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    • Trusted Partner

      Naermyth

      by Karen Francisco (author and illustrator)

      Set in a post-apocalyptic Philippines, Naermyth tells of a world plagued by the monsters of myth and legends who have stepped out of their storybook shadows to assume world dominion. They are the Naermyth (a word play on “never myth”) and have forced the human race close to extinction and fodder for the growing supremacy of these creatures. Among the survivors is Aegis, a seasoned soldier, and her story takes a dark turn when she rescues a stranger with mysterious abilities. Clearly, he is not human, and saving him triggers a series of revelations that challenges the meanings of monstrosity, heroism and family.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      June 2017

      Terry Gilliam

      by Peter Marks

      Terry Gilliam presents a sustained examination of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteurs, proposing fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. Analysing Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from the brilliant anarchy of his Monty Python animations through the nightmarish masterpiece Brazil to the provocative Gothic horror of Tideland, it critically examines the variety and richness of Gilliam's sometimes troubled but always provocative output. The book situates Gilliam within the competing cultural contexts of the British, European and American film industries, examining his regular struggles against aesthetic and commercial pressures. He emerges as a passionate, immensely creative director, whose work encompasses a dizzying array of material: anarchic satire, childhood and adult fantasy, dystopia, romantic comedy, surrealism, road movie, fairy tale and the Gothic. The book charts how Gilliam interweaves these genres and forms to create magical interfaces between reality and the illuminating, frightening but liberating worlds of the imagination. Scrutinising the neglected importance of literature and adaptation in Gilliam's career, this study also observes him through the lenses of auteurism, genre, performance, design and national culture, explaining how someone born in Minnesota and raised in California came to be one of British television and film's most compelling figures.

    • Trusted Partner
      Computing & IT
      May 2025

      The myth of good AI

      by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

    • Fantasy
      August 2020

      THE LOST QUEEN

      by Ana Cristina Melo

      The world is at peace. There is no hunger or violence, but there is a price to pay. Make no mistake. Nothing is what it seems. Who would not like to live in a country where there is no violence or hunger? This is how it is in Aghaia, a dystopian society, where the country has been divided into districts that provide everything for the population. Ellena lives in District Seven. She and her family walk two hours, round trip, to the fabric factory, where they work 14 hours a day. Her best friend, Vick, is an Expert who works in the old City Hall building. She is about to get married and can't imagine her life any other way; quite different from Ellena, who dreams of becoming an Admitted, to go to work in the Capital. But if this change would free her grandfather Set, who is sick and would be taken by force by the Guardian of the Assistance in case the Government finds out he can't work anymore, on the other hand, King Petrus manipulates this "gift" in a cruel way. Nobody can return to his District, nor send or receive news from their families. On Vick's wedding day, she and Ellena discover they are among the ten new Admitted. As they cross the walls of the District, they begin a round trip to question the politics of the Capital, to uncover well-guarded secrets and to put their friendship to the test. All this while facing the longings, pains and forbidden love triangle between Ellena, Lukhas and Reed, the heir princes of Aghaia. A political and romantic maze, masterfully sewn by Ana Cristina Melo, that will involve young and adult readers, and make them recognize many metaphors for our real world.

