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School Days by Nathan Lowell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA New ShipA New CrewA Different Kind of MissionWhen Manchester Yards donates a new training vessel to the Merchant Officer Academy at Port Newmar, Alys Giggone recalls the Chernyakova.She wants Ishmael Wang and his crew to take a crew of cadets into the Deep Dark. They have to sort out the crews of two ships, figure out what lessons they need to teach, and who will get those lessons... -
Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm, Sam Hughes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsqntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, deep hypotheticals and wind entire universes around them, pushing science, technology, time and logic to breaking point and far beyond.This volume collects the highlights of his short fiction, including "The Difference", "I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is A Big Responsibility" and the acclaimed "Lena"... -
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 Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“The Wandering Earth” is a collection of short stories by Liu Cixin, China's most acclaimed contemporary science-fiction author. Unabashedly classic in the great tradition of Asimov and Clarke, Liu Cixin's science-fiction is firmly rooted in the cosmic. “[most] literature has always left me with the impression of indulging an intense anthropocentric narcissism...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... -
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...Categorized as:
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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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Dark Descent: Ancient Origins Book 2 by Robert Storey
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen mankind stumbled upon an enormous structure buried deep in the bowels of the Earth, it was decided its location and existence would remain a closely guarded secret ... with good reason. It seems whoever created this ancient world knew something we didn't .. -
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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The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCixin Liu is China's bestselling science fiction author and one of the most important voices in world SF. His novel, The Three-Body Problem, was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award.Here is the first collection of his short fiction: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures... -
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...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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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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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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New Madrid Earthquake by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Disaster ThrillerIn the not too distant past, along the Mississippi River, North America tried to tear itself in half.It failed. It won't the second time.New Madrid.A standalone disaster thriller from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide...Categorized as:
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Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.Marcus Warnoc has a little problem... -
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...Categorized as:
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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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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 Big Book of Science Fiction by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsQuite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time - past, present and future. What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E... -
The Insecure Mind of Sergei Kraev by Eric Silberstein
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMath is perfect; people are not.The year is 2100 and the chaos of the early Internet era is long behind us. Mathematical proof ensures that neural implants can’t be hacked, and the Board of Reality Overseers blocks false information from spreading... -
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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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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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... -
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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Weaponized Human by J.S. Morin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe greatest threat to humanity might be one of their own. Eve has responsibilities now. As chairwoman of the Human Welfare Committee, she is humanity’s voice in a world run by robots. Her job includes approving geneticists who want to engage in ethical human cloning as well as overseeing the agency that hunts down threats to mankind...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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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... -
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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Little Noises by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light... -
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... -
The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin, Юрий Гуржий
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst published in Science Fiction World, July 2000.I’ve never seen the night, nor seen a star; I’ve seen neither spring, nor fall, nor winter. I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash, threatening to swallow all terrestrial planets in the solar system...Categorized as:
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The Wrong Unit by Rob Dircks
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsI DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HUMANS ARE SO CRANKY ABOUT. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over a thousand calories per day, and they're allowed to mate. Plus, they have me. An Autonomous Servile Unit, housed in a mobile/bipedal chassis. I do my job well: keep the humans healthy and happy."Hey you."Heyoo. That's my name, I suppose. It's easier for the humans to remember than 413s98-itr8... -
Outland by Dennis E. Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six college students and their experimental physics project to prevent the end of civilization. When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary by Matthew Mather
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA new world arises from the ashes of the old...but the fight for survival has only begun.In the Day of the Nomad, oceans flooded the continents, the earth split open and poured darkness into the skies. A mass extinction event as the Earth hadn't witnessed in more than two hundred and fifty million years, the planet flung into a radical new orbit around the Sun... -
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife is finally worth living for Dr. Francine Burk. A recent surgery has finally provided a cure from years of undiagnosed pain. And her subversive scientific discovery, the “Theory of Bastards,” which has unseated public figures and past presidents, has rewarded her with a generous grant and a prestigious placement at The Foundation... -
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Theories of Flight by Simon Morden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick AwardTheorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.Theorem: The city is broken.Proof: The people of the OutZone want what citizens of the Metrozone have... -
Extinction Reversed by J.S. Morin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThese days, even the humans are built by robots. Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap. Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation... -
Reap the Wild Wind by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fascinating debut of the prequel series to The Trade Pact UniverseThis prequel to The Trade Pact Universe series begins in a time before the Clan had learned how to manipulate the M?hir to travel between worlds. Aliens have begun to explore the world of Cersi, upsetting the delicate balance between the Clan and the two other powerful races who coexist by set rules... -
The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it... -
SpaceMan by Tom Abrahams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClayton Shepard is 249 miles above Earth when the lights go out. He has no communication, limited power, and an unbreakable will to survive. His one goal: find his way BACK to his family. Shepard is an astronaut on his first mission to the International Space Station...Categorized as:
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Diffusion by Stan C. Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat would you sacrifice to bring to light the greatest discovery in human history?Quentin Darnell was only a boy when his anthropologist parents were overcome by a professional failure so crushing it led to his father's suicide...Categorized as:
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