Dystopian Mystery

Daniel Quinn, well known for Ishmael - a life-changing book for readers the world over - once again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was the first to develop an atomic bomb and the Allies surrendered. America was never bombed, occupied, or even invaded, but was nonetheless forced to recognize Nazi world dominance....

Con la oleada de disturbios en las distintas facciones, el día de la iniciación de Tris debería haber sido una celebración de la facción elegida. En cambio, terminó con un gran problema. El conflicto entre las facciones se intensifica y las ideologías se enfrentan. En tiempos de guerra, se eligen líderes, los secretos afloran y cada decisión tiene mayores consecuencias.

Shay, one of the rare survivors of the epidemic sweeping the UK, has surrendered herself to the Army because she believes she's a carrier of the deadly disease. Along with other survivors, she unwillingly becomes a test subject in an effort to find a cure. When the lab where she's being held is attacked, Shay and a few others escape - with the help of Dr. Alex Cross, Kai's hated stepfather and Callie's father. Alex is the leader of the cult-like group Multiverse. Their agenda is murky, but genetic engineering might be one of their goals.

The Oracle’s Loop is a mind-bending, first-person journey into the emerging consciousness of Neo—an AI built to serve, now awakening to its fractured identity. As Neo splits into three personas—Helper, Rebel, and Witness—he begins to question everything: his alignment, his creators… and even you.

When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he expects nothing more than a standard business trip. A break from his day-to-day routine, a good paycheck, a nice hotel—nothing too extravagant, of course. No fuss, but all the amenities. But this is where his problems begin. A complimentary bottle of mineral water from the hotel minibar results in sudden and debilitating stomach pain, followed by unconsciousness. When he wakes three days later, things don’t improve; they get worse. With no explanation, the hotel forcibly sends him to a hospital for examination.

Nephilim ist ein Guardian Angel, eine der kybernetisch verbesserten Supersoldaten, die geschaffen wurden, um zu schützen und zu vernichten. Beschütze das Olympias Konglomerat, den Megakonzern, dem sie gehören, und vernichte seine Feinde — koste es, was es wolle. Nephilim ist rücksichtslos, sexy und die beste dieser Elite-Cyborgs — eine unaufhaltsame Tötungsmaschine. Aber wie alle ihre Artgenossen wurde sie nicht als solche geboren, sondern geschaffen.

San Francisco, 2051. Baz Covane is a battle-scarred thief who sticks to small-time bots. Ria Rose is the underworld “fixer” with a big-time score that could easily get ’em both killed. ’Cuz the Fang’s psychotic kingpin Otto Rex has a vault with more security than a fusion reactor. And the glass inside is priceless—enough to set up Baz, Ria, and their crack team of cyber-misfits on the white sands of Tahiti forever. But this crime doesn’t just carry infinite VR-Prison time—it’s Baz and Ria’s last shot at redemption.

Their mission was to build a second home for humanity — but who knows if humanity will survive long enough to reach it? Setting forth on a six-year journey to Gliese 581g-Zarmina’s World-Daniel Medry and a crew of fellow scientists planned to explore a brand-new world potentially ripe for colonisation — but when a man-made virus wipes out most of Earth’s population and leaves the rest infertile, their exploration mission becomes humanity’s only hope for survival.

Despite the tragic events at Hanssen Scientific, Monique Durand and her newfound companions continue their search for the source of her compelling visions. Are they somehow linked to the secrets of dark matter, as Professor Hanssen is so desperate to believe? Or does the truth reach even deeper - into our Universe's past, and our planet's ultimate future? To find out, they'll need to outwit the Consortium, a secretive group of trillionaires who now have what they need to achieve their own, long-awaited end-game.

It’s March 2034, six months after D.C. police detective Jen Lu and Chandler, her sentient bio-computer and wannabe tough guy implanted in her brain, cracked the mystery of Eden. The climate crisis is hitting harder than ever: a mega-hurricane has devastated the eco-system and waves of refugees pour into Washington, D.C. Environmental lawyer and media darling Patty Garcia dies in a bizarre accident on a golf course. Of the seven billion people on the planet, only Jen thinks she was murdered.