    • Loveoid

      by JL Morin

      This cli-fi love story is a Cygnus 1st Place Sci-fi Award Winner; Book Excellence Award Finalist, Erotica; ScreenCraft Semifinalist (top 12% of submissions); Fish shortlist (top 4% of submissions); Global Thriller Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels shortlist An American euthanasist and an Egyptian astrological farmer delve into the evolution of the collective soul ... as an extremophile virus targets a select few. The twisted scientific changes of our present-day lives catalyze love in parallel universes, as love-lacking predators on top kill off life on earth. Loveoid grapples with the dilemmas of the latest generation of humankind ⎯ that the loving don't survive. In the present-day novel Loveoid, Olivia unravels a virus that only harms the corporate elite. In combat with media, governments and corporations, Olivia finds love, and comes to question her own ideals. The impossibly mixed match encounters life-threatening obstacles, as Khalid elicits her darkest fears, yet lights the way with astrological farming and ancient holistic remedies. Will love allow them to stay human? "Loveoid is a wildly unique and immensely realized science fiction thriller set in a dystopian present in which overpopulation is decimating the Earth and its natural resources at a rapid rate. Additionally, the world of the story is incredibly deep, filled with dense detail and nuance that give the impression of a very realized universe." ⎯ScreenCraft "With a new, scary virus as the backdrop, Olivia and Khalid navigate love, cures, and a different world. A timely novel with an interesting message about love and nature." ⎯Booklist "The smart choice to set this eco-thriller in the present brings home the tenebrous climate prognostications we usually reserve for another year." ⎯Brussels Express "As overpopulation grows, natural resources are depleted, species go extinct, and the polar ice caps continue to melt. People now check into euthanasia hotels to escape a hopeless future.... The story's premise is interesting."⎯Library Journal "Morin's wit can be delicious" ⎯Canberra Times, Australia "I take heart from her ethereal intuition: true love is what eventually will separate man from vegetable." ⎯Andreas Bergsten, Author, The Rift "About time some serious writers and artists grappling with the biggest issue of our time--maybe all time. This story shows that engagement is fully underway!" ⎯Bill McKibben, Founder 350.org JL Morin grew up in inner-city Detroit. She proffered moral support while her parents sacrificed all to a failed system. Wondering what the Japanese were doing right, she decamped to Tokyo. Her debut Japan novel, Sazzae, won an eLit Gold Medal, and a Living Now Book Award. Her second novel, Travelling Light, was a USA Best Book Awards finalist, and her third, Trading Dreams, became ‘Occupy’s first bestselling novel’. Her climate fiction novel, Nature’s Confession, won first place in the Dante Rossetti Book Awards; a Readers’ Favorite Book Award; a LitPick 5-Star Review Award; and an excerpt received an Honorable Mention in the Eco-Fiction Story Contest, published in the Winds of Change anthology of eco-fiction. Her second cli-fi novel, Loveoid, is a Cygnus Sci-fi 1st place winner, among others. Her cli-fi novels are on course syllabi at many universities. Ivy League professors have facilitated discussions with JL Morin’s writing, and it is discussed in textbooks, such as Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach, by Andrew Milner, ‎and J. R. Burgmann, 2020, published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent work, Tuck-a-tuck Dragon, is a diverse rhyming children’s book illustrated by children throughout their childhood from the ages of 2–21. JL Morin’s writing draws on a breadth of experience. She traded derivatives in New York while studying nights for her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business; worked for the Federal Reserve Bank posted to the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center; presented the news as a TV broadcaster; and she is adjunct faculty at Boston University. Morin’s fiction has appeared in The Harvard Advocate and Harvard Yisei, and her articles and translations in The Huffington Post, Library Journal, The Detroit News, European Daily, Livonia Observer Eccentric Newspapers, The Harvard Crimson, and Agence France Presse while she worked in their Middle East Headquarters.

    • Children's & YA

      Future History 2050

      by Thomas Harding

      Nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis 2021 It is the year 2020 and a researcher finds a stack of notebooks in a Berlin archive. He starts reading and is shocked to find that this is the history of the next thirty years. Could this really be the story of the future?

    • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      March 2021

      Animal Farm

      by George Orwell

      All the animals were looking forward to the new, happy lives they would lead when Mr Jones’s rule over them came to an end. When the animals get rid of Mr Jones and take over the farm, they are excited by their new freedom. But can they run the farm with tools that are designed for humans? Will they be able to harvest the food that they need for the winter? The farmers decide to band together to win back the farm for Mr Jones. Will the animals be able to fight them off ? Can life on Animal Farm be as wonderful as they had all hoped for – or will new dangers threaten their happiness? A retelling of Orwell's dystopian masterpiece for children and young people by Tony Evans with illustrations by Angelo Ruta.

