Ergebnis für "Paradise" in Dystopien

Die Ruhar griffen uns am Columbus Day an. Wir trieben auf unserer kleinen blauen Murmel durch den Kosmos–arglos, wie die amerikanischen Ureinwohner im Jahr 1492. Dann tauchten am Horizont Raumschiffe einer technisch überlegenen Spezies auf. Und–BAM!–war die gute alte Zeit vorbei. Jene Zeit, als wir Menschen uns nur gegenseitig töteten. Also Columbus Day–Kolumbustag. Das passt.

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Ein gewaltiges Erdbeben im Südpazifik überschwemmt einen Großteil des Planeten und stürzt die Menschheit in eine tiefe Glaubenskrise. Kriege folgen und zwingen den verbliebenen Rest, der einst vorherrschenden Spezies, Schutz in einem riesigen Bunkersystem zu suchen. Die Unterwelt ist die letzte Zuflucht. Technik und Genmanipulation bewahren die Menschen vor dem Aussterben, doch die alten Konflikte sind noch nicht beendet. Jack Parker hat, wie alle in seinem Dorf, nie das Sonnenlicht erblickt.

In the floating city of Qelustra, every need is anticipated, every life optimized, every emotion edited to perfection. Disease, crime, and poverty no longer exist. Humanity has achieved paradise. But Rhen Dikem feels a wrongness in the flawless forests he oversees. Dr. Miavena Standish discovers that her empathy experiments draw on the anguish of alternate selves. Councilor Zaragoza Al-Rashid uncovers a secret energy program siphoning life from dying realities.

An 3548. Le dérèglement climatique et les guerres atomiques ont réduit le Monde à un territoire, celui de l'ancienne Europe, désormais partagé en douze royaumes prospères. Afin d'échapper à une vie de solitude et de drames, Hannah prend la décision difficile de quitter la zone libre et sauvage où elle a toujours vécu, pour la sécurité des murs du royaume d'Olayan. Elle sait qu'en entrant, elle deviendra esclave.

Paradise Gardens is an Orwellian dystopia set in a near future world where the federal government has dissolved amid ecological breakdown. In the 2250s, Nate Greenfield, real estate visionary, with the help of PR maven Madge Chilton, sells corporate business on his “eden underground.” Paradise Gardens becomes the home of the United Business Estates (UBE). Left behind are the Unconnected, people outside corporate protection. Capitalism has devolved into the corporate feudalism of the U.B.E., where employees are conceived as Superior or Average to fit the needs of business.

New from the author of The Story of My Face, Paradise & Elsewhere is a collection of dark fables at once familiar and entirely strange: Join the Orange Prize-nominated Kathy Page as she notches a new path through the wild, lush, half-fantastic and half-real terrain of fairy tale and myth.

In a corporate-controlled future where the ruling conglomerates genetically engineer their employees, Millicent Foster is the best of the best. Physically perfect and exceptionally intelligent, Millicent is granted the uncommon privilege of breeding. But her daughter inherits more than superior genetics...little Marie has a rare ability that the world has never seen, and her conglomerate, Moxidone, will stop at nothing to have sole possession of the child.

Although the reappearance of the Alpha Centauri I crew was miraculous, it was not the celebratory homecoming they expected. Their return to a world reeling from a pandemic that wiped out more than half the population thrust them right into the center of controversy and conflict.

Bailey and Chloe head back on the road, where they come across strange markings belonging to a group intent on bloodshed and abduction. With this heinous enemy lurking in the shadows, they seek help in new and old friends along the way. When they arrive at Hargrove, nothing is what it seems inside the makeshift, post-apocalyptic community. People are turning up dead, and for once, zombies aren't the ones to blame. Fingers are pointed, everyone is a suspect, and no one is safe outside or inside these walls.

In a world where a virus has spread turning most of the population into flesh-eating monsters, there are two friends partying it up in New Orleans when the infection hits. Far away from home, they are trapped and trying to make sense of all that has happened with the help of new friends and enemies along the way. Zombies aren't the only thing to fear.

After rescuing their daughter, Marie, from corporate-controlled Earth, Millicent and Ryker thought they were safe on their off-world paradise. They were wrong. Toton, once thought the weakest conglomerate, is now dominating ruined Earth with a sinister new technology. By harvesting minds for use in their supercomputers, they're enslaving the best and brightest humans to further their agenda. Millie and Ryker know that it's just a matter of time before Toton realizes the biggest prize - Marie's "gifted" mind - is merely a rocket ride away.