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The outbreak begins with illness and confusion before the dead start moving again.
Survival
Dystopian · Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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The outbreak begins with illness and confusion before the dead start moving again. In Survival, college student Callie Norton wakes from a coma in a quarantine zone to find herself alone in the epicenter of a fast-spreading infection. With the city collapsing around her and the infected multiplying, Callie must escape a landscape where survival depends on staying one step ahead of the dead.
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I almost died. Virtually everyone else around me has died.
Now, the dead aren’t staying dead anymore.
I’ve somehow ended up locked in the very epicenter of the zombie apocalypse.
F*ck me.
Like most college students, all Callie Norton has worried about for weeks was passing this semester’s finals. After a night out celebrating, she and her friends wake up, sick with way more than the hangover of the century. All too soon, Callie realizes that this is not just a common cold she’s suffering from—and when she wakes up from a coma in a quarantine tent as the sole survivor, lack of food and water aren’t her only problems.
Things aren’t looking good for her to survive the next hour, let alone escape a city where most of the inhabitants have turned into crazed cannibals… and this is just the beginning.
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In a ruined world where the dead wander without memory or meaning, a flicker of feeling begins to return.
Warm Bodies
Dystopian
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In a ruined world where the dead wander without memory or meaning, a flicker of feeling begins to return. In Warm Bodies, a self-aware zombie known only as R drifts through the remains of civilization until he encounters a living girl he cannot bring himself to harm. Their strange connection awakens something long buried, turning a quiet undead existence into the fragile beginning of change.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
“Dark and funny.” —Wired
“A mesmerizing evolution of a classic contemporary myth.” —Simon Pegg
“A strange and unexpected treat…elegantly written, touching, and fun.” —Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife
A zombie returns to humanity through an unlikely encounter with love in this New York Times bestselling novel.
“R” is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cozy 747 he calls home, or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilization.
And then he meets a girl.
First as his captive, then his reluctant house guest, Julie is a blast of living color in R’s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn’t want to eat this girl—although she looks delicious—he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can’t imagine, and their hopeless world won’t change without a fight.
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Punishment becomes public spectacle in a near-future America where criminals are marked by color and released to face society’s judgment.
When She Woke
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Political Dystopia
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Punishment becomes public spectacle in a near-future America where criminals are marked by color and released to face society’s judgment. In When She Woke, Hannah Payne emerges from prison as a Red, branded for murder in a nation where religion and law have merged. Forced to survive in a hostile world that sees her as a walking confession, Hannah confronts the beliefs that once defined her life.
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Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned and rehabilitated but chromed—their skin color is genetically altered to match the class of their crimes—and then released back into the population to survive as best they can. Hannah is a Red; her crime is murder.
In seeking a path to safety in an alien and hostile world, Hannah unknowingly embarks on a path of self-discovery that forces her to question the values she once held true and the righteousness of a country that politicizes faith.
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A city built to survive the end of the world begins to fracture from within.
Blackfish City
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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A city built to survive the end of the world begins to fracture from within. In Blackfish City, a floating Arctic refuge struggles under corruption, inequality, and a spreading disease until a mysterious woman arrives riding an orca and quietly unites four outsiders. This climate dystopian thriller blends political unrest, found family, and speculative technology in a story of resistance and fragile hope.
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A team of outsiders unite to save a city of refugees and elites on a drowned Earth in this "action-packed science fiction thriller" (Washington Post).
A Best Book of the Month: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Tor.com, B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog, Amazon
"An ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble. . . . Miller has crafted a thriller that unflinchingly examines the ills of urban capitalism. . . . Rendered in poetic interludes." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population.
When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The "orcamancer," as she's known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.
Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.
"Miller's poetic prose gives this dystopian story a taut, lyrical edge." —Entertainment Weekly
"An incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of a family in a scarily plausible future." —Ann Leckie
"I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials." —Carmen Maria Machado
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They were raised for a future no one will explain.
