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Playground by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home...Categorized as:
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![Flee by J.J. Pike, Mike Kraus]()
Flee by J.J. Pike, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMELT has gone global, threatening humanity's very existence. While some choose to fight - others choose to save their own skin. A new, intensely thrilling series, MELT has received unanimous praise from beta readers and early reviewers alike. Written by JJ Pike and Mike Kraus, MELT examines a part of our world that we often take for granted... -
![Beyond Borders by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry]()
Beyond Borders by Bobby Akart, Peter Vincent Pry
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThey never saw it coming.The most technologically advanced missile defense system in the world ...Thousands of eyes, both human and artificial intelligence trained on the Axis of Evil - North Korea and Iran.The one direction they didn't look, was up.Nuclear Armageddon hangs over America like a mighty sword as The Lone Star Series continues with book two, BEYOND BORDERS... -
![The Wump World by Bill Peet]()
The Wump World by Bill Peet
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Pollutians invade the Wump World and turn the green meadows into a concrete jungle...Categorized as:
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![The Free People's Village by Sim Kern]()
The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. For twenty years, Democrats have controlled all three branches of government, enacting carbon-cutting schemes that never made it to a vote in our world. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S...Categorized as:
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![A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii by Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane]()
A Day of Fire: A Novel of Pompeii by Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPompeii was a lively resort flourishing in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius at the height of the Roman Empire. When Vesuvius erupted in an explosion of flame and ash, the entire town would be destroyed. Some of its citizens died in the chaos, some escaped the mountain's wrath . . . and these are their stories: A boy loses his innocence in Pompeii's flourishing streets... -
![The Mechanics by Bobby Akart]()
The Mechanics by Bobby Akart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow do the weak vanquish the powerful?America has been crippled by a false flag, cyber attack event and martial law has been implemented across the nation. A President, desperate to hold onto power, works in conjunction with the United Nations and uses the collapse event as a way to abolish the constitutional rights of Americans... -
![The Prepared Prepper by William Stone]()
The Prepared Prepper by William Stone
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen an EMP wipes out the power grid, Stephanie’s world shatters, and survival is no longer a choice. It’s a necessity. A skilled welder who built her life on hard work, she spent years running from her prepper upbringing, determined to give her twin daughters a normal life. But as chaos erupts and danger closes in, the skills she rejected may be the only thing keeping them alive... -
![15 Miles From Home by P.A. Glaspy]()
15 Miles From Home by P.A. Glaspy
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThey said it wasn't possible. It shouldn't have happened. Yet it did. The world as they knew it was gone. Technology all but disappeared. Everything that defined their modern lives dead in one big flash. No more luxuries, only survival. Now if they can just figure out how to do that... -
![Another 20 Miles by P.A. Glaspy]()
Another 20 Miles by P.A. Glaspy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFor some, the road leads to salvation. For others, it's the last chance for freedom. The Chambers family has come to grips with the world as they knew it being gone. They know the city is the last place they want to be. With no modern vehicles working, they need another way to get out. They just have to figure out what that is... -
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Ensin palasivat linnut by Anne Kovalainen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsHyytävä tarina luonnonmullistuksen jälkeisestä maailmasta, jonka elämänmenoa varjostaa eristäytyneestä saaresta säteilevä paha.Yhdeksänvuotias Sanelma ja hänen vanhempi sisarensa Sirja ovat pelastuneet luonnonkatastrofista, jossa osa tunnettua maailmaa tuntuu lakanneen olemasta...Categorized as:
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![The Last American by William C. Heine]()
The Last American by William C. Heine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMain characters survives multiple nuclear attacks from Soviets who have wiped-out the population of the Americas with a designer plague.The action then follows one man as he gets his wife and two sons to the upper northern wilds of Quebec... -
![A Year Without a Winter by Dehlia Hannah, Brenda Cooper]()
A Year Without a Winter by Dehlia Hannah, Brenda Cooper
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsToday, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges...Categorized as:
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![Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi]()
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Neverland by Alan Barnes, Paul McGann]()
Doctor Who: Neverland by Alan Barnes, Paul McGann
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Web of Time is stretched to breaking. History is leaking like a sieve. In the Citadel of Gallifrey, the Time Lords fear the end of everything that is, everything that was... everything that will be... -
![How to Bee by Bren MacDibble]()
How to Bee by Bren MacDibble
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a world where real bees are extinct, the quickest, bravest kids climb the fruit trees and pollinate the flowers by hand. Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee...Categorized as:
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![Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee]()
Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'You said that you would come back. You looked me in the eye and said that. Well, if you had, this is what you would have seen: soft wood, black cracks, fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.'In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded 'For Sale' signs line the streets. The sea is higher - it's higher everywhere - and those who can are moving inland... -
![The High House by Jessie Greengrass]()
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies...Categorized as:
