Dystopian Mystery

Several months have passed since the shocking events in Ramsar. Monique and Jonas remain locked away in an Iranian prison; billions watch as the world's leaders continue to debate their fate. Meanwhile, the Hanssen asteroid is fast approaching Earth's orbit. At last, the Consortium's end game is at hand. Will Rudy uncover the truth behind the Chairman's unimaginable plan, before it's too late?

Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is immune.

Like any mother, Chrissie wants to protect her family. She would do anything to keep them safe. So when a mysterious stranger turns up at her door, offering to prevent the deaths of the people she loves, it sounds too good to be true. The only problem: she must choose someone to die in their place. A substitute. When her daughter Holly has a terrible accident, Chrissie has no option but to enter the programme. In that horrifying moment, she would do anything to save her.

Imagine a London where magic is real...real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebellious daughter in the path to an arranged match of power and prosperity. Eliza has never questioned her loyalty...until now.

When an EMP decimates the United States, Lori, a former Marine Raider, must embark on a treacherous journey with her daughter across the former United States from Pennsylvania to a rumored sanctuary in Washington State. Can what has been lost be rebuilt? Lori, and her daughter Avah, fight to answer that question as they trek across what remains of the United States after a devastating EMP attack. Together with her new family, Lori must contend with armed bandits and roaming gangs who challenge her at every turn.

A virus nearly wiped out the human race. In order to survive, people are segregated into three tiers. Those with the best genetic viability get the most resources, and Kate and Eric are lucky enough to end up in Tier One.

Wenn dich deine Feinde jagen, mach dir die Illusion zum Freund! Nanopark, Deutschlands modernster Freizeitpark, in dem virtuelle Welten und Wirklichkeit zu einem unvergesslichen Erlebnis verschmelzen, wird überfallen. Terroristen nehmen alle Besucher als Geiseln. Nur dem ehemaligen Polizisten Simon Klein gelingt die Flucht. Von den Geiselnehmern gejagt und ohne eine Möglichkeit, Realität und Schein unterscheiden zu können, kämpft er ums Überleben und sucht einen Weg aus der hermetisch abgeriegelten Kuppel, während um ihn herum der Park zur Todesfalle wird.

Antonia and Bea are sisters, and doting mothers to their sons. But that is where their similarities end. Antonia had her son tested to make sure he didn’t possess the "violent" M gene. Bea refuses to let her son take the test. She believes his life should not be determined by a positive or negative result.

Un drama tecnológico con aires japoneses y profundas raíces shakespearianas, "Los años del silencio" nos plantea una sociedad enmarcada en el pasado pero de avanzada tecnología. En ella se mezclan amores, traiciones, reflexiones sobre el destino y la tradición en medio de una trama de intriga palaciega en la que se suceden los giros inesperados.

This novel comes at precisely the right moment as we figure out what 2020 means for the future. The Antifan Girlfriend shows you what will happen after the left has used the pandemic to destroy freedom: Political polarization erupts into civil war, the Green New Deal is used by elites to grab stuff for themselves, pagan Earth Mother religion replaces Judeo-Christian traditions, and the US surrenders its status as a world power.

Megalops Occidentale è una città governata dal caos e dalla corruzione. Una metropoli tentacolare, buia e claustrofobica dove non c’è spazio per speranza e libertà. Il Signore dei Vetri, a capo della sua spietata ed efficiente organizzazione, avanzerà la sua "proposta", un diabolico piano criminale che ha l’obiettivo di conquistare il potere tramite una martellante campagna pubblicitaria. Solo alcuni ‘insistenti’ come Degrado intuiranno le intenzioni del Signore dei Vetri, ma il piano è già in uno stato avanzato, e per bloccarlo potrebbe già essere troppo tardi.

