Ergebnis für "The Stranger" in Dystopien

Überall auf der Welt herrscht ein erbarmungsloser Krieg. Nur im Tal der Erweckten, das von der Außenwelt abgeschottet ist, können die Menschen noch in Sicherheit und Frieden leben. Das glaubt zumindest Sophia. Doch als ihr Freund Mirko verschwindet, beginnt Sophia ihre streng religiöse Gemeinde infrage zu stellen. Sie verlässt das Tal und findet anstelle eines Schlachtfeldes eine scheinbar perfekte, hoch technisierte Gesellschaft vor. Kann es sein, dass Sophias bisheriges Leben eine einzige Lüge war?

Earth has changed while they were in space . . . but so has Anna. After centuries of survival aboard the Selene space station in the shadow of Saturn, a forgotten group of humans has evolved in ways Earth could never imagine. As communication from their home planet has been dormant for...

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder...

‘WOW, what a book… I don’t remember the last time I stayed up until 4am because I couldn’t put a book down… Absolutely loved… I was on the edge of my seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ganymede’s is no ordinary boarding school. Behind its spiral towers and manicured lawns, boys are forged...

Set in a future that grows more plausible by the day, Stranger Beauty asks what traces will remain after a life has ended. There are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. Stranger Beauty is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. The architecture of the novel is not a stunt.

16-year-old Evelyn awakens from a coma to find herself imprisoned in a medical robotics research facility, sanctioned by the government. Newly orphaned, and horribly disfigured from a car accident, Evelyn finds herself ensnared in a dangerous game between a narcissistic CEO and a brilliant surgeon. In order to survive, she is forced to ignore her own moral compass, and recruit the homeless for deadly experiments where humans are merged with artificial intelligence, all for the "good" of mankind.

Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most people have deserted the cities and towns to work themselves to death in the construction of monumental earthworks

A literary suspense novel in which an eerie social game goes viral and spins perilously—and criminally—out of control. Rebecca’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ezra, has gone missing, but when she notifies the police, they seem surprisingly unconcerned. They suspect he has been playing the...

Waking up barefoot in the woods with no memory of who he is or how he got there, a young man known only by the name "Stranger" sets off on a journey through the bizarre reality of World City—a place seemingly outside of time and space where the people speak in riddles, and the game is played by an entirely different set of rules. With each new character he meets, Stranger’s path takes him through the streets, the nightclubs, the churches, the prisons, the courts, and finally to the highest power in the world, where he must make a choice that will forever alter the fate of the city.

Step into the mind-bending worlds of The Selected Works of Philip K. Dick, a powerful collection of classic science-fiction stories from one of the genre’s most influential visionaries, Philip K. Dick. This expertly curated volume showcases Dick at his sharpest—probing the fragile boundaries between reality and illusion, power and freedom, humanity and the unknown.

Laundrygate: Strange Stories About the Future is an unusual collection of short stories about the unimagined consequences of technology and the creation of new realities. Tery Spataro dreams up these wild, surreal tales and envisions the outcomes brought about by technological change and human curiosity, and imagines post-humanist worlds. The four heroines of Laundrygate experience many themes and challenges caused by these otherworldly environments.

Embark on a journey through the twisted corridors of a world where: Corporate interviews take on supernatural influences, a workaholic goes to extreme lengths to secure his promotion, a dystopic and brutal contest among Head Hunters who are desperate to meet quota, and more. They say it's a grind.

Las fuerzas extrañas reúnen doce relatos y una teoría del cosmos que constituyen los cuentos fantásticos más perfectos de la literatura castellana. Perfectos por la prosa excepcional que los narra, por los argumentos asombrosos que abordan y por los hallazgos narrativos que Leopoldo Lugones ensaya para dar verosimilitud a estas fantasías.

In this tale of post-apocalyptic survival, Leonard Ackerman works at a remote army base trying to solve the greatest threat facing mankind—an alien invasion has eroded our species down to very few numbers. His base is compromised, and Ackerman retreats to a laboratory he has never been seen, locking himself there with the enemy right outside his door. Inside the lab are 13 telephones—from the American Civil War through to Ackerman's present day. This lab seems to be some sort of closed experiment, and Ackerman discovers that he cannot exit until the experiment has run its course.