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226 past books matching Post-Apocalyptic
A strong match for readers drawn to supernatural horror, government conspiracies, violent apocalyptic threats, and complicated family histories.
Fever House
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror · Suspense
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Called “exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace” by Stephen King, Fever House follows a small-time criminal who discovers a severed hand that drives anyone nearby toward uncontrollable violence. As government agents close in and Portland descends into chaos, an agoraphobic former singer and her son are pulled into the struggle and forced to confront family secrets tied to humanity’s survival, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to supernatural horror, government conspiracies, violent apocalyptic threats, and complicated family histories.
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“Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read Fever House now.”—STEPHEN KING
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .
But it’s all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband—suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.
When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead—secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.
Can you resist the hand? Find an excerpt from the next Fever House novel, The Devil by Name, at the end of the book.
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Long before humanity took to the skies, a shattered world faced the first wave of annihilation from machines built to outlast it.
Into the Storms
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Long before humanity took to the skies, a shattered world faced the first wave of annihilation from machines built to outlast it. In Into the Storms, three men on separate paths are pulled into the aftermath of the Machine War as dormant threats reawaken, radioactive ruins conceal new dangers, and survival depends on facing a relentless enemy bent on human extinction.
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In the shadow of extinction, legends are forged. From the New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Into the Storms, the untold origin story of humanity’s darkest day.
Two and a half centuries before the Hell Divers, the Machine War erupted—autonomous killer robots turning Korea into a battlefield that threatened to consume civilization. As the dust settles, three men stand at the crossroads of humanity’s fate.
CEO Tyron Red, thrust into leadership of the Industrial Tech Corporation after his father’s death, works to reverse the war’s catastrophic effects while battling enemies, both human and machine, lurking in the shadows.
Sergeant Santiago Rodriguez returns to his family in San Diego, a soldier without a war, struggling to pay bills until an ITC contract draws him back to Korea—now transformed into a radioactive wasteland harboring dark secrets that could ignite global conflict.
Corporal Cecil Pepper battles a different kind of enemy while working surveillance for the Charlotte Crime Task Force. When a raid against city gangs goes tragically wrong, Cecil and his wife flee to the mountains of North Carolina seeking safety—unaware that an enemy once thought defeated is awakening across the globe.
As peace crumbles and forgotten machines reactivate, Tyron, Santiago, and Cecil must confront a merciless foe whose only directive is humanity’s extinction. Long before the first Hell Divers leaped from their airships, these heroes stood firmly on the ground to face the storm.
Welcome to the end of the world as they knew it.
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It fits readers who want zombie horror grounded in political unease, bleak tension, and a fully realized collapsed America.
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The world ended through a cure, and what remains is ruled by fear, infection, and the brutal logic of survival. In Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection, Mira Grant expands her post-apocalyptic universe through stories that trace the human cost of a man-made virus and the lives shaped in its aftermath. It fits readers who want zombie horror grounded in political unease, bleak tension, and a fully realized collapsed America.
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Collected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York Times Bestseller Mira Grant's acclaimed Newsflesh series, with two new never-before published novellas and all eight short works available for the first time in print.
We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, a man-made virus taking over bodies and minds, filling them with one, unstoppable command. . . FEED.
Mira Grant creates a chilling portrait of an America paralyzed with fear. No one leaves their houses and entire swaths of the country have been abandoned. And only the brave, the determined, or the very stupid, venture out into the wild.
Contents:
Countdown
Everglades
Sand Diego 2014
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
All the Pretty Little Horses
Coming to You Live
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Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
2389
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror · Sci-Fi
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A luxury amusement park on the moon sounds fun right up until it sends out a distress call and then goes completely silent. 2389 takes that already terrible setup and runs with it, sending a team into Grand Galaxies to find out what went wrong and uncovering something far worse than a broken ride. Fast, gruesome, and built for readers who like their sci-fi with a serious body count.
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The happiest place in the galaxy just sent out a distress call...
