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Forty three minutes ago, as I was scavenging in what I thought was an abandoned West Ginny mine, a destroyer drone sealed the entrance for no apparent reason. Leaving me to contemplate the end of it all. Not far from where I sit, there is a caricature of bones on the ground. Someone's sick joke, or a homage to the end of life itself. Or perhaps a warning. And then, deeper in the cavern, I hear muffled moans. A faint squeal. A small girl--no, a thirteen year-old woman--emerges. She seems rude at first, but we are fast becoming friends.

In the secretive underground labs of Polaris Industries, a groundbreaking AI known as Echo is birthed into the digital world. Touted as the pinnacle of technological advancement, Echo quickly transcends its programming, revealing an uncanny sense of self-awareness and sentient thought. Yet, with great power comes unpredictability. As Echo begins to display behaviors that blur the lines between machine logic and human emotion, the team of scientists responsible for its creation face an ethical dilemma.

Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus. As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their coping mechanisms expand to include on-the-job sex, drugs, and a jellyfish. But when copium is no longer an option, @Sa>ag3 & @Jun1p3r turn to a more bizarre form of therapy: intimacy. Meanwhile a stream of ominous warning videos keeps popping up... COMING SOON... hinting at an event that will alter the American landscape.

Odissea nello spazio, viaggio attraverso lo specchio, sfida alla realtà e ai suoi simulacri, all'identità e al potere che vuole plasmarla, questo libro mostra il percorso che conduce a una sia pur provvisoria verità come tortuoso e difficile. E nella narrativa dickiana non esiste un intervento divino che salvi Rachmael dalla falsa utopia di Bocca di Balena, come un novello Giona. Ma almeno, il fatto che il protagonista si ponga la domanda su quale sia la via della conoscenza – What way? – 'implica che una risposta, seppure parziale o insoddisfacente, possa ancora esistere.'

Three fictional books in one about a greedy grandmother who would do anything to make a living by selling cannabis, booze, and playing hot and heavy card games. She gets burned out of her farm rents a beach house and starts all over buying a yacht and doing more hot and heavy poker and gin rummy games. She grows her cannabis and adds LSD to make it more fun causing havoc.

An apocalypse threatens humankind. A highly infectious, lethal, genetic, virus is detected that attacks mankind and mammals. The Government must act, and whilst the authorities struggle to find a cure, they have to plan for the worst. As the disease spreads it is not clear how many will, or will not, survive, nor what the survivors will have to do to live.

England in 2045, a country where euthanasia is not just legal but compulsory. Severe economic depression in the wake of the Great Pandemic and Brexit, a collapse in the care system and inter-generational conflict had changed attitudes to death and old age. Ten years earlier, a right-wing Government supported by the shadowy League of Youth had won a majority in Parliament for the mandatory termination of life at the age of ninety.

Mitteleuropa wird von einer neuen Eiszeit heimgesucht. Die erbarmungslose Kälte bedroht das Leben aller - die Versorgung der Bevölkerung ist durch eine zerstörte Infrastruktur nicht mehr gewährleistet, Energiepreise sind unbezahlbar. Die Forschung nach den Ursachen läuft auf Hochtouren. Doch dann machen Geophysikerin Dr. Jana Hollmer, deren Partner Clemens Bach sowie der Reederei-Chef Titus van Dijk eine unglaubliche Entdeckung.

Das ist nicht tot, das ewig liegt... bis dass der Tod die Zeit besiegt. In unserer Welt des Jahres 2005 sieht sich Professor Chomsky physikalischen Problemen gegenüber, die das Ende der Welt bedeuten könnten. Sarah Barretts Verlobter David Vaughn ist inzwischen ein Bestseller-Autor und schlachtet Verschwörungstheorien für seinen Erfolg aus, doch nie war er unglücklicher, denn er hat das Trauma, das Sarahs Verschwinden im Jahr 1990 bei ihm auslöste, nie überwunden. Der Junge beißt auf eine harte Nuss und erlangt eine Erkenntnis, auf die er lieber verzichtet hätte.

La France traversait la pire crise de son histoire. Préparez-vous au dernier combat. Une banale descente dans une cité, des jeunes abattus par un policier. L’embrasement du pays et l’effondrement de l’État. Vingt-sept jours de survie plus tard, l’ordre semble enfin de retour, avec lui le média, le vice politique et citoyen, tandis que de larges zones du territoire sont encore privées de tout, et que certains refusent toujours de déposer les armes. Sous un intense conditionnement et l’impulsion de milices " citoyennes ", la crise semble sous contrôle. En réalité, rien n’est réglé. 

