Hours away from transferring custody, divorced mother Jules finds herself trapped in a remote farmhouse with her daughter, miles from help and without communication. Stranded and facing an unseen threat, Jules must use her remaining senses to keep her child safe. But how do you survive what you can’t hear or see coming?

The sudden rise of a brazen and unprecedented regime of unparalleled power casts human civilization into a state of total anarchy. World powers and the plentiful who resist form factions to stop the Edentheian Allegiance and save the world from their rapidly expanding space-faring dictatorship.

After the collapse of society and the natural world, what’s left of the human race is divided into multiple space-faring superpowers. All with a goal of maintaining its legacy, and values. These differing values, however, fuel an extreme, and ever-growing tension between them, sparking a feud of interstellar proportions.

Archer Kemp is tired of his life. Past wars, a cheating ex-wife, and a son he barely sees have made him empty inside; but things get worse when he awakens behind bars in a government facility called The Tower with an ensemble of others, some struggling to remember how they arrived. The group soon finds themselves in a grim world where they're starved and experimented on for the sake of military research. To further complicate the situation, his estranged brother shows up in the cell next to him before they're mentally broken and bullyragged into descending the tower's treacherous levels.

Wyatt Hartford, Earl of Windborne, spends his days running a smuggling operation under the noses of his political enemies. Twenty years prior, Wyatt and three other young, orphaned aristocrats fled war- and weather-ravaged Earth for the Martian city-state of Utopia. Now the four friends—nicknamed the Lords of Dystopia—use their money and influence to champion citizens’ rights and progressive reforms. To the downtrodden, they are leaders. To the noble scions of Queen Victoria’s empire, they are a threat.

Als Apoll zwischen den Tausenden von Männern in der Marsarena steht und die Strafwoche beginnt, trifft er eine Entscheidung. Er wendet sich zu seinem Freund um und sieht die gleiche Entschlossenheit in dessen Gesicht. Sie werden in der Kolonie nach "Mater Terra" suchen: der Widerstandsgruppe. Die Herrschaft der Gyne über den Mars muss ein Ende finden. Je schneller, desto besser. Im Jahr 2095 brechen zwei junge Männer vom Mars auf, um gegen die Herrschaft der Gyne über ihren Planeten zu kämpfen.

The battle for Orenda Academy has begun. The Elders have spoken, and the tribe is divided. The only way to reverse what’s happened is to take a stand. We’ve started a smuggling operation to help students escape the castle, but it could cost us our lives. The prophecy is about to come true, and we’re desperate to change the course of this war. The Air piece of the prophecy is our last hope. If we don’t find it, we won’t know what’s coming— or how to prevent the end.

My name is Rachael, and I’m on a solo Antarctic expedition. But a month ago I lost contact with basecamp. No radio. No sat phones. Just static. Only one thing has reached me: a BBC World Service broadcast, reporting a nuclear strike on the UK. I’m safe for fourteen more days in my little hut at the bottom of the world. But I can’t stay here forever, I have to find out what’s happened. Even if there’s no one left to tell.

In the face of a world transformed by an EMP attack, the Spencer family has faced every challenge, every trial, and forged an unbreakable bond. Their unity, however, remains unassailable, fortified by not just shared blood, but also by deep bonds of friendship that were kindled and strengthened amidst adversity. Their sanctuary, a symbol of their resilience and hope, will not be forfeited. No matter the cost, they are prepared to fight to their last breath. For love, for survival, for each other.

Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, there are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth—or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak—where he alters newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, however, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts and breaking through the loneliness in which he lives. Thus he takes his first dangerous steps, writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia.

Об изнанке реальности и о реальном мире, который куда страшнее потустороннего. "Шолот — в ацтекской мифологии демон с собачьей головой, покровитель уродов и монстров, проводник в мир мертвых. По одной из древних легенд, в начале времен Шолот совокупился с Ледяной Саламандрой, умевшей находиться в огне, не сгорая, а также с Огненной Рыбой, умевшей поджигать море, и втроем они породили дитя, которое стало бессмертным, ибо умирая, не умирает, но перерождается в нечто иное. Однажды дитя Шолота проголодается и превратится в того, кто сожрет весь мир — и после ряда эпидемий и войн настанет конец времен.

Тайные общества и поиски бессмертия, древние книги, старинные типографии, подземные читальные залы, пыльные склады потерянных артефактов и блестящие хранилища данных "Гугла", зубодробительные шифры, визуализация данных, настоящий квест, настоящая дружба, многообещающая любовь и, как ни странно, драконы. Все это свалилось на веб-дизайнера Клэя Дженнона, потому что он, потеряв работу и бесцельно блуждая по Сан-Франциско, ненароком завернул в круглосуточный (и, между прочим, вертикальный) книжный магазин.

Having agreed to work with the sinister Nurse Saarinen, Kaarina sets off on a quest through the cyberspace world of her own mind. Her goal is to find the weakness at the core of the Egg, allowing Nurse Saarinen to upload herself and destroy Laura Solomon. In her quest for revenge on the woman who killed her mother, Kaarina will forget everything she knows about Nurse Saarinen...

Ein Mann, ein Wunsch, eine menschenleere Welt... Ich bin der letzte verbliebene Mensch. Die Straßen sind verwaist, Stille umfängt mich. Seit diesem Ereignis, das ich "Verschwindibus-Happening" nenne, sind alle anderen weg. Oder gibt es noch mehr Übriggebliebene? Und will ich das überhaupt? Dies ist meine Geschichte... Der neue Endzeitroman von Stefan Krell (Urlaub in der Apokalypse)