Daughter of Nothing
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller
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They were raised for a future no one will explain. On a remote Caribbean island where the outside world lies in ruins, Jacey and her classmates train at the Scion School, knowing graduates vanish into a medical ward they never leave. In Daughter of Nothing, suspicion hardens into rebellion as Jacey fights to uncover the truth behind their conditioning in this tense, character-driven dystopian thriller.
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They call it the Scion School...
Jacey calls it a prison
She has no parents. None of the students on this remote Caribbean island do.
The world beyond? Destroyed by an asteroid impact long ago.
So what happens after graduation? The last class walked into the medical ward and were never seen again.
They've all been told lies. Lies and more lies!
Jacey hates herself for believing them for so long.
They've trained her body and mind to peak condition...for some purpose. But what?
Do they expect her to walk meekly into...whatever happens in the medical ward?
No. She will take it by storm. Full of fury. And she will rip the the Scion School apart to save herself and her friends.
To discover who she is.
And what she is.
Eric Kent Edstrom's compelling and genuine heroine, Jacey, will win your heart. Join this cast on an adventure full of action and twists you'll never see coming. Often compared to The Island and Never Let Me Go, this beloved series has YA dystopian fans raving for more.
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In a near future shaped by climate collapse, age becomes a crime in The Forcing.
The Forcing
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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In a near future shaped by climate collapse, age becomes a crime in The Forcing. When a youth-led government exiles older citizens to the southern deserts, David Ashworth and his wife are stripped of their home and forced into a brutal new reality. As rumors of sanctuary spark a desperate escape, survival demands moral compromise in this stark, unsettling climate thriller.
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In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom … at devastating cost…
'The dystopian future landscape of The Forcing comes with a heightened realism that grips and shakes you … provocative and insightful, visceral and terrifying' SciFi Now Book of the Month
' A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world' The Times
'Smart, gripping, and all too plausible … announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher' Tim Glister
The jaw-dropping, passionate and provocative climate-emergency thriller from one of the world's leading environmental scientists.
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Civilisation is collapsing…
Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off disaster, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism has been introduced. All those older than the prescribed age are deemed responsible for the current state of the world, and are to be 'relocated', their property and assets confiscated.
David Ashworth, known by his friends and students as Teacher, and his wife May, find themselves among the thousands being moved to 'new accommodation' in the abandoned southern deserts – thrown together with a wealthy industrialist and his wife, a high court lawyer, two recent immigrants to America, and a hospital worker. Together, they must come to terms with their new lives in a land rendered unrecognisable.
As the terrible truth of their situation is revealed, lured by rumours of a tropical sanctuary where they can live in peace, they plan a perilous escape. But the world outside is more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. And for those who survive, nothing will ever be the same again…
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Ninety percent of humanity has become something feral, and the last line of defense waits alone in a bunker for orders that may never come.
The Remaining
Dystopian · Military Sci-Fi
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Ninety percent of humanity has become something feral, and the last line of defense waits alone in a bunker for orders that may never come. In The Remaining, Captain Lee Harden emerges into a devastated America ruled by hyper-aggressive survivors and collapsing systems. This post-apocalyptic thriller follows one soldier’s mission to restore structure in a world stripped to violence and survival.
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The first volume in D.J. Molles's bestselling series, now in a special edition with the bonus novella The Remaining: Faith.
In a steel-and-lead encased bunker a Special Forces soldier waits on his final orders.
On the surface a bacterium has turned 90% of the population into hyper-aggressive predators.
Now Captain Lee Harden must leave the bunker and venture into the wasteland to rekindle a shattered America.
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When humanity vanishes overnight, those left behind must build meaning from silence.
A Choice of Gods
Dystopian · First Contact
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When humanity vanishes overnight, those left behind must build meaning from silence. In A Choice of Gods, a small group of humans and their devoted robots evolve into a tranquil, near-immortal society on an abandoned Earth. But the sudden return of a long-lost explorer brings revelations about where everyone went and whether the fragile peace of this pastoral future can survive their possible return.
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A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on an abandoned Earth in this novel by the Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station.
What if you woke up one morning on Earth . . . and no one else was there?