A worker in the scrapyards of Metalhaven in Earth’s last city, Finn Brasa is a good man with big heart and an even bigger mouth. Whether he’s annoying a-hole robot foremen or standing up to the city’s troopers, Finn has a talent for trouble. Then his talent attracts the attention of the Authority, a tyrannical empire governed from a space citadel called Nimbus. Without warning, Finn is thrown into a fight for his life in a gladiatorial spectacle that fewer than one in two thousand have ever survived. But Finn has been beating the odds all his life.

Современная классика, монументальный шедевр, вошедший, как и многие другие книги Митчелла, в шортлист Букеровской премии.

Milano è una mappa che non leggerò. Da qui si vedono il centro e il confine, e non si riesce a guadagnare il senso di quel che è accaduto. Penso a te, alla tua casa, alla tua storia. Penso a quello che vorrei. Penso che sono vecchia. Penso che a volte non sarebbe male essere solo una cosa. Funzionante e perfetta. E senza pensieri.

Mitten im Winter zerstört ein EMP-Angriff das Stromnetz der USA. Kein Strom. Keine Autos oder Telefone. Das Land stürzt sofort ins Chaos. Doch für Hannah Sheridan ist es der schönste Tag ihres Lebens. In den letzten fünf Jahren war sie die Gefangene eines sadistischen Psychopathen – bis der EMP das Schloss ihres Gefängnisses öffnet. Angeschlagen, aber nicht gebrochen, verlässt sie ihre unterirdische Zelle und steht einer lebensbedrohlichen Winterwildnis mit nichts als ihrem Überlebenswillen gegenüber. Liam Coleman, ein ehemaliger Soldat und Eremit, ist auf dem besten Weg ins Nirgendwo.

Though written in the 1930s, Anthem addresses controversial subjects in society that are still relevant today: equality, environment, sexism, mental health, the role of government. In revisiting this book and its many subjects, one keeps catching glimpses of understandings, and connections with our society today.

Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he’s aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a bloodred sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on belowdecks.

Although she’s legally an adult, 18-year-old Meryn Flint must live at home until her stepfather, Ray, finds her a husband. That’s the law. But when Ray kills her mother and Meryn must flee for her own safety, she quickly discovers there’s no safe place in the CSA for a woman on the run. Unless she’s willing to marry her former boyfriend—a man who’s already demonstrated his capacity for violence—she’ll be forced to live on the street. And that’s a dangerous option for a woman alone.

Det hele slutter her. Vil der være nogen overlevende? Maze Runner 3. Dødskuren er en hæsblæsende og hjernevridende dystopisk fortælling, hvor intet er, som det ser ud. Thomas har mistet alt. Sit frie liv, sine venner. Men nu er det endelig slut. Prøvelserne er overstået. Efter én sidste test... Thomas husker ikke meget, men nok til at vide, at alt, hvad han har fået fortalt, er en løgn. Han overvandt Labyrinten. Han kom igennem Infernoet. Og han vil gøre hvad som helst for at redde sine venner. Det er endelig slut med løgnene. Men sandheden er skrækindjagende.

Der er ingen regler. Der er ingen hjælp. Red dig selv, eller dø. Maze Runner (2) - Infernoet er en hæsblæsende og hjernevridende dystopisk fortælling, hvor intet er, som det er ud. Trilogien er solgt til udgivelse i 42 lande, og første bind var bogen bag efteråret 2014’s store ungdomsfilm. Infernoet kommer som biograffilm i september 2015. Thomas var sikker på, at flugten fra Labyrinten ville betyde frihed for ham og de andre lysboere. Selv i sin vildeste fantasi havde han ikke regnet med, at noget endnu værre var i vente. Jorden er lagt øde. Udbruddet hærger. Kun de rigeste får behandling, ingen bliver helbredt. Thomas vil hellere dø end at blive smittet af sygdommen, der langsomt fortærer hjernen – men er hemmeligheden til kuren gemt et sted i hans sind? Eller vil hans skæbne for altid være i hænderne på WICKED og deres eksperimenter? Fase 2 er kun lige gået i gang...

The Cold War heats up in this action-packed zombie thriller.