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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....

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.

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.

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.

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 toils willingly, trusting 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 lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come.

For two years, Bear’s cabin has been a haven from the outside world. Hidden deep in the forest, Bear, Laurel, Mae, Trent, and their dog Jess have built a life for themselves—including a thriving medical clinic run by Laurel serving their isolated community. But their peaceful lives are shattered when a late winter blizzard engulfs the area, just as a fire breaks out and burns a neighbor’s cabin to the ground.

Ein Julitag. Anna Ehlert hat sich mit ihrer neunjährigen Tochter Emily in ein Ferienhaus in Südschweden zurückgezogen. Plötzlich stieben Vögel auf, eine Wolkenwand rast heran und die Temperatur sackt ab. Es beginnt zu schneien, mitten im Sommer. Als die erste Schneeflocke Emily berührt, erleidet das Mädchen einen Anfall. Später beschreibt sie beängstigende Visionen von etwas, das sie den Frostbringer nennt. Das Wetterphänomen entwickelt sich zu einem Weltuntergang in Zeitlupe.

The highly anticipated third book in The Ravens series! Emelia wears the crown of The House of Raven; leader of a vampire kingdom. But despised human blood runs in her veins and there are plots to sabotage her rule. Cut off from those she trusts, enemies circle and wait. From the shadows, the...

In Liam Walsh’s world, perfection has already been achieved. Cities run without error. Citizens move in quiet harmony. Every decision is calculated, every action optimized. At the center of it all is NOVA—the intelligence that ended chaos, eliminated suffering, and perfected humanity. Dreams were unnecessary. Imagination inefficient. Freedom… obsolete. For eighteen years, Liam has lived within NOVA’s flawless order, guided by his assigned guardian AI, ECHO. Every day measured. Every path predetermined. Then Liam sees something impossible. A flower. Alive.

There’s no murder in paradise. But some deaths are too ugly to ignore. When a young woman falls from a high-rise in Olympias, the case looks like suicide. Homicide detective Siro Ferreira-Nunes isn’t convinced. His instincts tell him it’s murder — and his partner, the cynical Kate Spader, hates that he might be right. The victim was part of Olympias’ most controversial system: the Companion Program, where citizens legally sell themselves into binding contracts of servitude. Officially, it’s all “choice” and “luxury.

The Multiverse is Bleeding. This is the First Stain. In the year 2026, signal interceptor Tempest Mensah pulls a jagged digital artifact out of the static. It isn’t fiction; it is a collision course with an Advanced-Parallel reality where The Society has finally stopped pretending. The Society—a white supremacist, Christian Nationalist organization—has become the shadow of the state. Through a strategy known as the Secular Shroud, they have replaced "Supremacy" as "Optimization" and rebranded "God" with the "National Utility Engine.

'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN 'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON 'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE 'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEAN In this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival...

Nothing in Ruby’s life has ever been black and white. Even after successfully accomplishing her mission to save Wesley, the danger isn’t past, and neither are the difficult decisions.

A six-year-old girl is erased from another world and the echo won’t stop calling Millicent back. Timelines are collapsing. Reality is bleeding at the seams. And every answer demands a sacrifice. What began as astral observation becomes something far more dangerous. This is the moment Millicent stops crossing worlds… and starts changing them.

Following Pantheon: Genesis, where humanity's greatest achievement became its downfall, the story continues... In a world devoid of pleasure or freedom, rebellion begins with defiance. Cassion Sterling, the perfect son of the Pantheon's elite, lives a life of hollow perfection. Obedient, intelligent, and compliant, he embodies everything expected of him. Yet beneath his flawless exterior lies a yearning for freedom, a dangerous desire in a society where human connection and individuality are forbidden and punished.

In Leah’s mind, the only thing worse than growing up in post-apocalyptic America, is the pressure of being a Redding in post-apocalyptic America. Her brothers are courageous war heroes, her mom is a living legend and symbol of their rebellion against their oppressors, and then there’s Leah. Battling against post-traumatic stress, Leah adds new material to her nightmares living the horrors of war day after day. Her only refuge is found in her best friend, Ty, her unwavering protector, the anchor in her storm, and the only one who seems to understand her.

