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First Shift: Legacy by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsIn 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma... -
![Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends by Jerry B. Jenkins]()
Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends by Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEnter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate them. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians... -
![Asfixia by Alex Mírez]()
Asfixia by Alex Mírez
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPlaneta tierra.Población: 1No logramos entender cómo pasó.El primero de septiembre de 2019, sucedió. Todos estábamos bien y de un momento a otro las personas comenzaron a morir asfixiadas. Poco a poco, el mundo se sumió en un pasmoso silencio.Sobreviví a ese misterioso y catastrófico incidente gracias a mi padre. Cuando desperté, me encontré con el horroroso panorama de millones de cadáveres... -
![সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ১ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ১ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsবাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর প্রথম ৮ টি প্রকাশিত গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*কপোট্রনিক সুখদুঃখ*মহাকাশে মহাত্রাস*ক্রুগো*টাইট্রন একটি গ্রহের নাম*বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার*ওমিক্রনিক রূপান্তর*টুকুনজিল*যারা... -
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![Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis]()
Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter four years of life in a post-apocalyptic world, the one thing that both Mike and Sarah know for sure is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life has begun to settle down, a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England, nor the US, not rampaging gypsies or even the Middle East... -
![সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsবাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর পরবর্তী ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*নিঃসঙ্গ গ্রহচারী*ক্রোমিয়াম অরণ্য*ত্রিনিত্রি রাশিমালা*অনুরন গোলক*নয় নয় শূন্য তিন*পৃ*রবোনগরী*টুকি এবং ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক... -
![The Price We Pay (Life After War, #7) by Angela White]()
The Price We Pay (Life After War, #7) by Angela White
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill Controlled Chaos Be Enough To Free Them? Angela has moved Safe Haven to the Mountains of Georgia to make their stand. She has put a plan in motion that will free them all or get them all killed. For her, everything since the apocalypse has come down to this moment. It's what she's been training for, what her men have tried to prepare her for, but only fate knows if it will be enough... -
![Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel]()
Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
![The Shades by Amy Cross]()
The Shades by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne late September day, the entire population of the United States vanishes, leaving behind nothing but empty streets. For the rest of the world, there's no explanation for how 300m people could simply vanish in the blink of an eye. While international organizations dither over what to do next, a powerful company pays for a small team of investigators to head to the U.S. and learn the truth... -
![Childless: A Novel by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner]()
Childless: A Novel by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second installment in the riveting new trilogy from Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner transports readers to a not-too-distant future when the young and healthy strain under the burden of a rapidly aging population. Everyone is nervous about how Judge Victor Santiago will rule. The case involved the tragic demise of a loving mother and her disabled son... -
![Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson]()
Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRudi, the former chef-turned-spy, returns on a mission to uncover the truth—in a fractured Europe utterly changed by the public unveiling of the Community.Union has been forged and the Community is now the largest nation in Europe; trains run there from as far afield as London and Prague. It is an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity...Categorized as:
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![Borderless by Eliot Peper]()
Borderless by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInformation is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth.Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on... -
![Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King]()
Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty... -
![Soon: The Beginning of the End by Jerry B. Jenkins]()
Soon: The Beginning of the End by Jerry B. Jenkins
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2004 Christy Fiction award winner! Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it... -
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![Distortion by Victor Dixen]()
Distortion by Victor Dixen
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter a speed-dating show that is literally out of this world, twelve young astronauts are set to become the first humans to colonise Mars. They are also the victims of the cruellest of plots.Léonor thought she was a pioneer on an extraordinary mission. She thought she had left all regrets behind her on Earth. But when memories are this painful, there can be no forgetting . -
![Ice Country by David Estes]()
Ice Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler... -
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The Treemakers by Christina L. Rozelle
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is a previously-published alternate cover edition of ASIN B00P49KVKG. Sixteen-year-old Joy Montgomery, daughter of Zephyr the Magnificent, the great magician, can only reminisce of better times. Before the Superiors. Before the uprisings. Long ago. Before the dying Earth ripped the family she loved away from her... -
