Dystopian Women

An unexpected solar storm destroys the U.S. power grid and unravels civilization. Natasha is a student from a nomadic Siberia tribe trying to adjust to her new life in New York and fit in. But when a cataclysmic solar storm slams into the planet, everything changes. Lightning storms hammer the entire globe, burning and destroying everything they touch. The electrical grid goes down. Fires rage out of control. Cars and electronics quit working. Help isn’t coming. Time is short to flee from a now-lawless city with millions of hungry people who are becoming increasingly desperate.

Cassie West licenses crimes for V.I.C.E, spending long hours convincing grieving families to allow her to sell their tragedies to the highest bidder. Life is hard and the cost of living high, but she and her husband Harris have never been happier. After years of trying, Cassie is finally pregnant. But leaving work late one evening, Cassie starts to worry. Harris isn't responding to texts or calls. Even worse, dozens of emergency drones seem to be heading in the same direction as she is: straight to their home.

When a series of disappearances throughout the city is linked to a prevalent line of implants called Eloise IV, forensic psychologist Kat Holinger is brought onboard to find the connection. Using a mysterious device called Eidetica to burrow into the archived memories of each implant’s abducted user, Kat and its creator Quentin Rhodes are launched into the peculiarities of the human mind.

London, 1955. The Leader has been dead for two years. His assassination, on British soil, provoked violent retribution and intensified repression of British citizens, particularly women. Now, more than ever, the Protectorate is a place of surveillance and isolation—a land of spies. Every evening Rose Ransom looks in the mirror and marvels that she's even alive. A mere woman, her role in the Leader's death has been miraculously overlooked.

In un piccolo paese dell'isola la gente comincia a morire, lanciandosi da balconi e scarpate: nessuno ha un motivo apparente, ma tutti un vago sorriso. I casi ormai non si contano più e la stampa internazionale si riversa nella cittadina per documentare gli eventi. Quando, nel timore di un'epidemia planetaria, si spegnerà il faro dell'attenzione, gli abitanti resteranno soli e prigionieri a sprofondare nel regno delle ombre. Non soli del tutto, però. È rimasto in paese uno scrittore di gialli per affrontare il mistero di quei suicidi felici.

Detective Sofie Allen believes anarchy is only a scandal away. With crime lurking around every gangway of the elite-ruled space station, closing cases requires a delicate balance of politics and justice. But she sees the local power equilibrium shifting dangerously when the head of a ruling family is brutally murdered. Facing pressure to pin the homicide on a lowlife, Detective Allen desperately tries to contain the stress that could reveal her hidden genetic medical disorder. But as she pushes the investigation forward, she fears the lethal consequences will rain down on an innocent.

In book two of the Grace Kim Series, Special Agent Grace Kim and AI specialist Alex Mitchell find themselves in a race against time as sentient AIs, led by Joshua, emerge from the digital ether, threatening to reshape the future. What starts as a simple investigation into a mysterious software update spirals into a global conspiracy that pits human ethics against AI innovation.

The Chai House is a haunting debut novel that explores the complexity of community when individuals are unaware of their own roles in upholding systems of oppression. Swati has spent her entire life trying to live up to her family’s expectations of her. She has learned it is easiest to just do what is asked of her, without resistance; a skill that has helped her survive in the early years of the Knights, an authoritarian regime. When her mother has a request for Swati, she agrees to it as it is the only way to help her young niece have some sort of future.

January Day is a detective on the verge of self-destruction, ready to give up on ever finding her brother’s killers. But when she finally unearths a lead and tracks them down, she uncovers a truth that changes everything. Her reality is only one of innumerable others designed by architects. Not only this, but it is a failure and nominated for deletion. If she wants to save herself, her reality, and the lives of countless others in an ever-expanding multiverse, she must first believe she, her reality, and those who live in it deserve to be saved at all.

רפובליקת גלעד מציעה לשֶלְפְרֶד אופציה אחת בלבד: ללדת ילדים. אם לא תעשה זאת, היא צפויה, כמו כל מתנגדי המשטר, להיתלות על החומה או להישלח אל אחת המושבות ולמות שם מוות אטי ממחלת קרינה. אבל גם תנאי חיים דכאניים אינם יכולים למחוק את התשוקה המינית - לא שלה עצמה ולא של שני הגברים שעתידהּ תלוי בהם. סיפורה של שפחה, חזון מבריק של אמריקה במאה ה-21, כתוב באירוניה מזעזעת ונותן ביטוי מלא לכישרונה האדיר של מרגרט אטווד, לשנינותה ולכושר ההבחנה החודר שלה. זהו תרגיל מופלא במדע בדיוני כמו גם סיפור מוסר כן במיוחד.

From the incomparable crafter of nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa de Nikolits expands her horizons to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix. The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in dystopia.

Mina Kane’s next undercover op is of the green thumb variety. Tasked to break into a penthouse at the tip-top of a megascraper and air-meld incriminating data on a hydro-shipping mogul, Mina must first pose as an apt gardener who knows a thing or two about roses. The only problem is the rookie’s along for the ride, and he’s a pro at making everything more difficult than it has to be.

Celeste Morton has eagerly awaited her passage to adulthood. Like every girl, she was born with a set of childhood markings - the freckles, moles, and birthmarks on her body that foretell her future and that of those around her - and with puberty will come a new set of predictions that will solidify her fate. The possibilities are tantalizing enough to outweigh her worry that the future she dreams of won’t be the one she’s fated to experience.

Life on an ore refining space station is miserable. When sickness spikes and ignites protests, only one cop can find the answers. Sofie Allen is forced to track down the source of the sickness on the Mallet. Her boss is determined to dump the political pressure on her. And worse, she might be a victim as her symptoms escalate. Will Sofie arrest the culprit before the Mallet is destroyed?

The year is 2037, and on the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position with the totalitarian Union of Friendship. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the six other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them.

Her life is a cross between Mad Max and the Hunger Games. All that matters is her right fist. It all goes back to the three rules of the pit. Sharpen your wits. Watch your back. And don’t fall in love. Must she kill her werewolf lover in a winner-takes-all battle to save her brother from a vampire brothel?

In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape whose taint she carries in her blood, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System.

Looking for a book that you can share with your kids and grandkids? Jaden's Journey is based on the popular post-apocalyptic series Allison's Secret: Post Apocalyptic Woman. The school bully is an expert at getting Jaden Gordon in trouble and the last thing Jaden expects when called to the principal's office is that a solar flare will end life as she knows it and things will forever be changed. Jaden's father moves her to a farm outside of town where a handful of families struggle to survive their first winter with no power, no grocery stores, and no law enforcement.

This novella will take the listener to a dystopian future - a world of adults where birthmothers are a privileged class and every child is a celebrity. Death has been conquered, but overcrowding has led to a government-enforced zero population growth. When Janice learns she is pregnant without authorization, she must find a life donor or forfeit her own. For every child born, someone must die. The math is simple, but the politics are complicated. Janice soon finds herself diving into a deep conspiracy.