Resultados para "Flora" en Distopía

In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends, and a sullen young slave she adopts as her own child leave their oppressive pasts behind to find their place in the world.

The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí—the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas.

The world is frozen. The animals in the ascendant. And, locked in desperate pursuit of "the other father" across a grim, icy apocalypse, Jim will do anything to keep his daughter alive.

En su conmovedor relato en primera persona, una joven es testigo de la desgarradora ocupación de su ciudad por el Tercer Reich. A través de su testimonio personal, narra los días tumultuosos que acompañaron la llegada de los nazis, pintando un vívido retrato de la conmoción, el miedo y la desesperación que impregnaron cada rincón de su existencia.

Gewinner des Chrysalis Award der European Science Fiction Society Nominiert für den Kurd Laßwitz Preis Was würdest du tun, wenn du plötzlich der einzige Mensch in deiner Stadt wärst? Als Dr. Sarah Berger an einem friedlichen Morgen vor die Tür ihres Hauses tritt, erkennt sie, dass Hills View nicht nur ruhig ist – es ist zu ruhig. Über Nacht sind alle Bewohner verschwunden. Aber wohin? Und warum haben die Bewohner ihre Häuser penibel aufgeräumt, bevor sie die Stadt verließen? Die junge Ärztin beginnt zu entschlüsseln, was hinter den rätselhaften Ereignissen in Hills View steckt, doch sie befindet sich bereits mitten im Ewigkeitsprojekt.