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Told through the haunting voices of survivors, World War Z chronicles the global battle against the undead.
World War Z
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Thriller
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Told through the haunting voices of survivors, World War Z chronicles the global battle against the undead. From burning cities to the last safe zones, humanity’s story unfolds in fear, courage, and fragile hope. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Max Brooks redefines the zombie epic as a chilling history of survival.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
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Powerful, urgent, and unforgettable, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood returns to the world of The Handmaid’s Tale fifteen years later.
The Testaments
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Powerful, urgent, and unforgettable, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood returns to the world of The Handmaid’s Tale fifteen years later. With 4.6 Amazon stars and a Booker Prize win, this gripping novel follows three women whose secrets could dismantle Gilead’s theocracy. A sharp, haunting story of resistance and survival where truth—and courage—are acts of rebellion.
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Fifteen years after The Handmaid’s Tale, the Republic of Gilead still stands—but cracks are forming.
In this Booker Prize–winning sequel, Margaret Atwood returns to her dystopian world to tell the stories of three women whose lives will shape Gilead’s future.
Two are young women who’ve grown up knowing nothing but Gilead’s brutal rule. The third is Aunt Lydia, a fearsome figure whose past holds secrets powerful enough to unravel the entire regime.
As their testimonies converge, rebellion sparks—and survival demands sacrifice.
A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Testaments is a fiercely compelling exploration of power, resistance, and the enduring fight for truth.
Whether read as a standalone or alongside The Handmaid’s Tale, this is Atwood at her sharpest: fearless, urgent, unforgettable.
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Perfect for fans of One Second After and The Road, this is survival at its harshest.
The Freeze
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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The world froze. Civilization collapsed. And survival is a fight against nature—and humanity itself. The Freeze by D.W. Ulsterman is a gritty, pulse-pounding survivalist thriller with 4.4 Amazon stars and nonstop end-of-days suspense. As the planet turns to ice, only the ruthless endure. Perfect for fans of One Second After and The Road, this is survival at its harshest.
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Nothing is colder than hell on earth.
________
Millions will die.
Society will collapse.
Chaos will ensue.
________
For those who failed to prepare the end will come quickly.
For those who remain the fight to survive has only just begun.
________
Praise for the works of D.W. Ulsterman:
"A miraculous thriller sprinkled with mystical beauty." -Jess W. Dixon (Vaughn's Hill)
"Better than a great read—a great experience!" -Curt (Savage)
"Such a great storyteller. Love this author." -Judy (The Book of Bloodbone)
Named a top 10 International Mystery Writer by EZVid.
USA Today featured author for The Irish Cowboy.
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A brutal murder aboard a space station fractures the fragile promise of humanity’s future in orbit.
Places in the Darkness
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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A brutal murder aboard a space station fractures the fragile promise of humanity’s future in orbit. In Places in the Darkness, investigator Nikki Freeman must partner with a rigid government official to unravel a killing tied to the station’s criminal underworld. As bodies surface and memory itself comes into question, this science fiction mystery blends noir tension with speculative stakes in a closed environment.
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Murder on a space station threatens humanity's future among the stars and forces an unlikely duo to investigate in this science fiction mystery.
Hundreds of miles above Earth, the space station Ciudad de Cielo—the "City in the Sky"—is a beacon of hope for humanity's expansion into the stars. But not everyone aboard shares such noble ideals.
Bootlegging, booze, and prostitution form a lucrative underground economy for rival gangs, which the authorities are happy to turn a blind eye to until a disassembled corpse is found dancing in the micro-gravity.
In charge of the murder investigation is Nikki "Fix" Freeman, who is not thrilled to have Alice Blake, an uptight government goody-two-shoes, riding shotgun. As the bodies pile up, and the partners are forced to question their own memories, Nikki and Alice begin to realize that gang warfare may not be the only cause for the violence . . .
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Arden Fox blends action, humor, and heat in this fated-mates enemies-to-lovers romp perfect for fans of beauty-and-the-beast dynamics with claws, pheromones, and zero patience.
How to Train Your Human Omega
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Sci-Fi
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With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, How to Train Your Human Omega kicks off a spicy sci-fi romance series where a grumpy human pilot is claimed by a seven-foot, purple alien prince. Arden Fox blends action, humor, and heat in this fated-mates enemies-to-lovers romp perfect for fans of beauty-and-the-beast dynamics with claws, pheromones, and zero patience.
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The tall alien’s eyes flashed. That was the only warning I got. He charged at me, throwing my crew mates aside as if they were nothing.
In that moment, I was certain he would kill me.
But no death blow came. Instead, he spoke, his deep voice heavily accented, each word like stone slabs falling into place.
“You are mine.”
Clay
I don't ask for much from life; I get paid, and then I get laid. And piloting spaceships across the galaxy keeps my solo lifestyle well funded. I don't need a relationship or any of the baggage that comes with it. I like my men like I like my coffee; to go.
That is, until the most boring job in the universe goes horribly wrong and I’m snatched from my ship by a seven-foot alien. He's huge, he's purple, and he's ripped as hell. I'm sure I'm a dead man.
Only it turns out he doesn't want to kill me. What he wants is far worse.
Arcay
I am the Second; Aldar royalty, the right hand of our leader. I live a half life. On my planet, alphas and omegas are believed to be two halves of a soul. But Omegas are a rare treasure, all but extinct, and I have resigned myself to never knowing the joy of a soul bond.
But that all changes the moment I step onto the human ship. By some miracle, their pilot is an unclaimed omega. It does not matter that he is a different species, I have to have him.
