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Necronomicon II by H.R. Giger
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly once in a great while comes an artist with a completely new vision of the world. An ability to perceive things in a truly revolutionary manner. A talent to communicate through imagery so unique and provocative that it simply cannot be ignored. H.R. Giger is one such artist... -
![Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes]()
Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA mysterious mark, an ancient spirit, and a message from beyond the Aether… After uncovering and destroying a Necromancer plot to take over Skye Príosún, Jess and Finn are united at last and longing to move on with their life together. But the Durupinen world has other plans... -
![Gathering Home by Jeff Motes]()
Gathering Home by Jeff Motes
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe fabric of American society has been torn asunder by an EMP attack on the United States. The enormity of what has happened is sinking in to the population. No area of the country has been spared. From the big cities to the rural countryside, all have been impacted. Loved ones are stranded far from home, their suffering families not knowing their fate... -
![God of Monsters by Keri Lake]()
God of Monsters by Keri Lake
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI've heard stories about the Alphas. Violent soldiers, bred to kill both humans and mutations, whose sole purpose was to balance our survival against the infected. Until they turned on their masters. Held as subjects of the Calico research facility, they were forced to endure the gruesome experiments that transformed them into callous savages with hearts as impenetrable as their defenses... -
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![Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry]()
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsReeling from the tragic events of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the great Rot & Ruin. Benny, Nix, Lilah and Chong journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America, searching for the jet they saw in the skies months ago. If that jet exists then humanity itself must have survived…somewhere...Categorized as:
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![Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick]()
Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPhilip K. Dick was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. “The floor joists of the universe,” he once wrote, “are visible in my novels.” The five novels collected in this volume—a successor to Philip K... -
![Beyond Borders by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry]()
Beyond Borders by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThey never saw it coming.The most technologically advanced missile defense system in the world ...Thousands of eyes, both human and artificial intelligence trained on the Axis of Evil - North Korea and Iran.The one direction they didn't look, was up.Nuclear Armageddon hangs over America like a mighty sword as The Lone Star Series continues with book two, BEYOND BORDERS... -
![By the Light of Dead Stars by Andrew Van Wey]()
By the Light of Dead Stars by Andrew Van Wey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the Lost Coast, some things should never be found.When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Zelda Ruiz’s adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. It’s a chance to heal, a chance to build a new life together.But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror long coveting these lands.It looms over redwood groves and lurks among the foundations of homes... -
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Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation... -
![Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry]()
Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBenny Imura’s journey through the Rot & Ruin is well known, but who were the others navigating the ravaged, zombie-ridden landscape? Jonathan Maberry returns to fill the gaps in what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and the land of Rot & Ruin...Categorized as:
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![Suicide Six by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry]()
Suicide Six by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWe'll live to fight another day!The Lone Star Series continues as critically acclaimed author, Bobby Akart (The Blackout Series, The Pandemic Series, The Boston Brahmin series and the Prepping for Tomorrow series) intertwines historical fact with plausible fiction in SUICIDE SIX, the thrilling conclusion to The Lone Star Series, a post-apocalyptic EMP survival thriller... -
![The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick]()
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 2: We Can Remember it for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K... -
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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... -
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Sandkings by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen Simon Kress returned to his home planet of Baldur from an offworld business trip, he was amused to find that his tank of Earth piranhas had cannibalized themselves into extinction, and of the two exotic animals that roamed his estate, only one remained...Categorized as:
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![Texas Strong by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry]()
Texas Strong by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTexas Free! Texas Strong! A battle cry rallied a new nation. But a storm is brewing which could challenge the Texans' way of life. A warning is issued ... you better leave well enough alone because you don't know nothin' about Texas Strong. The Lone Star Series continues with Texas Strong, book four in Author Bobby Akart's latest post-apocalyptic thriller fiction series... -
![Lines in the Sand by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry]()
Lines in the Sand by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs America suffered,Borders were defined andLines in the Sand were drawn.Cross them ... you suffer the consequences.The critically acclaimed Lone Star Series continues with LINES IN THE SAND... -
![Devil's Homecoming by Bobby Akart]()
Devil's Homecoming by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBuild. Destroy. Rebuild. The dawn of human existence has proven ... we are warlike creatures. Civilizations are built, then they're destroyed. After destruction, will you have the tenacity to overcome obstacles and rebuild? Your fellow man may be the biggest hurdle because Hell is empty and the Devils are all here... -
