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Imprisoned by the Party he served, a revolutionary is forced to confront the moral cost of absolute ideology.
Darkness at Noon
Dystopian
Our take
Imprisoned by the Party he served, a revolutionary is forced to confront the moral cost of absolute ideology. Darkness at Noon is a chilling portrait of political corruption, guilt, and confession under totalitarian rule. This restored classic by Arthur Koestler holds 4.5 stars on Amazon and lasting international recognition.
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The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.
Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic.
In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over thirty languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II.
In 2015, Matthias Weßel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: “Koestler, Arthur. Rubaschow: Roman. Typoskript, März 1940, 326 pages.” What he had found was Arthur Koestler’s original, complete German manuscript for what would become Darkness at Noon, thought to have been irrevocably lost in the turmoil of the war. With this stunning literary discovery, and a new English translation direct from the primary German manuscript, we can now for the first time read Darkness at Noon as Koestler wrote it.
Set in the 1930s at the height of the purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon is a haunting portrait of an aging revolutionary, Nicholas Rubashov, who is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearings by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and betrayals of a merciless totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
Koestler’s portrayal of Stalin-era totalitarianism and fascism is as chilling and resonant today as it was in the 1940s and during the Cold War. Rubashov’s plight explores the meaning and value of moral choices, the attractions and dangers of idealism, and the corrosiveness of political corruption. Like The Trial, 1984, and Animal Farm, this is a book you should read as a citizen of the world, wherever you are and wherever you come from.
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When terror attacks shatter the nation, college student Grace is left stranded and cut off from her family after one final phone call.
Locker Nine
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic · Techno-Thriller
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When terror attacks shatter the nation, college student Grace is left stranded and cut off from her family after one final phone call. Armed only with the survival skills her father taught her, she journeys through a collapsing world and into the sights of a dangerous opportunist. Locker Nine delivers gritty post-apocalyptic suspense with 4.5 stars on Amazon.
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When Grace left home for college her parents were concerned. They made sure she had the supplies and skills to stay safe if the worst happened. Then it did.
Highly recommended!
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, a different twist to the genre
A thrilling read!
A determined young woman and a disturbed young man clash in the apocalyptic aftermath of a nationwide terror attack.
Grace's dad taught her survival and self-defense, then sent her away to college hoping she'd never need those skills. All he wanted was to give her a fighting chance if something bad ever happened to her.
Then it did.
Near the end of Grace’s freshmen year, coordinated terror attacks take place at dozens of locations around the country – including on the campus of Grace’s university.
Grace and her father barely have time for a single rushed phone call before they lose signal. With her roommate in tow, Grace embarks on a treacherous journey home and ends up in the crosshairs of another desperate traveler -- a seriously disturbed gamer who sees nothing but opportunity in a world that now resembles that of his favorite video games.
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A good pick for readers who like lunar science fiction, complicated families, political intrigue, and survival on a hostile frontier.
The Menace from Farside
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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The Menace from Farside follows Cariad Corcoran and her unlikely new sister as they search the dangerous lunar frontier for the moon’s first footprint, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 160 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like lunar science fiction, complicated families, political intrigue, and survival on a hostile frontier.
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In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families.
Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works.
Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They're unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they're determined to find the moon's first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there.
Praise for Ian McDonald's Luna series
"McDonald's never written a bad novel, but Luna: New Moon is a great one."—Cory Doctorow
"With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. "—Los Angeles Review of Books
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In the final Mad Mick novel, Conor and his team gamble on a mission that could reignite national recovery or destroy what remains of their fragile alliance.
Hostile Takeover
Dystopian · Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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In the final Mad Mick novel, Conor and his team gamble on a mission that could reignite national recovery or destroy what remains of their fragile alliance. Set in a fractured America, this post-apocalyptic thriller blends action, loyalty, and hard-earned hope. Rated 4.8 stars on Amazon and Goodreads, and praised by longtime series readers.
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The eleventh installment in the bestselling series about a former contract assassin navigating the apocalypse with humor, charm, and explosive violence.
Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, Conor and his team are sheltering at the Banks Compound, desperate for some way to regain the momentum that billionaire Walter Lightspeed brought to the country. They’d been so close to recovery and now salvation slipped further away with each passing moment.
Desperate for a ray of hope amidst their grim reality, the team launches a mission to find someone who might be able to bring new energy to the national recovery effort. Someone America knows and respects. Someone who clawed their way up from poverty to build an empire. Someone plainspoken and unquestionably patriotic.
