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Brought to you by Penguin. Ellis appears to have it all – a great job, a loving girlfriend, and a loyal dog – yet each morning he wakes up feeling that something is missing. In a desperate quest for true happiness, he boards a luxury shuttle to Planet Happy, a hedonistic paradise where...

Die Menschheit steht kurz davor, vernichtet zu werden. Ava und ihre Verbündeten haben alles riskiert – und doch scheint die Dunkelheit unaufhaltsam. Jeder Schritt birgt Gefahr, jeder Moment könnte der letzte sein. Die Schatten werden dichter, die Bedrohung größer, und die Angst erreicht ihren Höhepunkt. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, ein Kampf gegen einen schier übermächtigen Feind, ein Abenteuer jenseits aller Grenzen – und ein epischer Showdown, in dem sich die Schicksale von Cornell, Pike, Cyberella und Ava endgültig erfüllen.

Dreißig dystopische Microstorys und Kurzgeschichten führen in Welten, in denen Hoffnung selten geworden ist: Eine junge Rebellin trotzt der Überwachung im Paris von morgen, auf einem fernen Planeten wächst das Grün zur Bedrohung, und ein uraltes Baumwesen spürt sein Ende nahen.

Альтернативная история. Наши дни. Удивительное необъятное государство Ордусь, где государственный язык — китайский и в ходу изречения Конфуция; в его пределах неплохо уживаются, исповедуя свои религии и рассуждая о жизни на собственных наречиях, разнообразные народы. Они познакомились и стали друзьями, разыскивая наперсный крест святителя и великомученика Сысоя. Расследование, кроме прочего, завело Бага на борт парома «Святой Евлампий», который потерпел крушение из-за схватки, затеянной несколькими сомнительными личностями, причем далеко не все они попали в руки правосудия.

On a mission to save God from slavery, Tribinius sets his sights on Chimeas, home of the Tarian. Facing the forces of token magic, he will fall into the hands of his enemy and be confronted by one of his greatest fears. It's said that you can't stop the Trib, but when Yesveri Plourvald wields the Tarian, even Trib will question his fate.

The American Plan. Born from science yet shaped by defiance, Ruth Rossiter has always lived in the shadow of contradiction. As a child, she unravels the secrets of a family she never knew, one bound by power, divided by ideology, and haunted by a battle over the life-extending drug, Gnia-itra. With each revelation, her world expands, forcing her to reconcile the impossible: a mother who fought against the very science that made her existence possible and a father who defied fate to bring her into the world.

‘Completely original, utterly addictive and outrageously funny. A wild and riotous ride skewering our obsession with youth.’ Daisy Buchanan You could look 20 years younger. Would you do it? 47-year-old beauty journalist Erica Pells is over the 'pro-ageing' articles she is exclusively asked...

In a fractured America teetering on the edge of chaos, The Hanging Creek Chronicles: Shadows of Martial Law plunges listeners into a gripping dystopian saga. When the President is impeached and the Speaker of the House declares herself leader, martial law sweeps the nation, shattering the illusion of stability. For Cole, a 20-year Air Force veteran living on a rural South Carolina farm, the world he knows unravels as the interstate—a lifeline to town—becomes a no-man’s-land of military control and lurking threats.

Humankind has been reduced to the height of a handspan—a transformation that is both potentially lethal and exasperatingly inconvenient. On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified into a place of astounding abundance and deadly peril. Desperate to reconnect with his loved ones, he seeks the help of fellow survivors, and together they embark on a quest across the altered landscape.

Was anyone else alive? With each kilometre travelled, Maggs Espoir is increasingly certain the answer is no. In the aftermath of the outbreak, most people barricaded their homes or fled to somewhere remote. Maggs and her husband, Etienne, went to work, ensuring the electricity supply for Quebec and beyond. When the mushroom clouds rose above Montreal, the lights finally went out, and Maggs and Etienne were separated. In the year since, Maggs hasn’t stopped searching for her husband or given up hope that he’s still alive.

