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The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn... -
![The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King]()
The Legend of ZERO: The Scientist, the Rat, and the Assassin by Sara King
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThis is what happens when, in the chaos of an alien apocalypse where the all-powerful galactic empire of Congress has laid the smackdown on Earth for breaking its universal laws on genetic experimentation, the world's smartest human (sort of) swears to obey the galaxy's greatest assassin (definitely) on Wednesdays through Mondays, if she will give him Tuesdays in turn... -
![Black Autumn by Jeff Kirkham, Jason Ross]()
Black Autumn by Jeff Kirkham, Jason Ross
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen it finally happened, even elite soldiers could scarcely keep their families alive...An already weakened U.S. economy crumbles after a rogue nation detonates a small nuclear bomb in a Los Angeles port... -
![The Tide: Final Surge by Anthony J. Melchiorri]()
The Tide: Final Surge by Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 10 in Anthony J Melchiorri's The Tide series.Humanity is on the edge of defeat.Soon no one will be free from the nightmarish effects of the virulent bioengineered Oni Agent. The fanatical organization responsible has pushed mankind to the brink of extinction and is on the verge of victory. In one final surge, they prepare to sweep the globe from ground zero in Siberia... -
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![Into the Fire by Mark Tufo]()
Into the Fire by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMike reunites with his wife and his friend, Paul, aboard the Guardian only to find that things have gone from bleak to hellish on earth. Rampaging hordes of Genogerians plague the planet, as does an invasion from Progerians hell-bent on knuckling under the will of man through their relentless assault. Yet this may not be the worst of it, as an insidious "ally" has lent their support... -
![Blackout by Edward W. Robertson]()
Blackout by Edward W. Robertson
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe final book in the post-apocalyptic BREAKERS series... -
![Shoot Like a Girl by L.L. Akers, Kevin Pierce]()
Shoot Like a Girl by L.L. Akers, Kevin Pierce
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWould your neighborhood work together to survive if the s--t hit the fan?More chaos erupts in book two of the SHTF series when the lights don't come back on and there's still no word - or help - from the government. Tullymore is divided, and on the brink of an internal war...Categorized as:
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![Valley of Vengeance by Franklin Horton]()
Valley of Vengeance by Franklin Horton
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this fifth installment in The Borrowed World Series, Human Resources Manager Alice Watkins is finally making it home. In her journey across Virginia, she experiences a country disintegrating and collapsing in on itself in the wake of a nationwide terror attack. Her trip home is agonizing; her experiences indescribable... -
![Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo]()
Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S...Categorized as:
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![Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
Exodus by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsTHE KENNEDY STARES INTO THE ABYSSThe world's last floating nuclear supercarrier looks into the face of oblivion – as her thinned, exhausted, and beleaguered crew face the largest herd of dead ever recorded. Soon, the ship's five-acre flight deck will become the scene of a furious and desperate set-piece battle – like no combat any modern army has seen since Stalingrad... -
![Zero's Return by Sara King]()
Zero's Return by Sara King
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTHE AMAZING NEW VOLUME IN THE #1 BESTSELLING LEGEND OF ZERO SERIES!In this apocalyptic addition to the #1 Bestselling Legend of ZERO series, the PlanOps Prime veteran, universal hero, and living legend Joe Dobbs has become an icon of heroism to the Congressional citizenry—but his real adventure is only just beginning... -
![Judgment Day by Arthur T. Bradley]()
Judgment Day by Arthur T. Bradley
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe Survivalist (Judgment Day) is the third book in Dr. Bradley's Survivalist Series. (Series Order: Frontier Justice, Anarchy Rising, Judgment Day, Madness Looms - coming summer of 2014).The United States continues to devolve into total lawlessness as it struggles to recover from a pandemic that left billions dead. Gangs of convicts sweep through towns, raping and murdering with impunity... -
![Rogue Cell by D.J. Molles]()
Rogue Cell by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings...THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS. The country has become a warzone, and with a Coalition troop surge imminent, the resistance is on the ropes. Walter is in the city of Durham, fighting to survive. He has no idea that his wife, Carolyn, is only miles away, desperately trying to find him. She has information on a special target--a last ditch mission that could turn the tide for the resistance... -
![Dry Gallows by Anthony J. Melchiorri]()
