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In late-twenty-first-century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside an immersive, consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile, their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments. Across the city, in the abandoned real world, Tao-Yi's mother remains stubbornly offline, dwindling away between hospital visits and memories of her earlier life in Malaysia.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine. You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after...

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Read by Annabel Scholey, known for her roles in the BAFTA-winning The Sixth Commandment, The Split, and Rivals. This audiobook is accompanied in part by a spine-tingling yet euphoric soundscape, composed by the author, Barnaby Martin, and also includes a fascinating audio-exclusive Q&A between...

Zuri has the perfect life—a beautiful home on the Hillstead, a loving family, and a powerful job keeping the LA Basin’s grid humming. If only she didn’t see the ghost of her dead twin in the mirror. Her grief-counselor husband understands too much, Aunties Cora and Vivian smother her to excess, and her mother can’t look at her daughter without seeing the half that’s missing. Zuri can’t begin to face her sister’s little daughter—to Ruby, Zuri is the ghost. Which is why she’s running away to work, again, on the anniversary of her sister’s death.

The world didn’t end with a bang. It ended with a whisper—a faint signal from the heavens, a flicker on the screens of those who dared to look beyond the stars. The media ignored it. The government covered it up. But the sky… the sky never lies. It started with seven. Seven colossal objects, drifting into our solar system, too large to be meteors, too perfect to be natural. They settled in the asteroid belt, massive and unmoving, their metallic bodies reflecting starlight like distant gods watching from a throne. The news called them a phenomenon. The authorities called for calm.

For better, for worse. In sickness and in health. It’s a legal vow of care for families in 2050, a world beset by waves of climate-driven plagues. Power engineer Lucía Ramirez long ago lost her family to one - she’d give anything to take that vow. The Power Islands give humanity a fighting chance, but tending kelp farms and solar lilies is a lonely job.

Sam thinks his job at the Zombie Apocalypse Call Center is a joke. Zombies aren’t real, and the customers who call in for support about their guns and conspiracy theories are crazy! Sam knows a zombie apocalypse will never happen. Until one day, the zombie apocalypse does happen. Now Sam and his fellow analysts have to figure out how the zombie apocalypse started, and how to cure the zombies, while also keeping the customers alive and well-stocked with ammo.

In the heart of a dystopian metropolis, Building 8 stands as a silent witness to the lives and struggles of its inhabitants. Anthony C. Mazzella's gripping narrative plunges listeners into a world where reality bends and the ordinary collides with the surreal. As the central business district is besieged by chaotic flying machines and destruction reigns, the top floor of Building 8 remains a curious sanctuary of calm. Within its walls, two men go about their business, seemingly oblivious to the mayhem below, embodying the eerie contrast between normalcy and chaos that defines the story.

Rachel fends for herself in a country brought to its knees by climate change. Since Jason left two years ago, she only ventures beyond the safety of her storm wall when food supplies dwindle. Her one contact with the outside world is through Noah, who runs the market. Hoping he might be the answer to her isolation, she proposes a date. When another man turns up in Noah's place, she is intrigued and repelled in equal measure.

There’s something different about Kate’s four-year-old son. He wasn’t created the old fashioned way. Now a violent cult wants him dead and Kate will do anything to protect him – until they take her daughter. Glimpse JT Lawrence’s chilling vision of the all-too-near future in this dark kidnapping thriller with a twist that will send you reeling. How We Found You is the second book in the futuristic dystopian series When Tomorrow Calls.

In a world on the brink, one choice can change everything. The world is unraveling. The lines between order and chaos blur as revolution brews in the shadows. Some believe that true freedom can only be found in destruction, tearing down the foundations of control. Others cling to structure, convinced that without it, humanity will fall into ruin. Caught in the middle is a man burdened by the weight of his past and the uncertainty of his future. As secrets unfold and forces collide, he must navigate a world where no choice is simple, and every decision comes with a cost.

The age of freedom is gone, usurped by the age of comfort, peace, and stability. The Regime of the Guardian has wiped out free will, finally creating a world where mankind can be happy. Advances in technology make controlling the masses as simple as granting entertainment in exchange for absolute surveillance. Society has broken down into a perfectly engineered system. But like a parent with spoiled children, the Guardian and her subjects do not always see eye to eye. There are still those so desperate to cling to their individuality they're willing to risk everything for it.

Life for Riley ends when her young children die in her arms…victims of a global viral outbreak that claims the lives of everyone she’s ever known. Left to fend for herself with only a dog as her companion, she sets out on a journey to find others, leaving notes everywhere she goes…hoping that one day someone will come looking for her.

Nitara Desai has spent her life negotiating international agreements, easing points of conflict, and averting disasters. Worst-case scenarios belong in her nightmares, not the IEC’s daily reports. On a calm day, being a director at the International Energy Consortium only requires fixing CarbonCon translators for flustered Brazilian delegates. A thankless job, but the world is still drowning in CO2—there’s no choice but to keep treading.

A creative assassin. A hit list hidden in a Doomsday seed vault. A woman with an unusual gift who has to untangle the conspiracy … before it kills her. Kirsten is desperate for a baby, but when she digs into her mother’s past, she discovers a shocking betrayal that derails her life. Will she uncover the mystery before the hitman finds her?

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House. Jewel’s world is shaken when her friend is murdered by a client, but somehow comes back to life. To get revenge, they will both have to confront the limits of loyalty, guilt, and justice.

Hacktivistin Nova wird seit einem Jahr unschuldig in einem vollautomatisierten Hochsee-Gefängnis gefangen gehalten. Um auszubrechen, muss sie eine Wächter-KI überlisten. Unerwartete Hilfe kommt von einem Gegner aus der Vergangenheit, doch der Preis ist hoch: Novas Leben steht auf dem Spiel, so wie das zahlloser Menschen.

A blinding flash … then darkness. Bria Ford and her three closest friends are stranded on a country highway in the middle of a November night. No phones. No car. No lights. Helpless and hundreds of miles from home, they put their lives in the hands of handsome Jonah Page and his flinty sister, East, strangers who somehow know Bria better than she knows herself. As the group bonds to adapt to a new, yet old, way of life, the secrets of Bria’s past provide them with the means to survive the extremes of Mother Nature, and the even more frightening extremes of human nature. Quietly suspenseful, The Light explores how the stories we tell ourselves shape the person we present to the world, and what happens to that person when the world falls away.

In naher Zukunft. Die übermächtige KI CReL bestimmt alle Geschicke der Menschheit und verfolgt einen perfiden Plan. Um die Welt vor dem Kollaps zu bewahren, tötet sie mehr und mehr Unschuldige. Die beste "Waffe" gegen die Killer-KI sitzt unschuldig im Gefängnis: Die schlagfertige und kämpferische Hacktivistin Nova Bassmann. Sie flieht in einer halsbrecherischen Aktion und schlägt sich zu Rediet "Red" Echuwona durch – Nerd, genialer Technik-Tüftler und Novas Lebensgefährte.