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![The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan]()
The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'This hypnotic debut novel brilliantly captures the unease of our times.' Jane Caro'Wildly entertaining and frighteningly plausible.' James Bradley'A whip smart thriller with big ideas and big heart.' Steven AmsterdamA pandemic is racing through our world, changing people subtly but irrevocably. The first sign for some is losing their faith... -
![Wool Gathering by W.J. Davies, Ann Christy]()
Wool Gathering by W.J. Davies, Ann Christy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLong after the dust has settled and the survivors of the Silo Saga have gone to seed, Hugh Howey's bestselling WOOL trilogy continues to captivate readers worldwide. The power of Hugh's story is underscored all the more by the number of authors who have embraced the invitation to tell their own stories in his ever-expanding world... -
![The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins]()
The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and electrifyingly relevant climate utopia novel follows a family navigating a crisis both personal and political, illuminating humanity’s capacity for change...Categorized as:
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![Grip of Darkness by Sam J Fires]()
Grip of Darkness by Sam J Fires
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe nation goes dark. Technology fails. Help isn't coming.An EMP has destroyed the nation's power grid.When an EMP shuts down power worldwide, eighteen-year-old Charlie Drews immediately meets death in the way of her neighbor Mrs. Butler who succumbs to a lethal heart attack. Charlie and her grandma Ruby must baton down the hatches to get through the power down and the bitter wintry storm...Categorized as:
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BROKEN EARTH: DEVASTATION by Barbara J. Barker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAre you ready for the end of the world? Brace yourself for a thrilling ride as the Earth is delivered a mortal blow in BROKEN DESTRUCTION, the first book in a gripping new thriller series.On a typical Tuesday in an average July week, all of Iceland's volcanoes erupt at once, followed by the complete destruction of the Azores Archipelago and the violent sundering of the Atlantic Ocean... -
![Crimson Dawn by Eliza Green]()
Crimson Dawn by Eliza Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey faced their greatest challenge. The worst is yet to come.Three weeks have passed since Investigator Bill Taggart learned of his wife’s fate and Anton attacked District Three. New restrictions await him at work. But when Bill demands the conditions be lifted, his boss asks for a disturbing favour in return.Laura O’Halloran embraces her new life without Seasonal Affective Disorder... -
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![The Hab Theory by Allan W. Eckert]()
The Hab Theory by Allan W. Eckert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Eckert's plotline is terrifying and provides the reader with intense action, character developments that reek with reality, and some of the finest mind-bending writing in a long, long time."-Cincinnati Enquirer"Intrigue, love, high imagination, politics, White House and residential drama, cunning skill, technique and an overpowering sense of disaster...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: Davros by Lance Parkin, Colin Baker]()
Doctor Who: Davros by Lance Parkin, Colin Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a full-cast original audio play produced by Big Finish Productions.AI stock has shot up by over fifteen percent on news that galaxy-famous scientist Davros, controversial creator of the Daleks, has been hired to work on unspecified technological projects.'Davros has been given the chance to redeem himself... -
![Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist]()
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need“This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of world-building. We, as earthlings, will be better to the earth after experiencing this book. That is not hyperbole...Categorized as:
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![Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell]()
Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy...Categorized as:
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![All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall]()
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... -
![Every Version of You by Grace Chan]()
Every Version of You by Grace Chan
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time inside a hyper-immersive, hyper-consumerist virtual reality called Gaia. They log on, go to work, socialise, and even eat in this digital utopia. Meanwhile their aging bodies lie suspended in pods inside cramped apartments...Categorized as:
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![The Auction by Elci North]()
The Auction by Elci North
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push up the birth rate are enacted that strip women of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose who to marry, and the right to raise her biological child... -
![Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson]()
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Melancholy Elephants (1982)Half an Oaf (1976)High Infidelity (1984)Antinomy (1978)In the Olden Days (1984)Chronic Offender (1981)No Renewal (1977)Common Sense (1985)Rubber Soul (1982)Concordiat to "Rubber Soul" (1985) essayFather Paradox (1985)True Minds (1984)Satan's Children (1979)Not Fade Away... -
![What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy]()
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAt the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A...Categorized as:
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![The Wall by Gautam Bhatia]()
The Wall by Gautam Bhatia
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMithila’s world is bound by a Wall enclosing the city of Sumer—nobody goes out, nothing comes in. The days pass as they have for two thousand years: just enough to eat for just enough people, living by the rules. Within the city, everyone knows their place. But when Mithila tries to cross the Wall, every power in Sumer comes together to stop her... -
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![EVE-0 by Danielle Gomes]()
EVE-0 by Danielle Gomes
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a team of scientists discovers the deadly consequences of a human gene they dub “the evolution gene,” they quickly realize that the human race is on the brink of extinction. As pandemic after pandemic ravages the world, symptomatic of the looming eradication of all humankind, this team heads to the Amazon for one last chance to save humanity...Categorized as:
