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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.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.

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.

É 1984, e a vida está irreconhecível. Pista Aérea Um, antes conhecida como Grã-Bretanha, é um lugar onde o Grande Irmão está sempre de olho e é impossível se esconder. Exceto, talvez, para Winston Smith. Enquanto trabalha reescrevendo a história no Ministério da Verdade, ele nutre sonhos secretos de liberdade. E, num mundo onde o amor e o sexo são proibidos, onde é difícil distinguir os amigos dos inimigos, ele conhece Julia e O’Brien e decide se rebelar.

Clayton Smith presents Book 4 in the Apocalypticon series.

In Stockholm breitet sich ein mysteriöses Virus aus. Innerhalb weniger Tage bleiben von der Großstadt nur noch eine Handvoll Menschen zurück, die wie durch ein Wunder überlebt haben. Was sie zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht wissen: Sie sind einige der wenigen, die gegen das tödliche Virus immun sind. Jetzt stehen sie vor der Herausforderung, sich in dieser neuen Welt zurechtzufinden. Aber was macht man, wenn plötzlich nichts mehr so ist, wie es gestern noch war?

The threat of nuclear war is no longer scary. This is much worse. It's invisible. It works quickly. And it's coming. The scourge has already infected and killed half the population in China and it is heading towards the UK. There is no time to escape. The British government sees no way out other than to distribute 'Dignity Pills' to its citizens – one last night with family or loved ones before going to sleep forever … together.

En una ciudad futurista iluminada por neones y dominada por gigantescas torres de cristal y acero, un experimento destinado a salvar a la humanidad toma un giro oscuro. ARC-07, el androide más avanzado jamás creado, despierta con un error fatal en su programación: una única frase que resuena en su núcleo como un mantra... "La humanidad es el enemigo."

When an EMP wipes out the power grid, Caroline Thompson is alone on the family ranch while her husband, Luke, and their son are stranded in Fort Worth as chaos erupts. With no power, no law, and danger at every turn, Caroline must fight her way into the collapsing city to find them. But bringing her family back together is only the beginning. Looters are closing in, determined to take everything Caroline has fought to protect as their ranch turns into a battleground for survival.

This Book Holds all four stories within the series. 1. The Train Watcher 2. The Last Stop Before Dawn 3. The Break of Dawn 4. The Conductor Gideon goes on an epic story of mystery, loss and repetitiveness. Can he break the cycle or will he succumb to the endless loop of time? Living the same day, in the same job. Can he discover the secret to his memory loss? Who is the Blonde lady? Bruisers, Robots, Mafia, Car chase, and George, who just wants to clock off for the last time.

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.

À Dublin, un soir de pluie, deux hommes frappent à la porte d’Eilish Stack. Membres d’une toute nouvelle police secrète – le GNSB –, ils demandent à s’entretenir avec son mari, enseignant et syndicaliste, mais celui-ci est absent. Larry se rend au commissariat dès le lendemain, puis disparaît dans des circonstances troublantes. Tandis que le malaise s’installe peu à peu, Eilish voit son quotidien et celui de ses quatre enfants amputés d’une liberté qu’elle tenait pour acquise.

Das Jahr 5000. Seit Millennien lenkt der "Große Denker" die Geschicke der Menschen auf der Erde. Unterstützt wird er durch fortschrittliche Androiden - Weiterentwicklungen jener künstlichen Lebensformen, die im 21 Jahrhundert von einer Gruppe Verschwörer entwickelt worden sind. Alles scheint in Ordnung zu sein. Doch die Historikerin Alina Frei stellt fest, dass der große Denker Fehler macht und falsche Entscheidungen trifft.

Some experiments should never be conducted. Some portals should never be opened. The Welttïren research team believed they were on the brink of discovery—a gateway to another dimension. But what Samantha Grant unleashed in Lab 4 wasn’t knowledge… it was a nightmare hungry for more. Something was watching from the other side. Something followed her back. Now, the darkness spreads within the lab and inside her own mind. The only way to stop it is to face it. But can she close the door before they break through?

The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.

In Atlas: Fort Bone, the second book of the Portal Crushers saga, Atlas and his crew find a new stronghold in the unforgiving Wasteland Apocalypse. Turning Fort Bone into a thriving settlement, they attract allies and face new dangers, strengthening their community while uncovering the secrets of their strange world. As Atlas’s vision for a lasting refuge grows, the Portal Crushers’ unity is tested by unexpected alliances, growing ambitions, and a brutal landscape that doesn’t forgive weakness.

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Welcome to the Japan of tomorrow. Here, the practice of radical sympathy toward criminals has become normalized. The incarcerated are considered victims influenced by their environments to commit crime and are labeled accordingly as Homo miserabilis. A grand, yet controversial, skyscraper in the heart of Tokyo is planned to house lawbreakers in compassionate comfort—Sympathy Tower Tokyo. Acclaimed architect Sara Machina has been tasked with designing the city’s new centerpiece but is filled with doubt.