Books like 'Marvel Universe: The End'
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Extinct by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas…While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn’t make sense... -
Psion Omega by Jacob Gowans
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSammy, a fourteen-year-old fugitive, accidentally discovers he has the powers of a Psion. The war between the New World Government and the Continental American Government has taken its toll, not only on the two world superpowers, but also on the band of resistance fighters stuck between them... -
House of Destiny: Zeit tötet immer by Marah Woolf
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBist du bereit, dein HERZ zu OPFERN, für eine SCHULD, die nie gesühnt werden kann?Averie hat versagt, obwohl sie verhindert hat, dass Eternity stirbt. Aber nun beansprucht Minas ihre Welt für sich. Er wird sie verdunkeln und den Menschen die noch verbliebene Zeit stehlen. Averie schwört, alles zu tun, um dies zu verhindern... -
The Warrior Race by T.C. Edge
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKira Blackstone’s reputation precedes her. Rebel, warrior, genetically enhanced killer. She’s fought since she was a girl to save the city of Haven. Now, unfortunately, her friends are going to have to fight their war without her. Kidnapped during a fight by a group of mysterious soldiers, garbed in fine silver armour and flowing red robes, Kira finds herself waking in total darkness... -
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Travelers by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter their costly victory over President Krug and the Patriot Army, Kress and her Conspiracy travel to London, fight their way through the ruins of Paris, and plunge into the heart of Spain as they race to track down a mythical pair of twins who are rumored to have the unique ability to enter the world of dreams... -
Voice of the Chosen by Lawrence P. White
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVoice of the Chosen is the third book in the Spirit of Empire series. Readers are strongly encouraged to read the first two books before embarking on this third book. Struthers has suffered serious defeats at the hands of Terran forces, but he is fighting back. First on his list: convene the Imperial Senate, name himself emperor, and officially declare Imperial Forces in rebellion... -
The Branded by Jo Riccioni
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIsfalk is divided into two classes: the Branded, who are vulnerable to disease, and the Pure, who are bigger, stronger and immune. Orphaned twins Nara and Osha are sequestered in the citadel, where their unbranded skin entitles them to a life of privilege, as precious breeding stock... -
Synthesis by K.A. Riley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEncouraged by happy reunions, shocked by terrifying discoveries, and with the lives of millions and the fate of the nation hanging in the balance, Kress and her Conspiracy—along with their new legions of allies, the Survivalists and the Unkindness—prepare for their final, all-or-nothing war against Krug and the assembled might of his Patriot Army... -
The Sword by S.M. Stirling, David Drake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor five years Raj Whitehall has led his men across the face of the planet Bellevue. With saber and bayonet he has conquered one barbarian nation after another. Now his greatest enemy is his own overlord, Barholm Clerett, who's so paranoid of Raj's victories that he is reduced to only one thought: Raj Whitehall must die... -
The Anvil by S.M. Stirling, David Drake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith the aid of a sentient battle computer from before the collapse of interstellar civilization, Raj Whitehall has come close to reuniting the entire planet of Bellevue. Raj is loved by the people, who hold him in awe, but the half-mad jealousy and fear of his emperor is about to force Raj to revolt or face death by torture... -
Chromed: Upgrade by Richard Parry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s 2150AD. There hasn’t been a corporate war… until now.Mason Floyd is an augmented syndicate enforcer at the top of his game. His job is asset protection and acquisition, no questions asked.Company tech is stolen on Mason’s watch. Rival megacorps want it, and they don’t mind killing him to get it. Framed for the theft, Mason runs...Categorized as:
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Palace by Katharine Kerr, Mark Kreighbaum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBestselling author Katharine Kerr joins with Mark Kreighbaum to present a vivid, alluring and terrifying world of the future. They call it Palace, the capital of a planet located in a region of space known as the Pinch... -
Sketches by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...Categorized as:
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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin takes readers to a whole new level with his darkly comic sci-fi thriller. A Winner of the 2016 Alex AwardsNightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman from the trailer park. And her very smelly cat... -
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A Time-Traveller's Best Friend by W.R. Gingell