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![The Prepared: An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Thriller Boxset by Colton Lively]()
The Prepared: An EMP Post Apocalypse Prepper Thriller Boxset by Colton Lively
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrepare and Survive.When an EMP cripples the nation's power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Bailey Smith must rescue her family from the city and bring them to a remote cabin in the West Virginia mountains... -
![Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar]()
Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years Kitty Hawke has lived alone on Wolfe Island, witness to the island’s erosion and clinging to the ghosts of her past. Her work as a sculptor and her wolfdog Girl are enough. News of mainland turmoil is as distant as myth until refugees from that world arrive: her granddaughter Cat, and Luis and Alejandra, a brother and sister escaping persecution...Categorized as:
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![Altered Reality by Eliza Green]()
Altered Reality by Eliza Green
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir lies are only the beginning. Investigator Bill Taggart’s emotional scars hurt less following his confrontation with the Indigene, Stephen. But his life upends a second time when he receives a set of coded letters, written by his missing wife... -
![Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Sarena Ulibarri, D.K. Mok]()
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers by Sarena Ulibarri, D.K. Mok
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSolarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is...Categorized as:
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![Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against by Hugh Howey, Gary Whitta]()
Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against by Hugh Howey, Gary Whitta
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe arc of history is unpredictable, and no one knows where it's headed. But that's never stopped speculative fiction writers from shouting out a warning.Join twenty-seven of today's top science fiction authors as they write about possible tomorrows we hope to avoid, drawing on challenges taken from today's headlines... -
![The Leaky Establishment by David Langford]()
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
![Monsters by Peter Cawdron]()
Monsters by Peter Cawdron
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMonsters is a dystopian novel set against the backdrop of the collapse of civilization.The fallout from a passing comet contains a biological pathogen, not a virus or a living organism, just a collection of amino acids, but these cause animals to revert to the age of the mega-fauna, when monsters roamed Earth.Bruce Dobson is a reader. With the fall of civilization, reading has become outlawed...Categorized as:
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![Just After the Wave by Sandrine Collette, Alison Anderson]()
Just After the Wave by Sandrine Collette, Alison Anderson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA small boat, alone on the furious ocean. A family stranded on an island, battered by waves on all sides. A decision which looms, unavoidable, on the horizon. When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on a summit, stands firm... -
![No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander]()
No Flight Without the Shatter by Brooke Bolander
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares literary DNA with Le Guin" (John Scalzi).After the world's end, the last young human learns a final lesson from Earth's remaining animals.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied...Categorized as:
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![Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi]()
Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIncludes one short story and one long story by Mahasweta Devi:'The Hunt,' 'Douloti the Bountiful' and the novelette 'Pterodactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha;' with a long interview with the author and two texts by the translator... -
![THE COPY by Grant Boshoff]()
THE COPY by Grant Boshoff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbitious geneticist Geoffrey Bartell is fighting for his life. His company is under legal and political attack while his marriage crumbles around him. Desperate to recapture his once idyllic life he comes upon the perfect solution by creating a copy of himself, and together they set about picking up the pieces. But the perfection is short-lived, as the two’s priorities begin to diverge... -
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Uranians: Stories by Theodore McCombs
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the “Uranian”—a man who loved other men. Some went so far as to propose that these “intermediate sexes” might, in fact, constitute a totally different species, even serve as intrepid guides in our march toward an uncertain future...Categorized as:
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![The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, James John Bell]()
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, James John Bell
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAn enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of Earth. In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from some form of ailment... -
![Veil by Eliot Peper]()
Veil by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen her mother dies in a heat wave that kills twenty million, Zia León abandons a promising diplomatic career to lead humanitarian aid missions to regions ravaged by drought, wildfires, and sea level rise.What Zia doesn't know is that clandestine forces are gathering around her in pursuit of a colossal secret: someone has hijacked the climate, and the future of human civilization is at stake...Categorized as:
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![No Higher Ground: (A Sam Czerny Novel - Book One) by Roman Godzich]()
No Higher Ground: (A Sam Czerny Novel - Book One) by Roman Godzich
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSam Czerny’s career as a xenobiologist was relegated to studying strange life forms deep in the oceans. Then a Chinese mining facility discovers an unusual artifact on the far side of the moon. A device which could change the way humanity sees itself and its place in the galaxy. Sam finds himself on the project of his dreams only to get caught up in a sudden war between the US and China...
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