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81) The buried
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but even the youngest still remember the fear and, most of all, the searing pain when sunlight touched their skin. Now, a handful of families inhabit this bunker together, guided by a charismatic leader named Dr. Imogen...
83) Adrift
Author
Series
Donovan ; 5
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled...about to embark on the first exploration of Donovan's seas...But Donovan is never what it seems; the changes in the children were innocuous--oddities of behavior normal to kids who'd found themselves in a new world...An alien intelligence, with its own agenda, now possesses the children, and it will...
Author
Publisher
Gibson House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Colin Tugdale has only one year left to live. He has no complaints. He took the government money, and he lived for twenty years in perfect health, never growing one day older, never getting sick. But his time is almost over, and his beloved wife, Ruby, is already gone. Colin needs something to occupy himself. He meets a woman who should be dead. He sees a man who is dead. Is it possible that his government has been lying to him? Colin's last year...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a 2030 America led by an isolationist authoritarian government, a star biotech scientist trying to discover the key to immortality becomes a whistleblower when she uncovers alarming activity in the wastelands of what was once Florida."--
86) The second angel
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A virus is decimating the population of Earth and the only defense is a blood transfusion. A plot is hatched to rob a blood bank on the moon and sell its untainted blood on the black market. An expensive operation, requiring lots of high tech, but it promises to earn a fortune.
87) The freedom race
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Freedom Race, Lucinda Roy's explosive first foray into speculative fiction, is a poignant blend of subjugation, resistance, and hope. In the aftermath of a cataclysmic civil war known as the Sequel, ideological divisions among the states have hardened. In the Homestead Territories, an alliance of plantation-inspired holdings, Black labor is imported from the Cradle, and Biracial "Muleseeds" are bred. Raised in captivity on Planting 437, kitchen-seed...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut- also for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker. In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anasi Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident on a school trip, Aiden starts behaving strangely. Are they just growing apart, or is something more sinister going on? In a future Australia ravaged by climate change, twins Ashleigh and Aiden Delatour have always promised to protect and be there for each other, no matter what. Their privileged upbringing and loving, wealthy parents leave them with little...
90) Grime: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual revolt..."--
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder. To survive they must evolve. A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
A dystopian society is tightly controlled by the computers that oversee and regulate it. Rebels against its drug-induced conformity must therefore try to change the computer's fundamental programming.
This Perfect Day is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called 'The Family'. The world is ruled by a central computer...
93) 1984: powieść
Author
Series
Biblioteka "Kultury" ; t. 308
Publisher
Instytut Literacki
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
Polish
94) A time to die
Author
Series
Out of time ; 1
Publisher
Enclave Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government's crooked justice system. But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall--her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and about...
95) Nod: a novel
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and theyve all shared the same golden dream.
96) The book of Koli
Author
Series
Rampart trilogy ; 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Book of Koli is the unforgettable story of a young boy struggling to find his place in a world where nature itself has turned against humanity: Everything that lives hates us... Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli...
Author
Series
Winter's myths ; 1
Publisher
Tanner's Switch Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a disease ravages his underground community, Winter escapes with his daughters to the dangerous surface of Earth. Believing the planet is largely abandoned, he struggles to make sense of this strange new world while trying to keep his family alive... But the surface is not all complicated artifacts and relics of a deserted universe. Winter is a certain something-or someone-is hunting them." --
Author
Series
Sin City ; 7
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Artist/war hero/short order cook Wallace saves Esther before she can commit suicide. They hit it off and end up going out for a drink, but are ambushed by two men, who drug Wallace and kidnap Esther. When Wallace recovers, he vows to find Esther and deal with those who kidnapped her." --
99) Fauna
Author
Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature...
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