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The city of Cincinnati is rotting. The only cure is West. The only chance is to turn back. In the wreckage of the Green Rot—a spore that turns the infected into fast, unpredictable "Twitchers"—Dennis and his tight-knit crew have one iron-clad rule: Drive. Don't look back. The East is a tomb, and two hundred miles of cracked, dangerous highway is all that separates them from the promised haven of the Empty Haul.

A.A. “Alfie” Rustom’s #2084: B.I.O.M.A.N. Chronicles Book 1, the Kirkus Best Books Award-winner, is a “thrilling superhero journey, rich and satisfying”. Plug into this provocative and terrifying dystopian world, brought to life by acclaimed Narrator Natalie Geld. It’s 2084...

A sharp, tender, and genre-bending debut novel from the mind of celebrated playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Jordan Harrison, about a young woman and the strange, brilliant boy she’s entrusted to raise. Growing up in the Squares, Dre Archer was always told human history was over. Until...

Reeling from the loss of loved ones, surrounded by infected and with old enemies still on the hunt, there’s no respite for BD, Deano and the remaining survivors.

Funerals are never easy, and this one is particularly difficult. These community events are the reason why the narrator left home, escaping to the city in the hopes he could forget his fears and past traumas. But now that he's returned to the secretive small town, where neighbours help one another with even the most difficult tasks, he's struggling to fit in and to connect with those around him. Worst of all, he's struggling to make it through the day as he can't help but think of what is being done to prepare for the gruesome burial to come.

The year is 2040, and the United States has been ravaged by a pandemic referred to as the Second Wave. Convicted of vehicular manslaughter, the unassuming Milo Greene is serving his life sentence as a prisoner in his own home. A few months into his sentence, Milo is given the opportunity to work as an Alter, an assistant to the rich and famous. Using augmented reality, Milo attends meetings, answers texts, writes emails--anything his Principal asks of him. He is her second, til death do us part.

Following the journey of Thaddeus Stormbreaker, a hardened Finnish-Canadian immigrant forged by his survivalist father and Indigenous mentor to thrive beyond the reaches of civilization, the Mortuous 28 series takes you on a blood-soaked, action-packed journey across a North American hellscape. A decade of pandemics, economic collapse, and global conflict has left the world order in ruin. Lines in the dirt have been redrawn, militaries are exhausted, and the once-dominant superpowers no longer have the might to protect and police the world.

With a stolen Russian truck, a daring plan, and everything on the line, Sarah, Jake, and the group make their most audacious move yet — a raid straight through the heart of an enemy forward operating base. But getting out is only half the battle. With a vengeful biker gang on their tail and the road to Ohio turning into a running firefight, survival will cost them more than they bargained for.

Sarah and her group are through the worst of it — or so they think. Holed up in an abandoned barn on the edge of enemy territory, with a Russian forward operating base glowing on the horizon, they try to rest before the most dangerous move of their lives. But the night has other plans. When a ruthless gang of post-collapse scavengers takes them by surprise, the group finds itself outgunned, at the mercy of a scarred and unpredictable leader who takes what she wants — and buries what she can't use. Survival comes down to Sarah's nerve, Marcus's timing, and a single whispered word.

In a world where survival is a daily battle, humanity clings to its last strongholds against the terrifying Yaotzin, bioluminescent predators with a deadly intelligence. Axel Fernandez, a skilled but disillusioned soldier, finds himself thrust into a high-stakes mission to retrieve vital resources from the heart of enemy territory. When the operation goes catastrophically wrong, Axel makes an impossible connection with a Yaotzin Matriarch, discovering a strange telepathic bond that could change the course of the war.

1984 centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society. Orwell modeled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984 when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

Technological advancement is now carefully planned, and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together, they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.

The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency humwithin the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location.

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

After two decades under President Dennison’s theocratic rule, the United States has become a surveillance state where elections are staged, dissent is criminalized, and women’s bodies are controlled by the government. Lily Osbourne survives by staying silent until a routine airport scan reveals the impossible—she’s pregnant despite her use of long-term contraception. Her fetus is assigned a Social Security number by the Republic before she even has a chance to process its existence.

Shimmer makes you forget—until it takes everything. In the rain-soaked country of New Albion, forgetting has become a way of life. Shimmer offers brief escape from fear, hunger, and grief. It also keeps the population obedient, numbed, and watched. Anouk Walker isn’t looking for revolution. She’s only trying to survive, one dose at a time. But when a late-night raid tears her closest friend away, survival is no longer enough. Someone she loves is disappearing, piece by piece, inside a system designed to make people look away.

In the near future, social behavior is not debated, it is modeled. Elections, markets, activism, and public opinion are shaped not by persuasion, but by vectors, coordinated micro-interventions whose individual effects are invisible, but whose aggregate direction is decisive. Marek is one of the best. An elite social engineer operating alone with a powerful AI, he is hired by corporate and political clients to solve problems that no longer respond to argument or ideology. He does not argue. He optimizes. He believes the system still holds.

1989: Floods and record rainfall have turned the United States into little more than a drowned world. People left and right lose their wills to live and are coming down with a degenerative disease called The Ash. It burns people up from the inside out, numbing the senses, erasing memories, turning people into nothing more than crumbling, shambling echoes of who they used to be.

Die postapokalyptische Welt verändert sich in diesem letzten Band der Families First Serie. Lance, Joy und ihre angeschlagene Gruppe von Überlebenden haben sich auf der Saddle Ranch niedergelassen und verteidigen das Tal mit ihrem Blut. Lance und seine Frau Joy sind es gewohnt, Anführer zu sein, und finden sich in dieser nächsten Welt ohne Aufgabe wieder. Können sie einen Weg finden, in diesem komplizierten neuen Zuhause wieder zu führen?

تُعد رواية 1984 واحدة من أهم وأشد الأعمال الأدبية تأثيرًا في القرن العشرين، إذ تقدم رؤية قاتمة لمستقبل تحكمه الشمولية المطلقة، وتُمحى فيه الحرية الفردية لصالح سلطة لا تُقاوَم. تدور أحداث الرواية في دولة خيالية تُعرف بـ«أوقيانيا»، حيث تفرض السلطة الحاكمة رقابة شاملة على الأفراد، لا تكتفي بمراقبة أفعالهم، بل تمتد لتطويق أفكارهم ومشاعرهم، وحتى لغتهم. يتابع القارئ رحلة وينستون سميث، الموظف الصغير في وزارة الحقيقة، حيث تتمثل مهمته في تزوير السجلات التاريخية بما يتوافق مع الرواية الرسمية للحزب الحاكم. يعيش وينستون صراعًا داخليًا بين خضوعه الظاهري للنظام ورغبته العميقة في التمرد والبحث عن الحقي...