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Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsThis edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party...Categorized as:
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![Alive by Courtney Konstantin]()
Alive by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRafe Duncan has been working his family’s compound for years in the event of a global catastrophe-- and doomsday has finally arrived. Both he and Charlie Brewer work at a facility where secret government experiments are carried out, experiments that are classified even to them. Then the plague breaks loose, and hell arrives on earth...Categorized as:
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsThe new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions...Categorized as:
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![The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr...Categorized as:
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![Blindness by José Saramago]()
Blindness by José Saramago
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsFrom Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women...Categorized as:
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![The Siege by Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
The Siege by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE BATTLE FOR THE GAP In the north, the collapsed section of the Wall is defended only by the decimated remains of 2 PARA. Even reinforced by Jameson and the exhausted Royal Marines of One Troop, it's a doomed delaying action at best - and the last choke point in the entire ZA faces an incoming tide of dead stretching to the ends of the Earth... THE RACE FOR THE CURE Finally united, Dr... -
![Eclipse Phase: The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror by Rob Boyle, Lars Blumenstein]()
Eclipse Phase: The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror by Rob Boyle, Lars Blumenstein
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEclipse Phase is the post-apocalyptic game of conspiracy and horror. Humanity is enhanced and improved, but also battered and bitterly divided. Technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone...Categorized as:
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Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley, Christopher Hitchens
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsThe astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class... -
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Breaking Jade by Quil Carter
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSkyfall, the only city that King Silas spared when he started the Fallocaust. It is a safe haven from the radiation, and a place where there is plant life, electricity, protection; things never seen or felt in the lawless, savage greywastes.In Skyfall lives a teenager named Jade, born and raised in the 'slum district' Moros by an insane mother... -
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All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen, Beware the Qu
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform and colonize Mars. After a brief but violent civil war between the two planets, the genetically engineered survivors begin a new wave of colonization, spreading across the galaxy. Everything is looking up for the human race.. -
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The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsWith a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award–winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr...Categorized as:
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 101 ratingsWinston Smith is a low-rung member of the Party, the ruling government of Oceania. He works in the Ministry of Truth, the Party's propoganda arm, where he is in charge of revising history. He is but a small brick in the pyramid that is the Party, at the head of which stands Big Brother. Big Brother the infallible. Big Brother the all-powerful...Categorized as:
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Undead Ultra by Camille Picott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUndead: a reanimated corpse with a craving for human flesh.Ultramarathon: any footrace longer than a traditional marathon (26.2 miles).For ultrarunners Kate and Frederico, a typical Saturday morning is spent pounding out a twenty- to thirty-mile “fun run.” It’s during one of their runs that an insidious illness descends upon northern California, turning humans into flesh-shredding zombies...Categorized as:
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Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse... -
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![The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe]()
The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWorlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future... -
![Recursion by Blake Crouch, سعید سیمرغ]()
Recursion by Blake Crouch, سعید سیمرغ
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 77 ratingsMemory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes...Categorized as:
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Event Horizon by Steven Konkoly
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrevious cover edition for ASIN B00I0DP2U2For alternate cover edition see hereThe critically acclaimed post apocalyptic saga continues...With Boston collapsing faster than Alex Fletcher predicted, his personal rescue mission deep into the heart of an increasingly unfamiliar city reaches a critical point... -
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Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth... -
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Fallocaust by Quil Carter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOver two hundred and thirty years ago the Fallocaust happened, killing almost everything that lived and creating what is now known as the greywastes. A dead wasteland where cannibalism is a necessity, death your reality, and life before the radiation nothing but pictures in dog-eared magazines... -
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Wayward by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...Categorized as:
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Darkness Rising by Justin Bell, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the end arrives, how far will you go to save the ones you love? When a terrorist plot results in the detonation of several nuclear devices across the West Coast, the Frasers are thrown into disarray and their strained familial relationships are tested as they watch society collapse around them...Categorized as:
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![Ashfall Apocalypse: An Apocalyptic Thriller by M.L. Banner]()
Ashfall Apocalypse: An Apocalyptic Thriller by M.L. Banner
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeadly earthquakes, colossal tidal waves, catastrophic destruction...And that’s just the beginning.When a string of volcanoes erupts along the Pacific Rim, the shockwaves annihilate city after city, leaving all-out chaos in its wake.For Ron Ash and a small Texas town, they find themselves at ground zero when an enormous dam breaks and wipes away everything in its path, including Ron's wife...Categorized as:
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![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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Strung III: The Last Drop by Per Jacobsen
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this third—and final—book in the STRUNG series, Randall Morgan and David Pearson face their biggest challenge yet.In the form of a half-empty IV bag once connected to Randall's son, they have found a means that might be used to fight the evil that has infected the world.The question remains, though, whether they can bring themselves to use it... -
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![The Wall by Marlen Haushofer]()
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFirst published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self-renewal...Categorized as:
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Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeld in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet... -
![Edge of the Breach by Halo Scot]()
Edge of the Breach by Halo Scot
