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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... -
The Family Experiment by John Marrs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual.Some families are virtually perfect…The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived... -
Storm's Fury by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young girl who saw her father die. A soldier who lost everything. Now, in the shadow of the apocalypse, they will fight to survive.The skies above America darken as powerful, corrupt forces inadvertently unleash a disaster of biblical proportions.In a quiet southern town, a lonely soldier lives each day in a bottle, forever regretting sins and losses of the past... -
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
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... -
Hope by S.J. West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter finally reaching the Southern Kingdom, Skye soon realizes it isn’t the nirvana she always dreamt it would be. Through a series of events, Skye must face the Queen of the Eastern Kingdom once again and discover for herself what the true difference is between a harvester and a human...Categorized as:
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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
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
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
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... -
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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The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground... -
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... -
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 . -
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The Queen's Device by Brittany Mack
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFollowing the death of the country’s only heir, eighteen-year-old Corinn Januski is invited to fight for a crown she doesn’t deserve. The conditions are simple: win this tournament to rule the nation, or endure a lifelong punishment. All too eager to escape her place at society’s bottom, Corinn risks her future and accepts the improbable task... -
Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.For an intelligence officer like Jim it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests. It's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim...Categorized as:
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Evolution by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA thrilling showdown brings the Dark Matter trilogy to a satsifying close. Shay is trapped at the Multiverse compound while looking for the real Callie, and an unforgiving Kai is her best chance at outsmarting Alex and saving countless lives.Shay has left Kai once again by following Alex to his Multiverse compound... -
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... -
Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X... -
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
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
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... -
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
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... -
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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
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
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... -
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:
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Killing Frost by Grace Hamilton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNathan and his family are on the run from a catastrophic polar shift—but the bitter cold is the least of their worries. Nathan was led to believe Detroit would be the Promised Land, but when his family arrives they find a city struggling just to survive frigid conditions... -
The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon by S.S. Taylor, Katherine Roy
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsComputers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway! Brilliant explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid children—Kit the brain, M.K. the tinkerer, and Zander the brave...Categorized as:
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State of Panic by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"Fans of Alas Babylon and One Second After will enjoy this terrifyingly real, on the edge-of-your-seat, tale of survival and human courage."A nation in darkness. A community in danger. Everyone in a state of panic.After a U.S anti-missile system in Europe malfunctions and fires upon Germany, a deadly retaliation follows in the United States with a series of coordinated attacks... -
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... -
Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a world where life is disposable, two men fight to escape oppression and find the truth…together. Ernest just turned thirty. It’s time for retirement, freedom from the tedious drudgery of his job as a data clerk. Time to emerge from his pod and explore parts of the city he’s never seen before—to meet some actual people. And at the end of the month? Time to die...Categorized as:
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House of the Sun by Nigel Findley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe kingdom of Hawaii is a tropical playground with a sinister underside. Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, must stay one step ahead of the factions battling to control the islands--the megacorps, the government, the rebels and the yazuka, not to mention the dragons, elves, new friends and old enemies... -
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The Best of John W. Campbell by John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE VISIONS OF JOHN W. CAMPBELLHere are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly created modern science fiction--the writer who taught a generation to dream...and to write of all possible futures.TWILIGHTHe was a mere hitchhiker now, but he had once seen the far, far future...and had returned to mourn what he had seen!THE MACHINEThe machine was ultimately benevolent.. -
Santuario by G.B. Gordon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPolice teniente Alex Rukow has spent his life trapped on Santuario, his people’s isolated home-slash-prison-island... -
Big Data by Lucas Carlson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLuna Valencia is the founder of the hottest artificial intelligence startup in history. She’s about to become incredibly rich and powerful. But just when she’s about to take her company public, her world begins to fall apart.On the day of her startup’s IPO, a stock exchange shooter plummets Luna into a downward spiral toward a threat more menacing than she ever imagined possible... -
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... -
Rewinder by Brett Battles
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou will never read Denny Younger’s name in any history book, will never know what he's done. But even if you did, you’d never believe it.The world as you know it wouldn't be the same without him. Denny was born into one of the lowest rungs of society, but his bleak fortunes abruptly change when the mysterious Upjohn Institute recruits him to be a Rewinder, a verifier of personal histories... -
Thrill Switch by Tim Hawken
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDetective Ada Byron is pumped to finally be assigned her first murder case... until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier.To see if this is a copycat, or something more sinister, Ada must work with her personal nightmare Jazlin Switch - the programmer who murdered her dad... -
Mind Games by Teri Terry
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsLuna is a no-hoper with a secret: in a world of illusion, she can see what is real. But can she see the truth before it is too late? Luna has always been able to exist in virtual and real worlds at the same time, a secret she is warned to keep. She hides her ability by being a Refuser: excluded by choice from the virtual spheres others inhabit... -
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... -
La Maison by Yves Grevet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSoixante-quatre enfants vivent coupés du monde, dans une grande maison à l'organisation très stricte. Chacun d'eux sait qu'il devra en partir lorsqu'il aura trop grandi. Mais qu' y-a-t-il après la Maison?... Le premier tome d'une trilogie époustouflante d'Yves Grevet... -
The Body Institute by Carol Riggs
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet Morgan Dey, one of the top teen Reducers at The Body Institute. Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another girl’s body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body—leaving her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great. Only there are a few catches… For one, Morgan won’t remember what happens in her “Loaner” body... -
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ফিনিক্স by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScience... -
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ক্রুগো by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsক্রুগো কম্পিউটার আবার শুরু করে, কিম জুরান এই কমিশনে সন্দেহাতীতভাবে প্রমাণ করেছেন যে, তিনি এই মহাকাশ অভিযানের অনেক তথ্য জানেন, যা আমাদের সাথে আলোচনা করতে অনিচ্ছুক। তার অস্বাভাবিক আত্মবিশ্বাসের প্রধান কারণ সম্ভবত কোনো-এক ষড়যন্ত্রী দলের সাথে যোগাযোগ। আপাতত সেই ষড়যন্ত্রী দলকে আমি রবোট্রনের কোনো-এক দল হিসেবে সন্দেহ করছি। এসব কারণে আমাদের কিম জুরানের পুরো স্মৃতিটুকু জানা প্রয়োজন। আমি তার মস্তিষ্ক... -
When I Wake by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMaya Whitaker lives and breathes ballet. On stage, wrapped in music and the movements, she knows who she is. After an argument with her stepfather leaves her financially cut off and forced to quit, she’s completely lost. It’s how she finds herself at an illegal blackout party: one minute she’s drowning in a kiss from a complete stranger, the next they’re running from the cops... -
The Tomorrow File by Lawrence Sanders
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the not-so-distant future, planning takes the place of spontaneity when it comes to sex, turning the bedroom into a chamber of terror. In this society, the worst crime of all is to fall in love... -
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