Dystopian Short

2 B R 0 2 B is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction for January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B" and references the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In the story, the title refers to the telephone number that one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination.

Feel the slices in book three, Papercuts. Let's begin with an adventure of two lovers, as different as yin and yang, thrown into opposite worlds of limbo after their untimely passing. Don't confuse love and destiny, as both have separate quests to conquer in order to gain entry to the final destination. Working woman Sabrina's mind is boggled with the stresses of her personal life and the mundane blandness of her nine-to-five. Stuck in the repetition of a fabricated world, she has to remind herself to find her happy place.

Kvinden harker, sluger vand, basker vildt med armene, sluger mere og opgiver, synker sammen, hovedet under vand. Skriiitch, dyt! Jeg har været så opslugt af programmet, at en bil må bremse hårdt op for at undgå at ramme mig. Chaufføren peger på min hale og sætter en finger i tindingen, drejer rundt. "Sjoskerøv, du vil nok gerne indlægges i Dødskampen?" råber han forskrækket. Jeg er så optaget, at jeg ikke gider svare jokkehovedet. Krydser gaden. (Citat fra Svend Åge Madsens novelle Skabt for hinanden).

Prawdziwa sensacja i tajemnicze historie są na wyciągnięcie ręki! I to dosłownie. Jeżeli uważasz, że istnieje zbrodnia doskonała, a pierwszym człowiekiem na Księżycu był Neil Armstrong, to koniecznie musisz wysłuchać czterech brawurowo napisanych opowiadań autorstwa Dariusza Rekosza, które otworzą Ci oczy. Okazuje się bowiem, że w świecie pędzącym ku zdigitalizowaniu naszego życia, nikt nie może czuć się bezpieczny, a praca w biurze w nadgodzinach kończy się nieoczekiwanym wyzwoleniem drzemiących w ludziach żądz. Gdy rozum śpi, budzą się demony?

Have you ever wondered what lies behind every click you make on the internet? What if the data from your online life is used to change your own future? As the internet shapes a new era, three corporations become the rulers of a virtual world called Etherea. Mr. Davis, the CEO of Apollo Corporations, will have to fight against two unprecedented enemies that seek supremacy in the universe.

Earth has fallen far from its splendor and progress. Humanity’s long-held fear of an asteroid colliding with the world has come to pass, and the repercussions are devastating. Resultant natural disasters, plagues, and famines have taken billions of lives. With mankind’s future uncertain, scientists set to work creating a virtual Earth in which people can live in the mind rather than in physical form.

The world is burning and Nelson Miles is the only man alive who can stop it. Nelson Miles is a software engineer who confronts a rogue AI he designed that is bent on saving the biosphere by reducing the human population to sustainable limits. When the AI sends a little girl to Nelson demanding assistance in its designs, Nelson has to decide between saving himself and the girl or sacrificing the girl so he can destroy the monster he created.

SA51 has only known the iron fist of the Elite regime. Now alone in the barren wastelands, she must rely on the help from the enigmatic Doc's help. The truth may cost her everything and change humanity's chance of survival against oppression.

When her mother's head is pulped to mush by a coin carelessly dropped from higher up in the mega-city, sixteen-year-old Jerica makes a difficult trek up through a miles-high skyscraper, determined to find out who dropped the coin and avenge her mother

This collection of stories from Goodreads bares the truth of the pandemic in 500 words and more. It exposes the ugly face of the epidemic and the havoc it unleashed on our collective minds. Enjoy the works of eight authors as they depict their version of the epic times we have lived in and survived to tell the tale.

Three years after a series of massive waves takes out New York City and apocalyptic weather continues to shrink US coastlines, Julian and Kate's daughter returns to their Midwestern home...what's left of it. They should be thrilled, but while Kate is happy to have her daughter home, Julian can't quite believe it's really her. Since their daughter worked in New York City at the time of the first disaster, it seems impossible for her to be alive.

While wandering outdoors, Gary makes an amazing discovery that turns his life upside down. A clunky, old piece of metal becomes a trusted companion - or does it? Follow them on a tragicomic, interplanetary journey with its share of twists and turns, bumps, and bruises.

Galen is an innkeep, a humble man who cares about his work and his patrons. He also lives on the edge of a haunted forest. One inhabited by a fell wizard far too many of his guests are intent to meet. Despite Galen’s warnings and admonitions, most travelers passing through his doors only stay long enough to ask a few questions before entering the dark wood. Far too few come back. These are the tales of some of those adventurers who return. These are the tales of those Galen wishes had never left his door. Tales of the Fallen is a short work of fantasy fiction totaling about 10,000 words.

Olufunke Ogundimu explora neste potente conto a sua escrita afrofuturista, num 2087 aterradoramente próximo, quando tudo muda, menos a barreira entre quem tem e quem não tem. Onde os pobres ficaram do lado fora de onde é fácil negar a realidade, num mundo distorcido de quem acredita que mudança climática é fake news. Até o planeta terra atingir o ponto de ruptura e mover as areias dos grandes desertos arrasando fronteiras nacionais, cidades, assoreando rios e oceanos impondo novas formas de viver aos humanos

The story of The Scarlet Plague takes place in 2073 in the San Francisco area, 60 years after an apocalyptic pandemic called the Red Death or Scarlet Plague has depopulated the Earth. James Smith, one of the survivors, lives with his grandsons who are hunter-gatherers in a tribal world. He relates the horror of the plague to them, and tells them of the time when he was a professor of English, and of the start of the pandemic. His grandsons, who are of limited cognitive ability, refuse to believe him; they cannot believe that the disease was spread by germs.

Jennifer Benton has made it through the zombie apocalypse and has fallen in love with Mark, the charismatic leader of a group of fellow survivors. He's brought them from Illinois to hoped-for shelter at his family's Texas ranch, only to discover it destroyed. The survivors have one more chance when Mark befriends Todd in a nearby refugee camp; he invites the group to fly with him to his wealthy family's home in Oklahoma. But what's inside Todd's house may be worse than the zombies outside. And now Jennifer has more than Mark and herself to worry about....

When Sybil's father returns from off-world, he brings the children something they've never seen before, a tree...The Tree - a short story.

Generations after a bloody nuclear civil war, the United States is not as we know it. The inhabitants of the Northern states live as normal, but the South, after being decimated during the Second Civil War, are a changed people. Nuclear fallout has stolen any vestige of humanity. When the aircraft carrying the President of the Northern United States takes an erroneous detour, it is shot down somewhere over the south.

Perché un paladino in copertina? Certamente perché il racconto, intrigante e pieno di atmosfera, è ambientato in Sicilia - ma tranquilli, di dialetto ce n'è poco. Quanto basta, "come il sale", secondo una lettrice di Parma. Ma c'è un secondo motivo. In tutti i racconti tratti da "Pilipintò - Racconti da bagno per Siciliani e non", come questo "I moti del 2048" che state per ascoltare dalla mia voce, troverete trame e capovolgimenti di prospettiva.

In this science fiction short story, a young man living in a totalitarian farming community seeks a better life in a fabled city beneath the ground.