Dystopie & Utopie
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1984.4
Wir schreiben das Jahr 2034. Der Staat hat die völlige Kontrolle über Leben und Tod, der geheimnisvolle 'Winston' wacht über alle. Die 16-jährige Florence arbeitet aus voller Überzeugung für den sogenannten Senior Service, dessen Aufgabe es ist, ältere Menschen zu enttarnen und zu töten, die sich weigern, freiwillig aus dem Leben zu scheiden, um Platz für die Jüngeren zu machen. Doch dann verliebt sich Florence in Eric. Und sie beginnt, das System in Frage zu stellen. Bestsellerautor Philip Kerr liefert mit seinem letzten Buch nicht nur eine Hommage an Orwells Klassiker, sondern einen höchst aktuellen Roman - und zeigt, dass die Kraft der Liebe stärker ist als jede Unterdrückung.
72 Hours
When the world ends, it doesn't go out with a bang-but with a whisper. For seventeen-year-old Kasai, the outbreak begins on an ordinary evening, in a quiet town that turns into a nightmare overnight. The infected are not just sick-they're predators, relentless and terrifying. And now, with society collapsing, Kasai receives one last text from her mother, a nurse who never makes it home: "Lock the doors. Don't let anyone in. I love you."As the government broadcasts a chilling message-"Help will arrive in 72 hours. Stay alive."-Kasai flees her home and begins a desperate journey through a world unraveling at the seams. Along the way, she forms a tenuous alliance with three other survivors: the guarded and gruff Kyle, the sharp-eyed and resourceful Elara, and the quiet but brilliant Milo. Trust becomes a scarce commodity as the infected roam the streets-and so do the people willing to do anything to survive.Their path leads them to "The Core," a sinister facility at the heart of the outbreak, where horrifying experiments have created monsters worse than the virus itself. The group risks everything to bring it down-but stopping one facility doesn't mean the threat is over. With scattered clues and broken survivors, Kasai and her new family must push forward, searching for hope, safety, and the courage to rebuild.The first 72 hours were about survival. Now, it's about fighting back.
72 Hours
When the world ends, it doesn't go out with a bang-but with a whisper. For seventeen-year-old Kasai, the outbreak begins on an ordinary evening, in a quiet town that turns into a nightmare overnight. The infected are not just sick-they're predators, relentless and terrifying. And now, with society collapsing, Kasai receives one last text from her mother, a nurse who never makes it home: "Lock the doors. Don't let anyone in. I love you."As the government broadcasts a chilling message-"Help will arrive in 72 hours. Stay alive."-Kasai flees her home and begins a desperate journey through a world unraveling at the seams. Along the way, she forms a tenuous alliance with three other survivors: the guarded and gruff Kyle, the sharp-eyed and resourceful Elara, and the quiet but brilliant Milo. Trust becomes a scarce commodity as the infected roam the streets-and so do the people willing to do anything to survive.Their path leads them to "The Core," a sinister facility at the heart of the outbreak, where horrifying experiments have created monsters worse than the virus itself. The group risks everything to bring it down-but stopping one facility doesn't mean the threat is over. With scattered clues and broken survivors, Kasai and her new family must push forward, searching for hope, safety, and the courage to rebuild.The first 72 hours were about survival. Now, it's about fighting back.
A Melody in the Mist
Danger lurks around every corner for Melody and Harlow as they travel to a mysterious new land to discover the secrets of magic in the final chapter of The Emergence trilogy. Their shared struggles with loss and love bring them closer together than they could have ever imagined. Meanwhile, a new evil arises threatening to tear apart everything that they and their extended family hold dear. Join the whole crew in one last adventure that will determine the fate of the world and push the boundaries of magic to the moon and back.
Acclimation
Seraphai never wanted to lead the next terrifying experiment, but refusing isn't an option. With powerful eyes watching her every move, she must keep herself-and her people-safe. She communicates with Cypher, a girl living in the city, through code in order to avoid being detected. Together, they plot an escape, needing to protect themselves without anyone catching on. But the deeper they go, the more dangerous the game becomes. Lies pile up. Friendships crack. And somewhere in the shadows, a murderer lurks-someone who knows exactly what they're up to. Seraphai and Cypher thought their trust in one another was enough. They were wrong.
