Títulos en Distopía

Cela fait 120 ans que les 50 vaisseaux-mondes contenant les quelques millions de survivants ont décollé après la destruction de la planète Terre par un météore. À bord du "Vaisseau-monde Humilité", Sam, opérateur chargé de la sécurité des sas d'arrimage s'ennuie. Vivre dans l'espace devrait être une vie trépidante, peuplée d'aventures, mais ce n'est pas le cas, et il passe donc son temps à hacker des posters 3D de films. Yasmine Émile Dufont, petite voleuse vivant également à bord du VM Humilité, elle ne s'ennuie pas.

Qualcuno sta cercando di cambiare gli avvenimenti del Novecento per trarne vantaggio. Le stragi che si potevano evitare, i massacri inutili, gli incidenti da prevenire. Un secolo pieno di tragici avvenimenti sta per essere "ripulito". Ma non è detto che tutte le conseguenze siano positive. L'incubo di una discronia perfetta, che cambierà la Storia, è raccontata da Lukha B. Kremo, uno degli autori più attivi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo. L'audiolibro è proposto da Kipple Officina Libraria per la lettura di Lorenzo Visi.

Perché un paladino in copertina? Certamente perché il racconto, intrigante e pieno di atmosfera, è ambientato in Sicilia - ma tranquilli, di dialetto ce n'è poco. Quanto basta, "come il sale", secondo una lettrice di Parma. Ma c'è un secondo motivo. In tutti i racconti tratti da "Pilipintò - Racconti da bagno per Siciliani e non", come questo "I moti del 2048" che state per ascoltare dalla mia voce, troverete trame e capovolgimenti di prospettiva.

"La peste scarlatta" (The Scarlet Plague) è un romanzo post-apocalittico di Jack London pubblicato nel 1912. Si tratta di un testo visionario in cui l'autore anticipa temi destinati ad avere larga diffusione nei decenni successivi e rimane ancor oggi un punto di riferimento di un genere che gode di fortuna crescente nei film, nelle serie TV, nei fumetti.

Adam Stone è cresciuto nella polverosa e arida città di Blackwater, circondata dal deserto, un luogo fuori dal mondo dove nessuno può dirsi veramente libero. Non desidera altro che fuggire da quella prigione e trovare un'esistenza di libertà e di pace. Ma c'è qualcosa che Adam rincorre ancor più della libertà: l'amore dell'affascinante Sadie Blood.

Cresciute all'interno della rigida comunità di Mana's Hearth, le sorelle siamesi Taema e Tila sognano una vita al di fuori della foresta di sequoie che le nasconde dal mondo. Il cuore che condividono ha iniziato a dare i primi segni di cedimento e se vogliono sopravvivere non hanno altra scelta che raggiungere l'altro lato della baia, dove le attende una San Francisco sconosciuta, sconvolta dal terremoto del 2055, e dove verranno separate chirurgicamente.

Finalmente una buona notizia: l'equipaggio ha fatto ritorno sulla Marion! E qui non c'è tempo da perdere. Mentre Hooper deve incorporare la cella del combustibile nella NARCISSUS, gli altri si occupano di raccogliere cibo e medicine in preparazione per il lungo e faticoso viaggio. Ma non solo Ash vuole impedire alla squadra di lasciare viva la MARION - anche l'ultimo alieno rimanente si nasconde da qualche parte sulla nave ed è in attesa di prede fresche.

The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, was the first example of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, 60 years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world in 2013. One of the few survivors, James Howard Smith, alias “Granser”, tells his incredulous and near-savage grandsons how the pandemic spread in the world and about the reactions of the people to contagion and death.

Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and '90s San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird. While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling and metatextual exploration to complement her promises of maturity and responsibility.

In the aftermath of the War with No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs and cats, bats and bears, pigs and wolves into intelligent, highly evolved creatures who rise up and kill their oppressors. And now, after years of bloodshed, these sentient beasts must learn to live alongside their sworn enemies - humans.

Gracie Jones was little more than a child when Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them, and they became known as the Freedom Five. At 17, she made a decision that turned the tide in the war between Earth and the Alluthans, but in exchange, she gave up all that she knew.

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers - men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.

The auto age is defunct. Buicks, Chryslers, and Pontiacs disfigure the landscape. Vines sprout in Manhattan. Wolves are seen in downtown Cleveland. And psychiatrist, mental hospital outpatient, and inventor Dr. Tom More has created a miraculous instrument: the ontological lapsometer, a kind of stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he plans to cure mankind’s spiritual flu. But first, he must survive Moira, Lola, and Ellen - and discover why so many living people are actually dead.

After fleeing for their lives, Rowan's band of survivors makes it to the Underground. The last to find her way, the welcome that greets her is not a warm one. She's about to find out just how far the web of betrayal spreads, touching everything she holds dear. All the while, her family is kept from her, too far away to reach. Longing for Sam and desperate to escape, her powers grow stronger, but will it be enough?

In a city that could well be New York, a series of identical women are found dead in suspicious circumstances. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing, who is reporting on the suspected murders, is chilled to discover that his fiancée looks identical to the victims, too—and then she disappears. As his investigations spiral beyond his control, he finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a world-powerful master race.

In the near future, climate change has hit hard; unemployment is high, and controversial longevity treatments are only available to the very rich. Enter DC Police Detective Jen B. Lu and her partner, Chandler, a SIM implant in her brain providing an instant link to the internet and police records. As a detective in the Elder Abuse Unit, Jen is supposed to be investigating kids pushing their aging parents to exit so that they’re eligible to get the longevity drug. But what really has her attention are the persistent rumors about Eden, a black-market version of the longevity drug.

Marcin to młody chłopak, który uważa, że świat jest pełen spisków. Bezwzględni ONI kierują życiem zwykłych ludzi, szpiegują, kradną pomysły, manipulują. Dodają do kranówki substancji ułatwiających kontrolę nad umysłami, a na naklejkach na owocach umieszczają kamery, za pośrednictwem których oglądają nasze mieszkania... To tylko mała próbka ICH możliwości. Pewnego dnia chłopak odkrywa na krakowskich Krzemionkach tajemnicze ruiny, które wyglądają na bardzo dobrze strzeżone. ZBYT DOBRZE. Czy to tylko jego paranoja? A może ONI istnieją naprawdę i nie spodoba im się, że ktoś węszy wokół ich tajnej siedziby?

Bowdoin and his crew have grown in both strength and reach. They have taken on all comers, gangs, corpo, and otherwise, and expanded their domain to include the entirety of their arcology. But they have not avoided entrapment. Ostensibly, Bowdoin is doing work for hire for the hacker corporation Inside Eye. The reality of it is bleaker than this. The chains may be pretty and invisible to the naked eye, but they are still there.

Once a scrap-wrangling nobody from Phoenix, Arizona, Juliet Bianchi's life was forever changed when fate handed her a hyper-advanced AI chip that launched her into the arena of high-powered, high-stakes operators. To her surprise—and everyone else's—she had a natural talent for cybernetic-enhanced mayhem and mercenary work. Now, that work will take Juliet where she's always wanted to go: off world. Unfortunately, the reason is that her faithful friend Honey and a child prodigy she was caring for have been kidnapped.

Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud that separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods, and using emojis in place of written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with scrap metal spears and Molotov cocktails.