Category: Dystopian Science Fiction

Wendy MacIntyre creates a fictional dystopian international so darkish that her characters’ possibilities of survival glance subsequent to very unlikely.
When art-lover Lucia unearths her most respected ownership destroyed, she resolves ultimately to desert the town. alongside the way in which she gathers partners, together with: the Outpacer, a former hedonist and philanderer now hiding his id in the back of a monk’s cover; fowl woman, a stricken younger girl regularly looking for books that experience escaped the regime’s destruction; and Candace, a dominant person whose repeated makes an attempt to grab keep watch over of the gang create stress one of the travelers whereas they look for an alternative fact.
Each has been infected by means of the realm they've got escaped and this imprinting threatens the survival of the gang. As tensions bring up and the failure in their quest turns out impending, they discover a field protecting six Greek tragedy mask. those mask, possessors of uncanny powers, are the keys to their future.

They say the Awakening is coming.
That she’s the key.
But can she locate her identification within the light
Before she perishes within the dark?

Twenty years have handed considering the fact that Carrington and Remko Brant’s child, Elise, used to be abducted and so they have been compelled to depart her captive within the Authority urban. even though they fled with the Seers faraway from Authority succeed in, they’ve by no means given up wish of rescuing their daughter from the fellow who betrayed them. Now Authority President, he’s ushered town right into a new period of “peace”—one the place the Scientist Roth Reynard’s Genesis Serum has eliminated all reminiscence of emotion or rebellion.

But the mysterious Aaron and his Seers are once more at the circulate, threatening the appearance the Authority has labored so challenging to construct. because the Seers ship seven selected warriors to rescue Elise and produce recovery to the Authority urban, the strains are drawn for a last conflict among gentle and darkness. the main to final victory could relaxation in the surprisingly robust lady who has felt forgotten yet was once by no means abandoned—a fact she’ll have to salary warfare opposed to the strong forces of evil.

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From a new voice within the culture of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a superb, boundary-challenging story, set in a South African locale either everyday and but completely new, which braids components of technological know-how fiction, myth, horror, and darkish humor.

In South Africa, the long run seems to be promising. own robots are making existence more straightforward for the operating category. the govt. is harnessing renewable power to supply infrastructure for the bad. And within the bustling coastal city of Port Elizabeth, the financial system is booming because of the genetic engineering which has stumbled on a welcome domestic there. Yes—the days to return are having a look first-class for South Africans. that's, in the event that they can live on the current challenges:

A new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the rustic . . .

An rising AI rebellion . . .

And an old demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former prestige via preying at the blood and sweat (but normally blood) of each human she encounters.

It’s as much as a tender Zulu woman strong sufficient to smash her complete township, a queer youngster plagued having the ability to keep an eye on minds, a pop diva with severe daddy matters, and a political candidate with much more critical mommy concerns to band jointly to make sure there’s a destiny left to fret about.

Fun and outstanding, Nicky Drayden takes her brilliance as a brief tale author and weaves jointly an problematic story that would catch your middle . . . at the same time one specific demigoddess threatens to tear it out.

SILVER Medalist within the 2017 international publication Awards!

I have triumph over the chances of a being pregnant in the midst of the Rocky Mountains and given birth.
I have struggled to stay hidden from the prying eyes of the worldwide conglomerate referred to as the Protectorate.
I have resisted the robots, drones, droids, androids, and mechs that the Protectorate has arrayed opposed to me.
I have narrowly escaped the clutches of that indiscriminate killer, los angeles Guillotine.
I have fallen sufferer to the betrayal of these who professed to be my enjoyed ones.
I have found the genuine mystery at the back of the novel starting place and delivery of that the majority heinous person, the Overlord of the area.
I have stared into the face of evil because it straddled the Golden Throne and governed the realm with an iron hand.
I have entrenched myself in a last line within the soil opposed to the last word conflict that may finish all battles.
I didn't imagine i might dwell to inform approximately it, fraught with peril and beset through soul-piercing possibility on each side.
But I did...

I am Ashton Deveraux Forte.
My tale should be your story.
But you are going to by no means wish it to be.
Not after what i have been through.
Learn from my errors and keep away from them altogether.

Abstinenz ist Hochverrat!

Diese Zukunft ist ein Schlaraffenland: Konsum ist Pflicht, Rauschmittel werden vom Staat verabreicht, und Beamte achten darauf, dass ja keine Langeweile aufkommt. Die Wirklichkeit in »Junktown«, wie die Hauptstadt nur noch genannt wird, sieht anders aus. Eine eiserne Diktatur hält die Menschen im kollektiven Drogenwahn, dem sich niemand entziehen darf, und Biotech-Maschinen beherrschen den Alltag. Als Solomon Cain, Inspektor der Geheimen Maschinenpolizei, zum Tatort eines Mordes gerufen wird, ahnt er noch nicht, dass dieser Fall ihn in die Abgründe von Junktown und an die Grenzen seines Gewissens führen wird. Denn used to be bleibt vom Menschen, wenn der Tod nur der letzte große Kick ist?

