Resultados para "man" en Distopía

De vergeten dystopische roman die via Booktok een wereldwijde sensatie werd. Diep onder de grond leven negenendertig vrouwen gevangen in een kooi. De vrouwen worden in de gaten gehouden door ongenaakbare bewakers en kunnen zich niet herinneren hoe ze daar terecht zijn gekomen, ze hebben geen besef van tijd en herinneren zich slechts vaag hoe hun leven ooit is geweest. Terwijl het continu brandende licht de dag in de nacht doet overgaan en er ontelbare jaren verstrijken, zit een jong meisje – de veertigste gevangene – alleen en verstoten in de hoek.

Una nueva empresa internacional ha aterrizado en la capital para comercializar el intercambio de cuerpos. Se acabó la guerra de sexos, la guerra de clases, adiós a la xenofobia. La empresa YOU-FEELING te abre la mente convencida de que con su tecnología puede propiciar la aproximación de...

In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'. Everyone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights fight'. Best friends since adolescence, Pearson and Emory find themselves on opposing sides of this new culture war. Radio personality Emory – who has built her career riding the tide of popular thought – makes increasingly hard-line statements while, for her part, Pearson believes the whole thing is ludicrous.

¿Quiénes son los adultos y quienes los jóvenes de verdad en esta historia? Los lectores de “U-Feeling” saben que en un mundo en el que se pueden intercambiar los cuerpos todo es posible y nada es lo que parece. En este audiolibro, los autores a través de lo absurdo nos enfrentan a lo...

Step into the mind-bending worlds of The Selected Works of Philip K. Dick, a powerful collection of classic science-fiction stories from one of the genre’s most influential visionaries, Philip K. Dick. This expertly curated volume showcases Dick at his sharpest—probing the fragile boundaries between reality and illusion, power and freedom, humanity and the unknown.

Rich Corrington has everything an Earthside man could want. He's married, a Party member, and starting his dream job. He also just received a private house as part of his work, a place to raise his family far away from the sprawling slums of Earth. But tragedy strikes, and he faces an impossible choice: his faith or his son. Left a hollow man with only the thinnest vestiges of his faith in God and State, he takes the space elevator up to the colonies.

In the year 2055, a quarter-century after the last firearm-related homicide inside the once-peaceful SafeCities, the unthinkable occurs: the murder of the president of this sprawling metropolis. Mark, a seemingly unassuming yet highly effective investigator and a potential suspect, is tasked with gathering the immediate evidence. But the investigation takes an unexpected turn, spiralling beyond the confines of his jurisdiction. What he discovers is a sinister plan to reshape the world, with himself unwittingly cast in the role of a pawn.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules - no premarital sex, drunkenness, or...

"Månen over øen" er en hæsblæsende filosofisk dystopi, der tager os med til demokratiet Superesse anno 2687 post Luna. På dette tidspunkt er menneskeheden så afhængige af supernettets flimrende stimuli, at Superesses borgere må tage beroligende medicin for ikke at dø, når de tillader sig en sjælden stund offline. Alle undtagen Hypatia, der takket være et særligt gen ikke behøver det uophørlige rush fremkaldt af simultane virtuelle verdener.

Truth Medici knows life isn't fair. But for the first time, the balance is in his favor. Cultivation has taken him from desperate slumrat to burglar to mercenary to bodyguard to terrorist, and now he's the revered prince of a kingdom to come—immortal heir to a dynasty hidden for millennia. Pampered by succubae, demons, and sprites, Truth is more than ready to embody the might of his ancestors, who've prospered in secret for centuries. With an aura that reeks of power, he'll make his presence known. His word and will are law.

Quando la divinazione eseguita sul DNA dei cittadini è una pratica obbligatoria, le verità genetiche che si possono scoprire non sono facili da accettare, come quelle che attendono l'investigatore Toby Korsakov, in seguito all'omicidio di un famoso indovino genetico avvenuto su una stazione orbitale.

Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man in 1826, in the aftermath of losing her husband Percy, their children, and Byron. What emerged was the first modern apocalypse: a plague rises out of the late 21st century and, year by year, empties the earth of human life. Armies dissolve. Cities go silent...

Truth knows everything about the mind-controlling Starbrite. Well, everything except for who it is, where it comes from, and where it is right now. Without anything to identify his world's creator, the question remains: Can he actually kill the malignant entity believed to have the lifespan of the stars themselves? Somewhere, high above the calamity it's caused, Starbrite still reigns. Unseeable and enigmatic, it touches the world through the minds of its slaves.

When the system corrects itself…who decides who lives and who vanishes? Every day, commuters get on the train. Every day, most of them arrive. But some never do. In a city obsessed with precision, one transit worker starts noticing a truth no one else sees: the trains aren’t malfunctioning—they’re correcting.

People bought tickets. But the system decides who gets off. And once something notices that you’ve begun to look…you stop being invisible.

Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks 12-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he will be.

The Heat Wave drew a violence that was swift and efficient at breaking humanity. Abraham’s people have come to the rescue—only for those they deem worthy. Banished with the task of culling this planet and others, Abraham is pressured to meet his quota while the population on Earth dwindles. He is disturbed by what he witnesses. Until he meets Nova. Twice. She’s refused his offer of sanctuary because the promise of a floating city in the sky sounds absurd, even if it does offer safety and relief from the sweltering heat.

Jude Demarco will take any job in the station-city of Nicodemia, so long as it doesn't involve religion or art. People care too much about religion and art, and where there's passion, life gets messy. Then Charlotte Beck walks into his life with a lit cigarette and a lousy deal. She needs him to track down a stolen painting—one sought by art collectors, criminal masterminds, and the Catholic Church. To find it, she needs to locate the men who stole it. She won't take no for an answer.

When it comes to instigating an apocalypse, it's been a promising start for Truth Medici. But to really get things rolling, he has a monumental undertaking ahead of him: break the systems that keep the immortal Starbrite alive and finally shatter the source of his power. Invisible and impervious to magic, Truth is the one man capable of decapitating the mastermind behind the wicked system controlling his world.

Truth Medici has three questions: Can he rescue his siblings from the clutches of the evil Starbrite Corporation? What will it require of him? And where does he need to go next to make it happen? When he meets Justinian Merkovah—a strangely ageless spellcaster, teacher of religious law, and nomadic exorcist—he's one step closer to discovering the answers. With his experience providing security to the rich and terrible, Truth accepts a gig as Merkovah's bodyguard. What better way for Truth to grow as a mage?

Living off the land and adapting to a changing environment takes a special individual with the unique skills, training, and determination necessary to survive. Gus Berry is not that individual. The former house painter barely made it out of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved dead—or undead. Now, Gus needs food and booze, weapons and armor, clothing that fits, and above all, toilet paper, preferably two-ply.