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Infection by M.P. McDonald
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA pandemic survival novel The world has never seen a virus like this. Not only is it deadly, but it changes victims' behavior in order to spread the disease before they die. When Cole Evans first heard about the flu outbreak at a military base on a remote island, he felt a little uneasy... -
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Mutation by Nerys Wheatley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBitten. Infected. Turned.Cured.Alex survived the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters, but it left him mutated, with super-human strength and white eyes.Feared and despised.The world has lived with the virus for thirteen years, but now a new strain is turning thousands into ravenous monsters, faster than ever before.And Alex is trapped right in the middle of the outbreak... -
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 85 ratingsAn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . -
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San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats by Mira Grant
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt was the summer of 2014, and the true horrors of the Rising were only just beginning to reveal themselves. Fans from all over the world gathered in San Diego, California for the annual comic book and media convention, planning to forget about the troubling rumors of new diseases and walking dead by immersing themselves in a familiar environment...Categorized as:
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Alien by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBased on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin... -
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The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst they noticed the pets were missing, then the neighborhood of Rowena Heights started losing…people. It was only later that they actually saw the packs of creatures stalking the streets at night. As the Mazurs get close to the truth about the night hunters, they discover the hunters aren’t what they thought at all... -
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Earthcore by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDeep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode... -
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Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey thought they were safe. They were wrong.CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot)Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more... -
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Madness by M.L. Banner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFACT: There's a real-life parasite that rewires mammals brains for extreme aggressive behavior… Over half of all the world's mammals are already infected, but aren't symptomatic because the parasite remains dormant in most hosts. Like a ticking bomb, this puppet master is patiently waiting for the right time to set off its hosts against the world... -
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Infected by Scott Sigler
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAcross America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim... -
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The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, Mark Salwowski
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsShips are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe... -
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Dead Space: Catalyst by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwo hundred and fifty years in the future, extinction threatens mankind. Tampering with dangerous technology from the Black Marker—an ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth eighty years earlier— Earthgov hopes to save humanity. But the Marker's influence reanimates corpses into grotesque rampaging nightmares... -
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The Games by Ted Kosmatka
Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsJurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist...Categorized as:
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Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms-he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger... -
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