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Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION.Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system...Categorized as:
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Eclipse of the Sun by Michael D. O'Brien
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this fast-paced, reflective novel, (the third in a trilogy following Strangers and Sojourners and Plague Journal) Michael O'Brien presents the dramatic tale of a family that finds itself in the path of a totalitarian government... -
Malevil by Robert Merle, Derek Coltman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIf you are a fan of the post apocolypse genre, then you will appreciate this gem of a book. It is difficult to find, but it is well worth perservering with a search. The title of the book refers to an old castle in rural France, and which is owned by our hero, the narrator of the story...Categorized as:
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Perdition by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsn this second volume of the two book arc that began with Insurrection (book 5), Lucas braves all odds to free his friends and in the process spawns the only hope for the nation's future: a new resistance movement that will take the battle to its enemies and drive them from its shores... -
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A Darkling Plain by Philip Reeve
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe final book of the thrilling Predator Cities series!London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race...Categorized as:
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Axis of Evil by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Axis of Evil had the perfect strategy. Destroy the heartbeat of America. Invade with their million man army. But there was one thing they didn't count on ... Texas...Categorized as:
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The Sheriff by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn an Earth decimated by an alien war, a lone gunslinger delivers justice, protecting the innocent and righting the wrongs of a broken world. Some call him lawman. Some call him madman. Some call him vigilante. Some call him killer. Some call him legend. They all call him Sheriff...This is his story... -
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose a quick suicide rather than slow extinction. Humanity's salvation rests with an android who has no desire to live, and a man and a woman who must discover love, hope, and dreams of a world reborn...Categorized as:
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Dissolution by W. Michael Gear
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES AN ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF WESTERN - A CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN.For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career... -
Lines in the Sand by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs America suffered,Borders were defined andLines in the Sand were drawn.Cross them ... you suffer the consequences.The critically acclaimed Lone Star Series continues with LINES IN THE SAND...Categorized as:
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Terror in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I usually give the enemy one chance to surrender. After that, I don't take prisoners." --Ben RainesD-DAY 2.0Having reclaimed American soil from the savage armies of terrorists, lawless street gangs, and mutant Night People, Ben Raines and his Rebel army have a new mission: to free the British Isles from a tyranny of evil oppression...Categorized as:
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Insurrection by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLucas embarks on a cross-country journey for what's supposed to be a simple vaccine delivery mission, but which quickly devolves into a battle to survive when he and his team become embroiled in a conspiracy so large it will change the fate of America... -
The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3: The Father-Thing by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA fitting tribute to a great philosophical writer who found science fiction the ideal form for the expression of his ideas - The IndependentThe third volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth century's greatest sf author; twenty-three tales which were written in little more than a year, before Philip K...Categorized as:
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La Jetée: ciné-roman by Chris Marker
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLa Jet�e is the book version of the legendary 1964 science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse. Chris Marker, the undisputed master of the filmic essay, composed the film almost entirely of still photographs...Categorized as:
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Blood, Sweat & Tears by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS is Book 5 in the exciting postapocalyptic series, THE NEW WORLD. War! All Gordon Van Zandt wanted was to find a safe place for his family to settle down after civilization came to an abrupt end following the detonation of a super-EMP over North America...Categorized as:
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Courage in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"I have nothing but contempt for the lawless."--Ben RainesThe Last FrontierBen Raines--rebel leader and America's greatest survival expert--has a dream: to free the nation from the deadly grip of outlaw gangs and armies of terrorists overrunning its once great cities. The dream is about to become real...Categorized as:
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Chronicle of the Eternal: Volume 1 by D. Wolfin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the year XX, the human population exhausted the world’s resources, leading to cataclysmic environment changes and the imminent extinction of all life on the planet. Frantic space exploration became the world's focus, but failed to find a new world for the human race. In desperation, humanity went digital. Minds were scanned, encoded, and transferred to the virtual world of Grandosa... -
