Títulos en Distopía

It’s a miracle. The fountain of youth discovered flowing through the veins of postmillennials. In idyllic planned communities, freed from adulting and student loans, the young can live in guilt-free organic luxury. All it costs them is a weekly blood donation to extend the lives of their privileged elders. But prices are going up. There’s much more to the utopian Sunset Consortium than anyone realizes in this chilling trilogy.

This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it's most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics. Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went by Professor Harry Ransom, and though he never had anything you might call a formal education, he definitely earned it.

QUAND TOUT S'EFFONDRE, NOTRE MISSION COMMENCE. Plusieurs mois se sont déjà écoulés depuis qu'un virus mortel, libéré à New York en plein Black Friday, a causé une épidémie mondiale dévastatrice. Pour les États-Unis, l'heure est à la reconstruction : les survivants s'organisent en communautés pour tenter de retrouver un semblant de vie normale. Dans un pays sans gouvernement, aux infrastructures en ruines, la civilisation est sur le point de vaciller.

The complete first and second series of the Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay and David Threlfall. In this parody of George Orwell’s dystopian classic, everyman Edward Wilson finds his life taking a sinister turn when he becomes embroiled in mysterious government machinations.

When a video goes viral of a man's dead son walking around, people begin to speculate. These speculations only continue to grow as a new virus sweeps its way across the East Coast, killing thousands. It soon appears that someone is trying to contain this disease, snatching almost every infected body during the night. As the government steps in, the people become aware that they are under attack from something much worse than a virus.

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.

L'ennemi a détruit le deuxième Cœur de la Terre, séparé Matt, Ambre et Tobias. Alors qu'Entropia et ses créatures monstrueuses poursuivent leur entreprise de destruction, Matt découvre Neverland, la forteresse secrète et mystérieuse des Fantômes, les jeunes rebelles de l'empire d'Oz. L'Alliance des trois arrivera-t-elle à se reformer à temps pour sauver les enfants d'Europe ?

Montag fa il pompiere in un mondo in cui ai pompieri non è richiesto di spegnere gli incendi, ma di accenderli: armati di lanciafiamme, fanno irruzione nelle case dei sovversivi che conservano libri e li bruciano. Così vuole fa legge. Montag però non è felice della sua esistenza alienata, fra giganteschi schermi televisivi, una moglie che gli è indifferente e un lavoro di routine. Finché, dall'incontro con una ragazza sconosciuta, inizia per lui la scoperta di un sentimento e di una vita diversa, un mondo di luce e non offuscato dalle tenebre della imperante società tecnologica.

In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul.

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.

Una noche oscura y lluviosa, Eilish Stack abre la puerta de su casa de Dublín y se encuentra a dos agentes de la policía secreta. Están allí para interrogar a su marido, un sindicalista que ha participado en manifestaciones recientes. La casa, la familia y el país que Eilish conocía, y en los que confiaba, están a punto de desmoronarse.

Una excelente vuelta de tuerca a la idea de distopía futura, o no tanto, en la que presenciamos un mundo domesticado donde ciudades móviles se desplazan por el terreno abasteciéndose de recursos, en medio de un entorno perfecto y ordenado. Sin embargo, toda sociedad aparentemente perfecta tiene su lado oscuro, y en esta dicho lado reside entre los locos y los marginados, los expulsados por la perfección inalcanzable de las ciudades nómadas. Un rebaño miseria de parias que, más pronto que tarde, se alzarán en un grito de venganza.

Una apabullante novela de fantasía oscura que reescribe los márgenes del género y los mancha con una voz muy especial, afilada y certera como una daga envenenada. Miriam Iriarte nos presenta un mundo descarnado de demonios, nigromantes, hechiceros durmientes, experimentos, necrófagos y mucha, mucha acción. Un audiolibro definitorio del género en su mejor concepción.

In the aftermath of The Swarm’s relentless assault, and the brief but bloody civil war, Anderson and the other survivors must find a way to secure their future in their new home. With tensions running high, and the ever-present threat of the next moon phase, a plan is devised to take them to the source of the danger. To Europe. To ECHO site.

Sconvolgente, lungimirante, avvincente. "La Fattoria Degli Animali". In una nuova traduzione, con doppia voce narrante, questa edizione ti farà conoscere uno dei capolavori della letteratura mondiale. Stanchi delle ingiustizie, gli animali di una fattoria decidono di ribellarsi agli umani dando vita a un nuovo sistema fondato sull'uguaglianza. Ben presto, però, si renderanno conto che non sarà così facile. "Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali di altri." L'autore: Pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell è uno degli scrittori più conosciuti al mondo.

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.

Claire made it out of Perfection—but she was never meant to be a queen. Stripped of her title and banished from the clone settlement, she trades in her crown for a shovel and a pair of work gloves on Yvain’s farm. Her love life? A disaster. She’s accidentally engaged to one person and hopelessly drawn to someone else. Romance novels never prepared her for this. When a blackmail threat pulls her deep into the forest, she stumbles upon a ghost from history: Cassandra Jamison, the infamous Empress blamed for the collapse of civilization—alive, confused, and with no memory of her past.

It's the 26th Century. The underground city that has preserved a remnant of humanity for the last 400 years has slowly been killing them all. When 2 citizens discover a forgotten door and forgotten history, they realize that the key to their survival is returning to the surface their predecessors had fled.

Former Navy SEAL and security contractor Eric Branson has reunited with most of the surviving members of his family, but he still hasn’t found the one person he came here to get: his only daughter, Megan. Eric’s quest has taken him from south Florida across the Gulf of Mexico, and from there he will make his way up the Mississippi River and west to the Colorado Rockies. What he finds out there in those mountains will change everything, but nothing will stop him until his mission is complete.

Years after World War III, the world lies broken... not just from bombs, but from what followed. Radiation. Bioweapons. Years of reckless science. The outcome? A mutated form of cancer that spreads faster than fire and kills within weeks. There’s no treatment. No cure. Only silence, empty cities, and rationed painkillers.