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601) El futuro
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Publication Date
2023.
Language
Spanish
Description
"Por Naomi Alderman, que se consagró como lagran autora contemporánea del genero distópico con El poder, llega El futuro, un asombroso tour de force. El futuro, como han descubierto las personas más ricas del planeta, es donde está el dinero. El futuro son unos pocos multimillonarios que conducen al mundo a la destrucción mientras salvaguardan su propia supervivencia con lujosos búnkeres secretos. El futuro es clima privado, profecía tecnológica...
602) Cadáver exquisito
Author
Publisher
Clarín
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
Spanish
Description
A causa de un virus mortal que afecta a los animales y contagia a los seres humanos, el mundo se ha convertido en un lugar gris, escéptico e inhóspito, y la sociedad se divide entre aquellos que comen y aquellos que son comidos. El Premio Clarín 2017 fue otorgado a esta novela mayor, una sólida y escalofriante pesadilla futurista en la que el canibalismo es legitimado en gran parte del mundo a causa de un virus que afecta a los animales y resulta...
603) Trashlands
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find--discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe--cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are...
605) Storm breaker
Author
Publisher
Mayhem Books, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
New Manhattan has always promised safety to nineteen-year-old Poet Graves--as long as she obeys. Raised in the ruling Houses and betrothed to a powerful heir, she enters Amery Academy knowing that her future has already been decided. But Amery isn't like what she imagined.As she struggles to survive, she must also hide the truth about herself.
For nineteen-year-old Poet Graves, New Manhattan has always promised safety, if she obeys. Raised within...
606) Dengue boy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"A dystopian cyberpunk coming-of-age novel about a mutant mosquito-kid set in 2272 Argentina when all the ice caps have melted and mega-conglomerates rule the world with their virofinance"-- Provided by publisher.
The protagonist of this story has no understanding of the words "winter","cold", or "snow" because he has never experienced the phenomena they describe. We find ourselves in Victorica, a province of La Pampa, Argentina, some time after...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems ... After learning the truth of the world they find themselves in, the orphans finally make their way out of the forest. With their improved survival skills, Emma, Ray and the other children arrive...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Earth's last hope are also the last picked, in this thrilling conclusion of Jason Walz's dystopian graphic trilogy, Last Pick: Rise Up. Wyatt is now the reluctant leader of the "last picked"--the disabled, the elderly, and those deemed too young to be useful for hard labor by their alien captors. But how can he and his ragtag allies take down an entire alien federation? Meanwhile, Wyatt's twin sister Sam and her girlfriend Mia are creating chaos all...
609) Last chance live!
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Squid Game meets Dear Justyce in an explosive young adult novel about a teenage girl on death row who competes on a reality show in hopes of winning her freedom. Last Chance Live! is the most popular reality show in America--and eighteen-year-old death row inmate Eternity Price's last chance to live. Getting cast on the show could win her clemency preventing her execution... if she can convince the viewing audience she deserves a second chance. The...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A galaxy away from her twin brother Wyatt, Sam must find a way to resist her captors and hold onto her humanity, while Wyatt leads a ragtag army to bring the fight straight to the alien overlords."--Provided by publisher.