    • Fiction
      September 2024

      The Disappeared

      by Amy Lord

      What if reading the wrong book could get you arrested? Expressing the wrong opinion in a decaying city controlled by the first General can have terrible consequences. Clara Winters knows this better than anyone. When she was a child, her father was taken by the Authorisation Bureau for the crime of teaching banned books to his students. She is still haunted by his disappearance. Now, Clara teaches at the same university, determined to rebel against the regime that cost her family so much – and her weapons are the banned books her father left behind. But she has started something dangerous, something that brings her to the attention of the Authorisation Bureau and its most feared interrogator, Major Jackson. The same man who arrested Clara’s father. With her rights stripped away, in a country where democracy has been replaced with something more sinister, will she be the next to disappear?

    • December 2020

      Deliverance: Dimensional Fugitive

      by Shireishou

      Traversing through dimensions to save themselves is the only thing they can do. A seventeen-year-old boy lives with his eleven-year-old sister. They just want to live in peace, yet a dozen killers are ready to kill them both. When the harsh life in a dilapidated world makes both of them have to fight as hard as they can to survive, Alf is faced with a choice: to kill or to be killed. Will he manage to protect his sister, Neysha? How many dimensions must he go through before he can find the answer? Or does he have to keep witnessing Neysha's death in every different dimension?

    • Fiction
      August 2019

      The Trespassers

      by Meg Mundell

      A shipload of migrant workers flees the pandemic-stricken UK, seeking a fresh start in Australia. For nine-year-old Cleary the journey promises adventure, for former nurse Billie it’s a chance to put a shameful mistake behind her, while struggling schoolteacher Tom hopes for a brighter future. But when a crew member is murdered and people start falling gravely ill, the Steadfast descends into chaos. Trapped on the ship, the trio must join forces to survive the journey and its aftermath. The Trespassers is a beguiling novel that explores the consequences of greed, the experiences of migration and exile, and the way strangers can become the ones we hold dear.

    • Graphic novels

      The Last Detective

      Redemption

      by Claudio Alvarez, Geraldo Borges

      After 20 years, detective Joe Santos is forced to return to investigate a series of crimes that have covered New Amazonia with death. Will Santos solve this time the mystery that ended his career, crushed his body and caused the death of his partner?

    • Science fiction
      October 2018

      Berlin: Rostiges Herz

      by Sarah Stoffers

      "Sie war das eine Mädchen, das ich nicht haben konnte, und das seit vielen Jahren schon." Berlin, die rastlose Stadt am Meer. Hier ragen die Türme der Zauberer bis in den Himmel. Im Schein der Glühlichter werden rauschende Partys gefeiert. Zucker wird in Gold aufgewogen und die Geheimpolizei wacht über den zerbrechlichen Frieden zwischen Zauberern und Erfindern. Die Erfinderin Mathilda liebt ausgerechnet Rosa, die Tochter des magischen Großmeisters von Berlin. Genau wie der Zauberlehrling Fidelio. Beide wollen Rosa auf deren Geburtstagsparty ihre Gefühle gestehen, doch sie sind nicht die einzigen mit Plänen für den Abend. Ein Mörder hat sich unter die Gäste gemischt. Die Erfinder planen eine Rebellion gegen die Zauberer. Und tief unter der Stadt liegt ein uraltes Geheimnis verborgen. Eine Reise in ein dystopisches Berlin für alle Freunde von magischem Steampunk und LGBT-Geschichten