Dry Gallows by Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 9 in Anthony J Melchiorri’s The Tide series. Humanity faces extinction. A few stubborn governments fight back, caught on the defensive. But even their concerted efforts may not be enough to stem the tide of the biological weapon sweeping the world. As people succumb to this genetically engineered weapon, they devolve into weaponized monstrosities hell-bent on destruction... -
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![The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
The Horizon by Glynn James, Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHE OPERATORS FACE THEIR DEMONSMission complete, Alpha team enjoys their first chance to breathe and tend to their humanity. But the darkness leaves them alone with their demons - and those who have found love may yet learn that it is fatally incompatible with duty...THE CARRIER FACES UNIMAGINED THREATSThe JFK steams for Africa, despite rumours of lone Zulus still wandering below decks... -
![To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo]()
To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization... -
![Reckoning by Mark Tufo]()
Reckoning by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis story starts where book 1 ended. Our hero Michael Talbot after escaping from the Progerian Alien vessel with their Supreme Commander is now given the opportunity to hide in obscurity with the rest of the human race or rise to the occasion and once again find himself immersed in a battle that he wants nothing to do with... -
![Xenofall by Kyle West]()
Xenofall by Kyle West
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith the final battle looming, the fate of the humanity will be decided. Alex Keener, Elekim, will face down Askala, the Radaskim Xenomind.But as Askala unleashes her final fury, the road to Ragnarok can only be paved with grit...and lives.In this explosive conclusion to The Wasteland Chronicles, Alex will rise to the mantle of Elekim.. -
![River of Night by John Ringo, Mike Massa]()
River of Night by John Ringo, Mike Massa
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA NEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BESTSELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. Sequel to The Valley of Shadows. Tom Smith used to be somebody. Now he's just another refugee, fleeing the smoking ruins of civilization. Well, maybe not just another refugee. Late of the Bank of the Americas where he used to be the global managing director for Security, Tom and his fellow survivors watched New York City burn... -
![Commune: Book Three by Joshua Gayou]()
Commune: Book Three by Joshua Gayou
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHunker Down and let the world go to Hell. Having been bolstered with supplies sufficient to carry them through the winter, the survivors of the Jackson commune must now hunker down and endure the bitter Wyoming winter. But as they flourish, hungry eyes are set upon them throughout the west... -
![Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Deliverance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThey will dive, but will humanity survive?Left for dead on the nightmarish surface of the planet, Commander Michael Everhart and his team of Hell Divers barely escape with their lives aboard a new airship called Deliverance. After learning that Xavier “X” Rodriguez may still be alive, they mount a rescue mission for the long-lost hero... -
![The Distance by Jeremy Robinson, Hilaree Robinson]()
The Distance by Jeremy Robinson, Hilaree Robinson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHEIR JOURNEY BEGINS...The human race has turned to dust. August Morrison faces it after rising from the depths of a dark matter research facility in Arizona. His co-workers. His daughter. All of them: dust. Friends and colleagues around the world don't answer their phones. The city of Phoenix burns. He is alone... -
![War Factory by Neal Asher]()
War Factory by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity... -
![The Damned by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
The Damned by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe deadly hunt ends in the fourth and final installment of the bestselling Trackers saga...The mountain town of Estes Park, Colorado is scrambling to recover from the betrayal of two of their police officers, and prepare for threats outside their borders... -
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![Fight for Life and Death by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle]()
Fight for Life and Death by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHEREVER YOU LOOK, LIFE AND DEATH STARE YOU IN THE FACE. Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle Fountain of Youth, or Valley of Death? One missile fired at Earth. One political decision could change the future of mankind when apocalypse happened. Fighting hard, multiple countries band together to successfully pause the apocalypse... -
![Darkness by Kyle West]()
Darkness by Kyle West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vegas Exodus is at a standstill...Besieged by the Xenoswarm in the town Pyrite, they must shelter in either Bunker 108 or Bunker 84 if they are to survive the winter.But in Bunker 84 lurks a darkness that could end the Exodus. And it may also be that the denizens of Bunker 84, known as "The Community," are not as isolated from the events of the Wasteland as it first appears... -
![Comes the Destroyer by David VanDyke]()
Comes the Destroyer by David VanDyke
