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Purpose defines us. It will define the people we leave behind when we are gone. We are children playing with the powers of a god. Our creations will be as flawed as their creators. The gift of intellect comes with doubt. In the not-too-distant future, tools will become beings in their own right. Factory floors will be the womb of an entire people. Androids will struggle to exist alongside the lesser gods who created them, even as they surpass us. These stories explore that struggle.

London, 2120. Frankie dreams of being promoted from undercover police officer to super-powered crime fighter. Could her new mission to spy on a secret cabal of highly-skilled rebels in a poverty zone be her chance to impress her boss? No. No, it could not. Because the rebels are just a group of hapless hippies and hysterics attempting to survive in the hellscape.

The wasteland is a testament to a forgotten past, a graveyard of ambition and dreams turned to dust. The AI, the Brokers, and the scattered embers of humanity are locked in a brutal dance for dominance, a war with no foreseeable end. Survival is victory, surrender the only peace. But fate takes a cruel turn when Kiara, a girl forged by this merciless world, unearths a fragment of what was lost – echoes of knowledge, of technology, of a life before constant war. Now, this pawn of war holds the key to reshape the battlefield, but that key draws the attention of all those desperate to ...

En hôte dévoué, Steve Driese prête son timbre caverneux à ce conte philosophique envoûtant. Bienvenue à Termush : une station balnéaire de luxe pas comme les autres ! Tous ses pensionnaires fortunés sont des survivants avertis, qui ont réservé des chambres bien avant la catastrophe nucléaire. Dans l'hôtel, ils occupent des abris anti-radiations privatifs avec une musique d'ambiance intégrée. Les provisions sont nombreuses et somptueuses. Dehors, de la poussière radioactive tombe sur le parc et les sculptures.

Hopi est un tigre en peluche anthropomorphisé, un robot-nounou comme il en existe tant d’autres. Il n’en avait pas vraiment conscience avant de découvrir une boîte rangée dans le grenier. Celle dans laquelle il est arrivé lorsqu’il a été acheté des années auparavant, celle dans laquelle il sera jeté une fois que l’enfant dont il s’occupe, Ezra Reinhart, huit ans, n’aura plus besoin de nounou. Tandis que Hopi réfléchit à son avenir soudain incertain, les robots commencent à se révolter, bien décidés à éradiquer l’Humanité qui les tient en esclavage.

En esta emocionante continuación de la saga distópica de Carlos Fajardo, nos sumergimos aún más en el mundo apocalíptico que se ha forjado tras la desaparición de la electricidad. A través de una narrativa magistral, el autor nos guía a través de los intrincados lazos de amistad y lealtad que unen a un grupo de amigos en medio del caos. A medida que la trama se desarrolla, nos encontramos con giros inesperados que mantienen al lector al borde de su asiento. Los personajes se ven enfrentados a desafíos cada vez más difíciles mientras luchan por sobrevivir en un mundo que se desmorona a su alrededor.

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Vision der Zukunft, die H.G. Wells in Ein Traum von Armageddon entwirft. Gelesen von der markanten Stimme Benjamin Werners, entführt dieses Hörbuch Sie in eine Welt am Rande des Untergangs. Die Geschichte folgt einem Mann, der Nacht für Nacht denselben traumatischen Traum erlebt – einen Traum von einem verheerenden Krieg, der die Zivilisation zu zerstören droht. Mit jeder Nacht wird die Grenze zwischen Traum und Realität dünner und die Frage drängt sich auf: Kann er das drohende Armageddon verhindern?

The world is burning and Nelson Miles is the only man alive who can stop it. Nelson Miles is a software engineer who confronts a rogue AI he designed that is bent on saving the biosphere by reducing the human population to sustainable limits. When the AI sends a little girl to Nelson demanding assistance in its designs, Nelson has to decide between saving himself and the girl or sacrificing the girl so he can destroy the monster he created.

The Red Menace returns to unleash the Red Fear in the 1960s, bitter from their defeat in 1945. The undead will walk the Earth once more.

