Resultados para "Love" en Distopía

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.

The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument: the ontological lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind’s spiritual flu. But first, he must survive Moira, Lola, and Ellen - and discover why so many living people are actually dead.

Sara Sidorova lies dying. As she hovers between life and death, she receives a visitation from Amba, the tiger god who will devour creation if he is released from the chains that bind him. Amba gives Sara Sidorova an extraordinary gift: a glimpse into the future.

The Tucker clan teeters on the brink of annihilation. The hand of friendship extended by the Americans concealed a dagger, and now Ella Holland languishes in captivity, separated from her homeland, knowing the true extent of the Americans' wicked intentions and powerless to stop them. While the Americans' iron-fisted control of the Tuckers nears its apogee, the Pied Piper waits in the wings. Against their multitudinous enemies, the Tuckers must use every ally and resource they can and resort to every tactic, no matter how savage.

When the corporate monolith PortSys brought porting to the masses, CEO Emilia Kirsch and her son, Jason, accomplished what every other start-up company had failed to deliver. They really did change the world. They reversed climate change. They created a multitrillion-dollar industry out of thin air, curing economic woes across the globe. They made it so that anyone could be anywhere simply by touching a screen...including the man who murdered Sarah Huff. Now, Sarah’s 17-year-old sister, Anna, is determined to hunt the bastard down. But there are a few problems.

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Warned that a planet-killing asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, acquaintances Kat and Ryan join forces in an effort to survive. Mere hours before impact, they race toward the safety of Ryan's inherited South Dakota bunker, encountering chaos. A last-ditch effort to nuke the asteroid only manages to fragment it into chunks causing multiple strikes.

It's Dissolution Summer, and as the United Kingdom prepares to break up into separate nations, the Counterculturals have gathered for a festival where everything's allowed. Among them is a talented little brat called Fiorinda, rock and roll princess by birth, searching for her father, the legendary Rufus O'Niall. Instead, she finds Ax Preston, the softly spoken guitarman with bizarre delusions about saving the country from the dark ages. Together with Sage Pender, techno-wizard king of the lads, they join the pop-icon team that's supposed to make the government look cool.

In Mafia Land, power belongs to queens—ruthless, untouchable, and crowned in fear. When Leonor’s lover is executed by the Carlito matriarch, the elite assassin swears vengeance. To bring down the empire, she must seduce her way inside. But desire complicates betrayal, and revenge tastes dangerously like love.

Dystopie is back! Die Tribute von Panem trifft auf Powerless in Band 1 der tödlichen Fantasy-Romance über eine knallharte Kopfgeldjägerin. Das Leben in Dividium beruht auf einer einzigen Regel: Disziplin oder Tod. Denn in Dividium wird nicht nur jedes Verbrechen mit lebenslanger Haft bestraft, die Bürger der Oberschicht bekommen außerdem die Gelegenheit, die Gefängnisinsassen zu jagen und zu töten. Als der Bruder der 23-jährigen Raven verhaftet wird, schmiedet die Kopfgeldjägerin den Plan, die Haftanstalt Endlock als Insassin zu infiltrieren und eine Ausbruchsaktion zu starten.

Rena has been in love with her best friend for ever, but when he meets The One, she knows something must change. After endless bad dates, Rena is ready for drastic action, so when a dating advert pops up on her screen, she signs up immediately: 24 hours to fall in love. A guaranteed love match by the end of the day or your money back. When Rena wakes up, she goes about her life as normal. But what she doesn't know is that she is bound to repeat this day over and over again, until she finds her perfect match.

Heather hates the Complot - the government party that controls her country - but the Complot loves her. And every citizen in Canuckia. They love everyone so much they're throwing a special end-of-year celebration to honour their Winners; and weed out The Weak. Will Heather survive a Complot New Year? Will anyone? A flash fiction with two other tales.

Kyler orbits more closely around Randy and Kelly's world as the chase heats up to find the fugitives and bring them to the senator for vengeance. New territories are opened, and the world continues to expand. Loyalties are built and destroyed as everyone struggles to beat their way through this new normal. Climb in and buckle up while we keep hydro-sliding backward at a 100 miles per hour through the zombie apocalypse.

Between saving humanity, a childhood friend or your true love, who would you choose? In a world where Science is the law and you must adhere strictly to scientific principles, I chose to go the opposite way and rely on the Universe for answers that Science cannot explain. Secretly, I cling onto the spiritual beliefs that my mother left for me.

Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives. Mira reels from a devastating breakup with her partner, Mal, whose whereabouts are unknown, while her mother is plagued by furious dreams and her grandfather, Grandpa Why, stakes his claims as a rambunctious ghost. Across the hall, the cockroach Shin, also a ghost. As the world around them worsens, each character must learn to redefine what it means to live, die, and love at the end of the world.

In "The Amputation Games: An Epic of Survival and Rebellion," champions from diverse backgrounds find themselves on a mysterious island where survival is the only game, and trust is a rare commodity. These individuals are pushed to their physical and emotional limits, forging and breaking alliances in a race against time and insidious external forces. As the champions navigate through the treacherous terrains of both the island and human nature, a fiery leader named Cassandra emerges, sparking hope and resistance against the shadowy elites orchestrating this cruel game.

In a future where humanity is split between an opulent floating city in the sky and a subterranean realm hidden from the sun, young Tim, an inquisitive resident of the underground, dreams of witnessing the world above. The aerial metropolis, with its radiant technology, hovers like a forbidden promise over the people below, dictating a life of shadows and secrecy. When an anomaly strikes the floating city, Tim's curiosity propels him to the surface, setting him on an adventure that bridges the gaping divide.

In a future world reshaped by the marvels of bio-engineering, augmentation is more than a trend—it's a way of life. The promise of improved vision, strength, and even more exotic abilities has created a society where to be 'Enhanced' is to belong. Tommy, a young man with dreams of fitting in, eagerly embraces this new world, undergoing transformations that grant him the prowess of nature's most impressive creatures.

In a futuristic world steeped in both advanced technology and ancient rituals, young Chloe finds herself infiltrating a mysterious religious group that promises enlightenment and rebirth. As she delves deeper, she's ensnared in a web of intrigue, revealing long-buried secrets, advanced nanotechnology, and the pull of past and present colliding. Alongside a new ally, Jason, she must navigate the delicate balance between salvation and manipulation, all while confronting her own beliefs about identity, life, and the true meaning of connection.

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.