Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Distopía

The man known as Dewey Decimal works in a near-future Manhattan decimated by terrorism and plague, running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard - though he’d prefer to spend his time among the stacks at his beloved New York Public Library. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices - and it will put him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be....

París, año 2041. Una Europa dividida, y dormida, cae en manos de dictadores fascistas tras una década de depresión económica y radicalismo islámico. Tres amigos de la nueva Resistencia francesa luchan contra un régimen totalitario que reedita el pasado nazi.

Set in a terrifyingly familiar near future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh, a headstrong social worker.

Rhona has battled the malevolent AI intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began - until she’s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone...of herself. Except for her missing memories. Some of which could potentially turn the tide of the war.

Ek Ladki Pani Pani manages to draw that connection between life and water in its own unique way. The story that starts with the specter of drought has water as its central character. What will our lives be without water? The novel is a reflection of that horrific reality. The novel is stand-alone in its category, where science fiction has been interwoven into the lives of female protagonists with such expertise that the underlying message of the novel does not get lost in the highs and lows of the characters' lives.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice - catastrophic events known as Drains - leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal...for everyone but them. Of the five, Sloane has had the hardest time adjusting.

With the newly received schematics of the Gateway from Detroit, Tom and Alec head to the west coast to recruit more manpower, but find that not everyone is willing to rise against the Overseers. On Tom’s orders, Cole travels to Chicago to uncover a hidden enclave of Roamers. Meanwhile, Lina must convince pockets of Freeborn to join the Reclaimer's cause. Dex is forced to return to the Occupation and lie about his recent whereabouts. He sets off on a covert task. Salvation is the second book in the sweeping post-invasion series, Rise.

In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.

In un futuro dai confini incerti, in un paesaggio che assomiglia al Far West ma che è invece la pianura a volte nebbiosa, altre assolata, fra l'Emilia e la Romagna, tutto è cambiato. Siamo attorno all'anno 6.000 quando avviene la Grande Devastazione: un'invasione aliena ha distrutto le città lasciando dietro solo rovine, un'incredibile onda d'urto ha raso al suolo ogni sporgenza, ha fatto ribollire gli oceani, la popolazione umana è decimata ed è rintanata in case cubiche simili a termitai.

Angela is a woman trying to get by in this bewildering new world. Though she still lives with her husband and children, they lead separate lives. Confined to their rooms, they communicate via their computers and phones. In some ways, very little has changed. That is, until she spots a mysterious stranger walking through town without even a face mask for protection. A man, it seems, immune to this disease. A man unlike anyone else she knows. A man it might just be safe to touch....

I live in a world of waifs and shadows. "Live" might be an overstatement. I scrounge and scramble and survive in an atmosphere made thick and gray by the ashes of the Fallen. And sometimes I dream of sunlight. My parents were taken, even though they followed all the rules. Never scavenge at night. Never talk to Shadows. Don't fight the Sweepers. Run. Run. Run. And then I meet "him".

Samuel, sorvegliante di una vasca dove vengono allevate e nutrite le sirene destinate alla produzione della "carne di mare", si lascia tentare dal più pericoloso dei piaceri. Si unisce a una sirena femmina, sfuggendo a stento alla reazione istintiva di lei: divorare il maschio dopo il rapporto, come fanno le mantidi. Da quell'unione nasce Mia - mezza sirena e mezza umana - e da lei avrà, forse, origine una nuova specie cosciente.

In una Londra tetra e indecifrabile, Billy Harrow, studioso di cefalopodi, guida i visitatori all'interno del Museo di Storia Naturale, dove è ospitato un raro e impressionante esemplare di Architeutis dux, meglio noto come "Calamaro gigante". Nessuno può immaginare quello che sta per accadere, l'evento che avrebbe cambiato per sempre l'esistenza di chi vi avesse assistito: quando il calamaro svanisce nel nulla prima dell'arrivo di Billy e dei visitatori, ogni spiegazione razionale appare subito vana.

Mi chiamo Rossa e ho quattordici anni. I Vecchi mi hanno abbandonato oggi, nel giorno del mio compleanno. Come nella fiaba di Hansel e Gretel. Fatevene una ragione! Non fatevi manipolare, illudere, comprare! Non ci saranno, nei giorni a venire, babbi e mamme, maestri, preti e poliziotti, amici o complici che ci verranno in aiuto. Noi siamo soli!

Dopo che guerre nucleari e successivi stravolgimenti hanno devastato gran parte del pianeta, quel che resta dell'umanità si occupa di rivitalizzarlo in piccole colonie sparse nella Federazione Unita, un tempo Nord America. Il futuro adesso è nelle mani di pochi eletti della nuova generazione che avranno il compito di ricostruirlo. Ma per entrare a far parte di questa élite, accedere a un'istruzione universitaria e diventare i futuri leader della Federazione, i candidati devono superare la Prova.

In un mondo dominato dalla realtà virtuale, dai social network e dagli interessi di immense corporazioni, l'identità personale non è più univoca e le relazioni tra gli esseri umani, le loro proiezioni virtuali e le intelligenze artificiali si mescolano fino a divenire indistinguibili e alienabili. Le vicende personali e sentimentali di una serie di personaggi si mescolano in un susseguirsi di eventi scandito da Rose, eroina suo malgrado.

In the ruins of the world, the last remnants of humanity find themselves caught in an impossible war between the mechanical and the mystical - between the unliving and the undead.

Broadcast live, Rosa Lincoln takes to the stage at her brother’s memorial service with a bomb concealed beneath her clothes. Being in Jimmy’s shadow was never easy, even when he was alive, but in death he has become a national hero. When she crosses paths with the enigmatic Teresa, she discovers that those she has been taught to view as enemies may not be the real villains after all. The lies need to be stopped, and Rosa intends on doing just that.

In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night....