Adult Dystopian

In this richly imagined dystopic future brought by global warming, mass human migrations are constant, water and food are scarce, new babies are illegal, and the disintegrating society is run by corporates who feed the people a steady diet of "pharma" to keep them happy. Usually, 17-year-old Nat doesn't let it get her down too much: this, after all, is the life she's used to; and though she is nostalgic for the ancient world she's heard about, she's also realistic, cheerful, and tough. But now her family have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week.

Kitty Doe hat die Wahl: entweder ein Leben als III, in dem alle auf sie herabsehen und sie nur niedere Arbeiten verrichten darf, oder ein Leben als VII, in dem sie Mitglied der einflussreichen Hart-Familie wäre und von allen bewundert würde. Dafür muss sie aber in die Rolle von Lila Hart schlüpfen, der Nichte des Premierministers. Kitty zögert nicht lange, weil sie auf eine bessere Zukunft für sich und ihren Freund Benji hofft. Doch sie gerät mitten in ein gefährliches Intrigenspiel. Wer hat die echte Lila Hart auf dem Gewissen?

Apprentice Flick remembers everything, except the first five years of her life. And for as long as she can remember, Flick has wanted to enter the Elite Academy - home to the best, brightest, and most loyal members of the Love Collective government. Flick's uncanny memory might get her there, too...even if it is the very thing that marks her as a freak. But frightening hallucinations start intruding into her days and threaten to bring down all she has worked so hard to accomplish.

Treena and Vance think they've escaped the numbers game forever. They're wrong. After Treena's disastrous attempt to unite the nation, she has the deaths of hundreds haunting her dreams. Vance is a prisoner. Being rejected by the girl he loves and put on trial for betraying his clan are bad enough, but now he's been framed for a crime he never committed. Treena and Vance are still very much in the game, and this time it will take everything they have to save those they love.

Nine is the ninth female born in her batch of ten females and ten males. By design, her life in Freedom Province is without complications or consequences. However, such freedom comes with a price. The Prime Maker is determined to keep that price a secret from the new batches of citizens that are born, nurtured, and raised androgynously.

"Je suis seul à pouvoir sauver le monde... Si je veux." Un fatal accident de cerf-volant a fait de Thomas Drimm, 13 ans moins le quart, le détenteur involontaire d'un secret terrifiant. Tiraillé entre la femme de ses rêves et un vieux savant parano réincarné dans un ours en peluche, Thomas va découvrir l'exaltant et périlleux destin d'un super-héros malgré lui.

Hoffnung ist stärker als Hass, Liebe ist stärker als Furcht. Die 18-jährige Ophelia Scale lebt im England einer nicht zu fernen Zukunft, in dem Technologie per Gesetz vom Regenten verboten ist. Die technikbegeisterte und mutige Kämpferin Ophelia hat sich dem Widerstand angeschlossen und wird auserkoren, sich beim royalen Geheimdienst zu bewerben. Gelingt es ihr, sich in dem harten Wettkampf durchzusetzen, wird sie als eine der Leibwachen in der Position sein, ein Attentat auf den Herrscher zu verüben.

In the future, the American government establishes the Dept. of Reproductive Management to evaluate and approve a citizen’s right to have children. Any family created without a government permit is declared illegal, mercilessly hunted, arrested, and often, killed. Their illegal children are sent to reeducation centers where department-approved classes can ensure their distorted views are not passed on. For 16-year-old Maggie Ward, growing up in one of these centers is all she’s ever known. After learning her brother being trained break of families, she concocts a plan to escape.

Aza Wu knows that real magic is dangerous and illegal. After all, casting killed her sister, Shire. As with all magic, everything comes at a price. For Aza, it feels like everything in her life has some kind of cost attached to it. Her sister had been casting for money to pay off Saint Willow, the gang leader that oversees her sector of Lotusland. If you want to operate a business there, you have to pay your tribute. And now with Shire dead, Aza must step in to save the legacy of Wu Teas, the teahouse that has been in her family for centuries.