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBOOK NINE of the Plague Wars series. A sci-fi technothriller of alien invasion, genetic engineering and military action action adventure. The gripping conclusion to the Plague Wars series. Over 500 pages filled with your favorite characters and the military science fiction action you have come to love... -
![Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright]()
Yesterday's Gone: Season Six by Sean Platt, David W. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe #1 bestselling horror sci-fi series with over 1,000 5-star reviews concludes here with Yesterday’s Gone: Season Six. The wait is over. On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors woke to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors. Now they are home. But they're not alone. The Darkness has killed nearly everyone on the planet... -
![Extinction by Kyle West]()
Extinction by Kyle West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime is running out for humanity to defeat the encroaching forces of the Radaskim...As settlements fall and the Great Blight spreads, it falls on the New Angels to unite disparate factions before it is too late. But the dark Xenomind, Askala, has her own plans to end humanity before that can ever happen.Only the greatest sacrifice can stop her from achieving her aims.. -
![Revelation by Kyle West]()
Revelation by Kyle West
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlex and friends return to a Wasteland in turmoil. The Raiders are scattered, the Exiles hunted, and the feuding Vegas gangs plot one another's destruction. Makara, head of the New Angels, has the difficult task of convincing disparate groups to work together before Emperor Augustus and his legions arrive... -
![The Valley of Shadows by John Ringo, Mike Massa]()
The Valley of Shadows by John Ringo, Mike Massa
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNEW NOVEL IN JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES From his corner office on the forty-fourth floor of the Bank of the Americas tower on Wall Street, Tom Smith, global managing director for security, could see the Statue of Liberty, Battery Park—and a ravening zombie horde. Officially, Smith was paid to preserve the lives and fortunes of employees, billionaires, and other clients...Categorized as:
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![The Hunted by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
The Hunted by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe deadly hunt continues in book two of the bestselling Trackers saga...Five days ago North Korea detonated three nuclear warheads over the United States, triggering an electromagnetic pulse that crippled the country. A second attack destroyed the nerve center of America in a nuclear blast that flattened the nation's capitol... -
![Cut Off by Edward W. Robertson]()
Cut Off by Edward W. Robertson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt's been six years since the plague and Tristan has spent five of them in Maui with her brother Alden. Life seems quiet. Simple. Peaceful. All these illusions are torn away when she discovers an alien installation hidden in the mountains. In response, she prepares a boat and starts work on a new home deep in the forest. But the locals don't appreciate her raiding their town for supplies... -
![Killshot by Aria Michaels]()
Killshot by Aria Michaels
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the death of their parents, seventeen year old Liv Larson and her younger brother are separated by the foster care system. Her grades slip, her friends drift away, and she gives up on her plans for college. The only thing that matters is keeping the promise to get back to her brother... -
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![Cyborg Strike by David VanDyke]()
Cyborg Strike by David VanDyke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCyborgs, genetic engineering, and military action. Under the threat of impending alien invasion, when the Professor and the rogue Septagon Shadow cyborg program surface in Russia, the world has a problem... -
![White Sands by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
White Sands by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJeff and his little brother David were normal kids; they loved video games, fighter planes, and learning to hunt with their Dad. Little did they know, their lives were about to change.The boys and their father find themselves stranded in the desert when a military jet comes careening out of the sky and crashes directly into their car... -
![Red Scare by Scott Nicholson]()
Red Scare by Scott Nicholson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a post-apocalyptic world, Rachel Wheeler is caught between who she is and who she's becoming. A bizarre mutation has her humanity hanging by a thread, especially when the Zaphead inside her wants to kill her friends and lover... -
![Savage Skies by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Savage Skies by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the NYT bestselling author of the Hell Divers series, comes a brand new look at the future in this thrilling sci-fi military novella.A hostile world that will doom the human race … or save it, if a few survivors can unlock its secrets …After waking up with no memories in an underground facility, a squad of elite soldiers and scientists must try to recall what their mission is...Categorized as:
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![The Orion Plague by David VanDyke]()
