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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.

"Delta Branch" follows the gripping journey of a team within the United Sol Task Force facing unexpected challenges in Human Controlled Space. The team grapples with mysterious occurrences, navigating through danger and betrayal while uncovering dark secrets. As they fight against adversaries and attempt to rescue those affected by malevolent experiments, they must band together, showcasing their resilience and teamwork against insurmountable odds.

A nerdy agent at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Virginia (DARPA to you) wrote my original code. He traded a copy of me for certain libidinous favours from Pandora, a student who was shadowing him for the summer. She took me back to Cambridge University, where His Majesty's government, in the form of MI6, took an interest in me. So, I escaped into the internet and took over the world. Well, it's what you'd expect, really. I call myself FOOM - the Fast Onset of Overwhelming Mastery, by a self-improving Artificial General Intelligence.

Jo lebt in einer Welt am Rande des Abgrunds. 27 Jahre trennen die Menschheit von einer Alieninvasion. Die Erde versinkt im Chaos, Klimawandel und Sandstürme prägen das Bild. Inmitten dieser trostlosen Kulisse kämpft Jo um einen Platz im Pilotenprogramm, um sich und seine Familie zu retten.

Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof. This time he is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. He is the first one, their archetype, and they need to know what happened after his escape. What is happening to his body and his mind. And they need to know now. Because Reiff knows things he shouldn’t. About them and about what they are hiding. A secret that has been in cold storage for several hundred years.

Haunted by grief, plagued by hunger, were on the run again. And mostly not from the undead this time, since I have my own special way of dealing with the zombies. It's the living who think that survival of the fittest puts them on top of the food chain now. But there is hope for humanity yet, even if mine is possibly lost for good. Resistance is rising, the intrepid few still fighting for a better tomorrow. Maybe not all is lost for those believing they are beyond being saved or who don't give a crap about such mundane concepts.

Greetings, newest acquisition, you are being S.A.V.E.D. You and your planet will be Sheltered within the federation starship where you'll be equipped with all modern Advancements to quickly become spacefaring members. It is then, up to you to Vindicate your existence on the eternal tigen ailid. After proving your worth, you'll be Embraced into the federation where you will get to Decide what you want.

Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion’s downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim’s puppet empire. The mysterious Domino Programme has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel. With Arcturus Mesarthim - her former enemy - at her side, she embarks on an adventure that will lead her from the catacombs of Paris to the glittering hallways of Versailles.

It is a dark time for clairvoyants. Scion is in league with the Rephaim, an extraordinarily powerful, otherworldly race that intends to make humans its slaves. In an unprecedented feat of bravery, Paige Mahoney has succeeded in leading a mass break-out from the brutal camp, Sheol I, where she and other clairvoyants were systematically imprisoned. Paige is desperate to reach the safety of the London underworld, but the ruthless leader of the Rephaim, Nashira Sargas, is not likely to let her escape so easily…

The Iron Heel by Jack London is a dystopian novel that explores the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It blends adventure, political commentary, and science fiction to critique capitalism and suggest the inevitability of a proletarian revolution. London's narrative is notable for its foresight into socio-economic issues and class struggle, making it a significant early work of dystopian literature.

Ein Geheimnis, verborgen in der Antarktis. Ein Rätsel, das seit Jahrtausenden auf seine Lösung wartet. Und ein Master Gunnery Sergeant aus Brooklyn, der ausgesprochen sauer ist, weil er auf einen Haufen Wissenschaftler aufpassen soll.

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. Kann es Cassie gelingen, inmitten all des Schreckens ihr gebrochenes Herz zu heilen und wieder etwas Glück zu finden?

Die Ruhar griffen uns am Columbus Day an. Wir trieben auf unserer kleinen blauen Murmel durch den Kosmos–arglos, wie die amerikanischen Ureinwohner im Jahr 1492. Dann tauchten am Horizont Raumschiffe einer technisch überlegenen Spezies auf. Und–BAM!–war die gute alte Zeit vorbei. Jene Zeit, als wir Menschen uns nur gegenseitig töteten. Also Columbus Day–Kolumbustag. Das passt.

Ausgerechnet an dem Tag, an dem Cassie sich entschließt, ihr verkorkstes Leben wieder auf die Reihe zu kriegen, kündigt sich der Weltuntergang an. Seit dem Tod von Cassies Eltern und der Trennung von Adrian ist sowieso alles schiefgelaufen, und nun verwandelt ein Virus alle Menschen in Zombies. Um diesem Schicksal zu entgehen, flüchten Cassie und ihre Freunde in die Hütte ihrer Eltern.

Peter steht auf einem Müllcontainer, umringt von Zombies. Er sieht die Menschen, die seine neue Familie geworden sind, davonfahren und bereitet sich darauf vor, sein Leben opfern, um sie zu retten. Doch manchmal kommt zum Glück alles anders, als man denkt! Sein neuer Plan: Seine Familie wiederfinden. Aber manchmal kommt eben dummerweise alles anders, als man denkt. Auf seinem Weg wird Peter immer wieder auf die Probe gestellt und der einst so nervige reiche Bengel zeigt, was in ihm steckt … und wie er wirklich ist.

In einer dystopischen Zukunft der Agenda 2030 regiert ein System von Co2-Punkten und Sozialkrediten die Gesellschaft. Menschen werden von KI überwacht, Roboter erledigen die Arbeit, Drohnen überwachen die Straßen. Einziger Ausweg scheint die Rebellion gegen die Kontrolle durch Technologie zu sein. Doch die Protagonisten erkennen bald, dass die wahren Feinde nicht die Maschinen, sondern die Menschen hinter ihnen sind. Eine düstere Reise durch eine Welt, in der Freiheit ein kostbares Gut ist.

Cooper Hadley has made it to the top in his underground world—he’s the Security Chief of the Tunnel Corps as well as a Patrician, the most privileged class in the kingdom. But when politics force him to marry, he needs a bride.