Dystopian World

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP sends American back into the Stone Age. Jack and his family find sanctuary in their cabin in a small, remote town hidden deep in the forest. Little does Jack know the blizzard will be the least of his problems.

The thin thread holding the civilized world together has been severed. A ranch on the outskirts of a city becomes the sanctuary for a family during the unfolding crisis of an EMP. The nation's power grid has failed. Hundreds of millions are left without basic utilities, and the enemy responsible for the EMP's detonation now wreaks havoc throughout the countryside.

In the ruins of San Francisco California, survivors of an epidemic that swept the nation have pooled inside the cities, restructuring life as we know it. Now it’s the strong against the weak; the rich Golden against the poor Dreg. The Golden govern everything. Living above the city in four sectors, they look down on the Dreg slums. Against all odds, the Dreg have become survivors. Unable to afford proper care, their immune systems have adapted to protect them against the diseases now infecting the Golden.

When an EMP destroys the nation’s power grid, Joanna Mercer must fight her way down the Appalachian Mountains and into the city below to rescue her daughter from the enemy threatening violence against their country. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Last Cabin and experience the compelling world of this post-apocalyptic suspense story.

What happens when an EMP sends California back into the stone age? When an EMP bomb knocks out the power in LA and the rest of the United States, Ailani Ho's main goal is to survive the end of the world. Then she discovers her sister was on a plane when the bomb exploded, and she can't rest until she knows if her sister is alive or dead.

James Bowers has spent every day for the pasty 40 years on his family’s cattle ranch outside of San Antonio, Texas. It’s hard work, but it’s honest work. And as a fourth-generation rancher, the work is in his blood. But when an EMP is detonated while his wife and son are in the city, rendering all modern conveniences obsolete, James must travel into a chaotic environment filled with danger that will test him in ways that he never thought possible.

When he rebelled against his father, Edmon Leontes lost everything, but a lot has happened in the twelve years since he left his remote home planet of Tao. He has made a new life for himself as the medic aboard a starship with a misfit crew. Edmon thinks he has left his tumultuous past behind him, yet all that changes when his father dies. Phaestion, the man he once called brother, has inherited Edmon's birthright. But Phaestion's ambitions of domination are not limited to Tao, and he is not inclined to let a rival - even one in exile - continue living.

An end-of-times sci-fi thriller. The concluding novel in the Alt Truths duology. So, Richard and Sarah find themselves the unwitting "ingredients" in Perry’s latest attempts to create a melting pot of world happiness. But the boy isn’t the only savant, and when our hapless heroes discover an African war criminal is using a "super-savant" to impose his version of global order, it looks as if Utopia is going to have to wait.

What happens when an EMP sends the West Coast back into the Stone Age? What happens when all means of transportation and communication suddenly vanish? What happens when you can’t call for help? What happens when the only person you can rely on is yourself? As society falls into dismay, Carolyn Towne charges headlong into the escalating chaos to protect the only thing she holds dear: her family.

En el siglo XVI, Tomás Moro publicó su obra Utopía, nombre de una isla fic-ticia y artificial construida en el continente americano. Quinientos años después, el filántropo y millonario Thomas Franklin, descendiente de una de las familias más poderosas de Estados Unidos, decide fundar una sociedad inspirada en la que Tomás Moro describió en su obra. En una isla situada entre Cuba y Haití, el polifacético señor Franklin crea su propia Utopía, una sociedad tecnológica y avanzada.

Forty-five years after a rogue moon smashed into our world...30 years after humanity emerged from the caves where they took refuge...one teen discovers there is more to the story...a frozen world where rule number one is to be inside the gates before they close at night - or die. Now Eve is in a race against time, discovery, and danger around every corner - to find a truth that has been hidden...for years. A truth Eve's father forfeit his life to protect her from.

Suffering from complete amnesia, a man is found close to death on a beach and on a freezing cold winter's day. Although he has no idea how he does it, he finds that he has the ability to alleviate pain and suffering from those in need of help. On meeting anyone, he instinctively knows the evil that they may hold in their heart and mind. This ability leads to the arrest of the most prolific child killer in England.

The year is 2070. Reclusive prodigy Memphis Garrick turned tragedy into a tech empire. Heading up the ultimate immersive experience not only brings him worldwide success, it allows him to visit the family he lost during childhood. But when a tyrant from a parallel universe hacks his virtual paradise and merges it with reality, Memphis is loaded into a battle to stop the coded spread of terror. Plunged into an archaic Tudor world, Memphis partners with an enigmatic beauty to reverse the cruel program turning their fear into fuel.

Haley Stone, full-time foster mother, has her world upended by a nation-crippling EMP crisis. Raised on a Texan ranch, Haley Stone and her team of thieves left their hometown for greener pastures in New York City. After an EMP explosion upsets the nation’s balance, they must get their families and get out before this new lawless world overtakes them.

1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are two of the most famous and influential dystopian novels ever written. Both books depict a future world in which individual freedom and privacy are subordinated to the demands of a totalitarian state, and citizens are manipulated and controlled through technology, propaganda, and social conditioning. The two novels have often been compared and contrasted, and both are considered to be among the most important works of literature of the 20th century.

There are some sights you can never unsee. Visions of my brother, my chosen mate, and my friends meeting their individual gruesome ends? That is something that will stay with me forever. The Originals made me experience the faux tragedies, and their message is clear - do things our way or they all die. The problem is that doing things their way could lead to the genocide of all non-gifted humans and suppression of all paranormals. That’s just not something my group and I can accept. Even if it puts our lives at risk, we have to fight for the future - our own and the humans.

Con el peculiar estilo que lo caracteriza, el humor corrosivo del que ha hecho su sello personal, y ensayando nuevos registros, Carlos Velázquez engendra su cuarto libro de relatos. Una mirada despiadada que se ve enriquecida por la madurez narrativa, producto de las más retorcidas obsesiones. Barbie Moreno es una chica del clima que "Se había prometido a sí misma que jamás volvería a bailar en un chiquichor a cuarenta grados afuera de un depósito de cerveza para una bola de macuarros".

This is a tale of survival, a child’s bravery, and a mother’s revenge. In January 1942, concentration camps were constructed by slave labor in Poland. For the deportation of Jewish men women and children to these camps, railway transport was provided by the German national railway system. Rachel Silbermann was deported along with her family from Berlin to Auschwitz-Berkinau. Her mother, however, unlike the rest of her family who perished, escaped and joined the Polish resistance where she learned a new trade and learned it well; she became a sniper, a very successful one.

A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.

Derek Anderson considers himself to be a devoted husband, father, and businessman. He loves his family and is happiest when he is with his wife and daughter. But when a young Psi-Tal places the blue plastic turtle in Derek's hand, his life is turned upside down, as he discovers that the turtle can transport him into a nightmarish realm that Derek comes to refer to as Dreamworld.