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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.

With their supplies reclaimed and food enough for the future, the group at Barry's cabin can do more than just scrape by. Between fruitful gardens, great friends, and sturdy fences—not to mention karaoke—life in the zompoc is better than ever. Nothing is perfect, however. Across the country, safe zones are mysteriously going dark, and Oregon's summer weather has turned the forest into a tinderbox. As the unknown danger closes in and smoke begins to fill the sky, the survivors are all too aware of how quickly plans unravel, fences fall, and luck runs out.

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.

A year has passed since the plague destroyed most of civilization around the world and the U.S. military is slowly starting to move out into a devastated country. From their bastion in the Pacific Northwest mechanized task forces take the fight for America onto the offensive. In front of the military, deep into the wild ruins, go the Irregular Scout Teams. A mix of hardened military veterans and experienced civilians who can operate for long periods of time on their own.

Family comes first in the dystopian sea-faring adventure: The Viking Throne. The Henihans, a family of sirens, are brutally separated. James Henihan failed to protect his family. He will dive into the murderous depths of the Cursed Seas of Europe to find his family on a voyage wrought with bloodthirsty pirates, supernatural beasts, sorcerous legends, and environments not fit for the living. Will James find redemption? Or will his enemies both above and below the Cursed Seas quell his hopes of a family reunion? ˃˃˃ "FIVE STARS: The villain of the story is repugnant and brutal. Hatred for ...

The Wright family's rural paradise becomes a battleground for survival when darkness descends across the land. After an EMP attack cripples the nation, Gianna Wright must protect her son Dean and lead the townspeople against the tyrannical Sergeant Hudson. Outnumbered and outgunned, Gianna and her twin brother Grant hatch a daring plan to infiltrate Hudson's militia and ignite an uprising. However, Hudson kidnaps Dean and forces the twins to make an impossible choice: surrender themselves or watch Dean hang.

In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone all too willingly to serve as a medic in an overseas war. His absence, and Cass's isolation, has brought her into an exhausted but harmonious rhythm with the children; while it's a frightening time, there is also a surprising, quiet tenderness in living on the edge of societal collapse.

In the year twenty-one twenty-one. Die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, existiert nicht mehr, weil inzwischen ein Großteil der Erdoberfläche der des Mars ähnelt. Aber die Menschheit existiert - auf zwei unterschiedliche Arten. Die Analogen leben in Sphären - Habitaten unter Kuppeln aus Graphen und Polymeren, geschützt von Filtern und Spiegeln. Die Digitalen existieren als denkende Form von Nullen und Einsen in einer virtuellen Welt, in der nichts unmöglich scheint. Maxx ist fest in der analogen Welt verankert: Ein Kerl wie aus Titan und Schützling des reichsten Mannes aller Sphären.

"Progressi e sfide della nematologia" è il titolo della conferenza, ben poco partecipata, in cui Arthur e Kevin si incontrano per la prima volta. Nematologia, cioè lo studio dei vermi. Pardon, lombrichi. La sede è una delle aule ipermoderne dell’istituto AgroParisTech, inspiegabilmente trasferito dalle campagne dell’Île-de-France alla spianata di cemento dell’altopiano di Saclay: un’infilata di centri commerciali e isole spartitraffico da cui è più che mai arduo immaginare un futuro verde per la nazione.

A merced de los elementos, acechado por los recuerdos y sin más compañía que la de los Hijos de Crake, esos seres de ojos verdes que lo consideran una especie de profeta, Hombre de las Nieves se pregunta cómo ha podido cambiar todo en tan poco tiempo y emprende un doble viaje hacia su pasado y hacia la burbuja de alta tecnología creada por Crake, el lugar donde empezó todo.

"Vampirez" begins the sequel series to J.J.F. Reibel's "Zombie Chronicles" and starts immediately after "Azgard." The zombie pandemic has mostly been quelled, but a new creature poses a threat to the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

In a city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. An algae bloom has poisoned the previously pristine air that blows in from the sea. Inland, a secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford—a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. In the short, desperate breaks between deadly windstorms, our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships.

Drawn straight from today’s headlines into a soon-to-be America, a broken country gradually beaten down by one-party rule and loss of personal freedoms, Shantyboat follows the story of two homeless men struggling to recover at least a sliver of freedom by building a shantyboat. But their efforts inside a society of surveillance and totalitarian controls soon lead them to commit both theft and murder.

Big Time is set in a not-too-distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy—a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention. The novel opens as Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas. He reconnects with his band as they prepare to record and tour their second album, and is given his first taste of a new designer drug, F, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen that gives users a glimpse of their own future.

Dive into the future with "Ayla: Echoes of Dissent," the first book in Josef Hammer's Ayla: Chronicles of Rebellion series. This gripping dystopian adventure takes you into a vast digital metropolis controlled by an unseen elite. Meet Ayla, a determined young woman from the underground working class who sets out to uncover the intricate web of control spun by the ruling class. This is a must if you love dystopian fiction, young adult adventures, and social justice themes.

On their heels, America finds new purpose and an unwavering desire to save what is left. She has faltered in the recent past, but can her citizens rally behind the idea that freedom comes with a cost? Can the remaining few salvage what's left of what was once the greatest nation on earth? As the bombs fall, killing more and more people, follow along as small, ragtag groups fight for their very existence, and stop the evil that has permeated the world.

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?

Der russische Cluster. Der Boden bebt, als sich der Feind nähert. Die zornigen Götter blicken stirnrunzelnd vom Himmel herab. Geheimdienste sind in einen brutalen Kampf verwickelt. Hunderttausende empfindungsfähiger Wesen metzeln sich munter gegenseitig nieder. Dies hier ist nicht länger bloß eine Quest in einem Spiel oder ein belangloser Wettstreit zwischen Clans um ein rohstoffreiches Stück Land.

Estingai barely pulled herself from the rubble of the Deathknight’s attack, but she has no time for grief. She must finish what she and her husband had started and unite the disparate factions of the resistance and lead them off their dying world. When the other factions resist her efforts, Estingai must decide how far she is willing to go, who, if anyone, she can trust to help her, and if she can take up the mantle of the Last Knight and lead them to salvation.

Despite living in a time of escalating chaos, Professor Simeon Mackenzie leads a quiet life, if a lonely one. He teaches his graduate students, writes an occasional book, reads a lot, and dwells in a former beach town in California. When a mysterious woman enters his life and gives him a mind-altering device to experiment with, everything changes. Characters in ancient lore, in American history, and in Simeon’s dreams spring vividly to life. What he had taken for the typical past of an adoptee unravels into a pattern of perilous secrets. The real experiment involves a race between ...