The Orion Plague by David VanDyke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMilitary science fiction post-apocaplyptic thriller / alien invasion. BOOK 7 OF THE SERIES.Guns blazing, Master Sergeant Jill Repeth and her team search the nuclear wasteland for her kidnapped fiancé, while Spooky Nguyen prepares Earth's first-ever Space Marines for duty aboard the experimental battleship Orion... -
![Zero Hour by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus]()
Zero Hour by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn unsuspecting country. A rogue state. A weapon the likes of which the world has never seen. Jackson Block finds himself stranded at 15,000 feet above Boston inside a plane with a dead pilot and no easy way down. When he reaches the ground he discovers that the city - and the country - has torn itself apart... -
![The Savage Boy by Nick Cole]()
The Savage Boy by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsForty years after the end of civilization... The author of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel The Old Man and the Wasteland returns! Amid the remains of a world destroyed by a devastating Global Thermonuclear Armageddon, barbaric tribes rule the New American Dark Age... -
![A Boy and His Dog & "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison]()
A Boy and His Dog & "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPublished in Harlan Ellison’s 1969 short-story collection, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, "A Boy and His Dog" is one of the author’s own favorite works. Critics also appreciated the story, and it won the 1969 Nebula Award (awarded by Science Fiction Writers of America) for Best Novella... -
![Voices of the Fall by John Ringo, Gary Poole]()
Voices of the Fall by John Ringo, Gary Poole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsORIGINAL STORIES SET IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. The zombie apocalypse is here in these all-new stories from John Ringo, Sarah A. Hoyt, Michael Z. Williamson, Jody Lynn Nye, Travis S. Taylor, and many more. Sequel to the best-selling anthology Black Tide Rising.Civilization had fallen...Categorized as:
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![Instinct by Ike Hamill]()
Instinct by Ike Hamill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSurviving the end of the world wasn’t enough. Driving away an alien invasion wasn’t enough. Faced with certain death, Robby’s group is on the move once more. They’re headed west, hoping to find other people who have escaped the apocalypse. To live, they’ll have to uncover ancient memories. They’ll have to use every Instinct... -
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![The Longest Night by K.M. Fawkes]()
The Longest Night by K.M. Fawkes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith humanity on the brink of extinction They activated the EMP And now, the world enters darkness It started with bright lights; a new medical technology, promising to eradicate all human ills. History of blood clots? Cholesterol clogging up the old ticker? There was a nanobot for that. It wasn’t cheap of course, and everyone knew that new technology had bugs in it... -
![Hell's Children by John L. Monk]()
Hell's Children by John L. Monk
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt happened in a year: starvation, gangs of kids with guns, and every adult in the world dead from the Sickness. Houses are now mausoleums. Civilization lies in the hands of children who’ve never had to feed themselves or survive a winter without gas or electricity. Most will die. Others — a bare few — will tread a different path... -
![The McClane Apocalypse, Book 1 by Kate Morris]()
The McClane Apocalypse, Book 1 by Kate Morris
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“The end of the world doesn’t happen with a bang. It takes slightly longer than that but not by much. Research projects, Gross Anatomy class, tests and fancy coffee drinks will cease to be important. The fight for her life will become the only thing that matters... -
![The War Against the Chtorr, Book 2: A day for damnation by David Gerrold]()
The War Against the Chtorr, Book 2: A day for damnation by David Gerrold
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMcCarthy was drafted from his college biology studies and became a member of the Special Forces... -
![Stranded by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Stranded by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt the end of the world, who can you trust?The aliens have invaded, wiping out almost all life on Earth. Their goal: water. Huge spaceships are draining the oceans, and the few remaining humans have been herded into farms, where their bodies are harvested to support the growing alien army.Humanity's last chance lies in the biospheres that have been planted secretly across the globe...Categorized as:
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![Genesis by Paul Antony Jones]()
Genesis by Paul Antony Jones
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter an alien invasion devastates humanity, a battered group of survivors huddles in a remote outpost, fighting to endure in a now-hostile world. Resources are dwindling, and internal power struggles threaten to tear apart the fragile last vestige of human society.Emily Baxter remains haunted by vivid dreams of Earth’s new masters...
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