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À la croisée des univers de Colson Whitehead, George Saunders ou encore Carmen Maria Machado, ce roman imagine un monde où des condamnés peuvent purger leur peine à condition qu’ils participent à un programme nommé «Divertissement pénal d’action criminelle» (DPAC). Téléréalité d’un nouveau genre, celui-ci met en scène des combats de gladiateurs version 2.0, où les participants se livrent une lutte à mort sous les yeux d’une foule en liesse et de millions de streameurs. Si, au bout de trois ans, l’un d’entre eux est encore en vie, il est libéré.

Ruby’s ready to ride off into the sunset with Sam. The Marked are cured. The evil within WPN has been conquered. Once she appoints a new leader, she can skedaddle. Except, cockroaches always creep out the second the lights are flipped. The problems Ruby would have fled from a year ago give her pause. Can she run away if the solutions she fought for won’t withstand her departure? The arrival of a surprise visitor throw an added wrench into Sam and Ruby’s plan and put a strain on their happily ever after. Can Sam and Ruby remember what really matters and overcome their differences in time?

Мир, в котором живет программист Давид Лизнер, раскололся надвое. С одной стороны — высокоразвитое общество Правильных: они избавлены от болезней, бедности и сомнений, не обязаны работать, никогда не расстаются с телефонами, получают бонусы, если исправно выполняют рекомендации многочисленных мобильных приложений, и рискуют оказаться на обочине, если перестают слушаться.

Seattle, 2084. Antony Sartori hides his grief. Struggling to find a sense of purpose after losing his wife to a deadly pandemic, the former engineer silently suffers while surviving on welfare payments.

Stephan and his friends have a difficult life. They are part of a farming collective that is responsible for growing food and maintaining a vital supply chain. In the aftermath of a nuclear war between two superpowers, The Church Eternal is the only remaining superpower on Earth. Life is tightly controlled. Basic resources are precious. Information is censored. Books and evidence that challenge Church doctrine have come to the surface. Stephan, Eduardo, and Carl will make a discovery and find evidence that will change the course of human history forever.

Madeline lebt in einer Welt ohne Angst, Zweifel oder Chaos. Mit zweiundzwanzig Jahren darf sie endlich den ihr vorbestimmten Platz in der Gesellschaft einnehmen – an Kaans Seite, einem eigens für sie erschaffenen Gefährten. Alles ist perfekt! Doch je länger sie mit ihm zusammenlebt, desto stärker wächst ihr Verdacht, dass diese Perfektion nur ein Trugbild ist. Hinter der makellosen Fassade stimmt etwas nicht.

One morning Josef K. is arrested for a crime he did not commit. In fact, he is never even told the nature of the offense. His life is thrown into turmoil as he becomes enmeshed in a struggle to prove his innocence. As the confounding case unfolds, K. is ultimately powerless—battling against a remote and uncaring bureaucracy.

"When the world falls apart, it doesn’t matter how. It’s who’s left to rebuild." -Sadie Gallagher

From author Alice B. Sullivan comes a terrifying post-apocalyptic, zombie thriller that won’t let you sleep until every page is devoured… Ten years after a disastrous viral outbreak, eighteen-year-old Sadie Gallagher has finally found solace, alongside her faithful canine companion, in a tight-knit community she’d stop at nothing to protect. But when a stranger shows up, the threads of trust and security fray, and the quaint life Sadie’s worked so hard for threatens to crumble.

Decades after the Collapse, the cities lie in ruins and the skies hang heavy with ash. Survivors cling to life in scattered enclaves, ruled by councils who trade safety for obedience. Hope is a relic, and the future belongs only to those willing to seize it. For Callen Ward, survival has always meant keeping his head down. But when he uncovers a forbidden archive that speaks of a world before the Collapse—and a chance to rebuild what was lost—he finds himself hunted by those who would rather bury the truth forever.

Three days after a catastrophic solar superstorm cripples the nation’s power grid, America descends into chaos. With communications severed and no end to the upheaval in sight, the Carlisle family finds themselves separated by hundreds of miles—but united by one instinct: survival.