That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans, including Jason Whitney, his wife Martha, and the remnants of a tribe of Native Americans in the year 2135. Their inexplicable abandonment had unexpected benefits: the eventual development of mental telepathy and other extrasensory powers, inner peace, and best of all, near-immortality.
Now, five thousand years later, most of the remaining humans live a tranquil, pastoral life, leaving technological and religious exploration to the masses of robot servants who no longer have humans to serve. But the unexpected reappearance of Jason's brother, who had teleported to the stars many years before, threatens to change everything yet again—for John Whitney is the bearer of startling information about where Earth's population went and why—and the most disturbing news of all: They may finally be coming home again.
Nominated for the Hugo Award when it was originally published, Clifford D. Simak's brilliant and thought-provoking A Choice of Gods has lost nothing of its power to astonish and intrigue. A masterwork of speculative fiction, intelligent and ingenious, it is classic Simak, standing tall among the very best science fiction that has ever been written.
The third author to be honored as a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), Clifford D. Simak also received three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, an International Fantasy Award, and a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Permafrost opens in a frozen future where one fragile experiment may be humanity’s last chance.
Permafrost
Dystopian
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Permafrost opens in a frozen future where one fragile experiment may be humanity’s last chance. In 2080, scientists attempt to alter a single thread of the past to prevent climate collapse, while in 2028 a woman recovering from brain surgery begins to hear a second consciousness in her mind. This cerebral science fiction novella explores time travel, paradox, and the cost of rewriting history.
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A 2019 Locus Award finalist
A USA Today Bestseller
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.
2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.
2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own – one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.
Does she resist ... or become a collaborator?
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The Prepared Prepper begins with a mother who once rejected her survivalist roots, only to face the collapse she feared most.
The Prepared Prepper
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Prepared Prepper begins with a mother who once rejected her survivalist roots, only to face the collapse she feared most. When an EMP destroys the power grid, welder Stephanie must rely on the prepper skills she tried to leave behind to protect her twin daughters. As lawlessness spreads and threats close in, this post-apocalyptic thriller centers on resilience, hard choices, and the cost of keeping family alive.
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When 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. Forced to confront her past, she must outwit ruthless survivors and tap into the instincts she swore she’d never use again.
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As the city fractures, a twelve-year-old begins to see the world without illusions.
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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As the city fractures, a twelve-year-old begins to see the world without illusions. In Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Lola Hart records her family’s descent from comfort to survival as riots, disease, and unrest unravel New York around them. Told through her diary, this dystopian novel captures the quiet erosion of innocence against a backdrop of social collapse.
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl's diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her.
Until recently, Lola Hart's biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girl's once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but she's lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. It's gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lola's exclusive private school.
They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public school—but the Harts aren't alone in their troubles. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her family's attempts to adjust as the city and the country spin out of control
Jack Womack, a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In this novel, "Womack's stark vision of the United States's decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our own" (Los Angeles Review of Books).
"A heartrending coming-of-age story. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best." —Entertainment Weekly
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Last Ones Left Alive begins with survival drilled into muscle memory and a threat that never shows its face.
Last Ones Left Alive
Dystopian
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Last Ones Left Alive begins with survival drilled into muscle memory and a threat that never shows its face. Raised on a remote Irish island to fight the flesh-eating skrake, Orpen leaves safety behind when disaster strikes and sets out across a ravaged mainland in search of rumored female warriors. This post-apocalyptic novel blends stark lyricism with feral urgency in a coming-of-age story shaped by violence and belonging.
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"Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later." —Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters
"A riveting novel." —Eowyn Ivey, bestselling author of The Snow Child
Remember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives.
Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen's life has revolved around training to fight a threat she's never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors.
But that is where danger lies, too, in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake.
Then disaster strikes. Alone, pushing an unconscious Maeve in a wheelbarrow, Orpen decides her last hope is abandoning the safety of the island and journeying across the country to reach the legendary banshees, the rumored all-female fighting force that battles the skrake.
But the skrake are not the only threat…
Sarah Davis-Goff's Last Ones Left Alive is a brilliantly original imagining of a young woman's journey to discover her true identity.
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