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The Undead Twenty Four: Equilibrium by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE UK'S BEST-SELLING HORROR SERIES The Undead Twenty Four: Equilibrium By Washington Post, WSJ, Audible & Amazon #1 best-selling author RR Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time travel series - Extracted and the #1 Audible sci-fi space-romp crime-heist thriller romcom The Worldship Humility A deadly infection spreads across Europe... -
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The Undead Part 20 Equilibrium by R.R. Haywood, Joe Jameson
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe UK's best-selling zombie horror series continues... -
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The Undead Day Twenty One by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Undead Day Twenty One The UK's best-selling zombie horror series... -
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The Undead Day Eighteen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Undead Day EighteenThe UK's best-selling zombie horror series... -
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The Undead Twenty Two by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Undead Twenty Two. New characters. Old characters returning. An evolving infection. The Undead. UK's best-selling zombie horror series continues... -
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The Undead Day Seventeen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Undead Day Seventeen.The best-selling British zombie horror series continues... -
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The Undead Day Sixteen by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new landscape was formed after the storm, and with it the promise of a new beginning.One race to dominate this land. One race to survive.Words were uttered beneath the Saxon while Howie fought the undead. Words that brought a whole new pressure.To be relentless and unceasing. To charge forward and never give up. To do what it takes to survive.That pressure was building and it became too much... -
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Primal by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey're called Mr. No One and Mr. Nobody, and wherever they go, death follows. Lee Harden is out for blood. After a month, the cartel is looking over their shoulders and jumping at shadows, worried about the madmen in their backyard, who seem obsessed with little else but killing cartel members... -
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Rebellion by Devon C. Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSet in the UK in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious illness which swept the country and left millions dead, the series follows the trials facing a reluctant hero, Dan, and the group he forms around him. They must battle the elements, find sufficient supplies and equipment to survive, and protect themselves against the most destructive force on the planet: other people... -
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Defiant by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't ever let it break you.The United Eastern States is crumbling. The fragile house of cards that Lee Harden and Angela Houston have built has begun to fall. Lee is up against a ticking clock, as he is recalled from Texas and given the last thing in the world that he wants: A promotion... -
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Vengeance by Christopher Artinian
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe residents of Safe Haven had fought the living, the dead and the worst winter in decades. They had earned their time of peace. They had earned their dream of happiness. But now…now it’s all gone to Hell. For Mike, Emma, Lucy and Wren, their most treacherous journey has just begun... -
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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... -
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Humanity by Devon C. Ford
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in the UK in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious illness which swept the country and left millions dead, the series follows the trials facing a reluctant hero, Dan, and the group he forms around him. They must battle the elements, find sufficient supplies and equipment to survive, and protect themselves against the most destructive force on the planet: other people... -
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Hope by Devon C. Ford
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in the UK in the immediate aftermath of a mysterious illness which swept the country and left millions dead, the series follows the trials facing a reluctant hero, Dan, and the group he forms around him. They must battle the elements, find sufficient supplies and equipment to survive, and protect themselves against the most destructive force on the planet: other people... -
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Southlands by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAfter being sequestered to a bunker to recover from his wounds, Lee Harden is finally going topside with his fellow Project Hometown Coordinator, Terrence "Tex" Lehy. Lee wants to ally the UES with Texas, in order to combat the threat of a powerful oil cartel to the south. But Tex's methods raise serious questions, and Lee quickly discovers that Texas has its own set of problems... -
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Rage on the Rails by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 3 of 3 The finale of the Zombie Road tale. It's been a month since the outbreak and the survivors of the zombie apocalypse have started a new life in a walled city. There are still a few enemies that need to be dealt with, the kind that can think and plan, and they can be more devastating than a horde of the undead... -
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Bloodbath on the Blacktop by David A. Simpson
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBook 2 in a thrilling new series. The people that tried to kill the world almost succeeded. They were fiendishly clever but they didn’t take into account the vets, the truckers and the two-fisted fighters who didn’t know how to give up. Gunny and his band of survivors continue their journey along the Zombie Road, saving as many as they can along the way... -
