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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 80 ratingsA lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time...Categorized as:
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Dust by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. The residents of Silo 18 have a new mayor and the chance of a new beginning. But just as they regain their footing, their gravest threat emerges: Silo 1, and the men who brought Earth into ruin. But power, politics, and the survival of the human race are complex...Categorized as:
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The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program...Categorized as:
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Infection by M.P. McDonald
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA pandemic survival novel The world has never seen a virus like this. Not only is it deadly, but it changes victims' behavior in order to spread the disease before they die. When Cole Evans first heard about the flu outbreak at a military base on a remote island, he felt a little uneasy...Categorized as:
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Isolation by M.P. McDonald
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCole Evans thought he'd found a safe haven for his family and a growing band of survivors of the most lethal virus the world has ever known. But he finds continued survival is far from guaranteed as they battle hostile encounters with other survivors, nature, and devastating accidents...Categorized as:
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CyberWar by Matthew Mather
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe thrilling conclusion to the series, where the mysteries of CyberStorm will finally be revealed.Terrorists unleashed an attack that destroy everything in orbit, but they've finally been stopped. Or have they? Mike saves the life of his father-in-law Senator Seymour in Washington, when a wave of autonomous killer drones are unleashed in the capital...Categorized as:
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The Solar War by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWe thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything...Categorized as:
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Kingdoms of Sorrow by J.K. Franks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the first five minutes, over a million-people died.In the months since then things have only gotten worse. Much, much worse.Earth reels in the aftermath of a devastating solar flare—the effect of a savage solar storm that has resulted in a global disaster of unprecedented proportions. Most of the world is without electrical power or the means to restore it... -
Virus Hunters 1 by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe world is grappling with an issue of enormous scale and human impact.In the arms race with deadly pathogens, there can be no final peace.The only question is whether we fight well or poorly.Defeat means massive disruptions to our daily lives, huge losses economically, and death...Categorized as:
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The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCan humanity survive on a new world?On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. It's a journey across space and time and into humanity's past and future--with a twist you'll never forget...Categorized as:
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Yellowstone Inferno by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsCivilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.The land beneath Yellowstone's caldera is hot.Huffing and puffing. Moving, stretching and bulging.Everything has a boiling point. Yellowstone has reached the point of no return...Categorized as:
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The Pulse by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife on Earth hangs in the balance, and only a handful of people realize it.Until the first Geostorm hits Europe.As the poles shift, the planet's magnetic field weakens, stripping away our protection from the Sun's power.That which gives us life, can take it away as well... -
Yellowstone Hellfire by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsYellowstone is controlled by nature. Its beauty is breathless and tranquil. Crystal clear streams flow. Buffalo roam freely...Categorized as:
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Angles of Attack by Marko Kloos
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system's edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war...Categorized as:
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Whiteout by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNuclear fallout circled the Earth like a blanket of death.Temperatures plummeted. Crops and livestock died.Man turned on man in a desperate attempt to survive.And it was just the beginning.This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with many nuclear bombs detonated around the planet. It was no longer a topic of conversation around the dinner table as in years past...Categorized as:
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Geostorm The Shift: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEarth is alive. Deep beneath her skin is our planet's life blood. Rivers of molten iron, pushing around a core - her beating heart. This moving, fluid iron generates the magnetic field maintaining the delicate balance of life on earth. Until she has a change of heart. "Spellbinding...Categorized as:
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Reign of the Locusts by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA maniacal warlord. A rogue military commander. Two despicable evils and one impossible choice. After a brutal attack on their neighborhood, Kate McCarthy’s group struggles to cope with the loss of several members. The military promises to abolish lawlessness, but if that includes confiscating all firearms, the cure may be worse than the disease...Categorized as:
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Armageddon by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNobody was prepared, including the world's governments. Yet the threat was always real and the devastation was predictable.The damage was incalcuable. Millions died at the points of impact. Nuclear Winter spread across the globe. A rapidly cooling climate shocked humanity and all living things ... to their death.This is more than the story of nuclear conflict...Categorized as:
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Geostorm: The Collapse by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs the magnetic field reverses, a well-intentioned president tries to avert the worst-case scenario ~ The Collapse of the power grid... -
Geostorm The Pioneers by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsImagine a world where rising sea levels inundate coastal megacities.People flock to higher ground, only it was too late.Entire species became extinct in the blink of an eye,and conflicts are fought over dwindling resources.It's not so difficult in the Geostorm series."The Geostorm series consumes you. You don't read it ... you live it...Categorized as:
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The Flood by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince the formation of Earth billions of years ago,it has been through cataclysmic changes.She's been frozen and fried, pummeled from space and experienced the reversal of its magnetic poles.It's happening now and the face of the planet may never be the same... -
Yellowstone Fallout by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYellowstone was not an ordinary volcano.It was a cannon of immense size, equal in destructive capability to all of mankind's nuclear weapons - combined.It was quite frankly, Earth's greatest killer...Categorized as:
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Winter World by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA new ice age... and a shocking discovery...will change humanity forever.In the near future, a new ice age has begun.Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, a probe spots a mysterious object drifting toward the Sun... -
Geostorm The Tempest by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSince the beginning of time, four billion life forms have been created.Ninety-nine percent are now extinct.The human species is the youngest of them all.A mere blink in the eye of time -Time, which is running out. "I couldn't put it down...Categorized as:
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Mutation by Nerys Wheatley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBitten. Infected. Turned.Cured.Alex survived the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters, but it left him mutated, with super-human strength and white eyes.Feared and despised.The world has lived with the virus for thirteen years, but now a new strain is turning thousands into ravenous monsters, faster than ever before.And Alex is trapped right in the middle of the outbreak... -
