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In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat.

Books and Bug are polar opposites, despite their friendship. Rumors on the road speak of a hospital in Washing D.C. Leading a small group of survivors, including pregnant women, the two travel in earnest to provide the soon-to-be mothers a safe place to deliver. Bug–a natural, charismatic leader–refuses to leave anyone behind while Books–a pragmatic social outsider–wishes not to be responsible for the safety of others. Together, they're exactly what this group needs to survive. But DC isn't exactly the safe haven they hoped for.

Twelve-year-old Bird lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist. He knows not to ask many questions, stand out too much, stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve 'American culture' in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird's mother.

Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It’s, 2095 and people don’t usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing process.

The Earth has existed for 4.54 billion years, and during that time life has continued to grow and adapt. Of all the species that have evolved, mankind has exceeded the most - from the discovery of fire, to the Internet and advanced machinery. Unfortunately, the hearts of men have changed for the worse due to greed, corruption, and manipulative warfare. As such, the wrath of the Earth has been stirred, and its creator Mother Gaia takes it upon herself to end the human race.

Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists beyond the airport.

Traqués par l'empereur et par Entropia, Matt, Tobias, Ambre et les leurs doivent fuir et rallier des terres inconnues pour s'emparer du dernier Cœur de la Terre avant qu'il ne soit détruit. Mais le monde souterrain qu'ils découvrent ne grouille pas seulement de dangers. Il recèle d'incroyables révélations. La guerre est proche. Les sacrifices nécessaires. L'ultime course-poursuite est déclarée. Autre-Monde s'achève et livre enfin tous ses secrets.

Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before - the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted - and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden.

This is a story of a failed society. A story of a helpless woman and how she turns the tables to save the innocence of this universe. This story will jolt you out of slumber. The people in it will force you to rethink the ways the world works and mend it for the sake of the coming generations.

In The Memory Librarian, music, fashion, film and activist icon Janelle Monáe returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, love—become tangled in a totalitarian landscape...and to discover costs of unravelling them.

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenage boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed. A condensed version of the novel was published in serial form in 1950 in Boys' Life magazine (August, September, October, November), under the title "Satellite Scout".

The survival of the Ark—humanity’s last bastion after God's wrath destroyed the world—is balanced by birth order: the oddborn are assigned a Path, the evenborn are given over to the will of God. And it is upon those of the 9th Born Path to sanitize the evens. John 59129’s first walk as a Niner is the same day the scientists of the Ark plan to defy God by seeking to turn back time. An electrical surge sends John past the safety of the Ark, into an unblemished world. A glimpse of perfection. Of all the evenborn saved.

In Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines a hidden utopia untouched by men for over two thousand years—an all-female society flourishing in peace, cooperation, and innovation. When three curious male explorers—Vandyck Jennings, Terry Nicholson, and Jeff Margrave—stumble upon this mysterious land, their expectations are upended by a civilization that thrives without war, dominance, or patriarchy.

NASA thermal engineer Graham Ellis is on a beach in the Dominican Republic when the Boundary arrives—watching helplessly as the ocean before him turns to solid ice. Racing home to Florida, he joins a desperate scientific effort to understand the impossible: the sun is shrinking, and a perfect circle of survivability has formed around the Americas.

No power. No law. Just the fight for survival. When an EMP wipes out power, chaos takes over. Dr. Annabelle Wheeler is trapped in a psychiatric hospital overrun by violent inmates. Across the city, Hazel, Lucy, and Katherine are kidnapped by a ruthless gangster. With no power or law, two ex-Marines race through a crumbling city to save their daughters.

În urmă cu zece ani, o furtună de zăpadă l-a împiedicat pe doctorul Garin să ajungă în satul Dolgoe și să vaccineze locuitorii împotriva unui virus bolivian, care transformă oamenii în zombi. În mod miraculos, doctorul nu moare înghețat în stepa înzăpezită, ci se întoarce în lumea post-apocaliptică, unde îi devin pacienți cele mai ridicole creaturi - foști lideri ai puterilor mondiale. Această lume, în care ceasurile sunt sculptate în piatră și iPhone-urile în lemn, este o adevărată enciclopedie a distopiei lui Sorokin, înzestrând din plin viitorul cu trăsăturile unui trecut dens.

Eighteen-year-old Hazel refuses to become another wife and broodmare to the prophet of the Wellspring cult. She’s determined to find a safe haven for her younger brother, Caleb, in a world where 80% of all fresh water has been contaminated by an algae bloom. But if they’re going to survive, they’ll need help. Scientists Emily and Sam, and wilderness guide Bash, might just be the kind of people they can count on. But a lifetime of isolation makes it near impossible for Hazel to trust outsiders. Even if they may be her only hope of breaking free from the prophet’s clutches.

Wahnsinn, Liebe und Hoffnung in sechs Akten Mike versucht als Zwei-Sterne-Bürger in einem der überwachten Distrikte Zürichs über die Runden zu kommen. Doch dann verliebt er sich unsterblich in Maria. Ihr höheres Rating macht jede Annäherung illegal. Beim Austricksen der KI sind daher Mut, Kreativität und ein Funken Wahnsinn gefragt. Inmitten einer dystopischen Knechtschaft wächst eine Liebe, welche die Welt verändert.

It’s been one year since the NWO was defeated. A year since the world got a fighting chance to claw its way out of darkness. But the road back is a long one, and the journey is fraught with danger. At first, Austin Merryman is relieved to see soldiers in town, tasked with restoring order. He’s intrigued, as well. Dr. Lydia Koble is working to establish a regional government in the aftermath of the EMP. And she wants to meet community leaders like Austin.

Sarah, Jake, and their group have been hunted across the city, pushed into a desperate escape through the ravine. But Marcus isn’t about to let them go without a final battle. With his men closing in from behind and unknown challenges ahead, survival is no longer enough—they have to fight back. Nowhere left to run – the ravine was supposed to be their way out, but Marcus has turned it into a death trap. A new player enters the game – heavily armed and highly organized, they have their own agenda—and no one is safe.