Sil und ihre Mutter sind in der versinkenden Inselstadt Island City angekommen, nach der Flucht aus ihrer einst schönen, kriegsversehrten Heimat – über die die Mutter so wenig spricht wie über den verschwundenen Vater.
Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognisable, we meet the nine-year-old narrator as he flees the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown.
'A witty, time-travelling romance' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette This is a love story that could only happen because of an accident of time travel.
'Taut, tense and at times almost unbearably real' Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware'A smart twist on the apocalypse' Reader Review'Shows what impact our times have on the ways we think.
The 'Reign of Brainwash: Dystopia Box Set' serves as a monumental collection that explores the grim intricacies of dystopian societies through a tapestry of literary styles.
A collection of speculative fiction offers "e;a darkly comic look at how far people will go to hold on to the devices that are replacing human experience"e; (The Washington Post).
'Mikey Please has one of the most brilliant minds I know; the perfect combination of science, philosophy and madness' Daniel Kwan, Oscar-winning director of Everything Everywhere All At Once'The Expanded Earth genuinely changed the way I look at the world around me.
'I absolutely loved it' - Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth'Fast, harsh, smart and fun' - GuardianElectrifying and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's debut Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex, tech and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age.
'John Marrs is not to be missed' - Freida McFadden, bestselling author of The Housemaid'Few writers do domestic suspense meets dystopia better than John Marrs' - Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment'The books of John Marrs have become a quiet phenomenon .
The complete trilogy in one volume: Tech-savvy resistance fighters battle a twenty-first-century fascist takeover that threatens the entire planet-and beyond .
The acclaimed author of The Peep Diaries and Hello, I'm Special returns to fiction, and delivers a mind-altering collection of short stories that confront the hypocrisies, humiliations and hilarities of modern life.
A bearded man in a badly soiled suit known only as The Stranger wanders an apocalyptic landscape on the fringes of a dying metropolis, looking for a way to "e;get back on top.
In Michael Farris Smith's latest gritty epic, a young woman returns home with her child, to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the storm-ridden territory to find the girl who may hold the key to the region's apocalyptic future.
Haunting and beautifully written first novel by the award-winning author of Battleborn, set among a cult of survivors in a dystopian American desert'A Mad Max world painted with a finer brush' Elle'An unforgettable journey into a hauntingly imagined near-future' Ruth Ozeki'Set in a drought-ravaged Southern California trolled by scavengers, Gold Fame Citrus burns with a dizzying, scorching genius' Vanity Fair Desert sands have laid waste to the south-west of America.
A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidalrobot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypseFrancisco Garca Gonzalezs stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes,Mara de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolao.
A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidalrobot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypseFrancisco Garca Gonzalezs stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes,Mara de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolao.
Von unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven ausgehend zeigen die Beiträge dieses Bandes Vorstellungen von Zukunftsvisionen in Texten der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart.
A life-affirming dystopian tale of global disaster, survival, and belief for any reader of Emily St John Mandel's STATION ELEVEN or Cormac McCarthy's THE ROAD 'THE ROAD crossed with a post-apocalyptic romance.
Award-winning novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson terrifies and enthralls with this truly remarkable novel of a woman who must face her worst fears to survive and find beauty in a world under attack.
