Political Dystopian

The DRAG.N units were invented to support the marriage of the Universal Health Initiative (UHI) and Green Nation. Their purpose: mass airborne vaccinations to ensure health for all US citizens. The illogically expensive vaccines serve another purpose though. Laced with behavioral modification drugs, the REP vaccine has created a docile, drugged, and receptive American populace. The anti-UHI activists are determined to takedown the DRAG.N and the corrupt healthcare system.

Mit Sonnenfinsternis, einem Klassiker der politischen Literatur, zuerst erschienen 1940, erzählt Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983) beispielhaft die Mechanismen totalitärer und diktatorischer Systeme. Er reißt Ihnen die Maske herunter: unmenschliche Ideologie hinter vordergründig menschenfreundlicher Ideologie. Lüge und Mord zur Machterhaltung. Sonnenfinsternis führt vor, dass niemand totalitärer Macht entkommen kann. Arthur Koestler hatten die stalinistischen Schauprozesse für diese Mechanismen die Augen geöffnet.

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. Britta, a wife, mother, and successful businesswoman, ignores the daily news and concentrates on her family and her work running a clinic specializing in suicide prevention. But her legitimate business is connected to a secret and far more lucrative operation known as The Bridge, an outfit that supplies terrorist organizations looking to employ suicide bombers.

When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide - or die. For notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim, the outcome of each fight makes little difference. Black-market blood sport is the perfect self-imposed penance. But when she stumbles on a plot to overthrow the corporate empire that provides the ubiquitous global feed, Emily discovers her old friends have been targeted. Warning them will force her out into the open, back on-grid, and directly into danger. Emily can’t escape the past. But can she seize the future?

Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of their children, or what their country is even fighting for. They follow orders and their lives go by simply, routinely, until one day, mute boy walks onto their property. When the authorities announce that the area needs to be evacuated and that everyone must relocate to the transparent city, the three leave together.

John Evermann’s world never changes. He goes to the same assigned job every day. He lives in the same house his family was placed in years ago. He picks up their weekly rations on Friday and watches the same federally approved news broadcasts every night after dinner. Everything is as it is dictated to be, from the number on the back of his work jacket to the permanent curfew that keeps everyone safely indoors. Everyone has what they need to survive, and everyone contributes. It’s a perfect life, for some. It’s not enough for John and his friends.

Is being a part of the "herd" really a good thing? In Ayn Rand's Anthem, we join our protagonist in this dystopian future world where humankind's compulsion to seek and live in the "safety of numbers" can go horribly wrong. Anthem was published in 1938 but is scarily relevant to our modern world.

Governments around the world continue to dominate their citizens. Only Silver City stands as a beacon for freedom. But for how long? Jacob Roth fills his late brother’s shoes as the CEO of Roth Holdings, North America. His first goal is to eliminate Silver City, the only place on Earth free of taxes and central banker cryptocurrencies. But the Silver City militia won’t go down without a fight. As the pressure mounts, Jacob’s marriage is fraying at the seams. With newfound wealth and power and a separation from his wife, Jacob has an unusual affair.

What happens when you realize that you’re at the mercy of powers greater than yourself? What happens when these powers flex their muscles and, overnight, turn the entire world on its head? What happens when, in a twist of fate, these same powers offer you a lifeline; an invitation into their exclusive club? Do you accept? Join Alex Watson as he enters the darkness of an unseen world, where the "dominant few" do as they please to the "inferior many" that live beneath them. For the insiders, there is unimaginable freedom, wealth, and power.

Sconvolgente, lungimirante, avvincente. "La Fattoria Degli Animali". In una nuova traduzione, con doppia voce narrante, questa edizione ti farà conoscere uno dei capolavori della letteratura mondiale. Stanchi delle ingiustizie, gli animali di una fattoria decidono di ribellarsi agli umani dando vita a un nuovo sistema fondato sull'uguaglianza. Ben presto, però, si renderanno conto che non sarà così facile. "Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali di altri." L'autore: Pseudonimo di Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell è uno degli scrittori più conosciuti al mondo.