![Drone State by Tom Hillenbrand]()
Drone State by Tom Hillenbrand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGlauser Award 2015 - Best German Crime NovelLasswitz Award 2015 - Best German SF NovelWhy interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk? Why investigate crime scenes when police drones have already photographed them from all possible angles?A Brussels MP is found murdered near the EU capital... -
![The Culling by Ramona Finn]()
The Culling by Ramona Finn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens to a girl trained as a executioner, who finds out her life is a lie?In a solar system where The Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them.Glade Io is a trained killer... -
![Fast-Tracked by Tracy Rozzlynn]()
Fast-Tracked by Tracy Rozzlynn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStudy hard, do well on your assessment, and you'll be rewarded. The phrase had been repeated throughout Alexandria's life. A person's rank on their assessment test determined everything. Their job, where they lived, and even who they could marry. At least that's what Alexandria thought before she received the results... -
![The Initiation by Chris Babu]()
The Initiation by Chris Babu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs featured on CNN, The NY Post, and Bloomberg!Everyone is equal. But no one is safe.In a ruined world, Manhattan is now New America, a walled-in society based on equality. But the perfect facade hides a dark truth.A timid math geek, sixteen-year-old Drayden watches his life crumble when his beloved mother is exiled... -
![The Code of Manavas by Arpit Bakshi]()
The Code of Manavas by Arpit Bakshi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook one of the Maha Vishnu Trilogy, The Code of Manavas, is set some two million years past ad 2050, when earth as we know it ceased to exist, and so did mankind. A new race, the Manavas, now exists on Bhoomi, the erstwhile Earth, which is divided into two cities—Madhavpur and Ayudhpur. In the quiet and peaceful city of Madhavpur, a reclusive Krishna is busy with an immense task... -
![The Feral Sentence by G.C. Julien]()
The Feral Sentence by G.C. Julien
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis book is the compilation edition of The Feral Sentence serial and contains all four episodic parts / novellas found in Book 1.PART ONEThe year is 2087, and the federal government has implemented a new sentence for criminal convictions—banishment to a remote island.When Lydia Brone is wrongly convicted of murder, she is sentenced to three years on Kormace Island... -
![The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen]()
The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereDr. Donald Ellis lost his family on 9/11. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn... -
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![Enduring the Crisis by K.D. Kinney]()
Enduring the Crisis by K.D. Kinney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Powell Family has been preparing for a disaster for years. However, timing is everything. When an EMP nuclear event takes out the grid and brings the nation to a complete stop, Tammy and Ben may not have been as prepared as they thought. Tammy is a food storage and emergency preparedness specialist. So she thinks... -
![Мова by Віктар Марціновіч]()
Мова by Віктар Марціновіч
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар... -
![Antitype by M.D. Waters]()
Antitype by M.D. Waters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAntitype is the prequel to acclaimed novels, Archetype and Prototype. Before Emma appears in their lives, two men face four months that will change their lives forever. One has dreams outside Richmond and away from his family business. The other wants to make the business his only focus... -
![Blackout by Jack Hunt]()
Blackout by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive strangers wake up in a town stricken by an unknown apocalyptic event. They have no memory. Forced to figure out who they are and how they got there, they soon discover all is not what it seems, and now they must fight to stay alive while trying to find a way to escape. A powerful tale of survival, hope and human courage... -
![The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami]()
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance... -
![WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer]()
WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWebmind-the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web-has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated... -
![Queen by Aimee Carter]()
Queen by Aimee Carter
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPAWN...CAPTIVE...QUEEN?Kitty Doe is a Blackcoat rebel and a former captive with a deadly connection to the most powerful and dangerous man in the country, Prime Minister Daxton Hart. Forced to masquerade as Daxton's niece, Lila Hart, Kitty has helped the Blackcoats take back the prison known as Elsewhere... -
![Star Chamber Brotherhood by Preston Fleming]()
Star Chamber Brotherhood by Preston Fleming
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second book in the Kamas Trilogy begins five years after the Kamas revolt. A Kamas survivor who returns to Boston is ordered by the prisoners’ covert Star Committee to kill the commandant who crushed the revolt.Boston. 2029. Five years after the Kamas revolt... -
![A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar]()
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Wondering if there’s a novel out there that gives Cormac McCarthy’s The Road a run for its money? Here you go. [A Guardian and a Thief is] an indelible piece of writing, in equal parts dazzling and devastating...Categorized as:
dystopia fiction literary-fiction sci-fi contemporary historical-fiction mystery book -
![Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richards, Laurie R. King]()
Califia's Daughters by Leigh Richards, Laurie R. King