Yet even as the team attempts to kindle the flames of hope, forces beyond their control conspire against them and set in motion an event that will forever change this tight group of friends, family, and colleagues.
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Selected to help save Earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun is betrayed and frozen before his mission even begins.
The Omega Project
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Selected to help save Earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun is betrayed and frozen before his mission even begins. He wakes to a devastated world and a powerful technological enemy tied to his own past. This science-driven thriller delivers global stakes and ethical tension, earning 4.1 stars on Amazon and over 1,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A riveting thriller of catastrophe and one man's heroic effort to save the Earth, from the best selling author of the Meg series
On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to mine a rare ore that would provide for Earth's long-term energy needs. But as he and the rest of the team train under the ice shelf in preparation for the long journey, trouble erupts, and before they embark Eisenbraun is the odd man out, put into cold sleep against his will….
When Robert wakes, he finds the ship deserted and not functional. He escapes to the surface of an Earth terribly changed. The plan has gone horribly wrong, but as he adapts to a hostile environment, he realizes that there is still a way to accomplish what his mission had set out to achieve. But he also discovers that he faces a new adversary of the most unlikely sort. For now, his own survival and that of the woman whose love has sustained him in his darkest hours depend on the defeat of a technological colossus partly of his own making.
Confronting a foe that knows him almost as well as he knows himself, he faces the prospect of depending on resources that he has reason to believe will be available on one particular night of a full moon, a night foretold by a mysterious unseen ally to be a pivotal moment for the fate of the earth. The game has changed, and Earth's future depends on him and him alone.
The Omega Project is yet another edge-of-your-seat thriller by bestselling author, Steve Alten, leaving readers looking for more.
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After a viral outbreak turns the world into a nightmare, Casey Pearson is forced back to her survivalist father’s compound and into close quarters with her former high…
Dating After the End of the World
Dystopian · Romance · College Romance · New Adult · Political Dystopia
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After a viral outbreak turns the world into a nightmare, Casey Pearson is forced back to her survivalist father’s compound and into close quarters with her former high school bully. As danger rises, sparks ignite in unexpected ways. Readers praise Dating After the End of the World for its sharp humor, romantic tension, and apocalyptic stakes, with strong ratings on Amazon and Goodreads.
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There’s nothing like the undead to bring the living together in an action-packed and apocalyptically romantic genre-shattering novel by a #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father. At eighteen, tired of living an unconventional life, she left home, vowing never to return.
More than a decade later, a mysterious viral outbreak changes everything, including the people it infects, turning them into zombielike creatures. It’s the end of the world, and no one saw it coming—well, except for Casey’s father. With no place left to run and danger lurking around every corner, Casey is forced to return home.
Upon arrival, she’s surprised to find that her dad has hunkered down with a group of survivors, including her archnemesis, Blake Morrison, the high school bully who made Casey’s teenage years a living hell.
While struggling to live on the compound, face outside threats, and survive alongside her handsome enemy, Casey will learn that although the world has ended, hers is just beginning.
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After the apocalypse, a wisecracking crow discovers something that could change the fate of what remains.
Feral Creatures
Dystopian
Our take
After the apocalypse, a wisecracking crow discovers something that could change the fate of what remains. As feral animals clash and new horrors emerge, survival becomes inseparable from responsibility. Feral Creatures is a heartfelt, darkly funny post-apocalyptic tale of hope and found family, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 5,700 Goodreads ratings.
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MOST ANTICIPATED by Bustle • "Sci-Fi Thriller" recommendation from Buzzfeed • An Indie Next Pick
In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom and Seattle Times/Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller, the animal kingdom's "favorite apocalyptic hero" is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic (Helen Macdonald).
Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T. . .
When the world last checked-in with its favorite Cheeto addict, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry beasts, and nature had started re-claiming her territory from humankind. S.T., the intrepid crow, alongside his bloodhound-bestie Dennis, had set about saving pets that had become trapped in their homes after humanity went the way of the dodo.
That is, dear reader, until S.T. stumbled upon something so rare—and so precious—that he vowed to do everything in his power to safeguard what could, quite literally, be humanity's last hope for survival. But in a wild world plagued by prejudiced animals, feather-raising environments, new threats so terrifying they make zombies look like baby bunnies, and a horrendous dearth of cheesy snacks, what's a crow to do?
Why, wing it on another big-hearted, death-defying adventure, that's what! Joined by a fabulous new cast of animal characters, S.T. faces many new challenges plus his biggest one yet: parenthood.
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
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When the Internet suddenly collapses, society fractures into obsession, satire, and control.
