Gemma Malley

Het is 2140. Anna woont in een tehuis voor Overtolligen. Sinds de uitvinding van een levensverlengend medicijn is er geen plaats meer voor nieuwe burgers. Anna moet nu boeten voor het egoïstische gedrag van haar ouders, omdat ze toch een kind kregen. Op een dag komt er een nieuwe mysterieuze jongen in het tehuis. Hij vertelt Anna schokkende dingen over haar ouders en het ondergrondse verzet tegen het medicijn. Anna wil helemaal niets van hem weten, en al helemaal niet van zijn plannen om samen te vluchten. Maar uiteindelijk gaat ze twijfelen aan alles waarin ze al die jaren heeft leren geloven...

Quand on sort du système, nul ne sait ce qu'il advient de nous... La Terre a été ravagée par la folie des hommes. Pour que cela ne se reproduise plus jamais, la Cité a été créée. Nul ne peut y entrer et nul ne peut en sortir. En son sein, ni le mal ni les sentiments ne sont autorisés. Malgré l'interdiction, Evie, 16 ans, aime Raffy en secret depuis toujours. Et lorsqu'il est banni, elle décide de fuir avec lui. Hors des murs protecteurs de la ville, ils découvrent des horreurs insoutenables sur son fonctionnement... mais aussi un nouvel espoir.

Forfatningen er den helt igennem fantastisk gribende historie om Annas forsøg på at afdække fortiden i jagten på en bedre fremtid. Vi befinder os i en ikke så fjern fremtid, hvor det ikke er tilladt at have børn. Men Annas forældre brød reglen, og nu er Anna tvunget til at betale tilbage til samfundet for deres egoistiske handling. Hun bor på Grange Hall, der er styret af regler. Men regler er til for at blive brudt, og da Anna møder Peter, begynder hun langsomt at gøre oprør. En hjertegribende historie, der er blændende godt fortalt af debutanten Gemma Malley.

Angleterre, 2140. Les adultes peuvent choisir de ne plus mourir s'ils renoncent à faire des enfants. Anna vit depuis presque toujours au foyer de Grange Hall, un pensionnat pour les Surplus, des enfants qui n'auraient pas dû naître, des enfants dont les parents ont défié la loi en les mettant au monde. Anna n'a plus de parents désormais. Confinée dans l'enceinte du pensionnat, elle travaille très dur, pour effacer leur faute. Anna a tout oublié de son passé. Jusqu'au jour où arrive un jeune garçon qui semble la connaître. Mais qui est ce Peter ? Pourquoi ne la laisse-t-il pas tranquille ? Et pourquoi elle, Anna, se sent-elle soudain si troublée ?

Angleterre, 2150. La mort n'existe plus. Les hommes vivent à l'ère de la Longévité : pas de morts... mais, pour éviter le surpeuplement, pas de naissances non plus. Peter et Anna ont un point commun : ils n'auraient jamais dû naître. Parce qu'une vie éternelle leur semble contre nature, parce que le système de la Longévité a gâché leur enfance, parce qu'il menace leurs rêves, ils ont décidé d'entrer en lutte. Pour sa suppression. Au sein du Réseau souterrain, la résistance s'organise : Peter a pour mission d'infiltrer le plus grand des laboratoires, le centre névralgique du système, Pincent Pharma... dirigé par son grand-père, Richard Pincent. Un homme puissant et influent, bien décidé à faire plier les rebelles, une présence troublante pour Peter : quand les liens du sang s'en mêlent, tout se complique...

Gripande framtidsthriller som väcker tankar! Jag heter Anna och jag borde inte vara här. Jag borde inte existera. Men det gör jag. Det är år 2140 och ett nytt läkemedel har gjort det möjligt att leva för alltid. Men det har också gjort att barn är oönskade på jorden. Alla som tar läkemedlet får skriva på en förkunnelse om att aldrig skaffa barn. Gör de det ändå tas barnet ifrån dem för att uppfostras på anstalt till ett liv som slav. Anna är ett sådant barn, övertygad om sin egen ovärdighet. Men så träffar hon Peter som målar upp en alternativ verklighet. Har hon rätt att leva? Kan hon fly sitt liv som oönskad? Vågar hon följa Peter? Oönskad av Gemma Malley är en gripande, spännande och tankeväckande roman med ekon av Margaret Atwood och Aldous Huxley.