    • Fiction
      May 2019

      SAHA MANSION

      by Cho Nam-joo

      There are two classes of people in the Town: L and L2. The ones with citizenship are referred to as Ls, or Citizens. They are above a certain level of financial status with knowledge or skills that the Town requires. The L2s are people without citizenship but have a clean criminal record. After interview and physical examination, they can stay and work for two years in this safest and richest corporate nation on earth. Then there are those below even the L2s, illegal aliens called the saha. They are the immigrants, the disabled, the misfits, victims of violence and poverty who dwell in the decrepit Saha Mansion and are named accordingly. So what happens when a respected young pediatrician is found dead in a parking lot, with evidence of drug overdose and sexual assault, and the prime suspect is her saha boyfriend? A major police crackdown ensues, with the boyfriend quickly arrested and executed, but is he really behind the murder? His sister, Jinkyung, vows to find out the truth, only to discover the disappearance of a saha girl who has been the test subject of the Town Medical Lab. What lies behind the impenetrable walls of the Town, and who are the mysterious seven Premiers who rule it? Eight years in the making, SAHA MANSION is a powerful tale of dystopia and a battle cry for the dispossessed. Cho gives voice to the marginalized and often unseen minority: They are all Kim Jiyoung, every single one of them.

    • Adventure
      November 2013

      Wasteland Survival Guide

      by Sean-Michael Argo

      Shoot first. Fight dirty. Get paid. Bronco is a gunslinging wastelander of dubious moral character & questionable sanity... and he is here to show you how to survive and thrive in the strangest of futures. This guide contains useful information on a variety of topics such as scavenging tactics, guns & ammo, dystopian societies, psycho mutants, bloodthirsty cannibals, and radiation zombies. Get ready for tall tales of gratuitous violence, misguided heroism, foul language, rampant hedonism, and heavy doses of gallows humor in this bizzaro take on the post-apocalypse.

    • September 2014

      The Incal

      by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius

      The Sci-Fi masterpiece by Moebius and Jodorowsky about the tribulations of the shabby detective John Difool as he searches for the precious and coveted Incal. John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called "The Incal." Difool’s adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy’s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his very survival, but also the survival of the entire universe.

    • Fiction
      June 2019

      Proximity

      If the police always know where I am...How do I kill you?

      by Jem Tugwell

      Proximity is gripping, darkly twisted crime thriller set in an eerily near future. Back blurb: You can’t get away with anything. Least of all murder.DI Clive Lussac has forgotten how to do his job. Ten years of embedded technology – ‘iMe’ – has led to complete control and the eradication of crime. Then the impossible happens. A body is found, and the killer is untraceable. With new partner Zoe Jordan, Clive must re-sharpen his detective skills and find the killer without technology, before time runs out for the next victim…

    • Fiction

      Watch Dogs Legion - Underground Resistance

      by SYLVAIN RUNBERG & GABRIEL GERMAIN

      2024, London is under lockdown following the crash of British economy after the Brexit. A new surveillance state is in place to restore order through violence and control over the citizen's lives. But here and there, crews of Hacktivists rise and rally behind DedSec banner. Follow the adventures of a cell going head-on against baddies to expose the abuse of this new order. Discover the fight of DJ Adam Logan's cell against clan Kelley, the new Irish Mafia controlling the black market, within this stamina-packed dystopian thriller immersed in London electronic music underground scene.

    • The Arts
      2014

      Notizen von der Peripherie eines Belagerungszustands

      by Spehr, Johannes

      Johannes Spehr's publication "Notizen von der Peripherie eines Belagerungszustands" ("Notes from the Periphery of a State of Siege") compiles a series of picture stories executed in pencil, which tell of social coldness and human degeneration with impressive graphic delicacy and attention to detail. Dense narrative sequences are strung together, which at first glance do not show a red thread, but which nevertheless show a dystopian society in a big bracket. Although this publication is to be understood as an artistic work, it is on a par with the major contemporary graphic novels. The beauty of the drawings, executed with great attention to detail, creates a poignant contrast to the subjects depicted. The illustrations in the publication correspond 1:1 to the original drawings.

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