Don't look back. That's where the danger lies. With Grace left reeling from choosing between Hayden and her family, she knows she needs to accept her decision. Meanwhile, as the youngest leader of Blackwing, Hayden is coping with the demands placed on him to keep the camp alive. Can he protect his friends from their violent rivals? And should he trust himself to do the right thing? Demand loyalty. Protect your family. Trust no one.

The creatures arrived on June 6th, 2026, by the hundreds of thousands, silently drifting down out of the sky, hovering at a geostationary orbit for three months all over the planet, taking up positions. No one knew what they wanted...why they came...or why they wouldn't just go away. And then, three months later, the unthinkable happened. They suddenly came to life, hunting us down. We called them gorgons—after the mythical creature Medusa—because their eyes had the power to paralyze us with just one look.

The Culling: The Complete Series includes: The Culling, The Authority, and The Ferrymen. In a solar system where the Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them. Glade Io is a trained killer. Marked at a young age as an individual with violent tendencies, she was taken from her family and groomed to be a Datapoint - a biotech-enabled analyst who carries out the culling.

Best Friends, Best Forgotten is a young adult fiction novel set in the American Midwest within a civilization billed as a new utopia, and follows the growing love of two high school students, Eden and Ashlynn, as they navigate this new and changing world. In Eden and Ashlynn’s world, tech is a part of life from the earliest age. Tech is life. But when their new friendship evolved into a great love, they could not be prepared for the price that technology would demand of them. They would come to realize sometimes even the best of friends are best forgotten.

Time can be your worst enemy. On the water planet of Dalanda, a mergirl discovers a deadly truth that will literally destroy her world. In a caste system where no one will listen to a 16th-born, speaking up can be hard. Astrid has learned to bow under the disdainful gaze of her society. She has learned to be silent and fade into the crowd. But the time for that is over. Now, she must reveal herself and speak up to save her people.

Twins who are not twins but are much more. Sumire and Violet will come face-to-face with the greatest threat our planet has ever known. Wracked by plague, famine, darkness, earthquake, and the death of an untold multitude, this world is home to two young twins destined to become mankind’s last hope. Born continents apart and yet identical in every respect, Violet and Sumire will face our greatest nightmare. Alone and yet never alone, these two girls will find each other and defeat overwhelming odds to join the rest of our heroes in what may ultimately become humanity’s last stand.

In einer Welt, in der Menschen zu wilden Bestien - sogenannten Noahs - mutieren, zählt für die siebzehnjährige Cassidy nur, ihre kranke Schwester zu beschützen. Als sie dabei von einem Noah gebissen wird, bleiben ihr noch genau dreißig Tage, eh sie selbst zu einem Monster wird. Nur mit der Hilfe des Rebellen Daniel hat sie eine Chance, rechtzeitig Medizin zu beschaffen. Aber wer hilft schon einer tickenden Zeitbombe, deren kleinste Berührung zur eigenen Ansteckung führen kann?

Winner of the National Book Award, Pete Hautman pens a futuristic satire brimming with wry humor and honored by a Booklist starred review. Welcome to the United Safer States of America in 2076! Here, prisoners perform all manual labor. And the country is finally safe. Sixteen-year-old Bo ignores governmental protective devices capturing every action and word. He endures the avalanche of safety regulations. But when he’s accused of spreading a rash at school, anger and jealousy threaten to override his daily dose of calming Levulor and earn him a "job" in the Canadian tundra.

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Остров Проспера — один из трех островов небольшого архипелага, затерянного в океанских просторах и изолированного от остального мира и человечества — или того, что от него осталось. Население острова живет в привилегированном положении. За ним присматривает вспомогательный персонал, живущий в тесноте на соседнем острове, и когда к жителям Просперы приходит старость, их отправляют на третий остров — Питомник, где их тела возрождаются заново, воспоминания о прошлой жизни стираются, и помолодевшие старики снова возвращаются на Просперу.

Cael McAvoy is on the run. He's heading toward the Empyrean to rescue his sister, Merelda, and to find Gwennie before she's lost to Cael forever. With his pals, Lane and Rigo, Cael journeys across the Heartland to catch a ride into the sky. But with Boyland and others after them, Cael and his friends won't make it through unchanged. Gwennie's living the life of a Lottery winner, but it's not what she expected.