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The Rage Wars are over. Society has fallen. Untold millions are dead. The survivors are faced with a horrible, chaotic future. Except in the domed city of Altor, where life is safe and good. There is plenty of food and fresh water, and crime is essentially unheard of. But there is a threat to even that oasis of safety. A threat that will come from within the dome.

As a teenager, Quinn Starkweather builds a computer program that accurately predicts world events. He has created a Nostradamus machine. While Quinn becomes very wealthy, the program predicts the world will be torn apart by financial inequity. The 99.9% will rise up against the billionaires in what is dubbed The Rage Wars. The world stands on the razor’s edge of disaster. With enough warning of the coming apocalypse, Quinn builds an ark in the desert—a self-sufficient domed city he calls Altor.

Book five begins almost one year from the fateful release of the drug that started it all. Wage war alongside Shaun and Ellie with the rest of the group as the threats increase and the threatened fight back! Lives will be lost but those that refuse to back down will have to fight harder than ever before to see one more day.

In der New Yorker U-Bahn treffen T-Rex, Nolo und Kim auf einen verwirrten jungen Mann, der etwas Furchtbares erlebt haben muss. Da er sein Gedächtnis verloren hat, beschließen die Freunde, das Rätsel des Fremden zu lösen. Bei ihren Nachforschungen stoßen sie immer wieder auf die Frage, wie gefährlich Aluminium für die Menschen ist. Schnell be­kommen sie dabei Konkurrenz, denn auch Raven macht sich mit Ian G.'s Hilfe daran, das Geheimnis des omnipräsenten Leichtmetalls zu lösen, das wir aus unserem Alltag nicht mehr wegdenken können - fragt sich nur, zu welchem Preis.

The battle over the alien artifacts rages across the solar system. On Earth, Los Angeles becomes the battleground for two mega-corporations that will stop at nothing to get their hands on the strange material. Meanwhile, as she races towards Ganymede, astronaut Rachel Ferreira discovers that the biggest threat to the ship and her team is not awaiting ahead out in space, but is right under their own feet. As the satellite images received from Ganymede get stranger and stranger, Rachel and Theodore each find themselves in a race against time.

It has been more than a year since society fell. The population has dwindled as a second winter has come and gone. The roaming gangs are now dug in and fortified or have died of starvation or violence. The safest place to be is inside Altor, the domed city that stands like a jewel in the Nevada desert. But it is not paradise inside the dome either. Janus, the nearly all-powerful Artificial Intelligence, is taking over. Can a few brilliant humans stand in the way of the most powerful program ever created, or will it foil their every move before they make it?

Bienvenidos a Welcome, un mundo del futuro, repleto de centros comerciales, barrios residenciales y grandes estrellas, donde la vida transcurre como en un plató de televisión. Pero la realidad—una realidad, ciertamente, chocante—está a punto de irrumpir en ese mundo feliz. Un objeto volador no identificado acaba de impactar contra uno de los centros comerciales de la ciudad y se estima que hay miles de muertos.

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 a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the Earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, 17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.

With those she's closest to dying around her, Adele embarks on a secret mission to the Sun Realm to assassinate the president. Along the way she'll uncover secrets about her relationship with Tristan that she might not be ready to face.

After rescuing her father and younger sister, Adele is forced to leave her family and Tristan behind to find her mother in the cruel and dangerous realm of the star dwellers. Amid blossoming feelings for Adele, Tristan must cast his feelings aside and let her find her own way among the star dwellers while he accompanies Adele's father to meet with the leaders of the moon dwellers and decide the fate of the Tri-Realms.

In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground into the depths of the Earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and sister are abducted by the Enforcers, 17-year-old Adele, a member of the middle-class moon dwellers, is unjustly sentenced to life in prison for her parents' crimes of treason.

As President Borg Lecter threatens to annihilate the Country tribes in order to expand his glass-domed empire, Adele ventures into the belly of the beast. Her only hope of survival is the consolidation of Dwellers and Country power before it's too late. Former demagogue President Nailin is eliminated, yet civil unrest infects every alliance. To save Adele, President Tristan faces his greatest challenge yet: unifying unfriendly Dwellers in the Tri-Realms to raise an army against Lecter.

Dazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler. When his seven-year-old sister is abducted in the dark of night, Dazz pledges to do whatever it takes to get her back, embarking on a quest that threatens to rip apart the very fabric that's barely holding his shattered family together.

Seventeen-year-old Truth Medici scavenges for scraps to eat; weathers his parents' abuse; and battles derelicts, killer pimps, and demons in the soul-crushing stretch of desperation he calls home. Even the cops steer clear of the toxic Harban slums. But just across the canal live the magical elite, with their wealth, flying carpets, gorgeous mages, and custom spell beasts, all thanks to the patronage of the almighty Starbrite Corporation. Getting there, and taking his three vulnerable siblings with him, is Truth's only dream.

El error es el cuerpo. Morir es fallar. En 2070, una forma nueva de la vida eterna se ha convertido en el mayor logro de nuestra civilización. La palabra china pronunciada tsian -paraíso- es el invento que la gran Samar ofreció al mundo y que ha transformado las vidas y las muertes de miles de millones. Pero más allá de lo que cuenta la mitología oficial nadie conoce su verdadera historia.

"2222" es un sentido homenaje a la ciencia ficción más clásica, una novela de profundas raíces sociales que, como las mejoras obras del género, lanza su trama al futuro lejano para mostrar a través de él un retrato descarnado de nuestro presente. En el año 2222, la superpoblación y todas sus consecuencias ha dejado a la tierra al borde del cataclismo. En una casa perdida en el campo sobreviven varias personas, pero su sociedad en miniatura está lejos de ser perfecta.

El potencial de todos los niños regularmente es determinado por una medida estandarizada: su coeficiente intelecutal (iq). Si la puntuación es elevada, el camino hacia un futuro dorado pasa por un colegio de nivel superior. Si la puntuación es demasiado baja, el futuro pasa por un colegio público con perspectivas muy limitadas. ¿El propósito? Una sociedad mejorada en la que los costes de la educación estén controlados al máximo posible y donde los profesores se centren en los estudiantes más prometedores.

"1984", le livre légendaire écrit par George Orwell, enfin disponible dans une nouvelle traduction française. Un regard terrifiant sur l'avenir et une menace très claire sur ce que pourrait être notre futur, avec un État omniprésent et ultra-répressif. 1984 est le livre incontournable de l'anticipation distopique. L'histoire : Dans le futur, le monde a été divisé en trois empires qui se combattent en permanence : L'Océanie, l'Asie de l'Est et l'Eurasie. "1984" se passe à Londres, dans l'Océanie, une dictature.

Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things”, but he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in his world. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him.