Alone in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Raines is fighting to rebuild a nation from the bitter chaos and smoldering ashes of nuclear war and anarchy. But in this hellish new order, there are devils leading armed gangs of marauders, who bring destruction wherever they go. When Raines is cut off from his SUSA Rebel forces, he becomes their prey...Categorized as:
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Death in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe war against the Night People continues as Ben Raines and his rebel army destroy the favorite living places of the cannibalistic mutants, forcing them into the open. But as they push through the rubble that once was Dallas, Ben is nearly killed by a death squad led by warlord Matt Callahan. Like Ben, Malt was a writer before the Great War; unlike Ben, Malt has turned to outlawing...Categorized as:
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Danger In The Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"We--the Rebels--are the only group of people in this land who are trying to restore the nation to greatness. There is no room for troublemakers. No room for those who want something for nothing...Categorized as:
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Fighting Iron by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Bloody Conflict is long over. The lands are now controlled by despots, crooked cattle barons, energy hoarders, and anyone with enough might to keep the local folks under control.For Clay MacAulay, none of that matters as he roams the land in a war machine from a time gone by. He wants nothing to do with small desert towns or brutal dictators. He only has his sights set on a new life... -
The Razor's Edge by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGordon Van Zandt is a man accustomed to adversity and hardship, but now he is left with dwindling options. With his fledgling republic teetering on the verge of collapse, he must find a way to seize an unlikely victory from what appears to be certain defeat...Categorized as:
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Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning authorOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.Ireland is falling apart...Categorized as:
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Those Who Remain by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA Today Bestselling Author, G. Michael Hopf brings you the final chapter in the Van Zandt saga!The war between the Republic of Cascadia and the rogue nation Western Canada is raging. With support from President Cruz in the United States, Gordon Van Zandt has assembled a formidable army to march north and engage the forces of Western Canada, who have occupied much of the panhandle of Idaho...Categorized as:
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Blood in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter nuclear apocalypse brought civilization to its knees, one man rose up to lead a once-great nation out of the ashes. When everything fell apart, it was Ben Raines, heroic soldier and survival expert, who became the leader that freedom-loving, law-abiding people everywhere could rally around... -
The Change by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSEby S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more...S. M...Categorized as:
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Steamforged by Eric R. Asher
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThere are old wounds in the forgotten places of the world, and some are soaked in blood.Jacob and his allies flee into the Deadlands after the fall of Ancora. Charles, the enigmatic smith, hopes to find answers in the desert city of Bollwerk that could prevent a war.Their enemies are many, and here Jacob will learn the cost of life in the Deadlands...Categorized as:
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Wolves by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey took everything--killed his wife, enslaved his daughter, destroyed his life. Now he's a man with nothing left to lose ... and that's what makes him so dangerous.Ten years after the collapse, Huxley had built a good life again. He had a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers came... -
Free-Wrench by Joseph R. Lallo
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe islands of Caldera are a shining jewel in a rather bleak world. A terrible calamity in the past had blanketed much of the world with a toxic "fug." Those who survived were forced to take to the mountains and the skies in wondrous airships. Life has since been a struggle, with only the most ruthless and crafty able to survive...Categorized as:
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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it loose. It beheaded mercy to take possession of that place. It feasts on darkness from the minds of men. No one has ever seen its eyeless face. When it sleeps we know a few moments of peace. But when it breathes again we go down in fire and mate with jackals...Categorized as:
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Season of Fire by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter tackling her first mission and coming to terms with her power of empathy, Andriana discovers her first battles were only a taste of what is to come. She and her knight, Ronan, have admitted their feelings for each other, but their bonds are tested when Dri is captured by their mortal and spiritual enemy—Sethos—and his master, Keallach, emperor of Pacifica...Categorized as:
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Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsONE BILLION YEARS FROM NOW . . .Mankind has reached the heights of civilization. Men live thousands of years in perfect freedom and leisure—their wants are attended to by ingenious machines—peace and culture flourish in ways undreamed of in our time. And yet ... mankind is dying...Categorized as:
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Night Flights by Philip Reeve
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsReturn to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by Ian McQue. A key character in the Mortal Engines book and upcoming film produced by Peter Jackson (December 2018), this is your chance to learn more of Anna's thrilling past. Night Flights includes Traction City, Philip Reeve's 2011 World Book Day Book...Categorized as:
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Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was imminent.It's a real-life nightmare...Categorized as:
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Apocalypse Coming- (Revised Edition) A Novel of Tribulation and Survival (The Tears of Ephraim: Book One) by William Dunaway
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."After a political protest is hijacked by anarchists, mob mentality takes over and violent riots start breaking out in many of our major cities...Categorized as:
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The World Is Dead by Kim Paffenroth, Mark Onspaugh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe end of the world has come and gone. The dead have risen, and they've won. No more rallying of the troops. No miracle cure or weapon. Just lots of dead people walking around. If the living dead won, what would the world be like? This collection of eighteen tales-including entries from David Wellington, Jack Ketchum, and Gary A. Braunbeck-take up the call to answer that question...Categorized as:
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Psalms For The End Of The World by Cole Haddon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer...Categorized as:
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All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the tradition of Station Eleven, a literary thriller set partly on the roof of New York’s Museum of Natural History in a flooded future.All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water...Categorized as:
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The Line of Departure by G. Michael Hopf
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA gripping new novel from one of the best-known names in survivalist fiction.Former Marine-turned-author, G. Michael Hopf grabs readers from page one with his breathtaking blend of action, adventure, and political intrigue. The End—the first book in Hopf ’s New World series—has sold more than 50,000 copies, and word of mouth is quickly building on the series as a whole...Categorized as:
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The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn The Hopkins Manuscript we watch through his eyes as the moon veers off course, draws slowly closer to the earth, and finally crashes into it on May 3rd 1946. Because it falls into the Atlantic much of humanity survives – only to generate new disasters. But this is not science fiction in the mode of H G Wells's The War of the Worlds; it is a novel about human nature... -
Wall by Tom Abrahams
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHE SURVIVED THE SCOURGE. HE ESCAPED THE CARTEL. NOW HE FACES THE WALL. In the chaos of a global plague, evil took hold. Governments fell, the good became servants, and the Cartel rose to power. A wall was built to contain the wasteland and keep the evil at bay. Now an organized resistance wants change. They're willing to fight for it and they've asked Marcus Battle to help... -
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: The Official Movie Novelization by Alexander C. Irvine
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species...Categorized as:
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Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThis third book in a major series by a bestselling science fiction author, Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist is the gripping story of the most provocative character from his acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.Tool, a half-man/half-beast designed for combat, is capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed...Categorized as:
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Fuse by Julianna Baggott
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWe want our son returned. This girl is proof that we can save you all. If you ignore our plea, we will kill our hostages one at a time.To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge escaped to the outside world, where Wretches struggle to survive amid smoke and ash...Categorized as:
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Blood Honor by Russell Blake
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThey said it could never happen - that the day would never come. They were wrong. Five years post-collapse, former Texas Ranger Lucas Shaw is surviving hardscrabble in a kill-or-be-killed wasteland. When an enigmatic young woman enters his life with a desperate plea, Lucas must face impossible odds and battle an adversary who will stop at nothing to destroy them... -
In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA dangerous disease strikes the community where teenage Lucy lives. When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect her, Lucy struggles to figure out what home means. During their journey west to find a new life, the two face nature's challenges, including hunger, mountains, and deserts...Categorized as:
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Romulus Buckle and the Luminiferous Aether by Richard Ellis Preston Jr.
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Preston's Steampunk series is not just entertaining and fun but full of great characters who deepen and change over the course of the books. Expect amazing Steampunk scenes, yes, but also people you care about and a lovely mix of the comic and serious. Just pure storytelling at its best...Categorized as:
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When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth...Categorized as:
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Morningside Fall by Jay Posey
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe lone gunman Three is gone, and Wren is the new governor of the devastated settlement of Morningside, but there is turmoil in the city. When his life is put in danger, Wren is forced to flee Morningside until he and his retinue can determine who can be trusted.They arrive at the border outpost, Ninestory, only to find it has been infested with Weir in greater numbers than anyone has ever seen...Categorized as:
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Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its components lined up against a wall and shot for negligence. Thereafter, its calculations were free from errors, and that was just as well-for only this strangest of calculating machines and its two thousand enslaved components could save the world from a new ice age...
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