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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...Categorized as:
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![The Jungles of Alabama by E. William Brown]()
The Jungles of Alabama by E. William Brown
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe System gave everyone on Earth a status screen, the ability to level up, and an endless supply of monsters to fight. To bad it seems to think the whole planet should be covered in adventure zones, and it doesn't believe in holidays or advance warning... -
![Escaping Extinction by Tara Ellis, Mike Kraus]()
Escaping Extinction by Tara Ellis, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe jungle hides many secrets waiting to be discovered as allies become enemies and the final countdown begins in book 5, the penultimate chapter of the Extinction series.Tired of the usual post-apocalyptic story? Welcome to your new addiction.An underwater explosion devastates a chain of islands.A mysterious illness begins to spring up across the world... -
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Traitor by Jonathan Yanez
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you're the king of the mountain,everyone wants to see you fall.He’s secured all three Relics. All problems solved, right?Wrong. Monsters from the Gate roam deserted Earth and Daniel Hunt is first in line to chase them down.Meanwhile, an invisible enemy increases its hold on the human race; infecting one-by-one as it spreads across the population...Categorized as:
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Awaken by Michelle Bryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is broken. Tara is alone. But within her a power grows.The Shift destroyed the world. All that remains is the harsh and unforgiving sand lands. Food is scarce; water even more so. And Tara has just discovered that she's been lied to her entire life. The world as she knows it does not exist. She is not the ordinary girl she thought herself to be...Categorized as:
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![The First Omega by Megan E. O'Keefe]()
The First Omega by Megan E. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMad Max meets X-Men in this razor-sharp new dystopian novella by the Philip K Dick award nominated author of Velocity Weapon.It doesn't matter what you call her. Riley. Burner. She forgot her name long ago. But if you steal from the supply lines crossing the wasteland, her face is the last one you'll see. She is the force of nature that keeps the balance in the hot arid desert...Categorized as:
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![Sketches by Teyla Branton]()
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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![The Demon Seekers by John Shors]()
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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![Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson]()
Land of Always Night: by Kenneth Robeson, W. Ryerson Johnson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsused science fiction... -
![Ordeal In Otherwhere by Andre Norton]()
Ordeal In Otherwhere by Andre Norton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen an outlaw seized control of the colonial planet Demeter, Charis Nordholm decided that it could no longer be her home. So she contracted herself into the service of an off-world trader, who assigned her to buy cloth from the mysterious Wyverns... -
![Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Meteor Menace by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAntofagasta, Chile...Rae Stanley was in trouble... -
![Flying the Storm by C.S. Arnot]()
Flying the Storm by C.S. Arnot
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Gilgamesh: a colossal airborne warship and relic of the Thirty-Year War. Once the glorious flagship of the North Atlantic Union, it has become a hive of renegades and pirates, unchallenged in the skies over Eurasia. Like an angry god, it dominates wherever and whomever it chooses.Now it has chosen the Crimean Peninsula, the most lucrative trade hub on the Black Sea... -
![The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight, Leroy Kettle]()
The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight, Leroy Kettle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStrange, mushroom-like growths are appearing on peoples' bodies and doctors, puzzled by the strange virus that plants inhuman desires in the minds of victims, look for a cause and uncover a horrifying reality... -
![After the Bomb by Gloria D. Miklowitz]()
After the Bomb by Gloria D. Miklowitz
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverything safe and familiar was gone....In a world shatteringly altered by a nuclear bomb, Philip Singer finds himself in the unlikely role of leader for his family. His father, away from home during the blast, may be dead. Philip's mother, usually competent and crisp, is desperately injured and needs immediate medical help... -
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![The Deathworms of Kratos by Richard Avery, Edmund Cooper]()
The Deathworms of Kratos by Richard Avery, Edmund Cooper
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Expendables were criminals, offered pardons in exchange for exploring alien worlds... -
![Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
![Beneath The Planet of The Apes by Michael Avallone, Paul Dehn]()
Beneath The Planet of The Apes by Michael Avallone, Paul Dehn
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 11 ratings"Can the world exist half-ape and half-human?" Based upon characters created by Pierre Boulle. When it was discovered that the fantastic Planet of the Apes was their own Earth, it was only the beginning of the most incredible adventure of all time.. -
![The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson]()
The Land of Terror: Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA vile greenish vapor was all that remained of the first victim of the monstrous Smoke of Eternity. There would be thousands more if Kar, master fiend, had his evil way. Only Doc Savage and his mighty five could stop him. But the corpse-laden trail led to mortal combat with the fiercest killing machines ever invented by nature... -
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Davy by Edgar Pangborn
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDavy is set in the far future of our world, in the fourth century after the collapse of what we describe as the twentieth-century civilisation...Categorized as:
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![Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson]()
Murder Melody: A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeath comes from both above and below, as the Pacific Northwest is shaken by earthquakes while strange floating figures fill the sky striking terror with their deadly dirge... -
![Ultimate Spider-Man (2024-) #2 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto]()
Ultimate Spider-Man (2024-) #2 by Jonathan Hickman, Marco Checchetto
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE MOST SURPRISING SPIDER-MAN STORY OF THE 21ST CENTURY CONTINUES! Spider-Man faces his first super villain! J... -
![Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is it - the long-awaited fourth and final graphic novel collecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
![House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz]()
House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMutants are the future, and the future begins now! Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINITY, SECRET WARS) takes the reigns of the X-Men universe with artists Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva to change the way you look at every X-Men story...Categorized as:
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![Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman, Rick Magyar]()
Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman, Rick Magyar
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuperstar writer Jonathan Hickman revamps and redefines Marvel's First Family! The War of Four Cities escalates, with the Future Foundation caught in the middle! But as the Inhumans return to Earth and Annihilus' forces and the Kree armada lay siege to the planet, will the coming of Galactus turn the tide.. -
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![The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Screenplays with Storyboards by Christopher J. Nolan, Jonathan Nolan]()
The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Screenplays with Storyboards by Christopher J. Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY: The Compete Screenplays of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises, with storyboards from each film. There is also an introduction featuring a conversation about The Dark Knight trilogy among the three writers: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan and David S. Goyer Synopsis:Christopher Nolan brings The Dark Knight trilogy to its climax... -
![Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #5 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird]()
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #5 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe jaw-dropping finale to the biggest TMNT story ever is here! One final showdown between mutant and Foot Clan will determine the fate of NYC... -
![The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 3 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger]()
The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 3 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe acclaimed series STARMAN, starring a Gen-X super hero from the 1990s, is re-presented in high quality format, featuring spectacular art by Eisner Award winner Tony Harris.In this new, third volume, Starman's hometown of Opal City is terrorized by Dr. Pip, an eccentric bomber. And with no demands from the mad villain, both Starman and the local authorities are unable to track him down... -
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Essential X-Men, Vol. 2 by Chris Claremont, John Byrne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEver-expanding their ranks, the Children of the Atom combat the evils threatening both mutants and humans -- like the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix... -
![Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird]()
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWho is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost...Categorized as:
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![The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Revelations by J. Michael Straczynski]()
The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Revelations by J. Michael Straczynski
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the wake of the World Trade Center tragedy, Spider-Man comes to understand that not all heroes possess great powers. Meanwhile, Aunt May struggles with her discovery of Peter's greatest secret.Collects:- The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol...
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