Dystopian Literary Fiction

Un hombre solitario y torturado se refugia en una taberna abandonada mientras la tierra estalla. Allí se descubrirá como un jugador compulsivo que tendrá que sortear un sinnúmero de peripecias mientras descubre que la tierra también se está burlando de él. La tierra, una jugadora empedernida, tiene grandes planes para los tahúres profesionales, aquellos seres que la vida siempre maltrató. Está en juego la más importante de las partidas: el control del poder mundial.

Could you live a perfect life, knowing someone else took on all your pain and despair? Skyla has always lived a perfect, happy life - just like everyone in her community. Even if there are brief moments where she is certain she has experienced pain and regret, those moments are brief and quickly forgotten. But when Aiden, Skyla’s next-door neighbor, reveals the truth of the community and their perfect lives, Skyla is faced with an unexpected choice regarding her future. Will her actions lead her community to a better life? Or will she doom them all?

Written in 1944, the novel entitled 1984 proved to be George Orwell’s most chilling prophecy. Timelier than ever, Orwell’s dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative forms the basis of one of the greatest novels of all time. 1984 earned its nomination as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. This audiobook offer uniqueness, and time and cost-efficiency. Summaries and Expansions, filled with insight, and some added material most relevant to Orwell’s topics and themes, become yours to enjoy.

Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks

De las mejores distopías hechas en español en la actualidad, un futuro lleno de nubarrones negros que en realidad habla de un presente demasiado cruel como para no disfrazarlo de ficción. "Crímenes del futuro" presenta una sociedad al borde del apocalipsis, un mundo en el que los estados han desaparecido y el mundo entero está al servicio de las multinacionales. La ley financiera obliga a arrodillarse al ciudadano y el planeta entero parece a punto de explotar. En esta vorágine, tres mujeres muy diferentes intentan sobrevivir con sus sentimientos a flor de piel.

In Oceania, one of three totalitarian states that rule the world, Big Brother is watching. The Thought Police are listening. Reality is defined by the Party. And in London, at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite history. His dream, however, is to rebel. Winston is beginning to think for himself. In defiance of the State, he falls into a criminal love affair with his coworker Julia. But it isn’t until he joins the Brotherhood, an underground network of revolutionaries, that Winston discovers how high the cost of freedom may be.

Set in Rhode Island, Winner of the National Book Award tells the story of twins who could not be more different. Abigail Mather is a woman of passionate sensual and sexual appetites, while her sister, the book-loving local librarian Dorcas, lives a quiet life of the mind. But when the sisters are sought out by the predatory and famous poet, Guy DeVilbiss, who introduces them to Hollywood hack writer and possible psychopath Conrad Lowe, they rapidly become pawns in a game that leads to betrayal, shame and ultimately, murder.