Dystopian Science Fiction

'[American War] creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in The Road, and as devastating a glance on the fallout that nationwide occasions have on an American relatives as Philip Roth did in The Plot opposed to America . . . El Akkad has written a singular that not just maps the harrowing results of violence on one girl and her kinfolk, but in addition turns into a anxious parable concerning the ruinous effects of struggle on traditional civilians.' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is simply six whilst the second one American Civil struggle breaks out in 2074. yet even she is aware that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is part underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And whilst her father is killed and her relations is pressured into Camp endurance for displaced individuals, she quick starts off to be formed via her specific time and position till, eventually, throughout the effect of a mysterious functionary, she is changed into a perilous device of battle. Telling her tale is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born in the course of warfare – a part of the unbelievable iteration – now an outdated guy confronting the darkish mystery of his prior, his family’s function within the clash and, particularly, that of his aunt, a girl who kept his existence whereas destroying untold others.

grey ist auf der Suche nach der verschollenen »Gruppe A«, einst ein Dorf wie Claysoot und Saltwater. Von den Überlebenden erhoffen sich die Rebellen Unterstützung im Kampf gegen den Diktator Frank. Doch hinter der Mauer, die die Gruppe A umgibt, wartet neuer Schrecken auf grey: Die entmenschlichten Überlebenden verstecken sich in einer unterirdischen Burg und beanspruchen alle Frauen unter den Rebellen für sich - auch Emma und Bree. Als auch noch der frankonische Orden seine menschlichen Kopien in die Gruppe einschleust, kann niemand mehr unterscheiden, wer Freund und wer Feind ist. Schließlich steht grey seiner eigenen Kopie gegenüber, und ein Kampf um Leben und Tod beginnt.

Die große Philip okay. Dick-Reihe bei Fischer Klassik

2055 ist die Erde in einem interstellaren Konflikt mit dem Planeten Lilistar verstrickt. Dr Eric Sweetscent, der geschickteste Transplantations-Chirurg der Galaxis, soll zwischen seinen zahlreichen Sternreisen Gino Molinari behandeln, der Herrscher über die Erde. Der soll die Gabe besitzen, von den Toten zurückzukehren, aber warum liegt dann sein Double im Eisschrank? Leibarzt der Mächtigen zu sein ist ein gefährlicher task. Aber kann er auch den Konflikt mit Lilistar lösen?

the area of the long run is especially diverse from the area we are living in now. With the superb growth of clinical and technological technology, humans can now stay so long as they need. loss of life as a result of disorder, coincidence, homicide, or average reasons is a long-forgotten factor of the previous. yet regardless of their easy immortality, a few humans during this global nonetheless are looking to die. And while that point comes, all they need to do is post a loss of life desire to the government’s Fairy Godparent Organization.
Eliza Hayworth, a tender girl who works for this mysterious department of the govt, has regularly felt a deep experience of function in her paintings as a Godmother. but if humans start mysteriously death with out filing demise needs, her global is became thoroughly the wrong way up. With the aid of her accomplice Harrison and her new trainee Robin, Eliza works to discover the explanations of those unplanned deaths that threaten to wreck every thing of their global. yet as they delve deeper into the research, Eliza starts to query every little thing she has ever recognized. And, within the approach, she realizes that everlasting lifestyles is probably not an excellent factor after all.

Das neue Abenteuer der Nimue-Alban-Reihe! Spektakuläre Abenteuer-SF um den Neubeginn der menschlichen Kultur auf einer fremden Welt. Die Anwendung fortschrittlicher Technik ist untersagt, denn die Menschen dürfen nicht aufgespürt werden: Eine feindliche Spezies hat sie von der Erde vertrieben und dabei speedy ausgelöscht. Die ehemalige Offizierin Nimue Alban führt auf der neuen Welt einen harten Kampf gegen die totalitäre Kirche - mit Dampf- und Turbinentechnik. Doch wie soll sie einen Feind bezwingen, der ihr um das 15-fache überlegen ist?

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No romance "Fluam, minhas lágrimas, disse o policial", Philip okay. Dick explora os limites entre percepção e realidade, criando uma impressionante distopia na qual Jason Taverner, um dos apresentadores mais populares da television, um dia acorda sozinho num 4to de inn e percebe que tudo mudou; que se tornara um ilustre desconhecido. E pior. Descobre que não há qualquer registro criminal de sua existência.

Dividido agora entre duas realidades, ele vê-se obrigado a recorrer ao submundo da ilegalidade enquanto tenta reaver seu passado e entender o que de fato aconteceu, dando início a uma estranha busca pela própria identidade. Ao unir à trama desconcertante uma sensível incursão no comportamento e nas emoções humanas, Philip okay. Dick prende o leitor e faz desse livro um de seus trabalhos mais comoventes.

