Dystopian Mystery

Es ist nichts Geringeres als eine medizinische Sensation: Durch die Entdeckung eines neuen Wundermittels kann der Alterungsprozess des Menschen aufgehalten werden! Wer das Medikament regelmäßig nimmt bleibt nicht nur ewig jung, er ist auch schöner und stärker als "normale" Menschen. Doch die neue Wunderdroge hat einen Haken: Man braucht dazu das Blut von Menschen, deren DNA eine besondere Sequenz aufweist. Oft werden diese "Träger" entführt und in Blutfarmen gefangen gehalten.

Schafft sich die Menschheit selber ab? "Singularity" ist der neue Science-Fiction-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Joshua Tree über die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz. Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die Menschheit tief gespalten: Während die eine Hälfte medizinisch bestens versorgt ein langes Leben führt, ist die andere schlicht überflüssig. Bestenfalls als billige Arbeitskräfte haben die meisten Menschen ein karges Auskommen. Einer dieser Überflüssigen ist James, der als Hausdiener der neuen Elite anheuert.

In this sequel to The Organ Harvesters, the bloodless war of 2020 has destroyed all governments and left monster corporations in control globally, unhindered to waste the planet's natural resources, and to manipulate the world's population with iron-handed control. There's one last chance to save life on Earth. Roaming at large under a death warrant, Dr. Zoe Hidalga leaves behind both her daughter and her lover, mystic Asher Wind Storm, to return to Sanfrancorp to join the Defys, an underground resistance group that has spread throughout the world during the past six years.

After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, nurse Elodie and misfit Aiden have managed to escape in search of New Dawn—the stronghold for the Eos resistance movement. There, they can fight for a better world, one where everyone can make their own futures. But things aren’t always as they seem, and as they navigate the tricky paths between perception and reality, freedom and fighting for survival, the two young rebels must discover who they can trust, even as they learn more about who they really are....

Against all odds, Winnie managed to escape San Francisco…but now she is being stalked by Mutants that roam the Wasteland. Once human, exposure to radiation has rendered them more beast than man. But it has also made them incredibly strong and shockingly fast, putting Winnie’s own supernatural abilities to the test. If that weren’t enough, the people she cares about most are missing. The Council continues to hunt them down and will stop at nothing until they are destroyed. Will Winnie and her allies make it to Kansas City? If they do, will it be anything like they imagined?

Committed to both peace and human rights for chimeras—people who alter themselves with animal DNA—seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran is torn when she’s invited to a gathering of moderate pro- and anti-chimera rights activists seeking to find common ground. But when a militant chimera rights group prevents her from attending—and saves her from being killed by the bomb they’ve planted—Jimi herself falls under suspicion for the blast.

Nanovax was supposed to be our salvation. Death and disease, now obsolete. Until the terrorist attack. Fifteen cities in a single day. Again, they said Nanovax was the answer. The same technology meant to heal us could now be used, through an algorithm, to track us, to predict human behaviors...to thwart future terrorists. I'm Lieutenant Brian Goff. I received the first injection. It healed my wounds. I became the face of Nanovax. Then the algorithm identified me as a terrorist. Now, I'm fighting against the technology that once saved my life...and the government has my daughter.

In Eden Cavalleri’s world, zoos don’t exist. The Anthros do: a twisted place where cybernetics come to gawk at humans imprisoned behind glass. The machines have taken over the world above ground, and they intend to exterminate or imprison what’s left of the human race. Eden’s job as a runner is simple: survive long enough to bring back much-needed supplies to the other humans hiding in tunnels beneath the city. But after a botched supply run lands her under the glass domes as a zoo exhibit, her mission changes. Now, she has to learn to save herself instead of everyone else.

In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability”, only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants, and the weather is acting strange. When Anja and Louis are offered a rent-free home on an artificial mountain - yet another eco-friendly initiative run by a corporation - they seize the opportunity, but it isn’t long before the experimental house begins malfunctioning.

Die Überwachung aller Datenströme in Deutschland ist Realität geworden. Um eigene Inhalte ungesehen zu verschicken, werden andere Lösungen benötigt. Wer es sich leisten kann, übergibt seine Dateien einem Kurier, der sie persönlich zum Empfänger transportiert – anonym und vertraulich. Sofia ist eine Kurierin. Doch als sich ein fremdes Programm beim nächsten Auftrag auf ihrem Datengürtel installiert und unerlaubt weitere Pakete vom Server herunterlädt, wird ihr erstmals bewusst, wie gefährlich Bits und Bytes sein können.