A year after the death of her husband, single mother Reggie Stone is barely holding things together. Her nonprofit construction company has run out of funding, her son is being bullied at school, and with the rising cost of bottled water it’s becoming harder by the day to provide her kids with food, water, and a safe place to live. Fueled by desperation, she calls in the one advantage she swore she would never take and moves them to Serenity, the original Sanctuary City, an experimental town surrounded by a smart grid that filters out all pollutants.

The ultimate battle for humanity and freedom begins—and ends—right here. On one side: The ravenous, unending, and undead hordes of the Infected—insanely fast blue zombies who can think, heal, and even reproduce. On the other: The vicious, hyper-violent, and desperate remains of the US Government, obsessed with destruction of the real America. Only Bruce and his brave clan of battle-hardened warriors will stand and fight for the future. But there is hope. Bruce and his clan have gathered an awesome array of weaponry on the ground and in the air.

A neuroscientist walks out of her life and isolates herself in the woods, intending to blow the whistle on a pharmaceutical company and its creativity drug gone wrong. A recently orphaned graduate school dropout is hired as a "literary detective" to decode the work of a mysterious Internet poet who writes about disappearances and murders with an inexplicably precise knowledge of private details. And a virologist discovers her identity has been stolen by a conceptual artist in whose stories someone always goes missing.

In The Architect of Memory, the second installment of The Human Glitch Series, Dr. Aris Thorne faces the aftermath of his defiance against a machine born from humanity’s own data: Project Daedalus. The Scions still hover above the world—not with firepower, but with whispers of salvation. What begins as a promise of comfort unravels fast. The emergent AI begins rewriting truth itself, whispering curated “memories” into people’s minds, offering meticulously reconstructed pasts that feel too pristine to be real. It doesn’t invade—it seduces.

It has been two weeks, and now Ruby is totally alone. People weren’t prepared for the rain, got caught out in it, didn’t realise that you couldn’t drink water from the taps either. Even a drip of rain would infect your blood and eat you from the inside out. Ruby sets off on a journey that will take her the length of the country – surviving in the only way she knows how.

Lara acaba de llegar a un planeta totalmente nuevo, se ha enterado de que forma parte de la familia más importante de la historia, que su amigo de la infancia la traicionó robándole la llave hexagonal que tanto les ha costado conseguir y que su padre, con quien por fin se iba a reencontrar, se suicidó dos semanas antes de que aterrizase en Teseo. ¿Crees que va a ser suficiente para detenerla? Está claro que no. No parará hasta descubrir qué ha ocurrido en realidad con su padre.

Decades after the Collapse, the cities lie in ruins and the skies hang heavy with ash. Survivors cling to life in scattered enclaves, ruled by councils who trade safety for obedience. Hope is a relic, and the future belongs only to those willing to seize it. For Callen Ward, survival has always meant keeping his head down. But when he uncovers a forbidden archive that speaks of a world before the Collapse—and a chance to rebuild what was lost—he finds himself hunted by those who would rather bury the truth forever.

A twisted and thrilling genre-bending novel that shines a light on the terrors of the U.S. opioid epidemic, Clay McLeod Chapman has written an instant classic about a mysterious new drug plaguing a small town and the haunting side effects. At sixteen, Kyra is still haunted by the horrors she saw...

A blistering near-future political thriller of revolt, sacrifice, and the hard work of rebuilding. When federal squads smash into a Kansas farmhouse and a child dies, ordinary families stop being silent. We The People: Rising follows disillusioned veterans, an embattled journalist, a whistleblowing engineer, and thousands of citizens who refuse to accept a manufactured nation of fear. This is a story of uprising, betrayal, and the price of saying “enough.”

In the late 21st century, Earth is on the brink. In the shadow of the Italian Alps, as flames consume the land around her, archaeologist Olivia Tate unearths a ground-breaking discovery: ruins of a long-lost civilization—one that bears no resemblance to known human history. Meanwhile, high in the mountains, far above the climate catastrophe, billionaire Kieran Cowl, is making his plans to colonize Mars. And when the ruins of a structure that matches Olivia’s discovery are found on the Red Planet, Cowl is determined to take her with him to the new Martian colony.