Accuracy
New State: Book OneLife is cheap in the new American Republic, as officer-in-training Lailani Harris knows well. Any who break the oppressive government's rules end up as live target practice, and one day Lai sees a face she recognizes in her sights. Since she can't bring herself to execute her cousin, she recruits her best friend, and they undertake a daring rescue that lands all three of them on the run. As they uncover the true depths of corruption in the government and stumble into a resistance movement, Lai's destiny unfolds. It's hard to believe a single person can stand against such a powerful adversary, but she might be the one to turn the tide.
Ace Of Swords
In Logan Ortega's dystopian world, angels and vampires have a bloody history, and humans are at the bottom of the food chain. When the Izel, a species of half-vampire, half-angels, are completely massacred by the vampires-or so the angels claim-tensions are high, which means humans are in even more danger. Logan knows this well-and has rarely known a day without fear. When she was a child, vampires killed her mother and took her father, orphaning her and her older brother. Her brother always had a plan to set out beyond the safety of their human city to seek revenge, but when he leaves without her, Logan decides she must face her fears and follow, or else forever live without knowing his fate. In her travels, Logan stumbles upon Cade, an Izel survivor. They strike a deal to travel together, if only so they don't have to be alone.Amber Blue, an angel, fears her best friend, Cade, has died along with the rest of the Izel in the massacre. But when she can't find his body scattered among the remains, she decides to take matters into her own hands and investigate, only to end up captured by the vampire king and taken to his stronghold. As Logan and Cade search for her brother, Amber attempts to resist the kings's charms as they all discover the mystery of the Izel's demise is more sinister than they can imagine, and each of them has a part to play.
After the Blackout
The lights went out. So did everything else.When a catastrophic blackout swallows the town whole, seventeen-year-old [protagonist] loses more than electricity - they lose their father, the engineer who saw it coming and left behind only a worn notebook filled with cryptic diagrams and desperate theories.Now the town is fracturing. Neighbors trade token rations like sacred relics. Distrust prowls the darkened streets. And the adults who should have answers are running out of time to find them.With nothing but a dead man's notebook and a stubborn refusal to give up, [protagonist] does the one thing no one else will - starts asking the dangerous questions.What really caused the blackout? And who has something to hide?After the Blackout is a gripping story of grief, survival, and the terrifying courage it takes to lead when the world goes dark. As [protagonist] decodes their father's final message and builds an unlikely alliance of neighbors, skeptics, and survivors, they discover that restoring power is the easy part. Rebuilding trust - that's what might break them.Part mystery, part survival thriller, part coming-of-age story - this is a book about what holds us together when everything falls apart.For fans of The Power and Station Eleven - readers who love high-stakes storytelling with a beating human heart at its center.The darkness doesn't get to write our story. We do.
Alliance
Friends In Danger. Family At Risk. Worlds Set To Fall.Kena thought Assimilating to one of the Societies' seven planets and finding a way to save the Earthers who couldn't was the extent of her problems. She couldn't have been more wrong.The villainous Spear group has come out of the shadows and taken over the Hub, the space station that controls travel between all the Societal worlds. They've pledged to wage war and exact control over all the planets. Kena doesn't even know who's leading them, yet finds herself thrust unwillingly into a leadership role of her own. Add to that the complication of discovering she is Connected to Fell, with no time to explore her new romance with the forest walker.Kena and her friends manage to return to the Hub, but defeating the Spear and rescuing their victims proves riskier and more complicated than predicted. Kena develops a new and frightening ability that could save them all, but it comes with a cost.Will she disregard her principles to save those she cares about, or find a way to use her incredible power honorably without dooming them all?
Analong Summer
In the hyper-connected world of 2026, five elite teenagers-a crypto prodigy, a social media titan, an e-sports star, a digital scholar, and a quiet observer-are "chosen" for the ultimate detox. Stripped of their neural implants and constant data streams, they are dropped into a meticulously crafted replica of 1999.This is their Analog Summer. Forced to swap high-speed algorithms for VCRs and actual conversation, the group must navigate a world of deafening silence and physical connection. In this "primitive" frontier, they will be forced to confront their deepest dependencies and rediscover what it truly means to be human when the screen goes dark.
Ascension
No mission without risk. No victory without cost.Kena and the rest of the resistance have managed to escape the Spear, leaving their enemies stranded, for now, on Lone.They've got a plan to save the Societies, but it means journeying to all seven worlds and putting everyone Kena cares about at risk. To keep Assimilation out of Bayard's control, they'll need to meld the crystals on each planet. But first, they have to find them-no easy task.With Kena's powers growing and the Spear on their tail, members of the resistance must move quickly if they hope to save their lives-and the unique qualities that make each of them who they are.Ascension is the final installment of the YA Science-Fantasy "Societies" trilogy.
