Eighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one sixth of the Earth's population has died in a vast pandemic, a noted rabbi in Brooklyn hosts a convocation for Jewish clergy and scholars from every background.
First published in 1826, "e;The Last Man"e; is a dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley that depicts a future where a mysterious pandemic almost decimates the world's population in the 21st century.
A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one womans unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save.
If music is a universal language, and mathematics a universal truth, could the two be combined to form a new world language that would create common understanding across all cultures?
Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life.
** NOWA MAJOR NETFLIX FILM DIRECTED BY THE RUSSO BROTHERS,STARRING MILLIE BOBBIE BROWN, CHRIS PRATT AND KE HUY QUAN **A teenage girl and her robot embark on a cross-country road trip in this beautifully illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans ofFallout andBlack Mirror.
Originally published in 1833, this is the first of two volumes of Mary Shelley's science fiction novel set in 2100 concerning an apocalyptic future in which a catastrophic plague has destroyed almost all of mankind.
In Earthsong, the Native Tongue trilogy's long-awaited finale, the Aliens have abandoned Earth, taking their technologies with them and plunging the planet into economic and ecological disaster.
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.
From Booker and Orange Prize-nominated author Sarah Hall comes the tale of an imaginary England, a future dystopian society where the right to bear a child is determined by a state lottery system.
In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monae returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation - queerness, race, gender plurality, love - become tangled in a totalitarian landscape.
*One of Financial Times' Best Books of 2017*"e;SEA OF RUST is a 40-megaton cruise missile of a novel - it'll blow you away and lay waste to your heart .
From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly original post-collapse yarn about two siblings, the man that came between them, and a nuclear-powered super car.
A Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, and Booklist Best Book of the Year A Climate Reality Project Book Club Pick An ';intelligent, defiant' (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novelonly for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth.
Was wir aus Science-Fiction-Filmen lernen könnenDie verheerenden Folgen der Corona-Pandemie, die jüngsten Flutkatastrophen und die insbesondere in Australien und Nordamerika tobenden flächendeckenden Waldbrände haben in den vergangenen Jahren zu einem geschärften Bewusstsein für die besondere Fragilität und wachsende Vulnerabilität der spätmodernen Gesellschaft geführt.
'Ingenious and compelling' THE TIMES'Mind-bendingly clever and utterly gripping' DAILY MAIL'A fascinating and assured debut' THE GUARDIANIt's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner.
