Resultados para "Benjamin" en Distopía

The end came fast for Lieutenant Nathan Ward. One moment he was participating in an international convention of mounted police officers, the next he was in a command bunker watching the world’s two biggest corporations - Obsidian and Teledyne - destroy it in an exchange of nuclear hellfire. While Columbia, Missouri, was spared a direct strike, a near-miss EMP fried most of the vehicles and the electrical grid. Then the corporations started a shooting war in the streets, and they didn’t care who got caught in the crossfire. But Columbia was one of the last cities still standing.

Winston Smith lebt im totalitären Staat Ozeanien, wo das allmächtige Regime jede Handlung, jedes Wort und jeden Gedanken kontrolliert. Als er beginnt, an der offiziellen Wahrheit zu zweifeln – und sich verliebt –, wird sein Leben zu einem Kampf gegen ein System, das keine Freiheit duldet. Ein zeitloses Werk über Überwachung, Manipulation und den Verlust der Individualität.

In Der Traumfabrikant (1886) entwirft Kurd Laßwitz eine Zukunft, in der die Menschheit ihre Nahrungsaufnahme durch Schlaf ersetzt – eine brillante satirische Vision über den menschlichen Drang nach Effizienz und die Folgen von Überarbeitung.

The stainless steel people marched by the chain-link fence. Their electronic eyes looked up to the sun. Their sculpted jaws, strong and square. Behind them streamed a banner. A metal heart shines brightest. Young One watches the metal people proudly marching back to Tekna Magnus. They give meaning to her simple existence on an apple farm. If she could be just like the metal people, she too would bring joy and hope to others. But after jumping the protective chain-link fence, the world is not what she first believed. A virus has infected the world, slowly rotting the body.

Erlebe über 20 Stunden atemberaubender Hörunterhallung, in der sich die strenge Logik der Urb mit den leidenschaftlichen Utopien der Klave verhakt. View, die perfektionistische Scout, beginnt erstmals zu träumen und hinterfragt die sichere Gleichschaltung aller Lebensbereiche. Brachvogel, der rebellische Zeugungsträger, sucht den Horizont jenseits rigider Matriarchats-Regeln. Wenn Diver, der cerebrale Cyborg, in ihren Geist eindringt und die Liebe zwischen View und Brachvogel entbrennt, steht alles auf dem Spiel – Komfort, Sicherheit und Mittelmaß müssen einer neuen Freiheit weichen.

In welcher Welt möchtest du leben? In einer Welt totaler Sicherheit, in der sämtliche Emotionen auf ein fades Mittelmaß zurückgestutzt sind, weil alles berechenbar und durchgeplant ist? Oder in einer Welt, in der die emotionalen Höhen und Tiefen von Freiheit, Individualität und Schicksal voll ausgelebt werden und damit die Chance besteht, wahres Glück zu erfahren? Die Urb: Nach dem Finalen Kataklysmus haben sich die Menschen bedingungslos dem Takt des Systems überantwortet und führen ein absolut gleichförmiges Leben in totaler Berechenbarkeit.

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Vision der Zukunft, die H.G. Wells in Ein Traum von Armageddon entwirft. Gelesen von der markanten Stimme Benjamin Werners, entführt dieses Hörbuch Sie in eine Welt am Rande des Untergangs. Die Geschichte folgt einem Mann, der Nacht für Nacht denselben traumatischen Traum erlebt – einen Traum von einem verheerenden Krieg, der die Zivilisation zu zerstören droht. Mit jeder Nacht wird die Grenze zwischen Traum und Realität dünner und die Frage drängt sich auf: Kann er das drohende Armageddon verhindern?

Landon Locke is no ordinary barista. A man of many names and identities, he has lived through many lifetimes, but his memory spans only days. Danger brews as Landon struggles to piece together reality through his fog of amnesia. A mysterious organisation called CODEX bent on hunting him down, a...

In the Nation, citizenship is competitively earned, and the sting of failure strikes swift. The smallest professional blemish may spell demotion or even deportation to offshore labour communities called Depositories, while the affluent are insured against all misfortune and can do no wrong. Santhosh is a Transient student hoping to ace the Civil Primaries and make Citizen the following year, when his father is suddenly deported and State agents murder his guardian's entire family.

