Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Distopía

Año 2093. Fisher Dantakis, presidente de Inmemorian, anuncia mediante una rueda de prensa a nivel mundial que abarata los servicios de grabado y contacto con las consciencias de los que ya no están. La vida de Marc cambia por completo cuando decide cargar la consciencia de su tía Margaret en la domótica de su apartamento, y esta le confiesa que no falleció de muerte natural, sino que fue asesinada.

Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere 24 hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.

In un futuro dai confini incerti, in un paesaggio che assomiglia al Far West ma che è invece la pianura a volte nebbiosa, altre assolata, fra l'Emilia e la Romagna, tutto è cambiato. Siamo attorno all'anno 6.000 quando avviene la Grande Devastazione: un'invasione aliena ha distrutto le città lasciando dietro solo rovine, un'incredibile onda d'urto ha raso al suolo ogni sporgenza, ha fatto ribollire gli oceani, la popolazione umana è decimata ed è rintanata in case cubiche simili a termitai.

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Che cosa accade dopo la fine del mondo? Cosa avviene quando la Bomba - quella di cui tutti parlavano dal 1945 - viene finalmente lanciata? Apparso nel 1963, "Cronache del dopobomba" narra il mondo dopo il lancio dell'ordigno che ha messo in ginocchio l'umanità, cancellando dalla faccia della terra città ed esseri viventi. I sopravvissuti non sono più uguali a prima, ma rappresentano l'embrione di una stirpe che ha innestato sulle malinconie di una civiltà al crepuscolo il vitalismo confuso di una razza agli albori.

Nel 1988 gli Stati Uniti, dopo una Seconda guerra civile, sono diventati uno stato totalitario, nel quale vive un'élite di individui superiori geneticamente modificati, i Sei. Uno di loro è Jason Taverner, ex cantante e ora star televisiva. Una mattina Taverner si sveglia in una stanza sconosciuta in uno squallido albergo, sprofondato di colpo nell'anonimato. Nessuno ha mai sentito parlare dei suoi dischi o del suo show, seguito fino al giorno prima da trenta milioni di americani. Nessuno riconosce il suo volto; il suo agente e il suo avvocato negano di sapere qualcosa di lui.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

In the wake of their shattering victory, Brutal Deluxe ascends at last into the Premiere League—krieg chess at its most savage, lethal, and politically charged. To anchor his impossible squad, Virgil unveils his most heretical gambit yet: an Echo, vat-grown and memory-sown, a man wearing a dead prodigy's face and the broken remnants of a stranger's soul. He calls himself Lance—and he must master his fractured self even as the world's elite gather to break him.

Durante las vacaciones navideñas de 2028, una multitud de niños y niñas acuden a la Plaza Roja a recoger un insólito regalo: un efímero Kremlin de azúcar, soluble en el té, símbolo del nuevo Estado ruso. A lo largo de quince capítulos, estos particulares dulces pasarán de mano en mano hasta alcanzar cada estrato de la sociedad «neomedieval» rusa: un mundo en el que los hologramas y los robots conviven con un orden feudal que divide a la población entre señores y siervos, entre opríchniks y oprimidos.

Una favola high-tech convincente in modo spaventoso, Moxyland. O giochi o muori segue quattro narratori che vivono in un futuro prossimo distopico così vicino a noi da sembrare realtà.

París, año 2041. Una Europa dividida, y dormida, cae en manos de dictadores fascistas tras una década de depresión económica y radicalismo islámico. Tres amigos de la nueva Resistencia francesa luchan contra un régimen totalitario que reedita el pasado nazi.

George Orr möchte nur eines – auf einer Erde, wo Überbevölkerung und Hungersnot herrschen, einen Ort finden, an dem er in Frieden leben kann. Aber Orr verfügt über eine erstaunliche Fähigkeit: Seine Träume verändern die Wirklichkeit. Der Psychiater William Haber bietet ihm seine Hilfe an. Erst will er Orr nicht glauben, doch bald begreift er, welche Macht er ausüben kann, wenn er sich der Träume seines Schützlings bedient.

The girl was sprawled out on the floor in the living room of his apartment. So begins Joe Clifford Faust's classic science fiction mystery. The novel takes place in an alternate future where a crumbling United States is one of the few nations left to have fended off Soviet domination. It tells the story of seven days in the life of D.A. Payne, a bioengineer who finds the naked corpse of a woman in his apartment and is compelled to investigate her murder.

Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure.

Premier quart du XXIe siècle. La dictature s'est installée aux États-Unis. La télévision, arme suprême du nouveau pouvoir, règne sans partage sur le peuple. Une chaîne unique diffuse une émission de jeux suivie par des millions de fans : c'est "La Grande Traque". Ben Richards, un homme qui n'a plus rien à perdre, décide de s'engager dans la compétition mortelle. Pendant trente jours il devra fuir les redoutables "chasseurs" lancés sur sa piste et activement aidés par une population encouragée à la délation. Tous les moyens sont bons pour éliminer Ben Richards.

An 3548. Le dérèglement climatique et les guerres atomiques ont réduit le Monde à un territoire, celui de l'ancienne Europe, désormais partagé en douze royaumes prospères. Afin d'échapper à une vie de solitude et de drames, Hannah prend la décision difficile de quitter la zone libre et sauvage où elle a toujours vécu, pour la sécurité des murs du royaume d'Olayan. Elle sait qu'en entrant, elle deviendra esclave.

2097. "Il suffit d'un murmure..." disait Maestri. Un seul murmure pour réveiller un peuple endormi depuis des années. Les températures polaires, l'ajout de restrictions, les rumeurs concernant la reine, la résurgence du virus XX, et une alliance en cours, ont fini par faire basculer le Royaume dans les prémices d'une révolution. Le chaos est proche, mais le peuple, à bout de souffle. Renversement du pouvoir ou massacre annoncé ? La frontière est minime. Et tout semble ne reposer que sur un seul individu.

2095. Dans un monde anesthésié par les épidémies, les femmes, devenues rares et donc précieuses, gouvernent désormais l'ensemble des cités survivantes. Le système a été entièrement réinventé : qu'il s'agisse de votre catégorie sociale, de votre mariage, ou même de votre prénom, tout est imposé.

Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching... A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations.

Julia nos leva a uma viagem surpreendente pela agora icônica distopia de Orwell, com reviravoltas que revelam lados inesperados, não apenas de Julia, mas de outras figuras familiares do universo de 1984.