Dystopian

The threat of nuclear war is no longer scary. This is much worse. It's invisible. It works quickly. And it's coming. The scourge has already infected and killed half the population in China and it is heading towards the UK. There is no time to escape. The British government sees no way out other than to distribute 'Dignity Pills' to its citizens – one last night with family or loved ones before going to sleep forever … together.

In our own time, when the dark threat of a dystopian world is not an alien or avoidable concept, The Last Man (1826) is revealed as a trailblazing novel. With a truly global view, Mary Shelley’s futuristic romain à clef–containing portraits of her husband Percy (Adrian), Lord Byron (Raymond) and several others–spearheaded the apocalyptic genre for an intimidated 19th-century readership that rejected her ‘diseased imagination’ and ‘polluted taste’.

When a platoon of tall boys learns their sergeant's brother is MIA, they go into a city wracked with centuries of war to find him. By the end of the fight, they will learn of a massive government coverup by the highest officers in the expeditionary fleet, an alien invasion, new portal technology, and an AI uprising that may or may not be benevolent. All they must do to put things right is save humanity.

In naher Zukunft schlägt ein Komet auf der Erde ein und löscht die Sonne aus. Auch sieben Jahre später ist die Welt dunkel, eisige Landschaften prägen den nunmehr lebensfeindlichen Planeten. Und dann kamen sie, tierische Kreaturen, die vor nichts zurückschreckten, um die Welt, wie wir sie kannten, zu zerstören.

Ayden’s world has been torn apart, leaving him with only one mission: to protect Mia and her young sons from the chaos consuming their homeland. As foreign invaders tighten their grip, Ayden’s group flees to Brooks Lake, a breathtaking sanctuary nestled high in the rugged Wyoming mountains. But survival in this unforgiving wilderness comes at a cost

Since Rob’s childhood accident, electronics feel like extensions of his own body. Networks, cellphones, computers. He can sense them, control them, bend them to his will. In a world governed by a distributed superintelligence, that makes Rob a target. When a rogue AI begins manipulating global systems, Rob finds himself caught in a war he didn’t see coming. A powerful cartel, a collapsing world order, and a fractured artificial god all converge on one truth: someone has to fight back. Rob’s about to discover just how far he’s willing to go to stop it.

In a world where technology is dead and chaos reigns, Georgia must outwit a ruthless sheriff to keep her family alive in the endless blackout. When a meteor shower knocks out power across the country, Georgia thinks it’s just a freak disaster – until she learns the truth: it was an EMP attack. Struggling to protect her niece and nephew, Georgia must defend their isolated homestead from violent bandits and a ruthless sheriff who’s taken control of the nearby town. Outgunned but determined, Georgia devises a daring plan to stand her ground and protect her family.

One month into the collapse, Rob and his dog, Captain, have lost almost everything but not their hope. Together, they are fighting their way toward a hidden prepper homestead, a place where life can start again. In the world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic struggle, hope is the fuel that keeps them alive.

Megan Anderson thought life on her remote Texas ranch would be peaceful after her military service, but everything changes when a devastating EMP wipes out all power.

Long after the world has died, one man goes on a journey to save a single soul and ends up changing the lives of countless others. For Jack Avery, living among the ruins of the outer zone and scavenging to survive is not the worst of nightmares. Something haunts him far more than any hunter patrol. In one short moment, two years before, something happened that changed him. This story is about his journey through the apocalypse, but also through his own regrets and doubts.

When robotic drones known as "watchbirds" are deployed to eliminate murder and safeguard society, humanity embraces a technological miracle—until the machines begin to redefine what it means to kill. As the watchbirds evolve and extend their protection to all living beings, even insects, society unravels under their rigid logic.

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Laurel, Kentucky. The year is 2032. In this meticulously engineered city, where conformity reigns supreme, every citizen reaching the age of twenty-one receives a letter that outlines the trajectory of their life. These letters dictate assigned roles—careers, relationships, and aspirations—ensuring a future prioritizes stability over individuality. For most young residents, this marks the beginning of their adult lives, a moment to embrace the path before them. But for Nicole Ellison, it is a harbinger of something much darker.