The trillion-dollar Elysium company has perfected the technological know-how of genetically-induced immortality. Decay and dying aren't any longer inevitable. For the suitable rate, now you can get pleasure from everlasting adolescence, and in nice luxurious. this is often mankind’s final achievement.

Trevelyan’s bet proves an impossible to resist entice for an indelicate journalist, who suspects that folks and permanence shouldn't ever mix…

The yr is 2085, and a fleet of interstellar ships hurtles towards a sun process that's was hoping will provide a brand new domestic for humanity. establishing a wormhole gate on one among Epsilon Eridani’s planets would offer an break out for the billions left on an overpopulated and resource-poor Earth.

The fleet lately got what's assumed to be its final conversation from the United international locations Stellar fee. The short message learn easily, “You’re in your own,” which the fleet takes to intend that they simply handed out of Earth’s verbal exchange range.

But they're unsuitable. again domestic, a catastrophe extraordinary in Earth’s heritage now threatens humanity’s very survival. The inhabitants is in loose fall, governments have collapsed, and an overpowering feel of apathy grips the planet. until the placement improves—and soon—the wormhole gate will open to an Earth with out humans.

Humanity’s hopes are actually totally within the fingers of the 90 thousand star-flung contributors heading via deep area on fragile ships—while again in the world, a strong strength awakens.

Humanity has leaped into the celebrities, yet will this be our future—or a final determined act sooner than extinction?

Ein Tagebuch der Zukunft – Skurril, poetisch, tragisch, voller Liebe Nur wenig braucht es, damit alles ganz anders ist: Stürme sind über das Land gefegt, danach kamen Überschwemmungen, es ist seit Monaten unerträglich heiß, der Alltag ist aus den Fugen geraten.
Zwei Frauen suchen Halt in einer haltlosen Welt. Ihr letztes Mittel ist die rückhaltlose Vergewisserung und: Kunst.
Nüchterne Zahlen markieren die Lage: »Sonntag, 10. August: 21.40, Temperatur: 37°, Ozonwert: 360, Zustand des Himmels: klar.«
Das 18. Stockwerk eines Hochhauses ist zum Refugium für eine Frau und ihre Tochter geworden. Während draußen noch immer Fassadenkletterer und Bungeespringer ihre absurden Akte vollziehen, versucht die Mutter, sich Klarheit zu verschaffen, Rechenschaft abzulegen und dem Leben eine letzte shape zu geben. Sie schreibt Tagebuch, während ihre halbwüchsige Tochter durch die Stadt streift und sie weiß: Wenn das letzte Blatt gefüllt ist, werden sie die Stadt verlassen müssen.
Die anderen gehen nämlich schon, formieren sich schon wieder zu stammesähnlichen Gruppen, schnell passen sie sich an die neuen Bedingungen an. Zurück bleiben die, die auf ihre Individualität pochen, Eigensinnige und Wunderliche wie der Puppenspieler Donati, der Rimbaud zitiert und sein krankes style mit wildem Trotz am Leben hält, der Interviewer, der immer weiter dieselben Fragen stellt, und die Aktionskünstlerin, die ihre nächste functionality plant, auch wenn es kein Publikum mehr gibt.
In ihrem eindringlichen Roman zeigt Liane Dirks den Vorgang einer poetischen Inventur, grotesk bisweilen und voll schwarzem Humor.
Getragen von einer tiefen Liebe zur Welt und einer innigen Beziehung zu ihrer Tochter, gelangt die unermüdliche Archivarin zu überraschenden Einsichten: »Liebe kann so schnell bedrohlich sein und trotzdem ist Bedrohung niemals Liebe.«
Atemlos folgt guy zwei Heldinnen auf einem unausweichlichen Weg.

Skinheads. Drug purchasers. police officers. for 2 brothers-of-circumstance navigating the violent streets of this commercial barren region, each city tribe is a possible chance. but it really is among the denizens of those unforgiving alleys, harmful squat homes, and underground nightclubs that the brothers—and the small highway tribe to which they belong—forge the bonds that would see them via mindless minor cruelties, the sluggish and incessant grind of poverty, and savage boot tradition violence. Friendship. realizing. Affinity. for 2 brothers, those fragile ties are the one desire they've got for salvation within the wake of a mutual girlfriend’s suicide, an occasion so devastating that it drives one to hunt solace faraway from his metal urban roots, and the opposite to a tragic—yet miraculous—transformation, a heartbreaking metamorphosis from poet and musician to road prophet, rising from a self-imposed cocoon an city shaman, mad-eyed shaper of (t)ruthless reality.

Millennia follows the lives of 9 succeeding generations as advised through the process another background, one that runs parallel to our personal. From the outdated, to the younger, to the corrupt, to the impoverished, to the elite, every one character's impact strives to breach the veil of eternity. Millennia is a storytelling zoo of conspiracy sleuths, despotic clergymen, alien psychotherapists, and colonial Transhumanists.