Títulos en Distopía

Con la misma desenvoltura que demostrara en su debut ("Cosas vivas", Periférica, 2018), Munir Hachemi se atreve con la ficción especulativa –¿acaso no son especulativas todas las ficciones?– y logra articular en "El árbol viene" un dispositivo tan insólito como alucinante. A través del relato del Arqueólogo, que se intercala en la narración con fragmentos de su diario y de los informes que escribe tras un período de convivencia con los mulai, los lectores se adentran en la historia de una civilización surgida por accidente, fruto de una misión espacial que cayó en el olvido.

In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going. Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn't have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she's going to need it.

In Neo Babylon, your neural implant is your identity. You use it as your credit card, to surf the Altnet, to chat with friends, to login to work or school, and to be pestered by advertisements. Anyone without one is cut off from society. Nick can’t get a neural implant. That fact turns his daily life into hell, but the city's underworld has its plans for him. Being invisible to the city’s omnipresent tracking has its perks. Without a neural presence, he’s someone who is felt but not seen—a wraith.

Dopo molti anni di assenza, Ted Barton decide di tornare a Millgate, la piccola citta' della Virgina dove e' nato. Un tranquillo borgo di provincia come ce ne sono a migliaia. Due negozi di ferramenta qualche emporio, un fabbro... Vi si reca in vacanza insieme alla moglie Peg, insofferente e spigolosa come tanti personaggi femminili di Philip K. Dick.

Animal Farm tells the story of Farmer Jones’s animals, led by Napoleon the pig, who rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Tired of being exploited solely for human gain, the animals—who have human characteristics such as speech—vow to create a new and more just society. However, as time goes on, it becomes clear that the society the animals have constructed is not equal at all when the pigs begin their crusade to consolidate their power and the other animals make the daunting realization that “some animals are more equal than others.”

The world as we know it ends when an attack on the U.S. unleashes bombs that deliver fire and biological destruction. Along with sonic detonations and devastating earthquakes, the bombs have also brought the green mist. If breathed in, it is deadly to all men—but alters the body chemistry of many women, imbuing them with superhuman abilities. A group of high-school teachers heading home from a conference experiences firsthand the strength of these new powers. 

In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government. In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King’s daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy—literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.  

La contundente incursión de Edmundo Paz Soldán en el terreno de la ficción especulativa y la distopía nos presenta una de las obras más destacadas del subgénero de lo que va de siglo XXI. Un futuro oscuro, una región tóxica y una batalla por la colonización de una zona indispensable para hacerse con el poder. Militares, refugiados, dioses y fanáticos se dan la mano en una obra que está llamada a ser considerada de las cumbres del género.

Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he's protected so fiercely through five years of living hell. But life in the Columbus sanctuary zone has proved anything but safe. When a despicable attack by the city's dissident, Lefthanders paramilitaries, leaves scores, if not hundreds, dead, Tom's teenage daughter, Lilianna, is in the thick of danger, and his son, Lucas, missing and presumed dead.

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.

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Brave New World remains startlingly relevant, offering a profound warning about the dangers of convenience without conscience, pleasure without purpose, and a society willing to sacrifice its humanity for the illusion of peace. It is a timeless meditation on what it means to feel deeply, think freely, and resist a world determined to design every aspect of existence.

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...

The desperate sprint for survival is over. After fleeing the West Coast, Dennis, Roxanne, and their convoy push East, abandoning the relative safety of the highways for the treacherous high-altitude choke points of the Sierra and Rockies. But the cost of the mission begins to climb immediately: An RPG ambush shatters their formation, reducing the convoy and stranding them in the hostile Plains. They acquire new, vulnerable passengers—Eli and Mae—each a fugitive carrying deadly secrets and critical intelligence.

The Collapse changed everything. Good men became killers. Strong women became property. And I’ve been captured by the most ruthless men of them all....

Built with the best of intentions and using alien technology, Abacus exists within an electromagnetic bubble that protects it from the ruined planet. The culture is meticulously constructed to exclude dogmatic thinking in an attempt to keep the population well and at peace. But what happens when a sociopath is born into the community? Emma Jones is fighting mad and, with a group of friends, works to recover her husband and stop his kidnapper before he wipes out the last people on Earth.

Bruno, a young magazine editor, seems to live a charmed life, until he discovers a growth on his neck - the first sign of incurable cancer. Decades later, he wakes up to find himself cured, but the world is now a very different place. Bruno must decide what he really wants from his life and whether it's worth the cost.

Las fuerzas extrañas reúnen doce relatos y una teoría del cosmos que constituyen los cuentos fantásticos más perfectos de la literatura castellana. Perfectos por la prosa excepcional que los narra, por los argumentos asombrosos que abordan y por los hallazgos narrativos que Leopoldo Lugones ensaya para dar verosimilitud a estas fantasías.

Meses después de que la pandemia del Diluvio Seco haya borrado a casi toda la humanidad de la faz de la Tierra, Toby y Ren han rescatado a su amiga Amanda de las garras de los despiadados paintbalistas. Juntas, regresan a la cabaña de los locoadánidas, cuyo reticente profeta, Jimmy -Hombre de las Nieves-, debilitado a causa de la fiebre, hace que Toby tenga que predicar la teología de los crackers.