Dystopian Radio

When Lilly was first Chief Engineer at The Commonwealth, nearly fifty years ago, the Central Archive wasn't yet the greatest repository of knowledge in the known world, protected by scribes copying every piece of found material—books, maps, even scraps of paper—and disseminating them by Archive Runners to hidden off-site locations for safe keeping. Back then, there was no Order of Silence to create and maintain secret routes deep into the sand-covered towers of the Gone World or into the northern forests beyond Sea Glass Lake.

Life after an EMP puts the US in the dark ages is not an easy one. Life is dangerous and difficult enough without humans preying on each other. Don, an alcoholic, and a gamer girl called "Z" make an odd introduction together and find themselves thrust into a survival situation neither of them are prepared to endure.

When the world drowns and there is no land left to stand on — where do you go? Welcome to No Place But the Water, a haunting, full-cast drama set in a future flooded world. It begins at a hotel on the edge of the water, and with a messy family of dreamers in the middle of nowhere: their last...

AIRWAVES V: A Wayfarers Story is a retro-futuristic thriller set in the Central and Finger Lakes regions of New York State. It was Monday, a typical late spring morning, when Abby E. of Pirate Radio AM 63 began her 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on-air shift in the station hub of Elbridge. The “typical” didn’t last long, as three power plant explosions in the western part of the state manifested in rapid succession. More tragic events unfolded in the coming hours, accompanied by meticulously choreographed cell and power outages. And with those outages came a motor vehicle ban throughout the state...

London, 2049. Full body transplants on sale here: the more you pay, the better the body. But can an expensive upgrade really fulfil the life-changing expectations of demoralised mortician Caroline McAleese? Caroline is desperate to be promoted to the sales team - but she's overweight and over 40...

Airwaves: A Wayfarers Story follows Dr. Abby Eaton, an on-air personality for AM 63, a pirate radio station on a fading AM band. Simultaneously, the IW2, a new internet, emerges as a free and open alternative to the heavily censored, hyper-algorithmic ALL web. The IW2 resurrects the spirit of the old internet, prioritizing the wants and needs of the people over control and censorship. As the ALL World Order targets both AM 63 and the IW2, Abby faces intense challenges. Her 13-year-old daughter becomes entangled with a boy on the IW2, a relationship that could put her in grave danger. How ...

BBC Radio adaptations of Aldous Huxley’s finest works – plus a bonus documentary programme ‘Over nine hours’ worth of quality drama… The stories presented in ‘A BBC Radio Collection’ combine to give the listener a taste of Huxley’s versatility as a writer. His vivid imagination...

Pirate Radio AM 63 survived the manufactured weather assault by the World Weather Syndicate. But now, a new threat looms, not against the station directly, but one that could take down its primary broadcast delivery platform. An event in far-off Hawaii could have a devastating effect on AM 63’s worldwide reach. What was this event? More significantly, did this event actually occur? The rising one-world government in the form of the ALL World Order harbors a deep hatred for AM 63’s primary broadcast delivery platform and for radio in general. What machinations will the five in charge who...

Jiehong Wu, aka Stinky Pearson, is a deranged video game designer. To promote a new game release, he decides to have the entire continental U.S. suffer a blackout. Ten U.S. senators, each in possession of a “kill switch,” decide to help with the blackout. The senators are tempted by the lure of “New Money,” but what the senators don’t realize is that this New Money does not really exist. Abby E. and the entire Pirate Radio AM 63 staff follow Stinky’s travels as he makes his way toward her home with his sights set on her daughter, Amelia. Meanwhile, signs and wonders are seen and...

Fifteen-year-old bender Kivali has had a rough time in a gender-rigid culture. Abandoned as a baby and raised by Sheila, an ardent nonconformist, Kivali has always been surrounded by uncertainty. Where did she come from? Is it true what Sheila says, that she was deposited on Earth by the mysterious saurians?

Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon Bovey Simon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror... Cold Blood –...

In the riveting follow-up to Airwaves, Airwaves Two: A Wayfarer's Story thrusts pirate radio station AM 63 back into the fight for freedom against the relentless ALL World Order. Determined to silence the rebellious broadcasts once and for all, the global regime unleashes new threats, including the eerie, man-made storms of the World Weather Syndicate. As the tentacles of the Beast System tighten, AM 63 faces its deadliest challenge yet. With a cast of fearless characters—Abby Eaton, Mary Woodman, Rachel Supernaw, and a new band of allies—the station fights back using the power of music...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of All Our Wrong Todays, written and read by Elan Mastai. Tom lives in a perfect world: no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. . . oh, and time travel. When he loses the love of his life, going back to fix it seems like the...

A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING GOOD BOOKS SPRING COLLECTION PICK 'I LOVED this addictive, beautifully written novel about romance, life and immortality.' DAILY MAIL 'Bleak yet hopeful, romantic yet lonely, this novel is both ordinary and extraordinary.' RADIO TIMES 'A concept that asks profound questions...

From the bestselling author of Sanctuary comes a thrilling Orwellian vision of Britain, with a rebellious Hunger Games heart. Gilded Cage is the astonishing debut novel by Vic James, and the first title in her electrifying The Dark Gifts Trilogy. A modern Britain. An age-old cruelty. Britain's...

Dark Space #5 The signal wasn’t meant for Earth, but now it’s inside everything. When Leo picks up a strange transmission on his grandpa’s old radio, he thinks it’s just static. But the voice that repeats his name doesn’t sound like noise. And when his best friend Max starts acting weird and mold begins growing where it shouldn’t, Leo and his sister Andi realize something is listening back. As their town slips into silence and the people around them begin to change, Leo and Andi uncover a buried network pulsing beneath their feet, built from memory, thought, and something not ...

In un'America alternativa dominata da un tiranno di nome Ferris F. Fremont (ispirato a Richard Nixon), due uomini tentano di combattere l'oppressione e la violenza. Sono Nicholas Brady e Philip K. Dick, sì, proprio lui, lo scrittore di fantascienza che simpatizza per Brady ma è assai più 'razionalista'. Li accompagna una figura insolita, un essere superiore che porta il nome di Valis: ma chi o cosa è Valis? Da dove proviene? Quali sono i suoi scopi? E sarà sufficiente il suo aiuto per sconfiggere l'ottusa brutalità della tirannia?

From the bestselling author of Sanctuary comes a thrilling Orwellian vision of Britain, with a rebellious Hunger Games heart. Gilded Cage is the astonishing debut novel by Vic James, and the first title in her electrifying The Dark Gifts Trilogy. A modern Britain. An age-old cruelty. Britain's...