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The End by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe end is coming.The sickness struck everyone sixteen and older. First it twisted their minds; next it ravaged their bodies. Now the sickos—crazed and hungry for young flesh—are gathered in the center of London, lying in wait.It’s time for all of the survivors—kids spread out across the city—to unite...Categorized as:
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![Damned Nation by N.C. Reed]()
Damned Nation by N.C. Reed
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPost-Apocalyptic Fiction by N.C. ReedSo far, the Apocalypse has not gone according to plan. At least, not according to the plan Clay Sanders and his friends had laid out. Things are finally changing, though for better or worse remains to be seen... -
![Resurgence by Iain Rob Wright]()
Resurgence by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMankind is fighting back. The demons have become less aggressive and confused, but that doesn't mean the war is anywhere close to over. New threats are arriving, and old foes are rallying. Soon, the final battle for mankind's survival will begin... -
![Adrians Untote: Teil 2 by Chris Philbrook]()
Adrians Untote: Teil 2 by Chris Philbrook
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHerauszufinden, dass ein Nachbar überlebt hat, nachdem die Untoten die Welt übernommen haben, ist nicht immer eine gute Sache. Es sei denn, bei diesem Nachbarn handelt es sich um den mürrischen, bewaffneten und pensionierten Green Beret, Gilbert Donohue. In diesem Fall findet man heraus, dass dieser Nachbar so etwas wie der sprichwörtliche Jackpot ist... -
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![The Sanders Saga by N.C. Reed]()
The Sanders Saga by N.C. Reed
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsPost-Apocalyptic Fiction by N.C. Reed Clayton Sanders left home the minute he had his high school diploma in hand. He waited that long only because the Army wouldn't accept him without one. Now, ten years later, he's home. Home with no warning, no advance notice, no anything after being gone ten years with almost no contact with his family... -
![Interlude-Brandon by Terry Schott]()
Interlude-Brandon by Terry Schott
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrandon Strayne.Brilliant computer programmer, businessman, and world leader.Where did this mysterious man come from?This volume details his history and rise to power.Before there was the Game...there was a boy....This takes the story of the Game even further by viewing how it all started!A must read for all fans of the Game is Life Series... -
![Ashes by N.C. Reed]()
Ashes by N.C. Reed
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIts Thanksgiving on the Sanders Farm.Clayton Sanders and his collection of friends, family and even a few strangers have managed to keep themselves moderately safe in a vicious new world, brought about by the most massive Coronal Mass Ejection ever seen or recorded. Anything electrical and not protected from the surge of power has been completely fried... -
![Born Into Flames: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle]()
Born Into Flames: A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOut of the shadows and into the fire. When Valerie and Robin head north to take on an army of post-apocalyptic pirates, the deadly duo find themselves on a thrill-ride of air-ship battles and full-on assaults against pirate strongholds... -
![Division 5 by Krista Street]()
Division 5 by Krista Street
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith freedom, comes choice. Dr. Meghan Forester’s dream has finally come true. A vaccine for the deadly Makanza virus is spreading throughout the world. Borders are open. The Kazzies are free.But just when happiness and hope are infiltrating society, Meghan’s world comes tumbling down. Davin’s first love reappears. The Kazzies are incessantly harassed. A young girl falls gravely ill... -
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Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability... -
![Virtual Prophet by Terry Schott]()
Virtual Prophet by Terry Schott
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInside the Game, players struggle to survive in a world where technology no longer functions. On Tygon, fans are unable to view what is occurring inside the Game. Trew and Danielle rush to save both realities, but they are unable to know what the other is doing. The fate of reality depends on a Game, and time is about to run out.. -
![The Incarnator by Roman Prokofiev]()
The Incarnator by Roman Prokofiev
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the shattered fragments of the Black Moon collapsed onto planet Earth, splitting continents apart and flooding them with raging oceans, Darkness descended onto our world. The eruptions of hostile energy from behind the Edge distorted the laws of the physical world, creating new life forms which now threaten to take over the planet... -
![Warriors from the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Warriors from the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnder the command of Ben Raines, the Southern United States have defeated all comers -- and carved out a stronghold in the Southwest desert. But now, two powerful forces are crashing in against the rebels from the North and the South, and Raines has no choice but to strike back with everything he's got... -
![Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series by Ros Per]()
Volper (Alpha Rome Book 1): LitRPG Series by Ros Per