In the year 2140, it is illegal to be young. Children are all but extinct. The world is a better place. Longevity drugs are a fountain of youth. Sign the Declaration, agree not to have children and you too can live forever. Refuse, and you will live as an outcast. For the children born outside the law, it only gets worse – Surplus status. Not everyone thinks Longevity is a good thing, but you better be clear what side you’re on. . . . Surplus Anna is about to find out what happens when you can’t decide if you should cheat the law or cheat death.

They walked in silence onto the raised path that led to the East Gate. The closer they got, the louder the buzzing was. As they approached the gate it was almost unbearable. There was a stench in the air that made it hard to breathe, a stench that made the hair on the back of Lucas' neck stand up on end. Whatever had brought the flies here wasn't good. It's been a year since Evie and Raffy escaped the controlling regime of the City, leaving Lucas behind to rebuild the ruins of the place they once called home. And Lucas knew that once he said goodbye, Evie would be lost to him forever...But the City soon finds itself plagued by another terrifying threat: the Disappearances: teenagers who have gone missing from within the City walls, apparently vanishing into thin air. With the City at stake, Lucas has no choice but to call on his old friends - even if seeing them together is more than he can bear.

Everyone accepted that people were different physically. But inside? Inside, they were different too. You just had to know how to tell, what to look for. Evil has been eradicated. The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how 'good' they are. If they show signs of the evil emerging, they are labelled a K ...But no one knows quite what that means. Only that they disappear, never to be seen again ...

When a Pincent Pharma lorry is ambushed by underground activists, its contents come as a huge surprise - not drugs, but decomposing corpses. It appears Longevity isn't working and the drugs promising eternal youth are failing. A virus is sweeping the country, killing in its wake, and Longevity is powerless to fight it.

The year is 2140. Having escaped the horrors of Grange Hall, Peter and Anna are living freely on the Outside, trying hard to lead normal lives, but unable to leave the terror of the Declaration―and their experiences as surpluses―completely behind them. Peter is determined to infiltrate Pharma Corporation, which claims to have a new drug in the works; "Longevity+" will not just stop the ravages of old age, it is rumored to reverse the aging process. But what Peter and Anna discover behind the walls of Pharma is so nightmarish it makes the prison of their childhood seem like a for in order to supply Pharma with the building blocks for Longevity+, scientists will need to harvest it from the young. Shocking, controversial, and frighteningly topical, this sequel to Gemma Malley's stellar debut novel, The Declaration , will take the conversation about ethics and science to the next level.

London teenager Will Hodge is miserable. His mother is dead, his father's political leanings have grown radical, and his friends barely talk to him. To top it off, he's having nightmares about things like concentration camps. Then Will notices he's being followed by a group of people who claim to know him from another time in history. It turns out they are Returners, reincarnated people who carry with them the memory of atrocities they have witnessed in the past. Will realizes that he, too, is a Returner. But something about his memories is different, and with dawning horror, Will suspects that he wasn't just a witness to the events, he was instrumental in making them happen. Set in the near future, with the world on the verge of a new wave of ethnic cleansing, Will must choose to confront the cruelty he's known in his past lives, or be doomed to repeat it...

To survive you need people watching you, following your every move. That's the only currency now: being interesting, being liked ... And, of course, you have to update every fifteen minutes. It means everyone knows where you are, what you're doing; it means that there are no secrets... Everybody watches everyone else; nothing is hidden. And for those who fail to 'update' every fifteen minutes, the consequences are deadly. Evie and Raffy may have escaped the City but they still fear for their lives. Now the only person who can help them is Frankie, a total stranger, the most popular girl in the world, watched every second by millions of people. But Frankie has other ideas... And all the time, Lucas is waiting desperately for word from Evie, word that she is coming back to him. The conclusion to Gemma Malley's terrifyingly dark vision of our near future will leave you gasping for air.