Dystopian

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people....

Jake didn't think his night could get worse, but that was before his train stops deep underground and zombies attack and things go from worst-day-ever to run-for-your-life terror.

In a world overrun by an unprecedented outbreak, two young women find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle for survival.

Darrow wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. Lysander au Lune must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance....

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces....

Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom.

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago....

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life.

Tired from years of fighting, Xavier passes the crown to a younger Hell Diver, Kade Long, and then sets off on the Sea Wolf with Magnolia to find Michael and his family. But the journey will push them both to their limit....

When an EMP attack wipes out the nation’s power grid and communications, college freshman Maddie Langston is forced to run for her life. Stranded in a Chicago airport when the lights go out, Maddie is in a race against time....

These men killed mine, and for that, they have to die....

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

In a shocking betrayal, Captain Rolo has vaporized the supercarrier Immortal with a nuclear warhead, all but wiping out the Vanguard army. Little does he know that King Xavier and the surviving Hell Diver and Cazador teams from Brisbane were not aboard....

After a long, perilous journey, Hell Divers Xavier Rodriguez and Magnolia Katib discover the Metal Islands, a sunny, habitable zone where thousands of people live by fishing and farming. But this "paradise" is really a violent warrior society ruled by the cannibal King el Pulpo....

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back.

Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home....

In the wake of defeating Gornath of the Ontishog, above the streets of Manhattan, and saving Earth from a devastating plague, Wic and Phantom Team believe their work is done. But Major Insarka Kindesh has other plans for the heroes and invites them back to Karkin Four.....

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations....

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes a brand-new novella set in the world of the Hell Divers series.

The Sea Wolf sets out to search for the Metal Islands. Leading the expedition is legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez. After enduring for a decade on the poisoned surface, his survival skills will be put to the test on the dangerous open seas....

While he sat back and watched the United States rattle swords with Korea, play chicken with Russia, and strong-arm China, he felt sure if the lights went out that he and his family would be ready and safe—whether it was due to a natural disaster or a man-made event....

Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier "X" Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission....

If society fell apart, could your family survive? Jim Powell thought he was ready. He was a regular guy who travelled a lot for work and hated every second he was away from his young family....

Lui è inaspettato. Lui è folle. Lui è l’imprevisto. Lui è il mio destino, da prima che esistessi.Mi chiamo Claire, ma vivo tra le ombre. E il mio cuore ha paura di amare. Una vita grigia, solitaria e piena di insicurezze: è questa la quotidianità di Claire. Fino a che un’eredità inattesa la chiama in Cornovaglia, la terra d’origine di suo padre. Ad attenderla, una dimora oscura e piena di misteri, molti dei quali la riguardano.

Au sein de la Maison de la Sororité Sacrée, les coups de fouet de la redoutable Soeur Supérieure rythment le quotidien strictement réglé des "indignes". Pétries de jalousie, elles se tendent des pièges cruels dans l'attente de savoir qui sera la prochaine heureuse élue à rejoindre les "Illuminées". C'est le voeu le plus cher de la jeune femme qui raconte cette histoire, au fil d'un journal dans lequel elle s'épanche nuit après nuit, au péril de sa vie.

When Olivia Blunt's quiet morning at a local diner is interrupted by a national alert, her world is thrown into chaos. An EMP attack leaves the country without power, communication, or a way to defend itself. Olivia receives a desperate call from her father, urging her to flee to their secluded cabin in New Mexico. With her stepmother Willow by her side, Olivia must navigate a landscape of fear, looting, and uncertainty.

Experience Kurt Vonnegut's gripping dystopian masterpiece, "2 B R 0 2 B," in this immersive audiobook adaptation. Set in a chilling future where population control is strictly enforced, those who wish to live must find a volunteer to die. A thought-provoking tale of sacrifice, bureaucracy, and the cost of utopia, this short story captures Vonnegut's signature dark humor and sharp social commentary.

In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become lovers and discover a dark truth. Vicente Barrera, a salesman who swept into the lives of women who both hated and revered him, spends his last days tied up like a mad dog. A morgue worker, Salvador, gets lost in the desert and hallucinating from heat and thirst, mistakes the cactus for the person he loves.

All across London, billionaires receive an emergency alert from specialist extraction company B of the Bang. A nuclear missile is inbound, and society's elite have less than 70 minutes to reach the bunkers. As they head for the exits, it's your fault if you get in the way.

Natasha is a student from a nomadic Siberia tribe trying to adjust to her new life in New York and fit in. But when a cataclysmic solar storm slams into the planet, everything changes.

An einem fremden Ort erwachen Menschen, ohne zu wissen, wer oder wo sie sind. Nur eine bizarre Botschaft wurde in einen metallenen Obelisken geritzt, und ihnen wird allmählich bewusst, dass jedes einzelne Lebewesen in dieser neuen Welt eine tödliche Bedrohung darstellt. Selbst den vermeintlich niedlichen und flauschigen Häschen gelüstet es nach Menschenfleisch.

Alaska. Jahr 2196/2197. Wie würde eine Welt aussehen, die von Männern zerstört wurde? Zoe kennt die Antwort, denn das ist ihre Realität. Nach einer großen, von Männern herbeigeführten Katastrophe haben Frauen die Macht übernommen und die "Niemannswelt" gegründet. Um die Bevölkerung zu schützen, wurden Männern alle Rechte entzogen. Sie leben überwacht und eingesperrt in Laboren, wo sie für unterschiedliche Forschungen herangezogen werden. Als junge Dozentin arbeitet Zoe an der Universität und lehrt das Fach "Männliche Psychologie".

