But as Sara arrives to be monitored alongside other dangerous dreamers, she discovers that with every deviation from the facility’s strict and ever-shifting rules, their stays can be extended – and that getting home to her family is going to cost much more than just three weeks of good behaviour.

Then, one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.

Sara sta tornando a casa da una conferenza all’estero quando gli agenti della Risk Assessment Administration la prendono da parte all’aeroporto. Utilizzando i dati dei suoi sogni, il loro algoritmo ha determinato che corre un rischio imminente di fare del male al marito. Per la sua sicurezza, è stata trasferita in un centro di accoglienza e tenuta sotto osservazione per ventuno giorni.

Ma quando Sara arriva per essere monitorata insieme ad altri sognatori pericolosi, scopre che con ogni deviazione dalle rigide e mutevoli regole della struttura, la loro permanenza può essere prolungata e che tornare a casa dalla sua famiglia richiederà molto più di tre settimane di buona condotta.

Poi, un giorno, arriva un nuovo ospite, sconvolgendo l’ordine della struttura e portando Sara in rotta di collisione con le stesse aziende che l’hanno privata della sua libertà.

She’s one of the most powerful in existence. But her world is divided. On the Continent, being a known Modified means certain death, as the Primes – those immune to the biotoxin that nearly wiped out the population 150 years ago – want nothing more than to eliminate those who were enhanced by the toxin and developed psychic powers.

LIE TO EVERYONE. Wren has survived all these years by concealing her abilities and keeping a low profile while doing what she can to aid the rebel Uprising in fighting against the Primes’ oppressive rule. But one careless mistake places her in the crosshairs of the Continent’s military, and she is forced to join their most elite program: Silver Block.

Unwittingly, her enemy has given her – and the Uprising – the perfect opportunity to strike a devastating blow from inside their ranks. AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T FALL FOR YOUR GREATEST ENEMY. That is, if she can keep her powers hidden, survive training, and prove herself to Cross Redden, her cocky, maddeningly attractive commanding officer.

Despite the explosive chemistry between them, Wren cannot let Cross get in the way of her mission. But as war rages between Mods like her and those who aim to destroy them, emotions run high and secrets are revealed, forcing Wren to decide how far she’s willing to go to protect herself … and how much of the Continent is worth saving.

Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits.

Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl – the fortieth prisoner – sits alone an outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.

The woman who will never know men.

Buenos Aires, 1963: Juan Salvo sitzt mit seiner Familie und Freunden beim Kartenspiel, als es zu schneien beginnt. Der Schnee, der auf die Stadt fällt, ist tödlich, sein Gift dringt durch jede Ritze, wer mit ihm in Berührung kommt, stirbt sofort. Außerirdische haben Buenos Aires erobert, mit Hilfe des Schnees, Rieseninsekten und versklavten Wesen eines anderen Planeten töten SIE die Bewohner der Stadt oder verwandeln sie in Robotermenschen. Juan Salvo und seine Freunde gehören zu den wenigen Überlebenden. Sie entschließen sich, gehen den übermächtigen Feind in den Kampf zu ziehen. Ein Kampf, bei dem Salvo nicht nur sein eigenes Leben aufs Spiel setzt – sondern auch das seiner Familie…

Es ist beinahe undenkbar, Eternauta von Héctor Germán Oesterheld (geb. 1919, vermutlich 1978 ermordet) und Francisco Solano López (1928-2011) nicht als erstaunlich antizipatorisches Porträt der argentinischen Gesellschaft unter der Militärdiktatur zu lesen. Eine Vorwegnahme der durch den Staat ausgeübten Gewalt der 1970er Jahre, der auch Oesterheld und seine vier Töchter zum Opfer fielen. Bis heute zählen sie zu den „Desaparecidos“, den verschwundenen Gegnern der Militärdiktatur. Eternauta ist das Hauptwerk des wichtigsten argentinischen Comicautors, das vor dem Hintergrund seines eigenen Schicksals eine beklemmend prophetische Kraft entfaltet.

But as the true shape of the project that brought them together begins to emerge, Gore and the bridge are forced to confront their past choices and imagined futures. Can love triumph over the histories that have shaped them? And how do you defy that history when it is living in your house?

We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS – and his massive fortune – will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century.

And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions – and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous – and addictive – than even Wade dreamed possible.

With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest: a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.

And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.

Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

Sixty years after its originally publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.