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Torment by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**Please be aware that while there are no scenes of rape, there are scenes of attempted or perceived rape. Trigger warning for scenes of torture and physical abuse** It’s been months since the zombie outbreak took over America, and Alex Duncan is slipping... -
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The Mutation by A.L. Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe survivors lived through the horrifying first days of the plague and its aftermath. They've found their friends, their family...but others are still missing. Finding them means leaving the only safety they have, which may not be so safe after all.It's the dawn of a new era. One of violence, war, destruction, and horror... -
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My Dead World 3 by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe long awaited final installment of the My Dead World trilogy. Humanity is not extinct. It's the calm before the storm and the complacent survivors are ill prepared as the sleeping world is about to get a wake up call. Nowhere is safe. Nowhere will ever be... -
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Dusty's Diary 3: One Frustrated Man's Apocalypse Story by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Frustrated Man's Apocalypse Story Every dream might now come true. My apocalyptic princess is out there, a former cheerleader who used to dance on the sideline for one of our fine Texas football teams, a fair-haired beauty with all the right assets invested in all the right places, and about my age. I know, hard to believe... -
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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... -
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Dusty's Diary 4: One Frustrated Man's Apocalypse Story by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne Frustrated Man's Apocalypse Story Two years since the collapse, and the whole world has gone feral. Dusty got out of his bunker, and he tried to connect with the only other survivor he knew of. Now he's sitting in a leaky kayak looking for a safe place to hole up while he figures out how to cross forty miles of dangerous suburban sprawl to get back home... -
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The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon't open The Anything Box unless you're prepared for the unexpected. The Grunder, a thing of horror which, if defeated, restores love... The Noise-Eater, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything--or anyone--that makes a sound... The Coveti, residents of an alien world poisoned by the intrusion of the stranger from Earth.. -
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Strain by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's the end of the line. In the third and final novel of the bestselling Agora Virus series, Frank and the survivors are about to face one final, deadly test. Will anyone survive? Months after tackling a local threat, the strain of the collapse is weighing heavily on everyone. As Kate embarks on a treacherous journey back to the island from Atlanta, Frank, struggles to hold the group together... -
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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B by Ben Bova, E.M. Forster
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field... -
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The Wump World by Bill Peet
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Pollutians invade the Wump World and turn the green meadows into a concrete jungle... -
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Fever! by David Achord
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree soldiers decide they've had enough and decide to strike out on their own. They go to west Tennessee in search of Brandon Crawford's aunt and uncle. They soon descend into a world of marauding in order to survive. Jump forward to eight years later, Zach Gunderson and his family have made a home at Mount Weather... -
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Falling Stars by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey survived the Grand Voyager. They believed they were safe. They were wrong. After a violent ambush, the survivors find themselves thrust into a harsh, unrecognizable world. No communications. No shelter. No food. All they have is each other—a ragtag group of elites and misfits. Amelia faces her deadliest test yet. Guilt-ridden Willow must save her brother at any cost... -
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Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies II: Escape by Scott M. Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a world overrun by zombies, breathing, living friends are hard to find. Would you risk your life to save them?Nurse Alissa, her friends, and her cat Archer fight their way through a zombie-infested state to get to the safety of her mountain cabin. It offers sanctuary as well as new challenges as all the routine commodities of the modern world are now luxuries... -
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Phage by Kevin Partner, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival StorySurvival is not guaranteed, as the survivors of the flood are quickly discovering while they try to make their way to each other - and to dry ground - in Deluge Book 2.*****Put in place to try and fix the the melting ice caps, the Exobot project was supposed to be our salvation.It became our destruction instead... -
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Sealed In by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing a distress call from the state police, Dr. Edward Neil and his team from the Centers for Disease Control enter the small town of Hartworth, Montana. Immediately they encounter a man in a pickup truck holding a quarantine post. His body decimated by a disease like they have never seen. The entire town, population a little under a thousand ... dead. Men, women and children... -
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Darwins Cipher by M.A. Rothman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJuan Gutierrez, a cancer researcher, has spent years studying the genome of animals that exhibit immunity to some types of cancer. Over the course of his study, Juan discovers a pattern that allows him to predict the course of a species' evolution across thousands of generations... -