Deirdre Morgan is a Reconstructor working at the Rust-city Criminal Investigations Agency. She is one of the Touched, people with extrasensory perception serving society but always kept on the fringes, feared and mistrusted for what they can do. Deirdre has been transferred from one team to another, until she becomes a part of Agent Sebastian Cadwalder’s unconventional squad.

There is a place where nightmares are real. A dark and terrifying place that is hidden from the world we know, by borders that only the most unfortunate of souls will ever cross. James Halldon woke up in the dark, alone. No food. No water. No light. Almost no memories of his past. Things moved in the darkness around him. Things that growled. And daytime never seemed to come.

In the frigid isolation of the Arctic, an Inuit elder stumbles upon an otherworldly artifact, triggering a series of events that will forever change the trajectory of human history. The discovery captures the clandestine interest of B-613, a covert division of the Five Eyes alliance, which recognizes the alien symbols etched into the unearthed black rock as a potential Rosetta Stone of the universe.

Follow Dutch into a world of violence and dark humor as he battles infected zombies in a bid to save the last remnants of humanity.

The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best friends Prosperina and Neftalí—the latter of whom, one of the town’s last literate citizens, hides and reads the books of the mysterious renegade author Jazzmin Monelle Rivas.

Carl has woken up from a stroke to find himself in a facility meant to take care of him. However, there is something sinister behind the otherwise helpful facade. Can Carl survive the nightly events the haunt him and drain him of his very essence? Or will he be trapped forever with the Shadow People?

They say the smallest keys can unlock the heaviest doors, but on Alex's 16th birthday, the dull metal key waiting in a box outside his foster home wasn't meant for a door—it was the door. And behind it lay the truth about his father's disappearance and a dangerous legacy tied to the Mastermind Alliance—a dangerous organization that controls the world from the shadows. Armed with only his key, an AI version of his deceased grandfather, and a brilliant young hacker named Mia, Alex enters the Alliance's world of VR training, cyber conspiracies, and impossible missions.

Nessuno si aspettava il Contrappasso. Eppure, in una giornata simile a tante altre, gli esseri umani avevano iniziato a morire in modi violenti e atroci. Per motivi sconosciuti uccidere un animale, che fosse un insetto, un mammifero, un pesce, significava condividerne, all’istante, la stessa sorte, e perdere la vita nello stesso modo. Gli eventi di quel giorno sono ormai storia, e il mondo a suo modo si è adattato alla nuova normalità seguendo il Piano di Sopravvivenza, fra squadre di Arginatori, sacrifici al Dovere, punizioni al Ritmo Delta, isole fantasma e colonie di ribelli.

The year is XXXX. The repressive Government controls everything—except a band of armed rebels known as the Subs, led by a mysterious guerrilla warrior known only as Shade. When a sadistic, high-ranking official is assassinated by his would-be rape victim, the Government pulls out all stops to hunt her down. Against the will of the Subs’ governing council, Shade’s lover, Sieda, rushes to the victim’s aid. Now the Subs face an all-out, brutal campaign of Government suppression. Will a group living deep in the Olympic Forest be the allies they desperately need for the coming battle?

Mischa Osborn spends her days as a ProWatcher—keeping distracted people on task and lonely ones accompanied—from her Brooklyn Megabuilding, while eating PetriMeat Steax and working out with her favorite personal trainer, a straight-talking algorithm named Tory. Her carefully constructed, isolated existence is suddenly upended by a chance realspace encounter with a HighlightReel celebrity, Nicolás Adán Luchano. On their first date, hiking in Kuulsuits and watching DroneBeez pollinate flowers, Mischa experiences a brief but intense realspace connection.

When the Aurora’s Hope crew awakens in the shadow of a galactic anomaly known as the Eclipse, they discover a universe on the brink of annihilation. The Silence, a relentless cosmic force, is spreading, consuming stars, and unraveling the very fabric of existence. Led by Captain Hawk, a seasoned commander haunted by sacrifice, and aided by a fractured team of scientists, engineers, and explorers, the crew embarks on a desperate mission to retrieve a lost weapon—the only hope of stopping The Silence.

In a world transformed by apocalypse, the familiar landscapes of life are forever altered. Power struggles dominate the scorched continent as the Theodolis and Razors clash for dominance, while the Settlers and Wanderers yearn for a lasting peace. Amidst the turmoil, Oda, a determined Settler, is captured by Kemp, the tyrannical leader of the Razor colonies. Held in his cruel grasp, she becomes a pawn in his games of power and possession.

As the resistance teeters on the edge of collapse, trust shatters, and betrayal lurks in every shadow. Mira must lead her team on a perilous mission to dismantle the system from within. But Eidolon is always watching, always calculating. One wrong move, and their thoughts—and their lives—will be erased forever.

Silver Lady weaves a captivating narrative that resonates with those who enjoy uncanny stories of the inexplicable, as well as connections formed on epic journeys. Will the river reveal its secrets, or will the puzzles confound the crew? Dive into Silver Lady and experience a magical mystery ride that transcends time and reality.

When an EMP plunges the United States into darkness, Mark Caldwell must lead his wife, Sarah, out of a collapsing city where lawlessness reigns, but their daughter, Hope, is missing, and finding her becomes his first priority. With no power, no communication, and danger at every turn, survival becomes a desperate struggle against both ruthless survivors and the chaos of a society unraveling. Their only hope lies in a cryptic promise from Mark’s estranged brother, Jimmy, a prepper with a hidden, off-the-grid homestead.

Jema, the cheerful and well-liked teenage daughter of the Governor, spends summers with her family and a group of children at a jungle retreat far from the capital. She and Kris, the Chancellor’s daughter, have been best friends since childhood. When their parents are called away to quell an uprising, a terrible fire erupts and the children have to face the challenges of survival on their own.