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe all become monsters at the edge of the breach. In a post-apocalyptic world where season of birth determines power — spring healers, summer mages, fall shapeshifters, and winter shields — a man and a woman emerge from tragic childhoods to lead humanity on opposite sides of an interrealm war.▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀There is a hole in the sky. They call it the Rift. A portal to the gods... -
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Before Mars by Emma Newman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAfter months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist-in-residence. Already she feels like she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth--and she'll be on Mars for over a year. Throwing herself into her work, she tries her best to fit in with the team... -
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The Long Walk by Richard Bachman, Stephen King
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsOn the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as The Long Walk. If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue...Categorized as:
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![Atlas Alone by Emma Newman]()
Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world... -
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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...Categorized as:
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![Twisted by Esme Devlin]()
Twisted by Esme Devlin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe new world is small and dark.Ruthless men rule in this new world. Violent men. Twisted men.Men like Baron. A monster in a metal mask. A self-made king in his own kingdom, his notorious cruelty is only overshadowed by his madness.I caught his eye while dancing for my life. He saved me -- and now he owns me. Utterly.He dresses me. Possesses me. Watches me while I sleep... -
![Descent by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Descent by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead will rise and the living will fall. The zombies have trapped them. Just a small band of survivors, alone in a building surrounded by hordes.Ken's family is shattered. His wife doesn't trust him. His son is gone. And his daughters... are changing.The survivors want to fight. To live. But some of them will not survive. Some will die - or worse. And the rest will find that the only way out...Categorized as:
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![The Last Town by Blake Crouch]()
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed...Categorized as:
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![The Last War by Ryan Schow]()
The Last War by Ryan Schow
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSan Francisco is collapsing. The McNamara family is scattered across a city at war. They’re riding the hard edge of a civilization facing extinction and they are far from safe. With the population in swift decline, life has become a death sentence. The McNamara’s are an ingenious, resilient bunch, however, and they refuse to take the collapse of the modern world lying down...Categorized as:
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![Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle]()
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsBefore you see the movie, read the original novel! First published more than thirty-five years ago, Pierre Boulle's chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history, from the classic 1968 movie starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, through four sequels and two television series . . . and now the newest film adaptation directed by Tim Burton...Categorized as:
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Starfish by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness... -
![The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy]()
The Unfamiliar Garden by Benjamin Percy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe night the sky fell, Jack and Nora Abernathy’s daughter vanished in the woods. And Mia’s disappearance broke her parents’ already fragile marriage. Unable to solve her own daughter’s case, Nora lost herself in her work as a homicide detective... -
![Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing alive just means you have more to lose. The zombies are changing. Growing faster. Stronger. Smarter. Working together to destroy all of humanity.Ken Strickland has found his family. But finding something and keeping it are two very different things.The survivors are bruised. They are broken. And they are about to find out that the worst monsters are among those they count as their friends...Categorized as:
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![Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager]()
Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch the flame to her cigarette. She inhales. The tip roils cinder. A line of flame draws down the paper, crossing the band, down the filter. It touches her lips and her entire face is a blaze... -
![The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley]()
The Things That Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHow far would you go to protect your family?Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see...Categorized as:
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![The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell]()
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsZombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself - and keeping her demons inside... -
![Sleepers by Jacqueline Druga]()
Sleepers by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA normal spring morning cascades into a nightmare world for Mera Stevens as 1.8 billion children simultaneously fall ill and then vanish from the face of the earth. Her son, Jeremy, is one of them.Increased natural disasters, onslaught of disease and other phenomena throws the world into chaos as it balances on the brink of extinction... -
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![Stranger by Simon Clark]()
Stranger by Simon Clark
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe small town of Sullivan has barricaded itself against the outside world. It is one of the last enclaves of civilization and the residents are determined that their town remain free from the strange and terrifying plague that is sweeping the land—a plague that transforms ordinary people into murderous, bloodthirsty madmen. But the transformation is only the beginning... -
![House of Stairs by William Sleator]()
House of Stairs by William Sleator
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne by one, five sixteen-year-old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere, except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives...Categorized as:
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![No Time by Bonnie R. Paulson]()
No Time by Bonnie R. Paulson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll of humanity will get the virus. Who dies and who lives depends on her. Can Cady convince anyone that the virus to end all viruses is about to be released? Or will she have to quarantine her family and hope that at least their small haven will be spared? One loss, and then another and another bombard Cady and her small family and she realizes no one is safe...Categorized as:
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![I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison]()
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFirst published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition... -
![Cost of Survival by Bonnie R. Paulson]()
Cost of Survival by Bonnie R. Paulson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy dad predicted World War III would happen in our lifetime. He was right. Mom's bleeding in my arms right now. She could die any moment, but not before she's made me promise three things: Pray. Don't trust anyone. Stay alive. I promised, but I don't know if I can keep them. Not surviving World War III doesn't scare me, it's surviving it that does... -
![Todd by Adam J. Nicolai]()
Todd by Adam J. Nicolai
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWithout warning on a sunny June afternoon, all life on Earth vanishes. Reeling and alone in the aftermath, Alan and his son Todd scrounge through the ruins of civilization to survive.Finding food and water is easy. Electric power is harder...
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