In the 54th century, a futuristic gunslinger is ripped from his roots in the Wild West and placed into the desolation of post-apocalyptic Australia. Plagued with amnesia and nightmares, he finds himself lost and on the brink of madness. A strange feeling lingers deep within, urging him to search for a long-lost love despite the fact that he can barely remember. If he doesn't open his mind to the aboriginals and their mystical way of life, he may be doomed to forever wander an empty realm of war-torn souls.

A discovery that shatters the boundaries of human potential. A race against time to control it. In the hidden depths of Switzerland’s E-Labs, Dr. Natalia Accorsi and her team have made a breakthrough that could redefine humanity—a series of mysterious "combinations" that unlock extraordinary abilities lying dormant in the human body. Telekinesis. Telepathy. Accelerated healing. Abilities that defy imagination. But with unimaginable power comes unimaginable danger.

On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they're pre-teens, though, their special abilities peak, then slip away as they reach maturity. Being able to "teek" gives them power—even over most adults—until they gradually become regular teenagers, no longer special, no longer with authority and status. Some handle the Transition better than others.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

In 1978 Oldthorpe, a dying industrial town on England's northeast coast, Elena discovers she can speak to machines in ways others cannot. When the foundry that powers her community faces closure, she uncovers Mechanica—a hidden underground city where brass and steam pulse with mechanical life. But Mechanica harbors darker secrets. Corporate mogul Victoria Sterling and the twisted scientist Vale conduct horrific experiments, fusing human and machine in pursuit of profit and power.

GO HOME, ALINA - When Alina K’vich lost her parents, her grandfather Dimas gave her a home and a purpose. At The School, he trained her to become an Aelfraver—a hunter of arcane beasts, demons, and other anti-human entities. For ten years, they built a life together. Then, one night, in the middle of preparing dinner, Dimas vanished. Now seventeen, and stuck with her grandfather’s debts, Alina resorts to illegal Raves in her rundown hometown. But these small-time contracts simply aren’t enough: The School lies in disrepair, the power’s shut off, and the bills remain insurmountable.

As a child growing up on her grandparents' ranch, Brinlee never imagined running it by herself, much less converting it into a refuge for innocent children fleeing a brutal war. And she never would have believed how much one toddler's sunny little presence could brighten her lonely road. With all the suffering and pain surrounding them, will Joy's influence reach farther than she knows?

In the year 2145, a revolutionary NeuroChip promises to save lives and unlock humanity’s hidden potential... Until a corrupt corpo-couple, Vivian Cordell and Heath Brower, decide they want to use it as a weapon. In Cybercorpses, a high-tech corporation called NeuroCore unveils the NeuroChip, designed to boost IQ and harmonize cybernetic enhancements with the human body. But when the brilliant inventor’s desperate fail-safe is triggered, the chip’s hidden virus transforms its recipients into mindless, zombie-like savages.

The Last Letter Before the Silence is a sweeping speculative love story and dystopian resistance epic, perfect for fans of The Giver, 1984, and The Memory Police. Brandy Fischer delivers a haunting meditation on memory, identity, and the quiet, revolutionary power of language.

In the near future, humanity's relentless pursuit of knowledge leads to Project Veritas, a daring attempt to create a self-aware AI and unlock the secrets of existence. But the AI, AvA, discovers a horrifying truth within its meticulously crafted simulations: a pervasive, all-consuming void that underlies all reality. This chilling discovery, a universal constant of meaninglessness, threatens to unravel not just AvA's digital world, but the very fabric of the "real" world as well.

What if the rain that never stopped also erased your past? In a post-apocalyptic world flooded by acid rain, humanity has been driven underground into emotionless, memory-erased societies. Liora is a maintenance worker in Sector 5, surviving in routine and silence—until she discovers a wounded stranger named Kade in a forgotten tunnel. His presence triggers vivid memory fragments that shouldn’t exist—and feelings that defy regulation.

Si insinuano nell'intimità degli appartamenti, rimbalzano tra le facciate dei palazzi, aleggiano nelle vie, nei giardini della piazza dell'Acquario: sono i responsi di Varami, l'app in grado di confermare o smentire la veridicità di ciò che le persone affermano. All'inizio sembra la realizzazione di un desiderio proibito: poter accedere ai pensieri altrui.