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George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel - a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism.The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

The end came fast for Lieutenant Nathan Ward. One moment he was participating in an international convention of mounted police officers, the next he was in a command bunker watching the world’s two biggest corporations - Obsidian and Teledyne - destroy it in an exchange of nuclear hellfire. While Columbia, Missouri, was spared a direct strike, a near-miss EMP fried most of the vehicles and the electrical grid. Then the corporations started a shooting war in the streets, and they didn’t care who got caught in the crossfire. But Columbia was one of the last cities still standing.

George Orwell's nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental superstate that divided the world among themselves after a global war, Orwell's masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government.

In the late 2020s and early '30s, corporations managed to render the major governments of the world obsolete. The big corporations owned most of the territories as well as the majority of the world's wealth. While many of the old traditions were still observed in various parts of the world, the true power was with the corporations. In the late '30s, what would be known as the Corporate Wars began as larger companies initiated hostile takeovers in a whole new fashion. Employees, armed with corporate weapons, warred for dominance. On May 1st, 2067, it all ended in a nuclear fire.

When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth? Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents.

Judy-Anne Gratz and her family watched in horror as their longtime neighbors were "contained" by the CDC. Still reeling from the trauma of seeing her closest friend and his parents disappear into the back of the agency's van, Judy-Anne finds that she, too, now shows the telltale marks of the virus. Now, the Gratz family must decide whether they can keep their daughter's infection hidden from the watchful eyes of the CDC and a vigilant population or if they can take their chances and run.

Leto II Atréides, l'Empereur-Dieu de Dune, est désormais un ver de sable à face humaine. À peu près invulnérable et immortel, il a entrevu dans l'avenir l'extinction de l'espèce humaine. Pour la conjurer, il fait respecter son ordre, le Sentier d'Or. L'empire a connu trente-cinq siècles de paix. La Guilde et le Bene Gesserit ont les mains liées : c'est Leto qui contrôle sur Dune les dernières réserves de l'indispensable épice. Les Ixiens lui envoient une femme parfaite, issue d'une éprouvette et chargée à son insu de le séduire et de le détruire.

Anything can happen on open water. Massive storms, giant sharks, human attackers, mechs. Cameron Dery, a simple fisherman, one day encounters an ancient pilotable mech called the Mach Diver located below the waves and claims it as his own. Together with his best friend, Scarlett Taylor, and a mysterious woman named Sokka Tsuki, he finds himself on a journey to find his missing sister, Katelynn.

Dune est détruite, vitrifiée, atomisée. Sur tout l'Empire déferlent les hordes furieuses des Honorées Matriarches, massacrant tout sur leur passage. Le Bene Gesserit reste la seule force organisée. Mais la solution n'est peut-être pas dans le pouvoir des armes. Darwi Odrade, la Mère Supérieure, propose de négocier. La Très Honorée Matriarche accepte : elle s'attend à une capitulation sans conditions. Mais Darwi a un plan. Elle sait bien que l'entreprise est des plus risquées.

In the Nation, citizenship is competitively earned, and the sting of failure strikes swift. The smallest professional blemish may spell demotion or even deportation to offshore labour communities called Depositories, while the affluent are insured against all misfortune and can do no wrong. Santhosh is a Transient student hoping to ace the Civil Primaries and make Citizen the following year, when his father is suddenly deported and State agents murder his guardian's entire family.

A woman with no name and her AI sidekick investigate corruption on a universal scale. In the wake of machine enslavement, humanity is on the edge of several new frontiers, but Earth has become a reservation for the way life had once been. The planet’s technological embargo has been corrupted, and with an AI sidekick housed inside her robotic armor, the world’s first Athena-class Marshal is sent to investigate.

What if avarice after billionaire-ism is just a subset of ordinary hoarding disorder? What if someone discovered a way to repair that? Who would benefit? Who would oppose such a cure, and how aggressively? The Money Cure is a comic romantic adventure set in the near future, when a housing crisis forces working people, from retail employees to programmers, to live in illegal housing called underhousing.

Three billion people died the day the Veech appeared. Forced to reconcile with the world-shattering fact that humanity isn’t alone in the cosmos, the resulting war for the future of mankind shaped humanity’s destiny and challenged it to grapple with its place in the universe. For the men and women who survived Invasion Day and the devastating war that followed, their stories paint a picture of the everyday struggle and experiences of the regular folk who carved out a living at a time when the very future of our species was uncertain.

Hare has stolen imported goods since he can remember. Sure, it wasn’t the most honest living, but in the conurb where amenities are scarce, there wasn’t much opportunity for “honest work”.

In this kaleidoscopic voyage through the past, present, and future of the United States, a young girl uncovers a secret society, a middle-aged man searches for his lost first love, a group of teens invent a role-playing game, protests threaten to topple the government, and an eccentric lawyer and his young Vietnamese protégée re-open a dormant case.

Alexander's army seems unstoppable. Phalathlan and Oster have fallen and they've turned their attention towards Morton where the surviving forces seem powerless to stop them. Refusing to run any more, Ben and Carl devise a plan that is both brilliant and insane. Hoping that one man can help them, they set off on an ocean voyage that will take Ben back to where he started. Their future will hinge on the answer to one question. Is the enemy of your enemy your friend, or your enemy?

They were too late. Despite everything that they'd sacrificed, everyone that they'd lost, they were still too late to stop the army from the north. Now, outnumbered and out gunned, the survivors from the Road Trains fight back against the force that has occupied their homeland, but Alexander seems to be one step ahead of them at every turn. If it's always darkest just before the dawn, what happens if the sun never rises?

Folge 1: In Berlin wird Hacker-Legende Tron, alias Boris F., erhängt in einem Park aufgefunden. In Las Vegas töten mehrere Schüsse den berühmten Rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur. Eine geheimnisvolle CD bildet offensichtlich eine Verbindung zwischen den beiden Morden. Oder ist alles bloß ein raffiniertes Täuschungsmanöver? Folge 2: Das Rätsel um Tron und Tupac geht weiter. Und wird immer größer: Der Top-Hacker scheint zu Lebzeiten viele Geheimnisse entschlüsselt zu haben. Weshalb sich Geheimdienste und obskure Zirkel für ihn interessierten. Das muss auch Student Georg Brand, der sich auf Trons Spur begibt, schmerzhaft erfahren.

Zack Gurevitz has had a checkered past. A Yeshiva boy, turned Green Beret, turned junkie, excommunicated by his one-time faith and now the potential savior of people he doesn’t even like. As a white supremacist movement stealthily takes the reins of power in America, it is again the Jews who are made out as scapegoats. Stripped of wealth and citizenship, they are made to live in 21st-century ghettos that hark back to a sinister and murky past that many had thought would never return.

In welcher Welt möchtest du leben? In einer Welt totaler Sicherheit, in der sämtliche Emotionen auf ein fades Mittelmaß zurückgestutzt sind, weil alles berechenbar und durchgeplant ist? Oder in einer Welt, in der die emotionalen Höhen und Tiefen von Freiheit, Individualität und Schicksal voll ausgelebt werden und damit die Chance besteht, wahres Glück zu erfahren? Die Urb: Nach dem Finalen Kataklysmus haben sich die Menschen bedingungslos dem Takt des Systems überantwortet und führen ein absolut gleichförmiges Leben in totaler Berechenbarkeit.