Résultats pour "Test" dans Dystopien

Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic - and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel. More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

What if humanity's survival was riding on a single test? Daoren and Heqet face the unthinkable. Like every 19-year-old in their society, they must take the survival aptitude test. Only the smartest pass the S.A.T. and earn the right to live. The rest are harvested for food. That's the grim reality on the dying Earth, 700 years after mass extinctions have erased every other life form. Fortunately, Daoren and Heqet may hold the answers for saving their species. There’s only one problem - and it isn’t the S.A.T. Human greed and personal treachery might kill them first.

Tessa had it all. In the utopian world of New Pangaea, she was destined for a life of privilege, power, and entitlement. Instead, success went to her head; she became unbearably haughty and arrogant and mistreated everyone around her. Despised by all, she had no loyal friends.