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Fifth Column by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnemy forces gather under the veil of darkness;Mobilizing to strike a fledgling nation.Will this clandestine Fifth Column achieve its acts ofsabotage?Remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend... -
![The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall]()
The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1925 three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead Lake. Nearly a century later there are those who still report seeing the children swimming beneath the surface like elusive dolphins. After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal... -
![Pandemic: The Beginning by Christine Kersey]()
Pandemic: The Beginning by Christine Kersey
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you like The Walking Dead but don't like zombies, you'll love PANDEMICWhen a deadly flu sweeps the globe, the Bronson family hunkers down to wait it out. It doesn't take long for society to collapse, but when surviving neighbors band together, hope is restored.That hope is swiftly shattered when a rogue element forms, requiring food in exchange for security and medical services... -
![The Eve by Keary Taylor]()
The Eve by Keary Taylor
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality... -
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Deviants by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings-Calista- Sick bitch Maniac Out of my fucking head. I’m not broken. I’m just a little damaged. I’m stronger now, stronger than I ever knew. And it’s all because of him. This is only the beginning but I already know how it’s going to end. I’ll be claiming my throne and they’ll be buried in the dirt... -
![The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach]()
The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSince the time of pre-history, carpetmakers tie intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hairs of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime.This art descends from father to son, since the beginning of time itself... -
![Babysitter of the Apocalypse: We Don't Sacrifice Kids to Zombies by Courtney Konstantin]()
Babysitter of the Apocalypse: We Don't Sacrifice Kids to Zombies by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world overrun by the undead, with no experience in parenthood and an empty past that haunts her every step, Vicki is the last person you'd expect to be a caregiver. A borderline alcoholic struggling to keep her own demons at bay, she's suddenly thrust into the role of protector for two young children... -
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![Before and After by Andrew Shanahan]()
Before and After by Andrew Shanahan
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHE BEST-SELLING SCI-FI THRILLER THAT BLENDS HEALTHY LIVING AND LOTS OF DYINGBen Stone is terrified. He's terrified because he weighs 601 pounds and needs his right leg amputating. He's terrified because a crane will shortly lift him from his fourth-floor flat and lower him 44 feet to an ambulance waiting below... -
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The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCommissar Ciaphas Cain is a man who, despite his best attempts to avoid danger and live the easy life, is constantly thrust into fame and fortune. He will be a hero, whether he wants to be or not... -
![The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood]()
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsThe times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it...Categorized as:
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![Ward Z (Ward Z #1) by Amy Cross]()
Ward Z (Ward Z #1) by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt began with a strange new kind of cancer, born on the other side of the world. Eventually, it erupted on a British hospital ward... When a new cancer patient is brought into his care, Dr. Andrew Page assumes it'll just be another case of battling against the odds. Soon, however, he realizes that this new patient has been infected by a type of cancer that shows signs of intelligence... -
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Dark Game by Michael Robertson Jr.
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLess than twenty-four hours after the horrific events that forced him to flee his hometown, Lance Brody steps off a bus into a whole different nightmare.The small town of Westhaven seems ordinary on the surface, but Lance can feel the evil lurking in the air … and it knows Lance has arrived...Categorized as:
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![Hacker by Ted Dekker]()
Hacker by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"My name is Nyah and I'm a hacker. I know things most people would never believe. Things that shouldn't exist, but do." Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations...Categorized as:
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![Intercepts by T.J. Payne]()
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane.But the research continued.Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected... -
![The Infinite Day by Chris Walley]()
The Infinite Day by Chris Walley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Vero, you remember you once said there were people who would follow me to the gates of hell?” “A figure of speech.” “We’d better find them. That’s where we’re going.”After the defeat of the evil Dominion forces at Farholme, Commander Merral D’Avanos prepares a task force to rescue thirty hostages captured by the fleeing Margrave Lezaroth... -
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Babysitter of the Apocalypse Book 2: We Don't Talk to Strangers by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter surviving countless assaults from the ruthless Children of Z, Vicki, Theo, and their young charges have carved out a fragile but stable existence. All they yearn for now is a safe haven where they can provide a semblance of normalcy for the children they’ve come to love as their own. But in a world still fraught with danger, tranquility seems like a distant dream... -
![Unholy by Kinsley Kincaid]()
Unholy by Kinsley Kincaid
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings𝐻𝑒 is the devil reincarnated.𝐻𝑒 is everything I hate.𝐻𝑒 needs to die.The Ranch, a brothel Greta owns, who also happens to be my grandmother, is all I’ve ever known.It’s all I’ve ever needed.It nurtures the side of me that society typically frowns upon, when it comes to women.Because I play differently... -
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![One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz]()
One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMichelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America...to a place she never knew existed--a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows--if she can find the key to survival... -