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse
Dystopian
Our take
When the Internet suddenly collapses, society fractures into obsession, satire, and control. A grieving man follows rumors of a remaining online signal through a bizarre underground economy of lost data and human search engines. This sharp, unsettling sci-fi debut blends dark humor with cultural critique, earning 4.0 stars on Amazon and Editor’s Pick honors.
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When the Internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data and streaming entertainment in Wayne Gladstone's provactive novel, Notes from the Internet Apocalypse.
Addicts wander the streets talking to themselves in 140 characters or forcing cats to perform tricks for their amusement, while the truly desperate pin their requests for casual encounters on public bulletin boards. The economy tumbles and the government passes the draconian NET Recovery Act.
For Gladstone, the Net's disappearance comes particularly hard, following the loss of his wife, leaving his flask of Jamesons and grandfather's fedora as the only comforts in his Brooklyn apartment. But there are rumors that someone in New York is still online. Someone set apart from this new world where Facebook flirters "poke" each other in real life and members of Anonymous trade memes at secret parties. Where a former librarian can sell information as a human search engine and the perverted fulfill their secret fetishes at the blossoming Rule 34 club.
With the help of his friends---a blogger and a webcam girl, both now out of work---Gladstone sets off to find the Internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this Apocalypse?
For those of you wondering if you have WiFi right now, Wayne Gladstone's Notes from the Internet Apocalypse examines the question "What is life without the Web?"
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When his human suddenly falls apart, S.T., a domesticated crow, ventures into a ruined Seattle where humanity is disappearing fast.
Hollow Kingdom
Dystopian · Speculative Fiction
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When his human suddenly falls apart, S.T., a domesticated crow, ventures into a ruined Seattle where humanity is disappearing fast. With only his dog companion and half learned TV wisdom, he navigates zombies, chaos, and unexpected courage. A darkly funny, tender apocalypse novel by Kira Jane Buxton that blends survival, grief, and hope.
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A finalist for the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor!
"The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this big-hearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author).
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.
But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. starts to think something's not quite right. His tried-and-true remedies—from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis—fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators.
Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a cowardly crow whose only knowledge of the world comes from TV.
What could possibly go wrong?
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As climate disaster and political paralysis reshape America, a diverse cast of lives becomes dangerously intertwined.
The Deluge
Dystopian · Mystery · Sci-Fi · Thriller
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As climate disaster and political paralysis reshape America, a diverse cast of lives becomes dangerously intertwined. Scientists, activists, and extremists face impossible choices as collapse accelerates and fragile hope emerges. Widely acclaimed as prophetic and unforgettable, The Deluge is a New York Times Notable Book with 4.5 stars on Amazon and over 6,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.
In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come.
From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.
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A rabies-like virus with a one-hour incubation period sends society into collapse as a pediatrician races to save her pregnant friend before time runs out.
Survivor Song
Dystopian · Psychological Fiction
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A rabies-like virus with a one-hour incubation period sends society into collapse as a pediatrician races to save her pregnant friend before time runs out. Quarantines fail, fear spreads, and every mile carries new dangers. Survivor Song has earned 4.1 stars on Amazon, with Stephen King calling it “absolutely riveting.”
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A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
“Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen King
In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.
Dr. Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.
Natalie’s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares—terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink.
Paul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible novel that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.
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An EMP attack collapses society while Ben Davis and his son are stranded in the mountains.
Breakdown
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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An EMP attack collapses society while Ben Davis and his son are stranded in the mountains. Forced to travel across a broken country, Ben draws on his Army Ranger past to protect two teenagers in a world without power or mercy. A gritty survival thriller that launches a popular long running post apocalyptic series.
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Do you have what it takes to survive?
Ben Davis was prepared for disaster. He just didn’t know it would come so soon.
He and his teenage son, Joel, are miles deep in the backcountry of the San Juan Mountains when high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic detonations light up the pre-dawn sky. Ben, Joel, and their dog, Gunner, must make their way home – or to whatever’s left of it – on foot.
Without the ability to communicate with his ex-wife in Maryland, Ben has no idea if Joel’s brother and sister are okay. The two decide they have no options but to head East. Before their journey begins, they venture into town to check Ben’s outdoor store for supplies and discover one of Joel’s classmates, Allie, alone and in desperate need of help.
When Ben realizes Allie’s flight attendant mother is most likely dead and her father lives in Pittsburgh, he knows he has to take her with them. Ben must use the skills he learned as an Army Ranger many years ago to survive the post-apocalyptic world they now live in. Can he keep himself and two teenagers safe as they navigate the dark and dangerous road ahead?
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