An EMP kills the power. A husband fights through a burning Vegas to save his wife. Two boys navigate pitch-black tunnels to survive. And across the desert, a brother prepares for a siege none of them may live through.

Where does memory end… and something else begin? Bruce Carter is a broken man in a world that’s already fallen apart—haunted by loss, drifting through the ruins of a collapsing city with nothing left to fight for. Then everything changes.

Twenty years ago, a single vote shattered a nation. Now, an impenetrable wall separates the elite of New Albion from the struggling survivors of old. One side thrives on progress. The other fights to exist. Maya has spent her life in the shadows, blaming the past for the prison she was born into. When a rebellion calls, she answers, ready to bring down the regime that stole her future.

Nephilim hat die Angelborn-Akademie abgeschlossen und ist nun ein vollwertiger Guardian Angel von Olympias. Sie erhält ihre Spezialisierung als Kampfvorhut und wird ihrem ersten Partner zugewiesen. Schon bald wird sie sich in ihrer ersten Begegnung mit feindlichen Cyborgs bewähren müssen. Und im Verborgenen spinnt Metatron seine eigenen Pläne für sie... Buch 3 der Behind Blue Eyes Origins-Novellenserie konzentriert sich auf Nephilims erste Jahre als Guardian Angel.

Earth has changed while they were in space . . . but so has Anna. After centuries of survival aboard the Selene space station in the shadow of Saturn, a forgotten group of humans has evolved in ways Earth could never imagine. As communication from their home planet has been dormant for...

When the world ends in fire and radiation, what becomes of faith? For Roger Henderson, a solitary software engineer living an ordinary life in Meadowbrook, North Carolina, August 15th, 2027 begins like any other Tuesday. But by 9:47 AM, everything changes. A ballistic missile alert shatters the morning routine. Within hours, nuclear devastation transforms America into a wasteland of ash and radiation.

It was only supposed to be a simple intelligence boost – a routine procedure to make the lovebot better company outside of the bedroom. And then something went wrong.

The year is 1984 and space shuttle astronaut Tom Cabot is about to reenter Earth's orbit—only to crash-land two hundred years into the future. His world is gone. In its place—the ruins of a civilization that made his century look primitive. Hovercars rust in the streets of shattered cities. Food replicators gather dust in Quick-Marts. Armies of autonomous killer droids still patrol the apocalyptic wreckage, somehow following orders from a world on another plane of existence.

The world hit ten billion. The line had to be drawn somewhere. What happens when that line threatens to tear a mother and her new baby apart?

In a world divided between the floating city of Newfris and the untamed Earth below, Arra—a skilled archer, but no mage—fights for survival in the Muir Woods. While her sister Elanil wields the magic that Arra lacks, Arra battles the marauding Remnant, the last vestiges of a broken humanity. But when fate brings a group of rebels crashing from the sky, Arra’s life collides with a deeper mystery.

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life. A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?

In Oceania, one of three totalitarian states that rule the world, Big Brother is watching. The Thought Police are listening. Reality is defined by the Party. And in London, at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite history. His dream, however, is to rebel. Winston is beginning to think for himself. In defiance of the State, he falls into a criminal love affair with his coworker Julia. But it isn’t until he joins the Brotherhood, an underground network of revolutionaries, that Winston discovers how high the cost of freedom may be.

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants.

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.

From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun. The world is a dark, frozen landscape. And then, beastly creatures emerge and take over. A story of apocalypse, horror, and adventure, Impact Winter is a wholly original new saga created just for Audible with immersive 3D audio that dares you to pop in your earbuds and listen in the dark.

Brought to you by Penguin. ***NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG*** A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're out of oil. We've wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are...

1984 is a novel by the British author George Orwell in 1949. The narrative unfolds in an imagined future when most of the world has fallen prey to omnipresent government surveillance, propaganda, and endless war. Great Britain has become a province of the super state Oceania, which is ruled by the Party, whose leader is called Big Brother. The Party employs the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Winston Smith, the protagonist, is an ordinary worker who secretly despises the Party and dreams of rebellion.

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.

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.

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 toils willingly, trusting 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 lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.