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![Burning Skies by Kyla Stone]()
Burning Skies by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe last sanctuary exists.They just have to survive long enough to find it.In their quest for safety, Amelia and the survivors will face their deadliest test yet... -
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Holding Wonder by Zenna Henderson
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn this many-dimensioned new collection of speculative fiction, Zena Henderson introduces us to a boy who "calls" his mother, despite the fact that the nearest phone is miles away... -
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The Fredric Brown MEGAPACK ®: 33 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction's greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of which are presented here, including "Arena," "Knock," "Earthmen Bearing Gifts," "The Star Mouse," and many more... -
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Adrift by Tom Abrahams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBINGE READ. KEEP THE LIGHTS ON. LOCK YOUR DOORS. A mutating plague has killed two thirds of the world's population. Society has collapsed. And Mike Crenshaw is adrift. From the world of The Traveler Series comes a new cast of characters, new obstacles, and the same devastating, world-altering virus which plunges society into the depth of a dystopian hell... -
![Arthur C. Clarke: 2001/A Space Odyssey, The City And The Stars, The Deep Range, A Fall Of Moondust, Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke]()
Arthur C. Clarke: 2001/A Space Odyssey, The City And The Stars, The Deep Range, A Fall Of Moondust, Rendevous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning narrator Mike Vendetti takes you to a mad, impossible world created by Ray Bradbury... -
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The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHere is the essential fans' guidebook to the Star Trek universe--including material from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. This compendium features a complete show-by-show guide to the original series as well as the movies and animated shows, including plot summaries, fascinating behind-the-scenes information, and credits. 125 photos... -
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The Last American by William C. Heine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMain characters survives multiple nuclear attacks from Soviets who have wiped-out the population of the Americas with a designer plague.The action then follows one man as he gets his wife and two sons to the upper northern wilds of Quebec... -
![Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...) by Franz Kafka]()
Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...) by Franz Kafka
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis carefully crafted ebook is formatted with a functional and detailed table of contents.Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongly influenced genres such as existentialism... -
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Carrier Wave by Robert Brockway
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHumanity listened to the night sky. What we heard shattered the world.Listen.Just once. That’s it.As soon as you hear it, it has you. And once it has you, it’s over. You may think you’re in control. You’re not. You want one more listen. You want to look at that strange spot in the sky. The one that’s been slowly growing. The one that didn’t make sense… until you listened... -
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![Nodding by Jacqueline Druga]()
Nodding by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a small pocket of the world the sickness has been in existence since the sixties. A disease so feral, it strikes eighty percent of all children under the age of fifteen. For decades it has pushed the boundaries into three countries. Those infected become mere shells, often in a state followed by violent tantrums. There is no hope, no treatment and there is no cure... -
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Stage 3 - A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Thriller by Ken Stark
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlindness is just the beginning.Once the virus strips away everything remotely human, all that's left is a mindless, savage predator... -
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Brain Plague by Joan Slonczewski
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrain Plague is the new hard SF novel by Joan Slonczewski, set in the same future universe as her award-winning A Door into Ocean and The Children Star (a New York Times Notable Book). An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race throughout the civilized universe. And each colony of microbes has its own personality, good or bad... -
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Die Dritte Macht by William Voltz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErster Band des Zyklus "Die Dritte Macht"Enthaltene Original-Romane (Heftromane, #1-5):- "Unternehmen 'Stardust'"- "Die dritte Macht"- "Die strahlende Kuppel"- "Götterdämmerung"- "Atom-Alarm"Die politischen Machtblöcke der Erde drohen ihre Meinungsverschiedenheiten in einem alles vernichtenden Atomkrieg auszutragen... -
![The End of the World as We Knew It by Nick Cole]()
The End of the World as We Knew It by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the future, an artist specializing in historical records creates a piece of art based on three separate accounts of the Pandemic. What follows is a patchwork tale of survival and horror as two lovers struggle to survive the undying dead and the collapse of an America turned charnel house... -
![Above the Hush by Jacqueline Druga]()
Above the Hush by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a desperate bid to repair the relationship with her son, Audrey Fields plans a getaway for the two of them at a remote, off the grid, campsite. No electricity, no phones, no distractions. When things don’t go as planned, Audrey begins her journey home, only to make the horrifying discovery that ninety percent of the population has suddenly died...
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