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet Marx. Meet Kez. Marx is a small, angry man with a time machine and a chip on his shoulder. Kez is a homicidal little girl with a price on her head and a penchant for kicking people where it hurts the most. When Marx crash-lands on Second World, he has no idea that he has plunged headfirst into the middle of an assassination plot- or a one day war that’s about to make his day a very bad one... -
Gorgon Child by Steven Barnes
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA virtual superman, a streetfighter trained by the Mob, Knight turns his awesome powers on those who created him. Fighting alongside his beautiful mate, he takes on a corrupt television evangelist who schemes to enslave America. The action-packed, near-future adventure sequel to Streetlethal... -
The Last Man on Earth Club by Paul R. Hardy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix people are gathered for a therapy group deep in the countryside. Six people who share a unique and terrible trauma: each one is the last survivor of an apocalypse. Each of them was rescued from a parallel universe where humanity was wiped out. They’ve survived nuclear war, machine uprisings, mass suicide, the reanimated dead, and more... -
The Demon Seekers by John Shors
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEarth, 2171.It's been a century since hostile aliens turned Earth into a prison for the worst of their own kind, nearly wiping out humanity in the process.Seventeen-year-old Tasia is a Seeker--a human survivor who hunts down the cruel creatures that conquered and destroyed her world...Categorized as:
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Year's Best SF 11 by David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTravel farther than you've ever dreamed Man has mused about the nature of our universe since he first gazed up in wonder at the stars. Now some of the most fertile imaginations in speculative fiction offer bold and breathtaking visions of "what's out there" and "what's next" in the eleventh annual celebration of the very best short SF to appear over the past year... -
The End of the Kai by Domenico Italo Composto-Hart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlternate cover edition for original cover edition ISBN: 0985017732 (ISBN-13: 9780985017736)... -
Eight's Origin by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratings...Categorized as:
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Patterns by Pat Cadigan
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFeaturing an introduction by Bruce Sterling, this collection of short fiction by Pat Cadigan won the Locus Award for best collection in 1990. The final story, "The Power and the Passion", was original to this collection... -
The Modified by C.A. Kunz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you sacrifice to save the ones you love? To save the one who holds your heart? To save the world?Kenley Grayson is all too familiar with these questions.After Earth is thrust into its first intergalactic war with an unknown race called the Bringers, our military forces begin to suffer heavy losses... -
Mind Games by Shana Silver
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsArden sells memories. Whether it’s the becoming homecoming queen or studying for that all important test, Arden can hack into a classmate’s memories and upload the experience for you just as if you’d lived it yourself. Business is great, right up until the day Arden whites out, losing 15 minutes of her life and all her memories of the hot boy across the school yard... -
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Fools by Pat Cadigan
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Marva, a Method actress, awakens in a hologram pool, carrying in her head the memory of a murder, she must think fast to find out whose life she is living and to elude the Escort Service assassins who are pursuing her... -
The Uploaded by Ferrett Steinmetz
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife sucks and then you die... In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn't stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan that just isn't enough - he wants more for himself and his sister than a life slaving away for the dead... -
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA dead man is brought back to life so he can support his family in "The Happy Man"; occasionally he slips into a zombielike state while his soul is tortured in Hell. In "Vanilla Dunk," future basketball players are given the skills of old-time stars like Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain. And in "Forever, Said the Duck," stored computer personalities scheme to break free of their owners...Categorized as:
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Nowhere by Jon Robinson
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'No one's coming for us.Not our families, not the police.No one.'Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free . . -
Lost in Arcadia by Sean Gandert
Rated: 2.68 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Prescient, funny, smart, a story to disappear into and come out the other side.” —Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night “A fascinating and ambitious first novel by a very talented writer.…An indispensable read.” —Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima The America of 2037 is a country distracted by, infatuated with, and addicted to Arcadia... -
True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #2 by Gerard Way
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTrue Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys...
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