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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Publicado em 1949, o texto de Orwell nasceu destinado à polêmica. Traduzido em mais de sessenta países, virou minissérie, filmes, quadrinhos, mangás e até uma ópera. Ganhou holofotes em 1999, quando uma produtora holandesa batizou seu reality show de Big Brother. 1984 foi responsável pela popularização de muitos termos e conceitos, como Grande Irmão, duplopensar, novidioma, e buraco da memória. O trabalho de Winston, o herói de 1984, é reescrever artigos de jornais do passado, de modo que o registro histórico sempre apoie a ideologia do Partido.

Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere 24 hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.

World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely in their orbits. Radio is mute on all frequencies. The only survivors of the last war were those who made it into the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow city. It's there, hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was constructed as the world's largest air-raid shelter, where now people try to outlive the end of days.

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman.

AD 2150: Chris Randall just lost his job as a bodyguard. That night, after picking up his wife, Bree, from her shift at a local casino, he breaks the bad news. Moments later, thunder cracks the sky, but there’s no lightning. Flaming debris rain across the valley, and a dark mass goes sailing out of the clouds, headed straight for LA. It’s not one of the Union’s starships, because they can’t defy gravity like that. But then, what is it? The answer chills both Chris and Bree to their cores: It’s an invasion.

A millionaire English lord dreams of founding a Utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the 40-odd men and women selected for the project are a pestologist named Camilla and the narrator. Within hours of the group's arrival on the sunny isle, their radio has been destroyed. Within days, several members of the group are dead. Dream turns to nightmare as they discover the island is overrun by a species programmed to resist and dominate any invader.

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancée looks identical to the victims, too—and then she disappears. As his investigations spiral beyond his control, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a world-powerful master race.

Traqués par l'empereur et par Entropia, Matt, Tobias, Ambre et les leurs doivent fuir et rallier des terres inconnues pour s'emparer du dernier Cœur de la Terre avant qu'il ne soit détruit. Mais le monde souterrain qu'ils découvrent ne grouille pas seulement de dangers. Il recèle d'incroyables révélations. La guerre est proche. Les sacrifices nécessaires. L'ultime course-poursuite est déclarée. Autre-Monde s'achève et livre enfin tous ses secrets.

Le monde s’écroule. Les dieux dorment depuis trop longtemps. Partout, des guerres éclatent. Les humains se soulèvent contre la souveraineté des elfes qui se déchirent entre eux. Quelque chose patiente dans les ténèbres, déterminée à faire basculer les Terres Mères. C’est dans ce sombre contexte qu’Azaëlla apprend l’assassinat de ses pères. Pour retrouver les responsables, elle opte pour un choix aussi radical que douloureux : négocier les services d’un conteur-d’os afin de se plonger dans leurs souvenirs contenus dans leurs ossements.

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and 23 reality TV contestants from around the world—including attractive Israeli soldier Adam, endearing fellow Canadian Pichu, and an assortment of science nerds and wannabe influencers—are competing for two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars, sponsored by billionaire Geoff Task. Meanwhile Kevin, Amber’s boyfriend of 14 years, was content going nowhere until Amber left him—and their hydroponic weed business—behind.

Alan Medas ha trent’anni, è un geologo e trascorre la vita sulle miniere tra Africa e Asia, faticando a mantenere le relazioni. Il mondo, da cui lui rimane scollegato per lunghi periodi, viene scosso da una notizia clamorosa: una nuova risorsa alimentare miracolosa è stata appena scoperta. Si tratta di un’alga dalle qualità eccezionali battezzata Narciso. In pochi anni le disparità economiche vengono livellate e i governi collaborano in un’utopia di pacifismo globale senza precedenti.

La natura dell’acqua è una visione sul futuro prossimo che esplora i risvolti della corruzione e degli inganni delle aziende e del governo, insieme ai conflitti per le risorse. Da ecologista e tecnologa, Nina Munteanu utilizza sia la narrativa che la saggistica per esaminare la nostra umanità di fronte ai cambiamenti climatici e il nostro mutevole rapporto con la tecnologia e la natura.

En su primer libro de cuentos, que abarca cuarenta años de su trabajo, el legendario creador de "Watchmen", "V de Vendetta", "From Hell" y otros clásicos modernos presenta nueve relatos que se adentran en el componente fantástico que subyace en la realidad. Un grupo de estudio paranormal sufre la infiltración de uno de los seres de otro mundo que pretenden investigar. En un burdel para especialistas fantásticos, dos concubinas se enamoran con consecuencias trágicas. Un anciano nostálgico decide visitar un balneario de su juventud y se topa con su pasado a la vuelta de la esquina.

En una ciudad occidental, cosmopolita y próspera, se produce un fenómeno extraño que inicialmente parece sólo un molesto contratiempo pero muy pronto se convierte en una amenaza mucho más insidiosa, capaz de transformar las más íntimas convicciones de los ciudadanos. A partir de la crónica de este fenómeno que afecta a todos los estratos de una sociedad, el autor recrea el proceso de su descomposición, desde la delación, el temor y la sospecha, hasta el pillaje, la magia y la superstición.

La tecnologia cambia e nel farlo modifica le nostre vite e noi stessi. Eppure attraverso l'obsolescenza programmata si pianifica e scandisce l’aggiornamento e la sostituzione di qualunque dispositivo di uso quotidiano. E se questo processo non fosse rivolto solo agli oggetti ma anche agli esseri umani? E se l'adeguamento non si limitasse alle cose ma si estendesse anche alle persone che ne fanno un uso sempre crescente? Se gli oggetti invecchiano precocemente, che dire di coloro che li usano?

Janna va a Napoli per un misterioso colloquio di lavoro e trovare un modo di pagare le cure mediche del suo compagno Eskin. Una volta lì, scoprirà che il colloquio è solo un pretesto e sarà l'inizio di un processo di consapevolezza che cambierà la sua vita per sempre. iMate è una storia di maternità negata e voluta a tutti i costi, dove le ultime tendenze tecnologiche cercano di rispondere alle ansie di un futuro prossimo molto simile al nostro.