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Orphan Black: The Next Chapter by Malka Ann Older, Madeline Ashby
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe official continuation of Orphan Black, narrated by Emmy Award winner Tatiana Maslany. The story we never wanted to end continues... -
![Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten]()
Remember Me, Synthetica by K. Aten
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience?Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses... -
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Storm's Fury by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young girl who saw her father die. A soldier who lost everything. Now, in the shadow of the apocalypse, they will fight to survive.The skies above America darken as powerful, corrupt forces inadvertently unleash a disaster of biblical proportions.In a quiet southern town, a lonely soldier lives each day in a bottle, forever regretting sins and losses of the past... -
![Days of Panic by Jack Hunt]()
Days of Panic by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen the power grid fails, what will you do to survive?After an EMP obliterates the nation's electrical grid on New Year's Eve, it's not long before society unravels and panic ensues. As the lights go out and silence spreads over the city that never sleeps, four ordinary strangers; a bike messenger, a homeless person, a support rep, and an ex-convict must forge a connection in order to stay alive...Categorized as:
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![Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis]()
Blind Sided by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter four years of life in a post-apocalyptic world, the one thing that both Mike and Sarah know for sure is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life has begun to settle down, a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England, nor the US, not rampaging gypsies or even the Middle East... -
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Emergence by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmergence: noun. 1. The process of becoming visible after being concealed. 2. The process of coming into existence or prominence. 3. In philosophy, art, and systems theory, a process where complex systems can exhibit properties none of its constituent parts possess. Sometimes, when something emerges, you’re better off not knowing... -
![The Ghost in the Doll by Niall Teasdale]()
The Ghost in the Doll by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFox has undergone a pretty big change in her life. For one thing, her batteries need charging each night, but her confidence has taken a hit too. When you’re questioning the choices you’ve made, a good way to start is at the beginning. Fox returns to Topeka where people are dying due to faulty implanted organs... -
![Criminal Minds by Niall Teasdale]()
Criminal Minds by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Marie lands what seems to be the chance of a lifetime, starring in a new, rather low-budget, action movie based on the Whitechapel murders, she is thrilled. But when sex workers begin being murdered, their bodies mutilated in a chillingly familiar fashion it falls to Fox Meridian to hunt down the killer. But it seems that the new Jack has a few tricks up his sleeve which the old one did not... -
![Dominance by Niall Teasdale]()
Dominance by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the new private policing contracts coming in at the start of the 2062, Fox Meridian can finally relax and devote all her time to her new position as the terrorism liaison for Palladium Security Solutions. She may have no boyfriend and no life, but at least she’s back doing what she wants to do: investigate crimes... -
![Eden Burning by Niall Teasdale]()
Eden Burning by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArtificial life is a hot-button topic in the summer of 2061. BioTek Microtechnologies have revealed Eve, the first real bioroid, and the rights of AIs and other infomorphs are on everyone’s mind, at least partially because MarTech now has the capability to digitise the human brain... -
![The Gospel According to Artyom by Dmitry Glukhovsky]()
The Gospel According to Artyom by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe recently created and previously unpublished epilogue of METRO 2033, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky. This bonus piece was never published in English and comes exclusively on Amazon... -
![The Price We Pay (Life After War, #7) by Angela White]()
The Price We Pay (Life After War, #7) by Angela White
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill Controlled Chaos Be Enough To Free Them? Angela has moved Safe Haven to the Mountains of Georgia to make their stand. She has put a plan in motion that will free them all or get them all killed. For her, everything since the apocalypse has come down to this moment. It's what she's been training for, what her men have tried to prepare her for, but only fate knows if it will be enough... -
![Brace for Impact by Harley Tate]()
Brace for Impact by Harley Tate
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat if an EMP was only the first strike? With a credible threat to the United States and a plane stuck on the tarmac, Grant Walton is thirty seconds from full-blown panic mode. He’s the only one in the airport who knows the truth. When the power goes out, he can’t waste another second. It’s the beginning of the end and every man for himself. A nuclear attack will rip the country apart...Categorized as:
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![Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz]()
Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTwo hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa... -
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![Destiny by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale]()
Destiny by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the Earth plunges toward Saturn, Jessica struggles to decide whether to save the ones she loves, or save the human race... -
![Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou]()
Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet’s most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages... -
![Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman]()
Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Arc of a Scythe series continues with stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge...There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down... -
![Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce]()
Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDick, AKA Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. The loss of electricity brings out the darker side of human nature across the city. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Good folk have survived, but they are often outnumbered and outgunned... -
![Inescapable by Niall Teasdale]()
Inescapable by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStarting a new job is never easy, but taking up her new role as head of Palladium Security Solutions’ investigative department, Fox Meridian is left wondering whether she is really cut out for this one. Board meetings are boring, politics sets her teeth on edge, and there’s no sign of a need for a detective anywhere... -
![DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale]()
DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA serial killer has murdered eleven people over the last four years, the link between the crimes unnoticed until Fox Meridian’s AI personal assistant, Kit, makes the connection. The only thing which seems to connect the victims is LifeFit, a plug-in application which allows users to find virtual exercise companions over the most popular social network in the world, LifeWeb... -
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Fox Hunt by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA spree killer with a purpose? A creative dispute taken to extremes? It’s up to Tara ‘Fox’ Meridian to untangle the mess before more people die. Fresh back from a training visit to Luna City on the Moon, Fox Meridian is called to the murder of the main writer on an internet video show, Murder is My Business. Business has become very cutthroat... -
![The Famoux (The Famoux, #1) by Kassandra Tate]()
The Famoux (The Famoux, #1) by Kassandra Tate
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpdated every Friday for Famoux Friday.From The Famoux:"The murmurs of Bree Arch’s name echo around the hallway between classes... -
![Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel]()
Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
![The Shades by Amy Cross]()
The Shades by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne late September day, the entire population of the United States vanishes, leaving behind nothing but empty streets. For the rest of the world, there's no explanation for how 300m people could simply vanish in the blink of an eye. While international organizations dither over what to do next, a powerful company pays for a small team of investigators to head to the U.S. and learn the truth... -
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![Nightfall by Daniel Barnett]()
Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment...Categorized as:
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![Pandemia by Johnathan Rand, Christopher Knight]()
Pandemia by Johnathan Rand, Christopher Knight
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world was warned. The last great flu epidemic kelled millions. Now the bird flu has mutated into the super flu and spreading fast. Four teenagers are caught in a world gone wild. They head north... -
![American Survivor by A.J. Newman]()
American Survivor by A.J. Newman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerican Apocalypse: American Survivor This is Book I in the American Apocalypse series. The North Koreans launch a surprise Nuclear EMP attack on the USA. Our hero, Joe doesn’t care about politics or what happened, he just knows his world went to Hell. Planes fell out of the sky, people went nuts looting and killing as he scrambled to hide from all of the craziness... -
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Active Memory by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the third and final book in the dark, pulse-pounding, sci-fi neo-noir series that began with the acclaimed novel Bluescreen... -
![The Ark by Christopher Coates]()
The Ark by Christopher Coates
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the not too distant future, technology has developed to the point where a person can be placed in a Sleep State, which is a cross between suspended animation and a drug induced coma. Theoretically a person can be put to sleep for any length of time and age only a couple of days for each year that they are asleep...Categorized as:
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![Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield]()
Final Chaos by Ryan Westfield
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen society falls, how will you protect those you love?They knew the solar flair was coming, but no one knew the effect it would have. The EMP kills the lights and all electronics. Now it’s only a matter of time before chaos erupts.Jim owns a small electronics repair store in Rochester, NY. Unlike his friend, he quickly realizes the reality of the situation... -
![The Ferryman by Justin Cronin]()
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFounded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent... -
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HappyHead by Josh Silver
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024An Amazon Best YA Book of the Year, 2023 An Irish Sunday Independent Book of the Year, 2023We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness. Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer... -
![Resistance by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale]()
Resistance by Matthew Mather, Lucas Bale
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fight for the future of humanity begins... Jessica Rollins has made it to safety inside the Sanctuary system with the help of Ufuk Erdogmus, but is her mysterious savior really who he says he is? What secrets does he hide? And how is he connected to Dr. Muller? Jess doesn't have much time to ponder these questions, as soon she is fighting again for her life.. -
![Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld]()
Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCities at war. Identities stolen or hidden away. A love built on lies. In the second book of the New York Times bestselling Impostors, nothing is certain and anything can be taken away.When the world sees Frey, they think they see her twin sister, Rafi. Frey was raised to be Rafi's double, and now she's taken on the role . . . without anyone else knowing...Categorized as:
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![Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge]()
Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMultiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now... -
![Ice Country by David Estes]()
Ice Country by David Estes
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDazz, a hard-edged, fun-loving Icer, likes fighting, particularly while at his favorite watering hole. However, while recovering from a particularly bad break up, his decision to engage in a brutal pubroom brawl leads to a series of events that thrust him into a dark and mysterious scandal involving King Goff, the ice country ruler...Categorized as:
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![Moths by Jane Hennigan]()
Moths by Jane Hennigan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhere were you at the beginning?Or at the end?And where are we all now?Forty years ago, the world changed. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected men and boys around the globe. Some were killed quietly in their sleep, others became crazed killers, wildly dangerous and beyond help. All seemed hopeless.But humanity adapted, healed and moved on... -
![The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers]()
The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it... -
![The Seventh Hour by Tracey Ward]()
The Seventh Hour by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen the Earth's rotation slowed to a crawl mankind was plunged into a harsh world of burning hot days and endless, arctic nights. Some fled to the mountains for shelter. Others took to the seas, sailing forever in the perfect gold between the night and the day; a place known as the Seventh Hour.Liv was raised aboard a ship chasing the Seventh...Categorized as:
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![Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon]()
Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsElena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations... -
![Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper]()
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...Categorized as:
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![Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham]()
Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKyle Tait, having survived the harrowing, cross-country journey home to his family, must now struggle for existence in a post-EMP world that no one could have imagined just three short months prior. Each day brings new challenges – how to fight the bitter cold, where to scavenge food for the table, how to best fend off intruders and keep their community safe...Categorized as:
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![Corridor by Robin Parrish]()
Corridor by Robin Parrish
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE ONLY WAY OUT IS TO RUN.On the eve of his seventeenth birthday, Troy Goggin finds himself inexplicably transported to an impossibly huge, miles-long structure called the Corridor. But what is the Corridor, and why was he brought to it?It’s a place of mystery, wonder, and heart-stopping danger. It will test him and push him both mentally and physically...Categorized as:
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![The Hungry Land by Joshua Guess]()
The Hungry Land by Joshua Guess
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne year after the zombie plague ravaged humanity in what would become known as The Fall, the survivors in Kentucky struggle on. They have faced swarms of undead and war with living men, but in the third collection of the story they face their most powerful enemy yet. Each other... -
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![Enduring the Crisis by K.D. Kinney]()
Enduring the Crisis by K.D. Kinney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Powell Family has been preparing for a disaster for years. However, timing is everything. When an EMP nuclear event takes out the grid and brings the nation to a complete stop, Tammy and Ben may not have been as prepared as they thought. Tammy is a food storage and emergency preparedness specialist. So she thinks... -
![The Remnants by T.A. Williams]()
The Remnants by T.A. Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a single momentHundreds of thousands of people died instantlyEvery plane fell from the skyAnd the world was plunged into darknessThis became known as The EventThe world has been reduced to empty buildings, on empty streets, in empty cities.The people who have survived either scavenge for supplies or hunt those who have them... -
![Мова by Віктар Марціновіч]()
Мова by Віктар Марціновіч
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings«Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар... -
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Blackout by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive strangers wake up in a town stricken by an unknown apocalyptic event. They have no memory. Forced to figure out who they are and how they got there, they soon discover all is not what it seems, and now they must fight to stay alive while trying to find a way to escape. A powerful tale of survival, hope and human courage... -
![The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden]()
The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWelcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had... -
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Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution, beloved by some and hated by others. Liam, a seventeen-year-old Rebooter, is Syd’s bodyguard and must protect him with his life...Categorized as:
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