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in the near future and inspired by the captivating myth of the warrior queen Califia, this brilliantly inventive novel tells the story of a small, peaceful community of women tucked away in a world gone mad.Only the elders of the Valley remember life the way it used to be, when people traveled in automobiles and bought food others had grown... -
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![The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith]()
The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDenver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own...Categorized as:
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![The Whisper of Stars by Nick Jones]()
The Whisper of Stars by Nick Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe year is 2091. With accelerated warming and global population out of control, the survival of humanity hangs in the balance. On the brink of extinction, science delivers one last hope. Human hibernation.Jennifer Logan is a tough cop in the newly formed Duality Division, tasked with enforcing hibernation... -
![Fatherless by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner]()
Fatherless by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe year is 2042, and the long-predicted tipping point has arrived. For the first time in human history, the economic pyramid has flipped: The feeble old now outnumber the vigorous young, and this untenable situation is intensifying a battle between competing cultural agendas... -
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Resistance by Richard Stephenson
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook two in the New America Series.Eighteen months after the Collapse of 2027, the former United States is divided. On one side is the evil and tyrannical Unified American Empire, controlled by President Simon Sterling, the man responsible for the death of the last legitimate president, Malcolm Powers... -
![Nymphomation by Jeff Noon]()
Nymphomation by Jeff Noon
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSet both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities... -
![Body Parts by Jessica Kapp]()
Body Parts by Jessica Kapp
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeople would kill for her body.Raised in an elite foster center off the California coast, sixteen-year-old Tabitha’s been sculpted into a world-class athlete. Her trainers have told her she’ll need to be in top physical condition to be matched with a loving family, even though personal health has taken a backseat outside the training facility... -
![Hour of Judgement by Susan R. Matthews]()
Hour of Judgement by Susan R. Matthews
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBurkhayden is a subject colony, leased by the Bench to a Dolgorukij familial corporation for economic exploitation. When a Nurail woman from the service house is brutally raped and beaten, Andrej Koscuisko –- Ship’s Inquisitor on board the Jurisdiction Fleet Ship Ragnarok –- is called upon to render services under contract... -
![El imperio de Yegorov by Manuel Moyano]()
El imperio de Yegorov by Manuel Moyano
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn 1967, una atractiva estudiante de antropología llamada Izumi Fukada contrae una extraña enfermedad en la isla de Papúa Nueva Guinea mientras forma parte de la expedición japonesa que busca a la tribu perdida de los hamulai... -
![THE COPY by Grant Boshoff]()
THE COPY by Grant Boshoff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbitious geneticist Geoffrey Bartell is fighting for his life. His company is under legal and political attack while his marriage crumbles around him. Desperate to recapture his once idyllic life he comes upon the perfect solution by creating a copy of himself, and together they set about picking up the pieces. But the perfection is short-lived, as the two’s priorities begin to diverge... -
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![Veil by Eliot Peper]()
Veil by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen her mother dies in a heat wave that kills twenty million, Zia León abandons a promising diplomatic career to lead humanitarian aid missions to regions ravaged by drought, wildfires, and sea level rise.What Zia doesn't know is that clandestine forces are gathering around her in pursuit of a colossal secret: someone has hijacked the climate, and the future of human civilization is at stake... -
![Schism by Britt Holewinski]()
Schism by Britt Holewinski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"My name is Andrea Christensen. I'm one of the oldest oldest people in the world."SCHISM is the first book in a new dystopian trilogy that tells a tale of survival, of good versus evil, and of constructing a future with only memories of childhood...Categorized as:
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![Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre]()
Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA propulsive science fiction tale of murder and memory, all set on a futuristic space station.Hundreds of miles above Earth, the space station Ciudad de Cielo--The City in the Sky--is a beacon of hope for humanity's expansion into the stars. But not everyone aboard shares such noble ideals... -
![Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois]()
Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, the U.S. has been crippled into a second-rate power dependent upon European allies for survival. In the shadow of this devastating chaos, a reporter stumbles across a man with secrets of the great war's origins--and lies about Kennedy's death... -
![City of the Falling Sky by Joseph Evans]()
City of the Falling Sky by Joseph Evans
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Seckry Sevenstars is forced out of his village by the greedy Endrin Corporation and relocated to the daunting metropolis of Skyfall City, he harbours resentment for the company and vows to get them back one day for taking away his home, his school and his friends... -
![ফিনিক্স by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
ফিনিক্স by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScience...
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