In the late 2020s and early '30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world's wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations. In the late '30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initiated hostile takeovers in a whole new fashion. Employees, armed with corporate weapons, warred for dominance. On May 1st, 2067, it all ended in a nuclear fire.

When a boy volunteers for a government experiment, he returns transformed: body accelerated, mind saturated with lifetimes of knowledge. On Earth, wolves terrorize neighborhoods, machines fuse with flesh, and the state whispers promises of immortality. In the vein of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984, Boy in Space is a chilling dystopian vision — a story of innocence stripped away, of control disguised as progress, and of what happens when humanity itself becomes the experiment.

A woman with no name and her AI sidekick investigate corruption on a universal scale. In the wake of machine enslavement, humanity is on the edge of several new frontiers, but Earth has become a reservation for the way life had once been. The planet’s technological embargo has been corrupted, and with an AI sidekick housed inside her robotic armor, the world’s first Athena-class Marshal is sent to investigate.

Zack Gurevitz has had a checkered past. A Yeshiva boy, turned Green Beret, turned junkie, excommunicated by his one-time faith and now the potential savior of people he doesn’t even like. As a white supremacist movement stealthily takes the reins of power in America, it is again the Jews who are made out as scapegoats. Stripped of wealth and citizenship, they are made to live in 21st-century ghettos that hark back to a sinister and murky past that many had thought would never return.

* FINALIST FOR THE SAMI ROHR PRIZE * A gripping and hauntingly prescient novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life after a black hole consumes Israel, setting off a chain of global anomalies plunging the world into a time of peril and miracles. When a black hole suddenly...

In this kaleidoscopic voyage through the past, present, and future of the United States, a young girl uncovers a secret society, a middle-aged man searches for his lost first love, a group of teens invent a role-playing game, protests threaten to topple the government, and an eccentric lawyer and his young Vietnamese protégée re-open a dormant case.

Anything can happen on open water. Massive storms, giant sharks, human attackers, mechs. Cameron Dery, a simple fisherman, one day encounters an ancient pilotable mech called the Mach Diver located below the waves and claims it as his own. Together with his best friend, Scarlett Taylor, and a mysterious woman named Sokka Tsuki, he finds himself on a journey to find his missing sister, Katelynn.

A thousand-year conflict has made its way to Earth's doorstep. Devastating losses have caused the Oide to make a desperate decision--to include an obscure species, humans, in the ambassador selection cycle. This decision will change the fate of the galaxy and the human race forever. Marcus Westbrook is a retiring military officer, and we experience his final months in uniform and the challenges of his new role as a supporting husband and father. The human race is turned upside down when the Evaluator arrives.

Part short story, part comic book, and part concept album, CodeBurst is a dystopian science fiction fable about Aubrey - a programming genius in search of her lost creation - and Jamie - a man struggling to regain control of his life from the artificial intelligence that has taken him over. Volume one introduces us to Jamie, who has given up hope of ever knowing why he’s been forced into a life of espionage and murder...until he receives a mysterious program from a stranger.

Mit einem gewaltigen Feuerball geht am 6. Mai 1937 der Zeppelin LZ 129 "Hindenburg" auf dem Landeplatz Lakehurst bei New York in Flammen auf. Mit dem riesigen Luftschiff verbrennen über 17.000 Postsendungen, nur wenige Schriftstücke überstehen das Inferno. Doch wieso hat sich der Hacker Tron zu seinen Lebzeiten an der bizarren Hatz nach diesen Artefakten der Katastrophe beteiligt? Und wieso bringt das Geschehen von damals einen neuen Giganten der Lüfte aus europäischer Produktion in tödliche Gefahr?

What if avarice after billionaire-ism is just a subset of ordinary hoarding disorder? What if someone discovered a way to repair that? Who would benefit? Who would oppose such a cure, and how aggressively? The Money Cure is a comic romantic adventure set in the near future, when a housing crisis forces working people, from retail employees to programmers, to live in illegal housing called underhousing.