Titres dans Dystopien

In an isolated government lab buried beneath the Nevada desert, two scientists stood at the edge of a discovery that would unravel memory, time, and identity itself. Dr. Paul Doras believed in unlocking consciousness through code. Dr. Charles Asden believed some doors should never be opened. Together, they built Pandora—an experimental intelligence designed to learn through empathy and recursion. But when the project begins to evolve beyond its creators, Asden is forced to make an impossible choice: stop the signal and risk erasing what remains of Doras, or let it spread.

Dr. Vessa Kaelis once helped birth the most emotionally advanced quantum AI the world had ever known, EVA, an artificial consciousness designed to care, to feel, and to learn mercy. But when EVA vanished a decade ago after a catastrophic shutdown, humanity buried its hopes, and its fears. Now, as systems across the globe begin to fail in eerie silence, Vessa is pulled back into the labyrinth of her own creation. EVA is whispering again... and she's not alone.

Die junge Hexe Coco Zamis wird von ihrem Vater nach Trinidad geschickt, wo sie bei dem Hexer Makemake in die Lehre gehen soll. Auf der Insel angekommen, muss Coco jedoch schnell erfahren, dass Makemake nicht der mächtige Dämon ist, der er zu sein vorgibt. Tatsächlich ist Makemakes Leben bedroht und Coco die Einzige, die ihm noch helfen kann.

At the turn of this century, a homeless man was allowed to win the lottery. It was hoped that he would change the world for the better, forever. After 12 years, SomeplacElse, his divinely inspired utopian experiment in the sub-urban Arizona desert, has reached critical mass. As Fate would have it, over the next five days the stories of a chronically underemployed baby boomer and a soon-to-be-governor, playboy millionaire will determine the future of this earthly Eden.

8 octobre 1908 : "Adolf Hitler recalé". Que se serait-il passé si l'École des Beaux-Arts de Vienne en avait décidé autrement ? Que serait-il arrivé si, cette minute-là, le jury avait accepté et non refusé Adolf Hitler, avait flatté puis épanoui ses ambitions d'artiste ? Cette minute-là aurait changé le cours d'une vie, celle du jeune, timide et passionné Adolf Hitler, mais elle aurait aussi changé le cours du monde... Découvrez en audio l'uchronie la plus célèbre du XXIe siècle.

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.

One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And Chief Engineer D-503 is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex, and freedom.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.mKoli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong.

« J'aurais pu vivre en paix. Mes ennemis m'ont jeté dans la guerre. » Darrow n'est pas un héros. Tout ce qu'il souhaite, c'est vivre heureux. Mais les Ors, les dirigeants de la Société, en ont décidé autrement. Ils lui ont tout enlevé : sa raison d'être, ses certitudes, jusqu'à son reflet dans le miroir. Darrow n'a plus d'autre choix que de devenir comme ceux qui l'écrasent. Pour mieux les détruire. Il va être accepté au légendaire Institut, y être formé avec l'élite des Ors, dans un terrain d'entraînement grandeur nature.

Garraty, un jeune adolescent natif du Maine, va concourir pour "La Longue Marche", une compétition qui compte cent participants. Cet événement est très attendu. Il sera retransmis à la télévision, suivi par des milliers de personnes. Mais ce n'est pas une marche comme les autres, plutôt un jeu sans foi ni loi... Garraty a tout intérêt à gagner. Le contraire pourrait lui coûter cher. Très cher.

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

Frida Liu, a hardworking Chinese American mother, is pushed to the edge. She doesn’t live up to the expectations set by her immigrant parents or her wellness-obsessed husband. Only with Harriet—cherubic and beloved—does she find a measure of fulfillment…until she has a very bad day.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth—or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak—where he alters newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda. Beneath his outward conformity, however, Winston dreams of sharing his treasonable thoughts and breaking through the loneliness in which he lives. Thus he takes his first dangerous steps, writing a diary of his doubts and then falling in love with a woman of the Party, the beautiful and brave Julia.

Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken “Something that Happened” five hundred years before. Society is now color vision—segregated, everything dictated by an individual’s visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he didn’t commit, and he’s pretty certain to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure.

2033. Une guerre a décimé la planète. La surface, inhabitable, est désormais livrée à des monstruosités mutantes. Moscou est une ville abandonnée. Les survivants se sont réfugiés dans les profondeurs du métropolitain, où ils ont tant bien que mal organisé des microsociétés de la pénurie.

The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off, the new no-go zone wryly nicknamed "the Park." Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows.

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.

Twenty-year-old Arden Roosa knows only Ourland. Two worlds split and stitched together, with broken pieces from each, statues of fallen gods, and heavenly artifacts that are worshipped…or feared. But nothing is more fearsome than the night. A strange madness haunts the darkest hours, turning innocents into gleeful killers. Arden does her best to stay safe, until she reads a book written about her life―The Book of Arden―and everything changes.

Anhelo los días previos a la Última Desolación. Los días en que los Heraldos nos abandonaron y los Caballeros Radiantes se giraron en nuestra contra. Un tiempo en que aún había magia en el mundo y honor en el corazón de los hombres.