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In the thrilling climax to the Calek's Tale Trilogy, Wayne Faust weaves all the elements together from the first two books, and introduces new and fascinating characters, while fleshing out existing ones. The War is not only a physical battle between the people on the Mainland, who are desperate to rescue Calek and his twin brother John, and the people on the Island, most notably Hezekiah, the spiritual leader, who is desperate to hang onto his waning power. It's also a spiritual battle between two very different ways of looking at the world.

Set in a dystopian near-future London, where property ownership is the only measure of wealth, a huge wall keeps landlords safe from their tenants as explosions rock the streets, and an underground terrorist group, "The Unheard," takes credit for the chaos. When part-time cleaner Samantha Fuller inadvertently discovers a looming disaster, she enlists cocky journalist and minor celebrity Jack Klein to uncover the details and warn the world.

Das Jahr 2075: Die radikale Gleichheitsbewegung "Movement for Optical Justice" (MOVE) wendet sich gegen die ungleiche Verteilung von Schönheit. Attraktive Frauen genössen angeblich unverdiente Privilegien im Berufs- wie im Privatleben. Darum: "Schönheit ist ungerecht." Die Bewegung gewinnt immer mehr Einfluss. Stück für Stück verwandelt sich die Demokratie in eine Gleichheitsdiktatur. Es beginnt mit höheren Steuern und beruflichen Nachteilen für Schöne.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.”

The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.

É 1984, e a vida está irreconhecível. Pista Aérea Um, antes conhecida como Grã-Bretanha, é um lugar onde o Grande Irmão está sempre de olho e é impossível se esconder. Exceto, talvez, para Winston Smith. Enquanto trabalha reescrevendo a história no Ministério da Verdade, ele nutre sonhos secretos de liberdade. E, num mundo onde o amor e o sexo são proibidos, onde é difícil distinguir os amigos dos inimigos, ele conhece Julia e O’Brien e decide se rebelar.

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

In Oceania, one of three totalitarian states that rule the world, Big Brother is watching. The Thought Police are listening. Reality is defined by the Party. And in London, at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite history. His dream, however, is to rebel. Winston is beginning to think for himself. In defiance of the State, he falls into a criminal love affair with his coworker Julia. But it isn’t until he joins the Brotherhood, an underground network of revolutionaries, that Winston discovers how high the cost of freedom may be.

It's 1984. Winston Smith lives alone in London. He is a secret rebel plotting his escape from the Party: the deadly dictatorship led by Big Brother. Winston dreams of finding freedom, love and peace: everything that is outlawed. His act of defiance will get him killed—but his courage is unshaken. He risks everything in his desperate search for truth and humanity as he once knew them. The story of Winston's rebellion, and his need to love others, reveals the strength of the human spirit against the darkest sides of human nature.

한 달 뒤, 엄청난 속도로 날아오는 운석과 지구가 충돌한다. 라디오에서 지구 최후의 날을 카운트다운하는 건조한 기계음만 흘러나온다. 거리는 소란스럽다. 지금을 살기 위해 약탈과 방화를 하는 사람들, 대피소에서 가만히 운명을 기다리는 사람들, 단 일 퍼센트의 생존 가능성에 희망을 걸고 앞날을 대비하는 사람들로 가득하다. 『일 퍼센트』는 지구 종말로부터 살아남을 수 있다는 일 퍼센트 그래서 상위 일 퍼센트가 될 수 있다는 욕심 때문에 이성을 잃어 가는 지후네 가족의 모습을 그렸다.

Rain ist ein Ghost. Sie lebt außerhalb des Systems. Seit ihrer Geburt ist sie auf der Flucht vor den Gesegneten, einer perfekten Weiterentwicklung der Menschen, die mit eiserner Hand regieren und das Volk unterdrücken. Rain weigert sich jedoch, sich ein Leben lang zu verstecken, und begeht einen fatalen Fehler. Sie bricht die wichtigste Regel der Ghosts: Vertraue niemandem!

"1984", le livre légendaire écrit par George Orwell, enfin disponible dans une nouvelle traduction française. Un regard terrifiant sur l'avenir et une menace très claire sur ce que pourrait être notre futur, avec un État omniprésent et ultra-répressif. 1984 est le livre incontournable de l'anticipation distopique. L'histoire : Dans le futur, le monde a été divisé en trois empires qui se combattent en permanence : L'Océanie, l'Asie de l'Est et l'Eurasie. "1984" se passe à Londres, dans l'Océanie, une dictature.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different color every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.

1984, escrito por George Orwell, é um romance distópico publicado em 1949 que retrata um futuro sombrio onde o totalitarismo domina. A história se passa em uma sociedade controlada pelo Partido, liderado pela figura do Grande Irmão, que monitora cada aspecto da vida das pessoas. Winston Smith, o protagonista, trabalha para o governo, mas aos poucos começa a questionar a opressão imposta pelo regime.

Jason Taverner has a glittering TV career, millions of fans, great wealth and something close to eternal youth. He is one of a handful of brilliant, beautiful people, the product of top-secret government experiments forty years earlier. But suddenly, all records of him vanish. He becomes a man with no identity, in a police state where everyone us closely monitored. Can he ever be rich and famous again? Or was that life just an illusion?

Dr Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter’s research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, this story follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world.

W prestiżowym warszawskim liceum dochodzi do krwawego ataku terrorystycznego. Zamaskowani sprawcy detonują ładunki wybuchowe i strzelają na oślep do przerażonych uczniów i pracowników. Jednym z zamachowców jest Błażej Dragiel, który popełnia samobójstwo na oczach swojej najlepszej przyjaciółki, Kai Almond. Nikt nie rozumie, dlaczego syn znanego biznesmena i filantropa posunął się do takiego okrucieństwa. Tymczasem w mediach rozpoczyna się nagonka na Kaję. Pod adresem dziewczyny padają oskarżenia o współorganizację zamachu.

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life. A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?