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The year is 2036, and the gig economy is alive and well. Technology that was once dominated by the rideshare and food delivery sector had started to pivot toward community justice. Politicians overwhelmingly voted to allow ‘Rectify’ an app that allows ordinary citizens to become crime fighters. With runaway inflation and government pensions in the red, it was a no-brainer. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for bad actors to start using the tech to eliminate those who made their lives more difficult.

As twins, Liza and Mary Connors grew up in hiding in the mountains of North Carolina. Their father assured them that it was for their own safety, as the world had changed and must be avoided. Year after year, they wandered the wilderness, never engaging the outside world. Until one day, everything changed and their hiding place was discovered. The twins entered into a hostile world. If it found out their secret, they would be arrested as terrorists. But there is a way out.

La femme, un produit sans grand avenir ? 2224. Depuis le Grand Effondrement de la civilisation fossile et les crises qui ont suivi, l'humanité s'est adaptée. Économiser les ressources, se protéger du soleil, modifier son habitat, ses besoins, et adhérer au tout-recyclage. Y compris celui des femmes. Afin d'enrayer le déclin de la population, toute femme de cinquante ans est retirée de son foyer pour laisser la place à une autre, plus jeune et encore fertile.

When an EMP attack decimates the nation's power grid, most men would be afraid. Most would shudder and cower as society collapsed around him. But Tony Nunziatta isn't most men. He's a man above, a man who has prepared for this day. A man whose skills make him a very dangerous enemy to any opportunist who might threaten his family's safety.

Rylee Williams is looking forward to a fun-filled gap year before she heads East for college. An extended trip to Europe. Volunteering for her congregations Home Mission. Maybe even mentoring for her old high schools robotics team. Pregnancy was the last thing that she expected. Detained under the Unborn Child Protection Act and forced into the Wisconsin Individual Family Education program with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Rylee struggles to navigate in a world that has reduced her to a walking womb. Can this strong-willed mother-to-be reclaim her life . . . and her future?

In 2074 New York City, Regal Manager Leona has taken advantage of the devastated country and claimed the city for her own kingdom. She controls her people by threat of the portal—a gateway to a black hole created in a project to deflect its pull on Earth. Roxy and a bunker full of kids were hidden below the streets of Manhattan when their parents fought and died in the Resistance sixteen years earlier.

Mitte des 23. Jahrhunderts hat sich die Menschheit über die Grenzen der Erde hinaus entwickelt. Viele Planeten und Monde des Sonnensystems sind besiedelt, wenn auch oft nur von kleinen Bergbaukolonien oder Industrieanlagen. Bis weit hinein in die Oortsche Wolke sind Außenposten bereits vorgedrungen. Selbst der interstellare Raum bleibt nicht unberührt. Auch wenn die überlichtschnelle Raumfahrt ein Wunschtraum bleibt, dem die unumstößlichen physikalischen Gesetze entgegenstehen.

In a near-future dystopia, Dr. Aisling Ramsey, a distinguished scientist, is racing against time. Diagnosed with only months to live, she is close to a breakthrough in curing cancer, including her own. Her revolutionary technologies catch the attention of a dictator, who sees them as key to his sinister ambitions.

With every known planet, colony or settlement empty, ruined or completely destroyed, a desperate crew of humans onboard the starship Odyssey, hear rumours of a mythical phenomenon called The Horizon. This magical place on the edge of known space is believed to transport those who traverse it back in time to the moment they were at their happiest. With only death, heartache and baron wastelands surrounding them, the crew of the Odyssey head towards the Horizon. However to reach this phenomenon, they must cross The Expanse - a 30-day trip through entirely empty space.

Some things never change. Even in the new World war and hatred keep the party from finding a peaceful place to live out their lives.

War came to the Wastelands and blood and death followed. The Cities will stop at nothing to take what is ours, even if it brings us to the brink of extinction once again. With many dead or dying, it is my duty to make the ultimate sacrifice to save us all. My name is Worth, The Champion, Berserker Queen. This is my ending.

Sofia Bottom lives in Elysia, a small country forgotten by Europe. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live among their roots have given way to an explosion of the arts and the consolations of philosophy. From the clarinetists to the cabaret singers, no artist is as revered as Sofia’s brilliant mother, the writer Clara Bottom. How can fourteen-year-old Sofia, with her tin ear and enduring love of ancient myths, ever hope to win her mother’s love?

War is pain! The Alliance is growing, but now they are in danger both in and outside of the arena. In order to protect his growing group of allies, Niam must rely more than ever on Jorn's knowledge, Esque's skills, and his strength. This is the second book in The FaeBorn series, a trilogy written for upper elementary and older. It's a trilogy any listener can enjoy, as it combines fantasy, dystopia, and mythology all in an exciting adventure that any listener can enjoy.

Einhundertfünfzig Jahre nach dem Kollaps. Die Menschen haben sich in eine Festung im Norden Europas zurückgezogen. Geschützt unter einer Kuppel aus purer Energie versuchen sie sich ihren Platz auf der Erde zurückzuerobern. Denn tödliche Kreaturen durchstreifen den Kontinent und führen noch immer Krieg gegen die letzten Überlebenden. Als Jan und sein Flügelmann Kai bei einem Routineflug verschwinden, beginnt für die beiden ein Kampf ums Überleben in der grünen Hölle, die Mitteleuropa mittlerweile geworden ist. Doch von unerwarteter Seite naht Hilfe.

After reuniting with her family, Serenity and her group settle into their new home to begin to rebuild their lives. But not everyone in Bower's Township is happy to have them as neighbors.

Metropolis is a classic of science-fiction that created an impact on the literary world which reverberates to this day. Its dramatic presentation of the city-world of the next century stirred the minds of readers with an unforgettable vision of a metropolis grown to Gargantuan proportions, of humanity fighting to keep its soul against the monster world of machinery, robots, and complexity that had been spawned in our own century. The book inspired a movie, possibly the best science-fiction film ever made.

An engineered virus that attacks the brain leaks from a research lab and spreads quickly, causing infected people to go into psychotic rage. Before almost anyone knows what is happening, a well-armed America is terrorized by a pandemic of violence. Kanetha Wilson—friend of the first victim—is first to recognize that something is not as it seems. She inspires a small cadre of scientists and others into a breakneck, lonely, and lawless mission to identify and stop the murder plague.

The best place to be in an Apocalypse is inside a thirty ton Bradley Fighting Vehicle grinding rotting bodies to paste under your tracks or using an Abrams 120mm canister round to turn a horde of undead into a pink mist. Here’s the thing though … tracks and guns and the people who operate them wear out, even as the living corpses keep coming at you.

Franc Sousa's life is virtually perfect. In a future San Francisco, where the most important determination of success is the quality of the computer chip inserted in your nervous system, Franc has the best. His chip provides him instant access to all the information and entertainment the world has ever produced, and to a virtual game environment that feels more real than his actual life. But when an accident dislodges his chip, he begins to question everything he's ever known. He can't accept the doctor's explanation that the beautiful girl he saw after his accident was only a hallucination.

À la croisée des univers d'Avatar et de Divergente. Dans un monde où l'espoir est devenu une denrée rare, la course pour la survie ne connaît pas de répit. Zac est en fuite, traqué par le gouverneur qui réclame son sang, laissant derrière lui la ville qui a mis sa tête à prix. Mais son frère, toujours prisonnier de la cité, est sur le point d’être exécuté. Alors que chaque battement de cœur rapproche Milo de la mort, une course contre la montre désespérée s’enclenche pour Zac afin de le sauver.