Ashmarked
In a fractured world ruled by factions and survival codes, sixteen- year- old Kaelin "Kai" Thorn is marked as a risk- a spark too volatile to be controlled. Banished with a group of outcasts to the dangerous wilds beyond the wall, she never expected to uncover ancient ruins, forbidden power, or whispers of a long- extinct legacy: the Dragonborn. But Kai bears a mark no one understands, a burn that flares with purpose. And when monstrous threats awaken and factions clash, she must decide whether she's a forgotten myth... or the fire meant to forge a new world.Torn between loyalty, survival, and the strange, infuriating Silas Dray- whose secrets are as guarded as her own- Kai steps into a truth that could ignite war.Because dragons shouldn't exist.But neither should she.A gripping YA dystopian fantasy series perfect for fans of Divergent, The Hunger Games, The 100, and Skyrim.
Atom Bomb Baby
Atom Bomb Baby
Atopia
Two completely unrelated lives collide in this dystopian, coming-of-age, speculative fiction. The first is Stirling, an inquisitive, twenty-four season boy (the equivalent of twelve years old) who's lived his entire life under the perpetual aurora shielding his community from whatever destroyed the world outside. The other, a conspiracy realist named Brody Burns on a hunt for the truth. Their shared refrain: "There must be places out there that we're not being told about."Imagine a peaceful society, living at the bottom of a crater, completely secluded from the outside world. The citizens live their lives the way they always have: trading goods and services, obeying the precepts, not asking questions. As far as the "Autonomous Territory of Fairtrade" is concerned, there is nothing beyond the aurora covering the crater in which they live, and hasn't been for generations.They don't know about us. We don't know about them. That is how it was meant to be.But everything changes after Stirling has an accident and loses hearing in one of his ears. From then on, things start to become clearer that not everything is as it seems in this utopian world he grew up in. His memories no longer seem to match the collective memories of everyone else around him. His closest friends-even his own mother-remember things differently than he does. Up to that point, everyone believed the native Giants in the area had been their enemies. But now, being saved by one, Stirling's not so sure. In his quest to find out what's really going on, Stirling begins doubting who he can even trust anymore. People have disappeared for knowing less than he does, and he's only beginning to scratch the surface.Simultaneously, Brody Burns, an obscure podcaster on the outside, begins following a trail of leads that seem to providentially fall into his lap one after another. A series of mysterious people washing up on random beaches around the world piques his interest. They must be related. But how? When his guest is spirited away right from under his nose, Brody sets himself to action, journeying half-way around the world in search of answers. What aren't we being told?Meanwhile, Stirling, at a loss of what else to do, tracks down the Giant who helped him. But Stirling is met with more than he bargained for. An old man, the first to disappear, teaches Stirling about the world he thinks he knows within the crater and the world outside that he never knew existed.In a twist of fate, the reality that both Stirling and Brody thought they understood unfolds into the biggest conspiracy either of them had ever imagined. A world they were never supposed to find was right under their noses the whole time, shrouded in secrets, lies, and cover-ups.The mere fact that a social experiment hasn't failed yet does not mean it is right.
Attainment
In the electrifying conclusion to the Defiant series, the gripping saga of Alex, Caleb and friends, reaches its thrilling end. In a world ravaged by untold devastation-battles, floods, fires, and relentless despair-they've left their family and isolated, totalitarian settlement of over five decades. As they embark on this final leg of their journey, the question looms: will their quest lead to the discovery of a magnificent city and a brighter future, or will they find only the echoes of a shattered past?A 51,000 word Young Adult Novel and 4 book series for those who love Hunger Games and Divergent.
Aura Of The Chameleon
Hiding is impossible when your secrets are visible to everyone! When Ivy was barely old enough to understand the greater world, her parents were eliminated. She ends up on the streets, alone, not trusting anyone. Luckily, her magick allows her to blend into her surroundings. Petra enters her life and Ivy has to decide if she can push past her wall of solitude to let someone in or if this is another person to hold at arm's length.Petra's life changed abruptly when the government labeled her mother a traitor. After taking her mother away and reprogramming her father to love and abide the King's every command, Petra knows toeing the line is her only option. Petra meets Ivy at work after graduating high school. She recognizes right away that she found someone worthy of calling a friend. Now all she has to do is convince the prickly coworker that she's worthy of befriending.Can the two of them figure out how to trust each other in a world where their secrets are coveted by the leaders?