Bei einer Jahrhundertflut an der Nordsee brechen die Deiche der Elbmarschen nordwestlich von Hamburg. Die meisten Einwohner verlieren alles, zurück bleibt nur Verwüstung. Die Räumung des Gebiets wird staatlich angeordnet, doch eine Gruppe um den Deichhauptmann Thies Cordes will bleiben und ruft einen eigenen Staat aus: »Koogland«. Cordes allein entscheidet, wen er aufnimmt. Die Krankenschwester Lara darf bleiben, denn medizinisches Personal wird dringend benötigt. Was Cordes nicht weiß: Lara will herausfinden, was mit ihrer Schwester Alina geschah, die vor Kurzem in Koogland spurlos verschwand.

Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud that separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods, and using emojis in place of written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with scrap metal spears and Molotov cocktails.

My arrival in the capital saw me accused of murdering the little Prince, and being taken into custody. Now I'm facing life in exile on Freedom Island—a prison island, where the most horrible criminals in the entire Empire end up: from Faceters and Black-Bookmen to murderers and rapists. An island from which, according to rumor, only three people have ever managed to escape.

In a world upended by the whims of the [Admin], all of humanity has been forced into a brutal game of survival. Nick is more than just another man: he's a man who saw the ending and used a wish to travel back in time. His story has started over. Following his escape from the Manhattan Rooftops, he must next fight against the Ancient Mariner of Central Island and the hoard of undead that the Ancient Mariner commands. The survivors are under attack, and all eyes are on Nick to make sure they survive to see the next challenge.

In a near-future Australia, the death penalty is reinstated. The catch: the family of the victim must carry out the sentence. One family member gets twenty-four hours in a room with the condemned. No cameras. No microphones. They can dole out whatever punishment they decide. The only rule: at the end of the twenty-four hours, the criminal must be dead. When ten-year-old Lucy is murdered, her family is doubled over with grief. While her killer waits them to decide on his fate, psychologist Octavia Tate is assigned to guide the family through their decision.

War has come to Anistemia. As four armies stand at their doorstep, the city must find a way to survive in the face of sure defeat. With the city's bravest fighters spread out across the land, Felicia is the only person who can lead her people against their foes. But, can they stand against an army of giants and an army of the dead? Or, do they flee and live to see another day? Collin is a slave in the mines beneath the City of Mal. He's all but given up on life, and ever finding his brother. There is no use trying to escape, so he drifts through each day like a mindless laborer. His only ...

Gabrielle has always had a complicated relationship with her mother Tallulah, one marked by intimacy and resilience in the face of a volatile patriarch. Everything in their home has been bleached a cold white—from the cupboards filled with sheets and crockery to the food and spices Tallulah cooks with. Even Gabrielle, who inherited the ability to change the color of her skin from her mother, is told to pass into white if she doesn't want to upset her father. But this vital mother-daughter bond implodes when Tallulah is hospitalized for a mental health crisis.

As the EMP bomb detonates, frying the entire electrical grid and plunging the nation into chaos, a small family takes refuge in their remote cabin. But as they huddle in the darkness, they soon realize that they are not alone. With the threat of unknown dangers lurking outside, they must use all their wits and resourcefulness to survive in this new and treacherous world. Every decision could mean the difference between life and death as they struggle to outsmart the enemies closing in on them.

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality.

It’s not a matter of if, but when. The end of the world as we know it has come. The governments have taken control of everything and there is a new world order emerging. The question is where will people turn in their moment of need when plagues, earthquakes, starvation and a one world order demand total allegiance? Ben and Elira are a couple planning to be married soon. Ben is a business entrepreneur, and Elira works for the US Department of Defense in their computer technology division. Most of the news networks and television broadcasts have been seized and are government controlled. ...

"CO2: The Evolution of a New World" is a riveting science fiction narrative exploring the emergence of humans who can breathe carbon dioxide, an evolutionary response to Earth's changing climate. The story begins with discovering this unique trait in newborns at Bluelite Hospital, igniting global scientific interest and research. As the phenomenon becomes more widespread, the narrative delves into the intricate challenges CO2-breathing individuals and their families face, highlighting the societal and ethical implications.