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPLEASE NOTE: This book was already released on Amazon and enjoyed considerable success with LitRPG readers. However, the inadequate amateurish translation of the sequel ruined the reading experience for many of the author's fans... -
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![Dissolution by Michele Notaro]()
Dissolution by Michele Notaro
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOh god, no! Oh god help me… how am I going to save them? There’s just so much… blood… everywhere… I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to keep them safe, but wherever I go more and more people are losing their lives, and nothing I do can save them. After so much loss, my family is breaking apart at the seams. The Taoree Legion is winning this war... -
![Nightfall by Joseph Zuko]()
Nightfall by Joseph Zuko
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJim and Karen Blackmore have discovered that when it comes to the zombie apocalypse, there is no such thing as safety in numbers. Between their separate groups of survivors is a city of the living dead, hungry for flesh and growing in numbers by the minute... -
![Dead Instinct by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Dead Instinct by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan be read as a standalone or companion to the Contamination series...! Don't trust what you eat. Don't trust what you drink. The infection is spreading... In a world plagued with violence and infection, Ken and Roberta Smith want nothing more than to find their son. Having been on the road for four days, they must now cross the remaining three hundred miles of desert wasteland to get to him... -
![Crisis in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Crisis in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Raines and his patriot army have defeated all comers, from mutant night people to the blackshirted forces of Jesus Mendoza Hoffman and the enemy axis in the Great War. But now the socialist dictators of the USA, smarting from their defeat at the hands of the Southern United States of America, have unleashed their fury against Raines... -
![The Enchanter by Roman Prokofiev]()
The Enchanter by Roman Prokofiev
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat’s this book about? - It’s about the ancient mysteries of the Earth ravaged by mysterious entities from over the Edge. About the Black Moon hovering over the planet’s one last remaining City and about its Legion created by Incarnators of old. About the Possessed warped by the power of primeval Darkness...Categorized as:
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![Grip of Evil by Sam J Fires]()
Grip of Evil by Sam J Fires
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore, there was ordinary life. Now, every minute is a fight to survive.Finally, Isaac pours his heart out to Cass about his troubled childhood.Larger than life personalities clash in Meadowview, and tragedy strikes again...Categorized as:
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![Fragmented by Terry Schott]()
Fragmented by Terry Schott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Game is Life - Book 8 Cooper has made mistakes. Lives were lost. Realties destroyed. Invited to join a mysterious and powerful group known as Wielders, he must learn whether his new powers are a blessing, or a curse... -
![The Long Walk Home by S.A. Ison]()
The Long Walk Home by S.A. Ison
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhich would be worse? Suffering an EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse? Or finding out that you've fallen back into time, five hundred years. Beckett Gray thinks the world has ended because all indications lead him to believe that an EMP has struck, and he is woefully unprepared. His car and cellphone have died near the Appalachian Trail, in the Cumberland Gap National Park...Categorized as:
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![Siege & Survival by T.W. Brown]()
Siege & Survival by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first winter has come, and with it, new problems. No longer are the zombies the biggest threat to survival. With the global infrastructure gone, people are forced to do whatever it takes to survive...even the unthinkable. Steve faces his toughest decision yet as he tries to lead his people through one nightmare after another... -
![Confrontation by T.W. Brown]()
Confrontation by T.W. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeveral months have passed since the dead began to walk. The first winter has taken its toll in more ways than one as humanity continues to struggle to survive. Not every threat to humanity comes form the undead as so many have discovered man's ability to sink into depravity with the absence of law and order. Time and again survivors have fought, run. and regrouped... -
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![This Alien Earth: The Complete Series: A Dystopian Sci-fi Box Set by Paul Antony Jones, Robert Greenberger]()
This Alien Earth: The Complete Series: A Dystopian Sci-fi Box Set by Paul Antony Jones, Robert Greenberger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGet the This Alien Earth Box Set, featuring all three books in the bestselling series by Paul Antony Jones. 1000+ pages in a futuristic adventure featuring a strong female lead, perfect for fans of Jeremy Robinson, Stephen King, and Lost ."A stunning sci-fi gem...Categorized as:
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![Race Across Spacetime by M.D. Cooper]()
Race Across Spacetime by M.D. Cooper
