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81) 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.
82) 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
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...
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...
85) 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...
87) 1984: powieść
Author
Series
Biblioteka "Kultury" ; t. 308
Publisher
Instytut Literacki
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
Polish
88) 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...
89) 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.
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
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." --
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." --
93) Refuge
Author
Publisher
Stillwater River Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A national election broken by once unthinkable laws and political violence. Tens of millions of fearful Americans demanded safety and security. The new far right president obliged, using the crisis as a pretext to declare a national emergency and pass sweeping laws that targeted political opponents and dissenters as domestic terrorists. The United States of American falls into one party autocracy." --
95) The beyond
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"To save the city she loves, Claire Connolly must cross the border into the unknown ... It's been nearly a year since the Veil between the human world and the Beyond was torn apart and war began again. Sensitive Claire Connolly and bounty hunter Liam Quinn have been helping their human and Paranormal allies fight back against the ravaging invaders and save what is left of New Orleans. But a new enemy--more powerful than any Claire and Liam have seen...
96) The great wheel
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A novel on missionary work in the future. The protagonist is Father John Alston, a priest who works in a Third World country plagued by pollution and disease--from which he is immune because of an implant. The year is 2170. Through his eyes is seen the technological gap between the rich West and the world's have-nots.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The Collector Collector takes a conventional boy-meets-girl story and turns it into a brilliant comic romp. The hero of Tibor Fischer's tale is an antique bowl that comes into the possession of a lovelorn, young London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an urn of uncommon erudition that has witnessed all of history's major convulsions--revolutions, famines, massacres, wars--and has survived...
98) Grace and fury
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate world where women have no rights, two sisters face very different fates after an attempt to win the favor of the heir to the throne--one in the palace, the other on a volcanic prison island." --
Sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro were born into a world where women have no rights. Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace-- to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman. When her...
Author
Series
Frontlines ; 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that good food and decent health...
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