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Klara ist ein Artificial Friend, eine künstliche Intelligenz, die dafür entwickelt wurde, Jugendlichen eine Gefährtin zu sein auf dem Weg ins Erwachsenwerden. Von ihrem Platz im Schaufenster eines Spielzeuggeschäfts aus beobachtet sie ganz genau, was draußen vor sich geht, studiert das Verhalten der Kundinnen und Kunden und hofft darauf, bald von einem jungen Menschen als neue Freundin ausgewählt zu werden.

To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot.

2101. Une comète va annihiler la vie sur Terre. Aelys fait partie des élites sélectionnées pour coloniser une nouvelle planète. A l'extérieur de la base de lancement, dans ce qu'il reste de la France, la civilisation s'est déjà effondrée depuis cinquante ans. Convaincue qu'elle pourra aider à reconstruire l'humanité après l'impact, Aelys s'enfuit. Sa famille n'a que trente-huit heures pour la retrouver avant le dernier départ.

An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon…and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly spawn - determined to outrun the world’s end, and somehow begin again.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

For 16-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion. Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it.

When an EMP devastates the nation's power supply, it doesn't take long for society to spiral out of control. There's no government to guide people. There's no power and no order. Only chaos and panic. In the immediate aftermath of the devastation, five survivors-a self-sufficient survivalist, a university student, a plane crash survivor, a young girl, and an escaped prisoner-all face a dangerous, treacherous journey towards safety. But as the day goes on, tensions reach breaking point; our survivors soon realize this solar event is far more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent—the Virtual elite—and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water, or even humanity. The system has no flaws. Until the elusive "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.

The focal point remains ground zero, where every form of brutal experimentation is still on the table… in the frantic struggle to stem the rise of the ferocious undead. With desperation surging, grasping for a remedy may stand, instead, to poison mankind. Though down, however, Andy is not out. His resolution knows no bounds. As driven by an unrelenting mission—securing a future for his loved ones, and possibly for mankind itself—he’ll soon be forced to prove himself . . . and face impossible choices.

Containment of the infection is slipping, and the quarantine zone has been breached. Ferocious undead creatures are on the move. The breakout has now begun. What lengths will the military go to in order to hold the line at this point? To stem the tide and save humankind? Andy Richards is wounded and ill-equipped to fight the hungry hoards. His family is scattered, stranded in the line of fire, looking for hope. With the powers that be breathing down his neck, his task may be impossible. But boasting formidable grit, he vows to never give up—to never give in . . . to only sleep when he’s dead.

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent alien race—intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth—but salvation comes at a price.

Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On the fringes of the solar system, in the gas planets, a strange, new, violent kind of human has evolved.

Deep underground, 39 women are kept in isolation in a cage. Aboveground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the 40th prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them aboveground.

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.

As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.

The Silent City: Where Voices Are Lost and Secrets Speak is a haunting tale of mystery, resilience, and the enduring power of human expression in the face of oppression. The story unfolds in a city shrouded in an eerie silence, where voices have been stolen, and the vibrant culture once thriving within its walls has been reduced to a ghostly stillness. The narrative follows Elira, a wanderer who arrives in the silent city cloaked in fog, unaware that her arrival fulfills an ancient prophecy.

Lysander is on a rampage. Death and destruction are what he exists for. Ben and the team are searching for ways to help humanity survive after the collapse of modern society. Their journey takes them to war, and to the edge of reality, where things they cannot believe become conceivable. Their discoveries open a realm of possibilities that go further than the 3rd dimension.

Humans have colonized distant planets and moons and live alongside self-aware Artificial Intelligence entities who occasionally inhabit physical bot bodies. A relatively new settlement, the Utu-Serida binary star system, is undergoing terraforming efforts for its billions of citizens. Myla is a marshal, employed by the Utu-Serida Unified Protectorate. During an investigation, she stumbles across a connection to Ethan, the most wanted smuggler in the system, famous for his creative methods of getting illegal goods and people past security checkpoints.

It's the end of the twenty-first century. The bulk of humankind has conjoined itself with an artificial intelligence. A minority remains in opposition. A desperation has taken hold within the unincorporated zones where free humans still live. Many of them are choosing to leave Earth forever and fly to colonies on the moons of Saturn. In an ancient diner, Spruck Jones is about to make a bold move to change his flagging fortunes. Even the best-laid plans almost never go as planned.

PILGERREISE ist eine eigenständige postapokalyptische Überlebensgeschichte. Der Highschool-Lehrer James Rockwell macht mit seiner Familie Urlaub in Maine, als eine erderschütternde Explosion sie in einen Wettlauf um ihr Leben schickt. Ihr erster Schritt ist die Flucht von einer Insel inmitten eines Tsunamis, und von da an wird es nur noch gefährlicher. Werden sie ihren Weg nach Hause finden, während die Zivilisation um sie herum zusammenbricht? Und wenn ja, welche Schrecken erwarten sie dort?