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Alliance has suffered an unimaginable loss: Tangel is dead. The crew of the I2 struggles to carry on, dealing with the impending occupation of New Sol and surrender of the Orion Freedom Alliance. But Bob harbors a suspicion, a kernel of hope, and sends the Falconer in search of additional survivors... -
![Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry]()
Broken Lands by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry returns to the world of Rot & Ruin with this first novel in a brand-new series that’s more thrilling and filled with exceptionally terrifying adventures.Ever since her mother’s death, Gabriella “Gutsy” Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar... -
![Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas, W.E.B. Du Bois]()
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas, W.E.B. Du Bois
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers.Fiction. Sister Lilith - Honoree Fanonne JeffersThe Comet - W.E.B. Du Bois Chicage 1927 - Jewelle GomezBlack No More (novel excerpt) - George S...Categorized as:
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![Digital Heretic by Terry Schott]()
Digital Heretic by Terry Schott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMillions on Earth are shaken by the events set in motion by Zack's final play...Billions on Tygon watch breathlessly as the consequences of his actions ripple through both worlds.Will his girlfriend, still inside the Game, step forward to lead the movement that he created?Billions of lives are in jeopardy of being lost...based on the decisions made by children inside the Game... -
![Advent by D. Gideon]()
Advent by D. Gideon
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRipley and her friends have escaped the University’s lockdown and started their journey home on foot. They’ve found an opportunity to get supplies they sorely need, but the risk is high. Marco insists that the world is already far more dangerous than it seems, while Ripley’s not yet convinced. She’s about to get a very bloody wake-up call...Categorized as:
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![Sycamore 2 by Craig A. Falconer]()
Sycamore 2 by Craig A. Falconer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter discovering the truth behind Sycamore, tech pioneer Kurt Jacobs rejects the corporation’s offer of a new identity and chooses to fight to expose the truth. But with an overt threat against his family hanging over him, Kurt must act without being seen... -
![Feral by P.J. Post]()
Feral by P.J. Post
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe’s just a teenager, hollow and lost, looking to keep the past buried, to forget. He surfs the backwash of the westward migration across a dead America; a war-torn desolation devoid of electricity, infrastructure and civilization. It has become a strange and unrecognizable land, rife with the worst of humanity. And his is a life without hope, equally dark and solitary. Until he meets Feral...Categorized as:
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![Dawn of the Singularity (The Singularity Saga #1) by David Simpson]()
Dawn of the Singularity (The Singularity Saga #1) by David Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Singularity. The point in human history when we begin to enhance our own intelligence with the intelligent technology we're creating. As humanity merges with its machines, will we forget what it means to be human? Meet Haalee, the artificial intelligence charged with taking humanity on the road to the singularity... -
![The Duality Bridge by Susan Kaye Quinn]()
The Duality Bridge by Susan Kaye Quinn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat does it mean to be human?Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He’s the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders—the human/machine hybrids who run the world—in solidarity with the legacy humans who will never get a chance to live forever.Too bad it’s all a complicated web of lies.Worse, Eli’s not even entirely human... -
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![The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge]()
The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"You wouldn't think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of millions of miles distant, would have anything to do with each other."When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor's toolshed, and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through...Categorized as:
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![Standoff in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Standoff in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Raines has been to hell before and made it out alive every time. But Ben hasn't come face-to-face with a fury like Claire Osterman, fanatical new president (for life) of the United States of America. Now she's handed dawn the first order of business: terminate the Southern United States of America -- and Ben Raines... -
![Meteor Storm by D.F. Capps]()
Meteor Storm by D.F. Capps
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings63,000 years ago, an ancient civilization existed far advanced over our own, but it was destroyed by a natural cataclysm. Now that same cataclysm is about to strike our modern world… When Carl stumbles upon an unknown robot’s head, he manages with some effort to get it working. From the robot, Carl learns that it was created by an ancient civilization 63,000 years ago in northern India... -