Grand Galaxies is the most expensive amusement park ever created, built on the surface of the moon. For decades, rich families and honeymooning couples have gone there to have the time of their lives and no one has ever returned disappointed...
But communication with the moon has been lost.
Someone needs to go up there and see what’s wrong.
A unique and terrifying experience by a master of the genre. Sci-fi meets horror head on with the terrifying 2389. Grab your copy now and experience the fear for yourself.
"Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me." - J.A.Konrath
"Iain Rob Wright is sick and twisted!" - David Moody.
"Cuddle up to this novel and it might rip your throat out. A fun, thrilling read!" David T. Wilbanks - Co-author of Dead Earth: The Vengeance Road
"One of the BEST horror books I have read in YEARS!" - Eric S. Brown, author of Last Stand in a Dead Land.
"Iain Rob Wright brings true excitement to the horror genre, with wholly original stories and characters to route for." - Ryan C Thomas, author of Hissers, Rating's Game, and Origin of Pain.
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship.
The Deep Sky
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Speculative Fiction
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship. The Deep Sky follows a generation ship mission carrying Earth’s last hope, where one deadly explosion leaves the crew terrified, suspicious, and increasingly willing to turn on each other. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is stuck at the center of the chaos in this tense sci-fi thriller that blends space survival, buried secrets, and the kind of pressure that makes trust feel almost fictional.
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Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.
They left Earth to save humanity. They’ll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
As the mystery unfolds on the ship, poignant flashbacks reveal how Asuka came to be picked for the mission. Despite struggling through training back on Earth, she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left.
With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again.
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The Shockwave Rider feels unsettlingly ahead of its time, dropping readers into a future drowning in data, surveillance, bureaucracy, and identity collapse.
The Shockwave Rider
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Shockwave Rider feels unsettlingly ahead of its time, dropping readers into a future drowning in data, surveillance, bureaucracy, and identity collapse. At the center is Nickie Haflinger, a fugitive who keeps reinventing himself to stay ahead of the system trying to reprogram him. Sharp, paranoid, and packed with big ideas, this is the kind of science fiction that reads less like old-school speculation and more like a warning that showed up early.
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In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him, in this smart, edgy novel by a Hugo Award–winning author.
Constantly shifting his identity among a population choking on information, innovation, and novelty, Nickie Haflinger is a most dangerous outlaw, yet he doesn't even appear to exist. As global society falls apart in all directions, with corporate power run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats, Haflinger is caught and about to be re-programmed. Now he has to try to escape once again, defy the government—and turn the tide of organizational destruction, in this visionary science fiction novel by the author of The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar.
"Brunner writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it." —The New York Times Book Review
"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write the book, I was fascinated—but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has, with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it as twitched at me ever since." —Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock
"One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to save us from ourselves." —SF Site
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A good pick for readers who want dystopian science fiction about civil collapse, unlikely allies, and speculative medicine.
Aftermath
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called “an amazingly good first novel” by Rocky Mountain News, Aftermath imagines an America fractured by assassination, economic collapse, civil war, famine, and disease. Three strangers are drawn together by a mysterious cry for help from a woman who may hold the key to a different future. A good pick for readers who want dystopian science fiction about civil collapse, unlikely allies, and speculative medicine.
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The acclaimed actor's shockingly prescient science fiction novel "presents a near-future United States torn apart by civil war and deep racial strife" (Tampa Bay Times).
In 2012, the first African American president is assassinated by a white extremist—just four days after he is elected. The horrific tragedy leads to riots, financial collapse, and ultimately, a full-on civil war. In its aftermath, millions are left homeless as famine and disease spread throughout the country.
But from Chicago, a mysterious voice cries out . . .
To Leon Crane, a former NASA scientist now struggling to survive on the streets, the pleas he hears remind him of the wife he could not save—and offer him a chance at redemption.
To Jacob Fire Cloud, a revered Lakota medicine man, the voice is a sign that the White Buffalo Woman has returned to unite all the races in peace and prosperity.
