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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

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.

When an old flame asks Eden to help find his younger brother, she initially refuses. Searching for Anton will put her smack in the middle of the Disciples—as well as on the radar of the demon who might own her soul. But a sense of obligation (plus the promised payout), overrides her instincts for self-preservation, and Eden takes the job.

What's left of humanity has withdrawn behind massive walls. Behind those walls, Kane's luck is running out. His son grows closer to rampancy every day and he is almost out of time to save him. He is a single mishap away from losing it all in a city full of half humans. Which is exactly when fate decides to stab him in the back. With something awakening inside him, Kane will have to discover why someone is trying to kill him, but that discovery could leave him little more than a bloody stain on the floor.

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Whit en Wisty Allgood, broer en zus, worden 's nachts weggehaald bij hun familie en er is niets wat hun ouders er tegen kunnen doen. Ze worden ervan verdacht een tovenaar en een heks te zijn. In gevangenschap ontdekken Whit en Wisty hun ware krachten. Zijn ze nog op tijd om zichzelf, hun ouders en misschien zelfs de wereld te redden?

Nadat ze ontvoerd werden, konden Whit en Wisty ternauwernood met hun leven uit de gevangenis ontsnappen. Nu zijn ze de leiders van het verzet en doen ze er alles aan om gevangen en ontvoerde kinderen te redden. Tegelijkertijd doen de soldaten van de Nieuwe Orde hun uiterste best om Whit en Wisty opnieuw op te pakken. Hun boosaardige leider wil namelijk de hele wereld beheersen en manipuleren, en daarvoor heeft hij nog twee dingen nodig: de gave van Whit en de gave van Wisty.

In a not-so-distant future, the United States has fallen into chaos—its government overtaken by globalist elites, its people stripped of freedom, and its Constitution reduced to memory. The World Union of Globalization enforces a tyrannical Digital ID system that controls every aspect of life. But deep in the heart of Texas, one voice refuses to be silenced.

No one believed him. Everyone laughed. But when an EMP cripples the nation, Jackson Kent is one of the few prepared to survive. He must now rescue the family who rejected him from the violence of the city streets and bring them to his mountain homestead.

In the far reaches of a distant universe, there was once a supreme, cultivated planet teeming with vibrant life. Still, it was mercilessly ravaged by a sudden, devastating impact from a solar storm. The violent storm birthed a cataclysmic polar shift, tearing open a dimensional pathway and dragging a significant portion of the planet into eternal darkness.

In a future dystopia, Zia Alexander lives in crumbling ruins playing the world's most illegal and addictive virtual reality game. After the loss of her mother, she plays the game for her shot at freedom. Zia discovers a map that leads to Lemuria—a real fantasy world full of dragons, wicked faeries and assassins where her mother is alive, and two princes try to win her heart.

Die lebensgefährliche Suche nach den physischen Bestandteilen von CReL führt Nova, Red und eine reibungsreiche Gruppe von kampferprobten Widerständlern in eine entlegene Gegend. Eis, Geysire und Drohnen – überall lauern Gefahren. Unerwartete Unterstützung kommt von einer Totgeglaubten.

Schon seit über 100 Jahren herrscht Krieg. Nicht, dass der 18-jährige Melvin ihn je gesehen hätte, denn er wohnt schon sein ganzes Leben in einem Bunker. Eines Tages, mitten in den Nachrichten, schreit der Kriegsberichterstatter plötzlich: "Ich kann das nicht mehr. Alles ist in Ordnung! Sie lügen! Sie..." Und dann bricht das Signal ab. Ist seine Jugend im Bunker nichts als eine große Lüge?

The Classic Collection of Dystopias brings together five of the most iconic works in dystopian literature, each offering a powerful critique of society, authority, and human nature. This collection presents readers with a thought-provoking journey through different dystopian worlds, each raising critical questions about power, control, and the human spirit.

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants.

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.