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Eine massive Sonneneruption. Ein verheerender globaler Stromausfall. Und inmitten dieses Chaos ist ein mit Treibstoff beladenes Tankschiff der bedrohlichen Gefahr einer Meuterei ausgesetzt. Und viele wollen sehnlichst nach Hause zu ihren Familien. Der verzweifelte Kapitän setzt alles daran, um die Ordnung aufrechtzuerhalten, während er mit seiner wertvollen Fracht so schnell wie möglich den Heimathafen ansteuert. Aber die Zeit wird knapp. An Land, in Städten ohne Stromversorgung, herrscht Gewalt auf den Straßen.

With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.

‘Clever and astute … a cracking read’ The Belfast Telegraph ‘One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways’ Hello Magazine * * * From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this...

Awakening ProtocolA signal calls from the ashes. Will humanity awaken —or vanish into code? Book One of the Quantum Synchronicity OS SeriesBy Norman JN LobbWhen the world fractured, only the code remained. In the aftermath of a global collapse sparked by cascading AI failures, Earth has gone dark.

From the New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes the second installment of the edge-of-your-seat prequel to the popular Hell Divers series. The bombs were just the beginning of the nightmare … On the ground, Cecil Pepper and his wife race against radioactive death...

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai - her first in 16 years - a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go to war against disease, technology, and an economic system that threatens them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover, Peristrophe, is a "starfish", a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing.

Roma, 2055. Cinzia lavora nel reparto selezioni pubbliche dell'Azienda: un ente supremo che guida i desideri dell'umanità con lo scopo di parificare i bisogni umani per un nuovo ordine mondiale privo di conflitti. Ma i nuovi dettami sociali, questo livellamento imposto dall'alto, riusciranno a generare una società appagata e libera? La narrazione è costruita attorno a Cinzia e Giulia, due amiche legate fin dalla nascita da una profonda amicizia, parti di una società ipertecnologica che non hanno potuto scegliere.

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....

It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday. But when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight, he is tapped by the president for a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The fate of the world depends upon it. The problem is - Truckee’s not sure it’s worth it.  

Two years after the war to end all wars, the American people are confronting the reality of the altered world. As the US’ armed forces—weakened from the peace dividend—begin again to flex its slowly recovering offensive muscle, a second war rages in the Korean peninsula, and American and British forces circle each other warily from the North Atlantic to the Straits of Hormuz as the wounded Soviet bear broods behind its borders.

Empty Country imagines a quiet, seismic shift in history. After President Donald Trump orders all undocumented immigrants to leave the U.S. within 24 hours, there is no protest—only silence, and then movement. Millions walk south. As they vanish, the U.S. begins to crumble. Crops rot, businesses shutter, and invisible labor scaffolds collapse. In a visionary response, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum offers a 50-by-50-mile sanctuary in Sonora—a tax-free, autonomous zone. The migrants build a new city: Nueva Esperanza.

Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos”.

The Chai House is a haunting debut novel that explores the complexity of community when individuals are unaware of their own roles in upholding systems of oppression. Swati has spent her entire life trying to live up to her family’s expectations of her. She has learned it is easiest to just do what is asked of her, without resistance; a skill that has helped her survive in the early years of the Knights, an authoritarian regime. When her mother has a request for Swati, she agrees to it as it is the only way to help her young niece have some sort of future.