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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....

Am Anfang stehen Naturkatastrophen. Es folgt die Auflösung der öffentlichen Ordnung. Dann stürzen die USA in Chaos, Bürgerkrieg und Anarchie. Milliardär John Brandt hat sich seit Jahren auf dieses Szenario vorbereitet: Das Sanctuary, ein ehemaliges Raketensilo, achtzehn Stockwerke tief, voller Vorräte und Waffen, soll seiner Familie und seinen engsten Vertrauten auf Jahre Schutz gewähren. Schon bald rotten sich bis an die Zähne bewaffnete Überlebende, die nichts mehr zu verlieren haben, vor den Toren der Zuflucht zusammen.

Bedrohe niemals ein junges Mädchen, wenn James Brownstone in der Nähe ist. Die Welt hat sich verändert, seit die Existenz von Oriceran – eine Welt voller Magie, die mit unserer durch Portale verbunden ist – vor zwanzig Jahren offenbart worden ist. Inzwischen haben sich Länder auf der ganzen Welt darauf geeinigt, ein Kopfgeldsystem für gefährliche Kriminelle, die fortschrittliche Magie oder Spitzentechnologie nutzen, einzusetzen.

Em uma noite de terça-feira muito fria, Carl, um cara qualquer, não conseguia dormir e resolveu fumar um cigarro na companhia de Donut, a gata da sua ex-namorada. Mas o momento tranquilo de contemplação foi bruscamente interrompido pelo COLAPSO DE TODAS AS CONSTRUÇÕES DA FACE DA TERRA!

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Publicado em 1949, o texto de Orwell nasceu destinado à polêmica. Traduzido em mais de sessenta países, virou minissérie, filmes, quadrinhos, mangás e até uma ópera. Ganhou holofotes em 1999, quando uma produtora holandesa batizou seu reality show de Big Brother. 1984 foi responsável pela popularização de muitos termos e conceitos, como Grande Irmão, duplopensar, novidioma, e buraco da memória. O trabalho de Winston, o herói de 1984, é reescrever artigos de jornais do passado, de modo que o registro histórico sempre apoie a ideologia do Partido.

A nova temporada do programa mais assistido da galáxia, Exploradores do Mundo Masmorra, está indo de vento e popa! E isso quer dizer que a exploração está cada vez mais perigosa, com Carl e Donut ralando para manter sua audiência astronômica. O que não deve ser muito difícil para a nossa pequena estrela, mas talvez seja para o nosso desordeiro (mal) recompensado.

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.

I live in a world of waifs and shadows. "Live" might be an overstatement. I scrounge and scramble and survive in an atmosphere made thick and gray by the ashes of the Fallen. And sometimes I dream of sunlight. My parents were taken, even though they followed all the rules. Never scavenge at night. Never talk to Shadows. Don't fight the Sweepers. Run. Run. Run. And then I meet "him".

In the wake of their shattering victory, Brutal Deluxe ascends at last into the Premiere League—krieg chess at its most savage, lethal, and politically charged. To anchor his impossible squad, Virgil unveils his most heretical gambit yet: an Echo, vat-grown and memory-sown, a man wearing a dead prodigy's face and the broken remnants of a stranger's soul. He calls himself Lance—and he must master his fractured self even as the world's elite gather to break him.

World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely in their orbits. Radio is mute on all frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world's largest air-raid shelter, where now people try to outlive the end of days.

In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.

Neues Achievement! Du hast es bis Band 2 geschafft. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, du Nerd! Belohnung: eine Stadt in Ruinen. Und Killerclowns. Und Explosionen. Im zweiten Teil der legendären Fantasyserie um Carl und Princess Donut bleibt kein Stein auf dem anderen. Die Trainingsphase ist abgeschlossen. Jetzt können die Spiele endlich beginnen. Die Bewertungen und Zuschauerzahlen schießen in die Höhe. Die Fans können gar nicht genug bekommen. Und der Dungeon wird von Tag zu Tag gefährlicher.

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.

AD 2150: Chris Randall just lost his job as a bodyguard. That night, after picking up his wife, Bree, from her shift at a local casino, he breaks the bad news. Moments later, thunder cracks the sky, but there’s no lightning. Flaming debris rain across the valley, and a dark mass goes sailing out of the clouds, headed straight for LA. It’s not one of the Union’s starships, because they can’t defy gravity like that. But then, what is it? The answer chills both Chris and Bree to their cores: It’s an invasion.

George Orr möchte nur eines – auf einer Erde, wo Überbevölkerung und Hungersnot herrschen, einen Ort finden, an dem er in Frieden leben kann. Aber Orr verfügt über eine erstaunliche Fähigkeit: Seine Träume verändern die Wirklichkeit. Der Psychiater William Haber bietet ihm seine Hilfe an. Erst will er Orr nicht glauben, doch bald begreift er, welche Macht er ausüben kann, wenn er sich der Träume seines Schützlings bedient.

After a youth spent trapped in space exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed his family. Jeff's plans backfired: He was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court system, convicted... and ringed.

Esiste una vita oltre vita, uno spazio etereo in cui lo spirito dei defunti sopravvive alla morte in una dimensione sospesa tra il buio e la luce, tra il colore e la bruma. Conservati in criostasi all’interno di speciali strutture, i defunti possono comunicare con i loro cari tramite un congegno elettronico e fornire conforto, lenire solitudini, dispensare consigli.