A glitch in time. A nation in ruins. One Marine’s fight to survive a future that shouldn’t exist. When Marine combat veteran Alan Carson sets off on a solo hike through New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, he’s searching for peace—and a path forward after years at war. What he finds is a dead man, a hidden cave, and a one-way passage seventeen years into the future… into a world where America has collapsed into chaos and survival is anything but guaranteed.

Berlin, 2075. Die Welt ist vernetzt bis ins Mark – über das NeuroGrid verbinden sich Gedanken, Erinnerungen und Träume direkt mit dem Netz. Was einst Fortschritt war, ist längst zur stillen Diktatur der Systeme geworden. Und mitten darin: Lukas Kessler, ein abgehalfterter Ex-Ermittler mit einer Vergangenheit, die ihm im Schlaf begegnet – und in den Tiefen des digitalen Raums auf ihn wartet. Als eine Datei auftaucht, die den Tod über das Netz selbst bringt, beginnt eine Jagd auf einen Mörder, der keine Körper braucht.

RENATO: PROTOCOLO VISUM • 09 Cuando la fe se volvió un arma. En un futuro dominado por gobiernos silenciosos y religiones convertidas en máquinas de control, la fe ya no ilumina… obedece órdenes. Desde las profundidades ocultas de Roma, un documento prohibido —el Protocolo VISUM • 09— despierta un experimento capaz de reescribir la culpa, manipular los recuerdos y quebrar la voluntad humana sin disparar un solo tiro. Renato nunca quiso ser un elegido. Nunca buscó gloria ni rebelión. Solo quería sobrevivir en un sistema diseñado para aplastar a los que todavía sienten, piensan o dudan.

ArkTech’s forty-year anniversary is almost here, but Charlotte Vance has bigger things on her mind. She’s determined to protect her home and her best friend, Ben. That means stopping ArkTech’s curious AI from glitching – once and for all. When Ben wants to know why a young man is braving a violent storm, Charlotte follows a trail that leads to a strange new technology. It trades in the most valuable currency of all: time. But Charlotte soon finds herself in a race against the clock. A missing person case pulls her deeper into the mystery – and towards a chilling possibility…

Over a century and a half ago, planetary scientists predicted an environmental crisis threatening to annihilate Koda's humanoid population so the SEEDER program was developed, launching deep-space missions to discover habitable worlds. When no livable planet was found, the SEEDER program was scrapped and the DOME project was initiated. The global economy became focused on placing domes over only the most prominent cities to insure a portion of the population's survival.

Die Vermittler-Organisation ist aus dem Verborgenen hervorgetreten und die Nexus-Akademie befindet sich im Krieg. Menschen werden sterben, denn Krieg ist nicht angenehm. Dieses Mal gibt es kein Zurücksetzen nach dem Sterben. Der Animus hat die Studierenden hoffentlich besser vorbereitet, denn jetzt geht es Schlag auf Schlag: Schüler gegen Schüler, Akademie gegen Akademie. Die Zukunft der Menschheit steht auf dem Spiel.

In 2045, friction has been engineered out of existence. But for two exiles on opposite sides of a broken world, the noise is just beginning. San Francisco is a paradise of perfect efficiency. AI "Mirrors" handle difficult conversations, and "Auto-gigs" project soulless concerts into empty clubs. Samir Patel is drifting. His marriage didn’t end with a fight, but with a quiet negotiation between algorithms. Now an exile in his own life, he tends bar at Maelzel’s Exhibition—one of the last holdouts for human-made music in a partitioned California.

Naomi Keller trusts data, not people. EchoSphere's star analyst, she’s walled herself off behind the very algorithms she masters. But when she uncovers a horrifying truth, the company's Harmony Algorithm isn't connecting users, it's systematically isolating them, she's thrust into the dangerous underworld of a rising resistance.

For twenty generations, humanity has hidden in viewless corridors, told that the Sun above has burned all life from the Earth. Boz has never questioned the Tenets that govern every aspect of their existence – until he meets Mozart the Heretic, whose disfigured face tells a different story about what really happened to those who sought the truth.