![Tyranny in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Tyranny in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe patriot army of Ben Raines went toe-to-toe with the most powerful enemy in the world--the USA--and fought its way through hellish chaos and terrorism. But for the free and the brave there is no rest-not when USA leader Claire Osterman has been ousted from power. Her reaction: A plan for revenge that will plunge the North American continent into bloody war... -
![Grip of Madness by Sam J Fires]()
Grip of Madness by Sam J Fires
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore, there was ordinary life. Now, every minute is a fight to survive.Isaac and Cass continue their harrowing journey, and are forced to perform an act they'd never dreamed they would ever have to do in their lives.Meanwhile in Meadowview, tensions are rising as tragedy hits the community...Categorized as:
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![Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern]()
Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks’ basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain "capital-T" Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great- grandfather Abe, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy... -
![Memory by Suki Williams, Jarica James]()
Memory by Suki Williams, Jarica James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gods are fading, most barely a memory, and I’m tasked with fixing it.My mission is simple:1. Open the last box.2. Control my powers.3. Get back to Lumen.But with gods, nothing is as it seems.After learning the gods’ true motives, I’m faced with the ultimate test... -
![Titan's Son by Rhett C. Bruno]()
Titan's Son by Rhett C. Bruno
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTitan’s revolution is coming. All it needs is one final spark. Kale Drayton knows his place. As a Ringer born on Titan, he's used to keeping his head down and his mouth shut - no matter how much the Earthers abuse him or his own kind berate him...Categorized as:
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![Anarchy in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Anarchy in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the aftermath of germ and nuclear warfare, of plague and pillage and bloody anarchy, the fate of a divided world hangs by a slender thread. Ben Raines and his SUSA Rebels are on one side. . .the enemies of freedom are on the other. There's only a slim chance America will make it, but it's a chance that wasn't there before... -
![Zeroglyph by Vance Pravat]()
Zeroglyph by Vance Pravat
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEx Machina meets Rear Window in a mind-bending sci-fi thriller about machine morality.Raphael is the holy grail of AI: a superintelligent robot that’s been programmed to be the perfect moral being. Or at least that’s what Andy, its creator, believes... -
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![Deception by Teri Terry]()
Deception by Teri Terry
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe second book in the spine-tingling Dark Matter trilogy. Finding the cause of a deadly epidemic and a cure has never been more urgent--or uncertain.Shay, one of the rare survivors of the epidemic sweeping the UK, has surrendered herself to the Army because she believes she's a carrier of the deadly disease... -
![Digital Evolution by Terry Schott]()
Digital Evolution by Terry Schott
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTen years have passed on Tygon since the Virtual Prophet woke the Dreamers. Games of life and death continue and the stakes for winning — or losing — promise to affect the inhabitants across three realities...Categorized as:
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![Taking it Back by Joseph Talluto]()
Taking it Back by Joseph Talluto
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTAKING IT BACK: BOOK TWO OF THE WHITE FLAG OF THE DEAD ZOMBIE SERIES Around every corner, they are waiting. In every dark alley, they are lurking. Behind every door, they are hiding. For each survivor of the Upheaval, every day brings the same grim reality: the dead are coming. For every community that managed to survive, for every band that came together, questions nag their minds... -
![White Flag of the Dead by Joseph Talluto]()
White Flag of the Dead by Joseph Talluto
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhite Flag of the Dead Book 1: Surrender of the Living. How would you expect the world to end? Would it be in a searing flash of light? Perhaps through the accumulated destruction of natural disasters? Or will it end with a gasp, a final surrender of life? Millions died when the Enillo Virus swept the earth... -
![Incursion by J.T. Sawyer]()
Incursion by J.T. Sawyer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe battle against one enemy from abroad has just ended while another on the ravaged streets of L.A. has just begun for Will Reisner and his team. A deadly game of pursuit is underway as Reisner and his fellow operators evade the Paras hunting them as they make their way through the burned-out shell of the city while awaiting a rescue that may never come... -
![The Second Wave by Krista Street]()
The Second Wave by Krista Street
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe thought the danger was past, but it was only the beginning... Two years ago, the Makanza virus was eradicated from the public. Now, everyone thinks they’re safe—including Davin. As the oldest among his siblings, Davin plans to leave for college after a short visit with his divorced father on the Cheyenne River Reservation...Categorized as:
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