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Outside the facility, the peace laws must be observed. For a hundred and fifty points, you can spend an hour with a designated scapegoat. No one outside will ever know what you do there. You are encouraged to shout, to complain, to cry, if it will help to calm you. For two hundred points, you may strike them. They will never strike back. Abrasions, heavy bruising, first degree burns, are five hundred. The scapegoats will endure it and they will never name you or your... needs. A few thousand if your rage requires you to break a bone. Scapegoats are not law-abiding like you. They deserve it.

In a world controlled by the Ministry, where all decisions follow the rigid King Wen sequence, society thrives on the illusion of order. Ai-Li, a brilliant programmer, discovers a mysterious fractal anomaly within the system—alive, adaptive, and challenging deterministic control. As the Ministry fights to maintain its grip, Ai-Li, with the help of strategist Jonas and conflicted ally Karis, must decide whether to embrace the fractals' potential for transformation or risk annihilation.

They thought they were safer on the ground... they were wrong. Immediately picking up after the events of 2023's Horizon, and it's 2024 prequel 'Ransome', a battle of revenge, revelations, and survival comes into play between Roman Knight, Drusilla and Harry Ransome; a man who should have been dead over 150 years ago. But with everyone so worried about the ravenous creatures above them in the darkness of space, they fail to realise that something far deadlier lurks beneath the ice. Something which has kept Harry Ransome alive all this time. Something sentient.

Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it.

Safe and snuggled up in my nest, I waited for my pack to make their case and beg the Council of Four to let us stay together. But I never heard the answer. Just when my life was taking a turn for the better, I was snatched from my home and the men I love. Now, I'm somewhere strange, and my dream world's come crashing down. Trapped alone without my pack, rigid rules, and a man telling me I'm destined for a pack of strangers has me reeling.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Suntem într-un viitor distopic. Mișcarea feministă a ieșit învingătoare, femeile conduc lumea, iar bărbații sunt internați în Institut, pentru a trece printr-un proces de reeducare. Acolo, pe căi cel puțin originale, le sunt eradicate ideile de dominanță a masculinității și de transformare a corpului femeii în obiect sexual. Lumea Nouă răstoarnă vechile obiceiuri și concepții, dar cele care le înlocuiesc nu sunt mai puțin periculoase.

In the year 2363, the floating city of Atlanta represents humanity’s last hope, suspended above a toxic, uninhabitable Earth. At least, that’s what everyone believes. Young engineer Zip Scooter has never questioned the Council’s authority, or their warnings that the world below is deadly. But when a data breach reveals a shocking truth—that Earth’s atmosphere has healed—Zip uncovers a carefully constructed lie designed to keep humanity imprisoned.

In a near future, post-apocalyptic America, terror attacks, riots and insurrection have turned cities and towns into war zones... Professional security contractor and former Navy SEAL, Eric Branson, has been away fighting ongoing insurgencies in Europe when he learns his own country faces the same fate. But before he can make his way back home to Florida, a catastrophic hurricane deals the final blow to an infrastructure already ravaged by riots and terror attacks, leaving survivors cut off and on their own.

Der Aufstieg der Bene Gesserit Vor dreiundachtzig Jahren wurden die Maschinen in der Schlacht von Corrin vernichtend geschlagen. Vor dreiundachtzig Jahren ernannte sich Faykan Butler zum Imperator des neuen, Planeten umspannenden Menschenreichs, und vor dreiundachtzig Jahren verschwand der Kriegsheld Vorian Atreides. Inzwischen sitzt Faykans Nachfahre Salvador Corrin auf dem Thron, doch von Frieden kann noch lange nicht die Rede sein.

Au trecut mulţi ani de la al Treilea Război Mondial. Elegantul şi candidul doctor Poole debarcă, alături de o echipă de exploratori, într-o Californie fantomatică, răvăşită de suflul deflagraţiei nucleare. Aici găseşte rămăşiţele unei umanităţi înstrăinate, pline de mutanţi, supuse unor idoli însetaţi de sînge, o civilizaţie pustiită unde prea puţinii supravieţuitori trăiesc după o nouă lege, care spune că nu poţi iubi decît o dată pe an. Curajoşii şi revoltaţii care îndrăznesc să evadeze sînt supuşi torturii şi eliminaţi.

Pulse-pounding action, shocking twists, and a world built on propaganda and betrayal, The Serpent Shield is a high-stakes dystopian thriller filled with genetically engineered threats and dark secrets.

Die Spuren von Corteon Fringe führen nach Venedig, und die Schlinge um den Hals von Nova und Red zieht sich gefährlich zusammen: Eine übergriffige Ex-Freundin nutzt Reds Notlage schamlos aus. CReL offenbart ihren eigentlichen Plan, der viel erschreckender ist, als bisher angenommen. Und selbst in ihrem Mind Palace ist Nova nicht mehr sicher.

If they are made in our image, surely they will suffer the same trials? In 2078, sentient androids help rebuild a damaged world. Eli, a unique android, struggles to find his place in a world that both fears and covets him as he becomes entangled in a dangerous game of politics and rebellion. Ten years prior, Dr. Randeep Singh races against time to prevent an impending disaster while balancing the demands of a ruthless dictator. As the two timelines collide, Eli and Dr. Randeep Singh are forced to confront their vulnerabilities and limitations in the face of overwhelming challenges.

In The Last Colony, humanity’s survival hinges on a distant outpost in Proxima Centauri, where biologist Mara Veck makes an astonishing discovery—a sentient alien life form hidden beneath Proxima’s surface.

Eight-year-old Peruka hears music no one else hears. Besides causing her pain, it distracts her to the point her life becomes at risk. Isolation and home schooling have helped. Unfortunately, she’s not growing out of the problem, as her doctors hoped.

এই উপন্যাসটি টানটান বিস্ময়ের, কল্পবিজ্ঞানের, যেখানে অন্য জগৎ, অন্য সময় পাঠককে ছুটিয়ে নিয়ে চলে. তিন হাজার দুই খ্রিষ্টাব্দে শুধু মাত্র ১০ লাখ মানুষ অবশিষ্ট আছে. তার মধ্যে ১ লক্ষ মানুষ পাগল হয়ে গেছে. কিছু মহিলা সন্তানসম্ভবা. আরও বেশি মহিলা সন্তানসম্ভবা না হলে মানুষ নিশ্চিহ্ন হয়ে যাবে খুব শিগগিরি.

Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data from her dreams, their algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming her husband. For his safety, she must be transferred to a retention centre, and kept under observation for twenty-one days. But as Sara arrives to be monitored alongside other dangerous dreamers, she discovers that with every deviation from the facility’s strict and ever-shifting rules, their stays can be extended.

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.

Annie is 37 weeks pregnant, standing in IKEA, finally about to take home the crib she should have bought months ago. That’s when it happens – the long-anticipated Cascadia Earthquake, dismantling Portland and the entire Pacific Northwest in a matter of minutes. Propulsive, disruptive, funny, terrifying, Tilt is a novel about how the foundations of our lives are built and shaken. About a woman trying to walk back to the husband she’s long been pushing away. About put-off dreams and inevitability and what makes us keep moving forward.