Dystopie is back! Die Tribute von Panem trifft auf Powerless in Band 1 der tödlichen Fantasy-Romance über eine knallharte Kopfgeldjägerin. Das Leben in Dividium beruht auf einer einzigen Regel: Disziplin oder Tod. Denn in Dividium wird nicht nur jedes Verbrechen mit lebenslanger Haft bestraft, die Bürger der Oberschicht bekommen außerdem die Gelegenheit, die Gefängnisinsassen zu jagen und zu töten. Als der Bruder der 23-jährigen Raven verhaftet wird, schmiedet die Kopfgeldjägerin den Plan, die Haftanstalt Endlock als Insassin zu infiltrieren und eine Ausbruchsaktion zu starten.

A thousand-year conflict has made its way to Earth's doorstep. Devastating losses have caused the Oide to make a desperate decision--to include an obscure species, humans, in the ambassador selection cycle. This decision will change the fate of the galaxy and the human race forever. Marcus Westbrook is a retiring military officer, and we experience his final months in uniform and the challenges of his new role as a supporting husband and father. The human race is turned upside down when the Evaluator arrives.

Una favola high-tech convincente in modo spaventoso, Moxyland. O giochi o muori segue quattro narratori che vivono in un futuro prossimo distopico così vicino a noi da sembrare realtà.

À dix-huit ans, la princesse Eadlyn se sent prête à devenir reine. Quand elle consent à ce que ses parents lui organisent une Sélection, elle voit son quotidien bouleversé par l'arrivée de ses trente-cinq prétendants et la folie médiatique qui l'accompagne. Mais entre les raisons du cœur et la raison d'État, la princesse va devoir faire des choix et, au fil des semaines, se prendre à ce jeu dont dépend l'avenir d'Illéa.

Within this novel, Sensei Garan Dachau and Miss Morae Brody take the limelight. They're running against time to locate a safe haven that matches what Kiernan and his crew need to rest, recuperate, and ultimately learn to live with the shocking discoveries of their life. Meanwhile, Garan Dachau acknowledges the mistakes made in previous life choices. Miss Morae also has learned painful lessons as well. Sometimes the most trustworthy employees can't be trusted and might kill ya instead.

When an EMP strike cripples America, a diver trapped offshore, a retired sheriff, and two stranded teens must fight to survive. Power is gone, chaos spreads, and every second counts in this pulse-pounding survival thriller.

After a slap that shook the state, Oakland Pratt has become a viral symbol of resistance, whether she wants to be or not. With hate crimes surging and civil liberties disappearing, the crew at the heart of the uprising begins to mobilize. When a government crackdown explodes into violence, an event that echoes Stonewall and sets the city on fire, they retreat to the abandoned Minneapolis skyway system. There, the Scarlet Resistance begins to rise. What starts as survival becomes something much louder as they tap into a hidden network and launch a digital war the state never saw coming.

Absolute Anhedonia is a satirical novel about Jeff Winters, a man living in a dystopian society. Believing life to be meaningless, Jeff has lost the ability to feel anything. He is addicted to the internet, working, and generally tries to avoid contact with other people as much as realistically possible. When he makes a big mistake at his job, Jeff is forced to abandon his comfort zone and flees to an island with no real plan.

In this dystopian tale of a near-future society increasingly threatened by all-consuming AI, a scientist mother and her disabled son rebel against the corporate larceny of their selves, by an award-winning poet (“Stirring. . . . Wildly inventive and sharp to an edge” —Los Angeles Review of...

Nova Martin is a simple smuggler trying to get away from her crime boss to make a life of her own. But after she stows away on an errant ship and kills an assassin in self defense, she's forced to take his place, finding herself embroiled in the political machinations of a galactic regime and tasked with assassinating princeling playboy Drace, heir to the Sovereignty. Nova just wants to keep her true identity secret and get out of the situation alive, but the deeper she gets, the more she learns that nothing is quite as it seems, and Drace is keeping secrets of his own.