Das mittelhessische Dorf Umbach neunzehn Tage nach dem Blackout. Die Einwohner haben sich mit den neuen Umständen arrangiert, erleben aber immer wieder Rückschläge. Vieles, das vor dem Stromausfall als selbstverständlich angesehen wurde, muss nun mühsam erarbeitet werden. Während Malte mit dem Dorfrat das Dorf durch die Katastrophe führt, droht ihm das Verhältnis zu seinem Sohn zu entgleiten. Jutta steuert nun Kutschen statt eine 767 und beginnt zu ahnen, wie ihr Mann wirklich ist.

No ha pasado más que un año desde que los caminos de Citra y Rowan se separaron, pero en este tiempo los rumores sobre un justiciero que persigue a los segadores corruptos se han multiplicado. Por todo el continente se oyen susurros de que los culpables acaban siempre devorados por las llamas. La segadora Anastasia criba y desafía abiertamente las ideas del nuevo orden. No obstante, cuando su vida se ve amenazada y sus métodos se cuestionan, queda claro que no todos los miembros de la Guadaña desean el cambio y que la podredumbre crece hasta en los cimientos más sólidos.

The Dictator in Chief, President Alejandro Calderon, continues to make life miserable for any and all surviving Americans. A new ruling class has been anointed and is fully entrenched in enclaves across America. The administration's enslaved masses labor and toil and tend to their every need in exchange for the oxygen needed to stay alive. Unbeknownst to Calderon, Josh and his ragtag band of patriots are headed straight for him. They know when and where he'll be, but can they make it there in time?

When Grace was 20, she had a front-row seat to the end of the world. What was once the perfect suburban life became a daily fight to stay alive. All that was is now gone forever. Determined, she prepares for what the future brings, armed with her instincts, the desire to protect her loved ones, and her iron will to survive. Just as Grace and her family adjust to this new uncertain environment, a much more terrifying threat emerges from within the darkness, one even more petrifying than the apocalypse itself….

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Shaw's eidetic memory makes him a valuable asset to a government that harvests children like him for their innate ability to create memory modules for the brain drive—an implantable device that stores information in the form of memories. Caleb discovers that his father has been sheltering him from the truth about the brain drive, and he begins to question everything about the world he grew up in. When he is ripped from his home and taken to a government facility, his eyes are opened to the atrocities committed against children for technological advancement.

Deutschland in naher Zukunft: Die regierende Partei "Heimatfront Deutschland" deportiert alle Migranten und politische Gegner in eine Hand voll hermetisch abgeriegelter sogenannter Flüchtlingsstädte. Elsa Jacobi, die charismatische Führerin der "HfD", herrscht mit eiserner Hand über die Republik und kontrolliert Medien und Staatsorgane mit Gewalt und Terror. Wie Marionetten manipuliert sie die Menschen um sich herum für ihre Zwecke. So auch den jungen Politstar Hassan, der getrieben vom Hass auf seine türkischen Wurzeln nach Anerkennung und Macht strebt.

When saving a life in 1946 Alabama, Amish giant Konrad took one in return and must run before the electric chair claims him. In New York, Nazi propaganda fools him into jumping on a ship to Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich. In 1965, at Gothengau, an SS-run colony in Ukraine, a terrorist rocket attack on Berlin compels soldier-farmer Konrad to focus on his duty: commanding an SS convict battalion. He must flex his muscle for the armed forces or the Holocaust's perpetrators--his superiors, colleagues, and neighbors in Ukraine.

Peter Payne fa il trashformer e per sopravvivere rovista nei cumuli di spazzatura cercando oggetti di valore. I suoi giorni trascorrono in mezzo agli scarti della società dei consumi e in compagnia di una banda di adolescenti, fino a quando non incontra Alba – un modello femminile di nexumano. Esplorando temi come la cibernetica, il consumismo e la trascendenza, Francesco Verso costruisce un mondo così profondo come il suo personaggio principale.

Senior year. New school. First day. Eden Pruitt expected nerves and new beginnings. She didn’t expect to come home to a ransacked house and two missing parents. When she returns with the police, an older man answers the door—one who claims the house is his. He’s lived there for years. According to every record, he’s telling the truth, and when they try to clear up the confusion, it only spirals into chaos. Her name. Her parents. Her past. None of it exists.

Amelia has a lot to learn about being part of The Coalition, but the only way to learn is on the job. She finds herself taking part in rescue missions, sabotaging the Central Government, and smuggling people across the border out from under the oppressive rule of Central. But while she learns the ropes, Central has been learning about the Coalition, too. The group of rebels soon find their families targeted by the terrifying Commission of the People, leading to drastic changes within the Coalition.