![Battleborn by Joshua C. Chadd]()
Battleborn by Joshua C. Chadd
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe high-octane sequel to Outbreak! James and Connor face increasing hardships that will leave them with two choices: give up or become battle born! After the events in Nebraska, the Andderson brothers continue their trek northward, joined by Emmett and the girls. The group makes their way through Wyoming to meet up with Tank, the brothers’ best friend from a time before the apocalypse... -
![Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban]()
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Walker tells his story in a language as fractured as the world in which he lives. As Riddley steps outside the confines of his small world, he finds himself caught up in intrigue and a frantic quest for power, desperately trying to make sense of things...Categorized as:
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![The Divine Farce by Michael S.A. Graziano]()
The Divine Farce by Michael S.A. Graziano
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“A Dante/Beckett reduction of human struggle to its lowest common denominator.”— Michael Mirolla, author of The Formal Logic of Emotion and Berlin“One of the most original and thought-provoking stories I have ever read...true literary art...Not a word is wasted in this masterpiece. Yes, I call it that... -
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Savages by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCalista"I am the monster they created. I’m the whore they’re ashamed of."When life tried to break me I grabbed that b*tch by the throat and squeezed.I thought I could overcome anything. I swore I could handle him, but after being forced to play at the Devil's playground I ended up craving his touch.One taste of his poison made my loyalties begin to waiver... -
![Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen R. Donaldson]()
Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon, Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeducer or savior? He came to a small American town - and suddenly nothing was the same. Meek and mild men discovered the raw power of lust. Sensually starved women learned the ecstasy of fulfillment. Icy hearts were melted by the warmth of aroused flesh, and the spirit blossomed in a lush garden of desire that this stranger planted and nurtured... -
![Leviathan by James Byron Huggins]()
Leviathan by James Byron Huggins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNot long ago, Jackson Connor was an honest, hardworking electrician. Then came the opportunity of a lifetime--financial security for life in exchange for three years work at a top secret research facility deep beneath desolate Grimwald Island. The reality is more awful than Connor's wildest imaginations. It is Leviathan, a deadly beast--and it's loose... -
![Shtetl Days by Harry Turtledove]()
Shtetl Days by Harry Turtledove
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsProfessional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich... -
![Hell's Fortress by Michael Wallace]()
Hell's Fortress by Michael Wallace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEnvironmental disaster, war, and government dissolution have plunged the outside world into chaos, leaving the embattled polygamist community of Blister Creek facing a host of dire challenges as their lifesaving resources grow treacherously low. When one of their beloved members gets lost in the desert, Dr. Jacob Christianson agrees to send out an expedition that includes his sister, Eliza... -
![Federal Underground by Jeff Bennington]()
Federal Underground by Jeff Bennington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenn Mitchell vanishes from the NYU campus and shows up three months later on his mother's doorstep with a book screaming to get out of his head. When the FBI discovers the novel discloses top-secret information, they bring Penn in for questioning... -
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![Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson]()
Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLESCHOLARLY PURSUIT ENDS IN AWAKING NIGHTMARE...Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts—and their murders... -
![Birth Of An Age by James BeauSeigneur]()
Birth Of An Age by James BeauSeigneur
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFORETOLD IN THE BIBLE: Two nuclear wars. Three asteroids. Demonic madness that kills one third of the world 's population. Into this, a savior will rise, cloned from Christ. It 's not fiction. It 's prophecy. The Messiah of the New Age. His coming is prophesied by more than a dozen major religions...Categorized as:
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![Outbreak by Joshua C. Chadd]()
Outbreak by Joshua C. Chadd
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow far would you go to save the ones you love?Two brothers learn of the apocalypse after being out of touch for a few days. Returning to town, they learn first-hand, the dead are coming back to life with a taste for flesh. With their parents in Nebraska they must embark on a journey to rescue them as they set into motion their zombie apocalypse plan...Categorized as:
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![Acts of God by James BeauSeigneur]()
Acts of God by James BeauSeigneur
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFORETOLD IN THE BIBLE: Two nuclear wars. Three asteroids. Demonic madness. Into this, a savior will rise, cloned from Christ. It's not fiction. It's prophecy. It is the dawn of the New Age. After six millennia of stagnation, humanity stands on the brink of its final great evolutionary step. But it is a step that has come at tremendous cost. Half the world's population is dead... -
![The Power of the Night by Chris Walley]()
The Power of the Night by Chris Walley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the spirit of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lamb among the Stars series weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and the supernatural into something unique and haunting. On the faraway planet of Farholme, humans live in peace under the gentle rule of the Assembly. War and evil are ancient history. But suddenly, almost imperceptibly, things begin to change... -
![Outpassage by Janet E. Morris, Chris Morris]()
Outpassage by Janet E. Morris, Chris Morris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWAR AND MYSTERY BEYOND THE STARS Sgt. “Det” Cox has just spent three years under psych observation on Earth; now that he’s out-system, he isn’t about to tell anyone he’s seeing aliens again. Paige Barnett has lost everything, even her name, because she knows too much about the rebellion spreading through the Earth-Space mining colonies...
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