Escrito em 1974, "Fluam, minhas lágrimas, disse o policial" [Flow My Tears, the Policeman stated] foi publicado pela primeira vez no Brasil nos anos 1980, sob o título "Identidade Perdida: O Homem que Virou Ninguém". O livro foi indicado aos prêmios Nebula, em 1974, e Hugo, em 1975, ano em que venceu do prêmio John W. Campbell como melhor romance de ficção cientifica.

lifestyles as a post-apocalyptic rancher is not effortless for Bishop and
his kinfolk. The Texan's struggles are extra complex through a restoration that
has left him feeling out of contact with the recent realities of a swiftly changing
society.

Out of the West comes the main critical problem the
Alliance has ever confronted, a risk so effective that it may result in another
downfall and spell the tip of the grand prototype of self-reliance.

Respecting Bishop and Terri's needs to dwell a normal,
secluded lifestyles, the Alliance management does its top to beat the new
threat. regardless of heroic acts and the simplest intentions, their efforts merely succeed
in pulling society towards the edge of one other cave in.   

With their acquaintances at risk, battle looming at the horizon,
and the Alliance's destiny teetering at the verge of collapse, the couple are thrust into a
fast-paced experience that exams the boundaries in their abilities, mind, and love
for every one other.

"Into a gloomy Frontier is lower from an analogous textile because the better of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor." —James Rollins

In the close to destiny, Africa collapses into an immense failed kingdom, leaving the continent lawless and seriously depopulated. for many, the breakdown brings horror, yet for others—the outcast, the determined, the legal, and the insane—it permits unprecedented chance: a brand new frontier of probability and limitless possibility.

In the US, ex-Navy SEAL Slade Crawford, emotionally crippled after two decades of entrance line strive against, the dissolution of his marriage, and the unintended dying of his son, is falsely accused of terrorism. Slade flees to Africa to construct a brand new existence and get away his previous, yet he's captured via an enigmatic American colonel, Gary Kraven, and blackmailed into monitoring down a blood cult that's rampaging around the sub-Sahara. suffering to stick alive and to unfastened himself from Kraven’s grab, Slade pursues the cult around the lawless African frontier. He quickly learns that not anything is because it turns out and that he's status on the epicenter of a world fight that might confirm the process background. Slade needs to make a decision even if to struggle for his lifestyles or his honor—he cannot have both.

Un relato futurista bajo l. a. sombra del nazismo

Mediador entre l. a. “mente que crea y las manos que construyen”, Freder, único y amado hijo del Señor de Metrópolis, es el “corazón” que siente y sufre por los habitantes de l. a. tecnológica Babel del futuro que viven al servicio de las máquinas. Rechazando los angeles violencia de una revolución social, Freder, con los angeles ayuda de María, “Virgen” y “Madre “, ofrece a una humanidad aniquilada por el trabajo y los angeles fatiga l. a. posibilidad de una rescate que les permita volver a l. a. originaria armonía entre el hombre y los angeles naturaleza y entre el individuo y l. a. sociedad.

Publicada en 1927, Metrópolis, l. a. novela de Thea von Harbou, guionista de algunas de las películas más importantes del cine alemán de los años veinte y treinta, nace como una adaptación del guión que los angeles propia autora había preparado para l. a. homónima película de Fritz Lang. Incluso en su average proximidad con el tema unique y l. a. obra maestra del director vienés, l. a. novela de von Harbou se presenta, sin embargo, como un obra autónoma, caracterizada por una escritura visionaria, vibrante y a menudo fabulística que logra captar los aspectos más devastadores de los angeles moderna sociedad industrial.

Una novela distópica de los angeles famosa Thea von Harbou para todos los aficionados del género

SOBRE l. a. AUTORA

Thea von Harbou nace el 27 de diciembre de 1888 en Baviera, en el seno de una familia noble germano-danesa venida a menos. Después de dedicarse a l. a. carrera de actriz, come to a decision finalmente entregarse a los angeles literatura convirtiéndose, al ultimate de l. a. Primera Guerra Mundial, en una autora muy popular.
En los años veinte comenza su intensa actividad cinematográfica, colabora con los más importantes directores alemanes de l. a. época como Murnau, Dreyer o von Gerlach. En 1922 se casa con Fritz Lang con el que firma, entre otros, los guiones de Metrópolis (1926), M, el vampiro de Düsseldorf (1931) y El testamento del Dr. Mabuse (1933). En 1932 se afilia al Partido nacionalsocialista convirtiéndose en una de las figuras más representativas de los angeles industria cinematográfica del Tercer Reich. Muere en Berlín en 1954.

EXTRACTO

El estruendo del gran órgano se elevó como un intenso rugido hacia l. a. cúpula. Su fuerza titánica redoblaba en l. a. bóveda como queriendo romperla en mil pedazos y huir al infinito.
Freder echó los angeles cabeza hacia atrás; sus ojos, desorbitados y enardecidos, miraban sin ver hacia lo alto. Sus manos ordenaban aquel caos de notas y creaban música, luchaban con l. a. vibración del sonido que se agitaba hasta lo más profundo de su
ser. Nunca había estado tan cerca de las lágrimas en su vida,
y ahora, dichoso e impotente, se abandonó a aquella neblina brillante que le aturdía.

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