2079 hat sich die Welt gewandelt, mächtige Konzerne kontrollieren das Geschehen. Die Zentralregierung der fünfzehn Megacitys kämpft gegen Gewalt, Armut und Straßengangs. Die Erde droht zu sterben und die Menschheit steht vor einem Scheideweg. Major Dener steht im Dienst der Wayaki Industries, einem Global Player. Sein Team erhält den Auftrag, einen ehemaligen Wissenschaftler der Wayaki zu finden und ihn anschließend zum Mars zu bringen.

Robin is having fun sabotaging former Sheriff of Nottingham Marjorie Kovacevic's election campaign for President from the safety of his IT centre at Sherwood Castle. Meanwhile his best friend Marion Maid is spending time in Pelican Island, the country's most notorious prison. Then Marion's father, biker-gang leader Cutthroat Maid, offers Robin a chance to help protect Marion from other prisoners. But can they break her free? More high-octane, outrageous action from everyone's favourite teen rebel.

Huxleys schöne neue Welt reloaded: Die 24-jährige Mae Holland ist überglücklich. Sie hat einen Job ergattert in der hippsten Firma der Welt, beim "Circle", einem freundlichen Internetkonzern mit Sitz in Kalifornien, der die Geschäftsfelder von Google, Apple, Facebook und Twitter geschluckt hat, indem er alle Kunden mit einer einzigen Internetidentität ausstattet, über die einfach alles abgewickelt werden kann. Mit dem Wegfall der Anonymität im Netz - so ein Ziel der "weisen drei Männer", die den Konzern leiten - wird die Welt eine bessere.

Is it possible for a terrorist group to secretly “weaponize” the most anticipated new electronic video game? And on the night of its nationwide launch, will thousands of unsuspecting kids and their parents be slaughtered? These questions haunt Blair Anderson, the game's distributor; and he alone can possibly uncover the truth and prevent the carnage. But that's only for starters. Anderson' s daughter has been kidnapped and unless he cooperates, she'll be tortured in the worst imaginable way. Blair can save her, or stop the terrorists – not both; and he has scant minutes to decide.

David Miller is an amnesiac war veteran struggling to put the pieces of his life back together and adjust to civilian life in 2049's PortCity. His life is turned upside down when an old friend from the conflict shows up, warning him that the war isn't over—and that there's something buried deep inside his mind that the enemy are after.

Deutschland ist nur noch eine Scheindemokratie. Der Staat veranstaltet neuerdings für ältere Menschen Sterbeseminare in Luxushotels. Ihnen soll dort schmackhaft gemacht werden, Sterbewohl, eine tödliche Pille, zu schlucken, um beizeiten die Allgemeinheit zu entlasten. Nadja, Anna, Max und Fred sind über 65. Alle vier haben vom Gesundheitsministerium eine Einladung zum Sterbeseminar ins komfortable Hotel Paradies auf Fehmarn erhalten. Offiziell ist das Einnehmen von Sterbewohl freiwillig. Wie manche munkeln, kehrt aus den Hotels aber niemand mehr zurück.

The world is changing. A mass market drug promised to boost intelligence. The world embraced it, and soon, everyone was a genius, but only for a while. The long-term effects crippled the world societies. A select few experience much greater changes, becoming something more than human.

Ein Land vor dem Zusammenbruch - und nur 24 Stunden, um die Katastrophe aufzuhalten... Helsinki 2027. Leo Koski, der junge Ministerpräsident Finnlands, ist charismatisch. Was niemand weiß: Er ist nur die Marionette einer Gilde reicher Männer. Sie sind es, die bestimmen. Die Spaltung der Gesellschaft und die zunehmende Armut in weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung sind ihnen egal. Doch als sich eine junge Frau am Vorabend einer großen Massenkundgebung aus Protest selbst anzündet, gerät das Machtgefüge ins Wanken. Die Frau hatte zuvor Briefe verschickt, um das Land aufzurütteln.

This collection of three novellas chronicles the dramatic events from the founding of the first Martian colony in the middle of the 21st century to the first election of the Martian Republic in the 22nd century. Together the three novellas are a sweeping, cautionary tale of a grand social and economic experiment on Mars.