And to little Amy Ladue, the cries are those of her mother, who disappeared during the devastating St. Louis earthquake—and who must still be alive.
These three strangers will be drawn together to rescue someone they have never met, a woman who holds the key to a new future for humanity—one remarkably brimming with hope.
"LeVar Burton brings a strong new voice to science fiction with this powerful, even disturbing, novel." —Ben Bova, New York Times–bestselling author
"An amazingly good first novel." —Rocky Mountain News
"I highly recommend this book!" —Whoopi Goldberg
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The headaches vanish the same morning the world does.
The Last
Dystopian · Horror · Post-Apocalyptic
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The headaches vanish the same morning the world does. In The Last, comic book artist Amo wakes from a mysterious illness to find America silent except for the dead roaming its cities. Alone in a collapsing world, he fights his way out of New York while trying to understand why he survived and what the undead truly are.
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7 billion zombies. 1 man alive.
One year ago talented comic book artist Amo fell into a mysterious coma and almost died. It left him with crushing day-long headaches, until one morning the pain is simply gone - along with every living soul in America.
Planes spiral out of the sky. Zombies rampage through the streets of New York.
Amo is alone, maybe the last man alive in this vicious new world. Just to get out of New York alive, he must slaughter the dead on an unimaginable scale. Good thing he has a great imagination.
But the zombies carry a secret. They are not what they seem, and soon everything will change...
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The oceans have vanished, leaving a broken world where survival depends on constant movement.
Barren Waters
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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The oceans have vanished, leaving a broken world where survival depends on constant movement. In Barren Waters, Jeremy Colt travels across a desolate America with his daughter Sam, racing toward the one place that might hold the medicine she needs to live. With supplies fading and danger closing in, their journey becomes a test of endurance, sacrifice, and the limits of a father’s resolve.
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In a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, how far will a father go to save his daughter’s life?
In a world ravaged by the collapse of Earth's oceans, humanity teeters on the brink of survival. Jeremy Colt is a father driven by an unyielding determination to protect his daughter, Sam. With only their bikes and the packs on their backs, they must reach San Diego before her medicine runs out. With resources dwindling and danger lurking at every turn, their journey westward through a fractured America is a desperate bid to find the one place that might hold the key to Sam’s survival.
Haunted by the sacrifices of those he’s loved and lost, Jeremy wrestles with the weight of his choices, the crushing uncertainty of hope, and the shadow of his own humanity. Together with Seth, a resilient boy who’s become like family, they traverse fire-scorched deserts, abandoned towns, and treacherous landscapes in search of a future that may not exist.
The clock is ticking.
Can they get there fast enough?
And if they do, will it even save her?
BARREN WATERS, the Hollywood Book Festival’s Best Science Fiction Novel of 2017, is a gripping tale of resilience, sacrifice, and the enduring power of love. As Jeremy, Sam, and Seth face impossible odds, they must confront the question: what does it truly mean to survive, and how far will they go to protect the ones they love?
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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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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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Safety comes at a cost when the world has already ended.
Protected
Dystopian · Romance · Post-Apocalyptic
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Safety comes at a cost when the world has already ended. In Protected, a young woman joins a band of scavengers to survive a ruined landscape, finding unexpected shelter in the quiet vigilance of a man who rarely speaks but never leaves her unguarded. This post apocalyptic romance centers on trust, vulnerability, and the fragile possibility of love amid devastation.
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Two years after the world fell apart, I'm entirely alone, a twenty-four-year-old woman scrounging for food and barely surviving. My only choice left is to hook up with a group of roaming scavengers. They're not good people, but it's safer with them than on my own.
Deck immediately makes himself my silent protector. He never speaks, but he doesn't have to. He keeps me alive, and I try to communicate with him. We eventually learn to trust each other.
The world after Impact is rawer and bleaker than what it used to be, and we've lost most of what made life worth living. But maybe we haven't lost everything.
Maybe love still lurks in the ruins.
Protected is a standalone post-apocalyptic romance set in the near future after a global catastrophe and is part of the larger Kindled series world.
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