Downward Cycle by J.K. Franks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWho will survive the darkness? Life in a remote oceanfront town begins to spiral downward after a massive solar flare causes a global blackout. As planes fall from the sky, cars suddenly die, and most electrical devices stop working with catastrophic consequences. But the loss of electrical power is just the first of the problems facing the survivors. In the chaos, that follows... -
This Alien Earth: The Complete Series: A Dystopian Sci-fi Box Set by Paul Antony Jones, Robert Greenberger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGet the This Alien Earth Box Set, featuring all three books in the bestselling series by Paul Antony Jones. 1000+ pages in a futuristic adventure featuring a strong female lead, perfect for fans of Jeremy Robinson, Stephen King, and Lost ."A stunning sci-fi gem...Categorized as:
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Feast of the Locusts by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Locust Virus destroyed the American financial system but the worst is yet to come! Kate has managed to survive a massive cyber-attack which annihilated the US banking system. The societal collapse that followed in the wake of the exploit has already claimed the lives of millions, including members of Kate’s own family...Categorized as:
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Asteroid Diversion by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSpace is far from empty. It's full of debris ... wandering nomads seeking a target. Including Asteroid IM86, large enough to destroy us all. When the world needs a hero, they turn to Gunner Fox who will move Heaven to save Earth. ________________________ DIVERSION places Gunner Fox, a United States Air Force Test Pilot and Earth Scientist on a collision course with a planet killing asteroid... -
The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJuna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation--and terrifying assimilation--into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before... -
CyberSpace by Matthew Mather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this long-awaited sequel to the massive bestseller CyberStorm, Mike and his family are caught up in a new disaster as the Kessler Syndrome unfolds and all satellites in orbit are suddenly destroyed."Couldn't put it down...CyberStorm series is not only a great thriller, but a wake up call...Categorized as:
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San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was the summer of 2014, and the true horrors of the Rising were only just beginning to reveal themselves. Fans from all over the world gathered in San Diego, California for the annual comic book and media convention, planning to forget about the troubling rumors of new diseases and walking dead by immersing themselves in a familiar environment...Categorized as:
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Station Breaker by Andrew Mayne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA cutting edge technothriller from the bestselling author of Angel Killer and Public Enemy Zero. Astronaut David Dixon's first mission to space goes horribly wrong when shots are fired on a Russian space station. He finds himself making an emergency landing from orbit and becomes the most wanted man on Earth... -
Genome by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA code hidden in the human genome will reveal the ultimate secret of human existence.And could hold humanity's only hope of survival.Genome concludes The Extinction Files, the two-book series that began with Pandemic. It's a race against time—and an exploration into the deepest mysteries of human existence (with a twist at the end you'll never see coming)...Categorized as:
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Yellowstone Survival by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsOur world has ended five times.It's been fried, and then frozen.Gassed with poison; smothered with ash; and bombarded from space.Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception...Categorized as:
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Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary new space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . .Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war...Categorized as:
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American Exodus by J.K. Franks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne man’s desperate journey home in a post-apocalyptic world. Steven Porter had a mostly charmed life, one that most people would envy, that is, until it all vanished. He was away from home on that day when the world changed forever. Millions of people are fleeing the cities trying to find safety. Many more are missing or dead...Categorized as:
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Asteroid Discovery by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGunner Fox finds himself in a place of darkness,without a reason to live. Until now.An asteroid is on a collision course with our planet.Gunner Fox is on a collision course with death. International best selling author, Bobby Akart, introduces Gunner Fox, a United States Air Force fighter pilot and Earth Scientist...Categorized as:
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The Shadow Constant by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone is keeping watch over the machine. Should it ever have been built? The lure of the find behind the loose hearthstone at Hazleton House was too great. The schematic excited Evan, Reenie and Ivy for different reasons but it is Kayla who actually begins building it. Her ability to focus to the exclusion of all else is just one of the effects of her Asperger's. The scribbled initials E.W...Categorized as:
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Ice by Annelie Wendeberg
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratings“I wonder how people back then prepared for battle; if they found it more important to win and come out alive, or if bringing down their enemies, knowing their loved ones at home remained safe was what made them go out in the first place. I don’t have any loved ones at home. I don’t even have a home. I don’t miss those things and never did...Categorized as:
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Dawnbreaker by Jay Posey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWren is living in Greenstone under the temporary care of Charles and Mol, and the protection of Chapel. Unable to determine the fate of his mother and those he left behind in Morningside, Wren believes there is nothing left to do but wait for Asher’s final blow … until a man named Haiku walks into the Samurai McGann, looking for Three...Categorized as:
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The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst they noticed the pets were missing, then the neighborhood of Rowena Heights started losing…people. It was only later that they actually saw the packs of creatures stalking the streets at night. As the Mazurs get close to the truth about the night hunters, they discover the hunters aren’t what they thought at all...Categorized as:
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Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award The Six Degrees of PetrovitchMichael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to trust Michael will still be sane by the time he does.Maddy and Petrovitch have trust issues. She's left him, but Petrovitch is pretty sure she still loves him... -
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Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsCombining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in narratives that are by turns dark, satiric, and introspective...Categorized as:
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Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMultiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now... -
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsTHE LUCKY ONES WENT FIRST…The gigantic comet has slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam... -
The City and The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsMen had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge...Categorized as:
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Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRobert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic cityscapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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Bunker: Code of Honor by Jay J. Falconer
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the perpetrators finally reveal themselves, Jack Bunker finds himself the target of a deadly manhunt. They need him eliminated at all costs and are willing to unleash hell across the countryside to achieve their sinister plan. But the trouble doesn’t end there...Categorized as:
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