Thirty-year-old UNPOL officer Richard Warren has been embedded with the BBC, and not seeing eye-to-eye with journalist Sarah Dyer is just the start of his problems. News of an Ebola pandemic is being withheld, and when it’s discovered Sarah’s artistic savant brother is involved, Richard’s determination to get to the truth takes an unexpected turn. But what if the truth must never be known?

Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city. The new laws are enforced by an army of genetically enhanced soldiers designed to be the fiercest and cruelest of killers. Genetic scientist Dr. Jenna Khan knows these supersoldiers were engineered by altering the DNA sequence in ways that could change the fabric of humanity. Jenna joins forces with a genetically enhanced soldier gone rogue and a Brooklyn gang kingpin to resist the government’s plan to manipulate the DNA of all Americans.

Senator Jim MacVeagh is proud to serve his country - and his president, Mark Hollenbach, who has a near-spotless reputation as the vibrant, charismatic leader of MacVeagh’s party and the nation. When Hollenbach begins taking MacVeagh into his confidence, the young senator knows his star is on the rise. But then Hollenbach starts summoning MacVeagh in the middle of the night to Camp David. There, the president sits in the dark and rants about his enemies, unfurling insane theories about all the people he says are conspiring against him.

Irgendwo in den abgeschiedenen Bergen Asiens liegt ein Traumreich, das der extravagante und exzentrische Patera erschaffen hat. Die Hauptstadt heißt Perle. Ein Zeichner aus Europa, Jugendfreund des Millionärs und Traumreich-Schöpfers, reist dorthin. Er hat die Hoffnung, dort einen ruhigen Lebensabend verbringen zu können. Das ständige Dämmerlicht kommt dem Künstler sehr entgegen. Doch die positiven Eindrücke lassen mit der Zeit immer mehr nach und Lethargie macht sich breit. Das Traumreich wird allmählich zu einem Albtraumreich. Aus einem Paradies wird ein totalitärer Staat.

Ein Land vor dem Zusammenbruch - und nur 24 Stunden, um die Katastrophe aufzuhalten... Helsinki 2027. Leo Koski, der junge Ministerpräsident Finnlands, ist charismatisch. Was niemand weiß: Er ist nur die Marionette einer Gilde reicher Männer. Sie sind es, die bestimmen. Die Spaltung der Gesellschaft und die zunehmende Armut in weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung sind ihnen egal. Doch als sich eine junge Frau am Vorabend einer großen Massenkundgebung aus Protest selbst anzündet, gerät das Machtgefüge ins Wanken. Die Frau hatte zuvor Briefe verschickt, um das Land aufzurütteln.

From quarterback to Congressman, Thomas Baker’s the All-American Boy. He loves hunting, fishing, and football. More than anything, he loves the United States of America—the greatest nation on earth. But something’s wrong with the American Dream. It’s broken. Tom knows it. His friends do, too. When COVID hits, the insanity gathers steam.

It is 2058. NYPD detective Nick Garvey and Lenora Allison, President of the battered and reeling United States, are battling the many remaining remnants of the murderous World Council. They must confront the forced introduction of a man-made killer plague and the destruction of the newly created Friendship City.

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.

Yada wächst als Bürgerin einer schwimmenden Stadt in der Ostsee auf. Ihr Vater, ein libertärer Tech-Unternehmer, hat die Seestadt als Rettung vor dem Chaos entworfen, in dem die übrige Welt versinkt. In den Jahren seit ihrer Gründung ist ihr Glanz vergangen, Algen und Moos überwuchern die einst spiegelnden Flächen. Yadas Vater fürchtet, sie könne das Schicksal ihrer Mutter ereilen, die vor ihrem Tod an einer rätselhaften Krankheit litt. Und Yada macht eines Tages eine Entdeckung, die alles ins Wanken bringt.

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?