That should be my happy ending; omegas are supposed to be meek, obedient, and willing. Clay is anything but. He resists me at every turn. I must bend him to my will before his potent pheromones draw every unmated alpha on the ship–my rank will only hold them back for so long.
Book 1 in the Coveted Bonds series. How to Train Your Human Omega is a beauty and the beast retelling in the form of an action-packed, spicy, M/M sci-fi romance (with no mpreg) featuring an alien race of beefcakes, a stubborn human, and a very confused and grumpy alien trying to find his happily ever after in all the wrong ways. This book is the first in the Coveted Bonds series, with overarching storylines and recurring characters. Each story follows a different couple to their HEA.
Please check the TWs in the front matter before reading. This book contains some dark themes
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Perfect for fans of Zahn and Haldeman.
Prophet
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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With 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, Prophet by five-time Hugo Award winner Mike Resnick is a sharp, character-driven space opera. A galaxy fears Penelope Bailey, a psychic fugitive turned prophet. But when the assassin known as the Iceman gets caught in the crossfire, the battle for control turns personal, and deadly. Perfect for fans of Zahn and Haldeman.
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Penelope Bailey has been called many things—psychic, fugitive, weapon. Now she’s the Prophet, no longer hiding from the galaxy’s power players who’ve spent decades trying to kill or control her.
The Iceman, an assassin turned bar owner, has survived crossing her path twice. That makes him a rare man, and a marked one. With enemies closing in, he teams up with the lethal Gravedancer to untangle a conspiracy that stretches from back-alley deals to interstellar politics.
On a distant planet, Penelope waits. She knows what’s coming. She’s seen it.
In this fast-paced classic of space opera, five-time Hugo Award winner Mike Resnick weaves assassins, psychics, and political intrigue into a final showdown where survival isn’t a question of skill, but destiny.
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Joshua Dalzelle’s Boneshaker rockets into high-stakes military sci-fi with 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon.
Boneshaker
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Joshua Dalzelle’s Boneshaker rockets into high-stakes military sci-fi with 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon. When a rogue Terran cruiser threatens to spark a galactic war, First Lieutenant Jacob Brown and his battle-worn scout team must find it before it’s too late. Explosions, bad odds, and found-family grit power this pulse-pounding space adventure.
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Marine First Lieutenant Jacob Brown didn’t sign up for boredom. But babysitting a ragtag scout team on a broken-down shuttle wasn’t exactly the action-packed career he imagined.
Then orders drop. No rest, no refit. Just a new mission: hunt down a Terran cruiser gone rogue deep in hostile space.
The Eagle’s Talon has vanished into the heart of the newly conquered Eshquarian Empire, where a rebel fleet is gathering strength. If the Talon is found among them, Earth faces all-out war.
With only a battered ship, a team held together by duct tape and sarcasm, and enemies on all sides, Jacob has one shot to find the Talon before the shooting starts.
The clock is ticking. And in this war, failure isn’t an option, it’s annihilation.
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A mysterious dark nebula begins to spread beyond the edge of known space, swallowing light and unsettling a fragile galactic order.
The Dark Between the Stars
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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A mysterious dark nebula begins to spread beyond the edge of known space, swallowing light and unsettling a fragile galactic order. In The Dark Between the Stars, humans, Roamer clans, and the ancient Ildiran Empire must confront a threat older than memory itself. This sweeping space opera weaves interstellar politics, alien cultures, and cosmic horror into an expansive saga about survival on a universal scale.
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Return to the Seven Suns universe a terrifying celestial discovery threatens the future for humanity and the Ildirans in this space opera trilogy opener.
"Anderson hits it out of the galaxy again: space opera doesn't get much more exciting, or much more richly populated with alien races, technologies, and cultures, than it does in this sprawling, engrossing epic." —Booklist (starred review)
Hugo Award Nominee
Two decades after the end of the horrific Hydrogue War, a group of independent clans, the Roamers, operate giant floating skymines in the clouds of gas-giant planets, where they harvest stardrive fuel at great risk, and great profit.
On the planet Theroc, capital of the vast Confederation, humans live inside a gigantic worldforest whose towering trees are all interconnected in a single mind, which telepathic "green priests" can use for interstellar communication.
The stagnant alien Ildiran Empire once ruled the entire Spiral Arm, but they are unprepared for human politics and ambitions.
Upon this galactic canvas, a large expeditionary ship goes off to explore farther than any human or Ildiran has ever ventured. Beyond the edge of the Spiral Arm, they encounter a mysterious and ominous dark nebula, a huge black cloud so opaque that even starlight cannot penetrate it. The explorers are horrified when the dark nebula begins to expand exponentially.
The races of the Spiral Arm will be faced with an evil so ancient that knowledge of its very existence has been obliterated, but it will threaten all life, all planets, and even the fabric of the universe itself.
"A space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." —Science Fiction Chronicle
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Ideal for readers looking for far-future science fiction with alien biology, authoritarian politics, survival, and scientific mystery.
Alien Clay
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Called “Unputdownable” by Stephen Baxter, Alien Clay follows political dissident and xeno-ecologist Professor Arton Daghdev after he is exiled to a labor camp on Kiln, a planet whose dangerous ecosystem and vanished civilization may transform what humanity knows about life and intelligence, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 7,900 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for far-future science fiction with alien biology, authoritarian politics, survival, and scientific mystery.
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"A staggering, alien vision of deepest solidarity." – Esquire, Best of the Year.
From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet.
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there.
In the midst of a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go? If he can survive both the harsh rule of the camp commandant and the alien horrors of the world around him, then Arton has a chance at making a discovery that might just transform not only Kiln, but distant Earth as well.
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Best for readers who like survival-driven, generation-spanning sci-fi.
Children of Memory
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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In this far-reaching space opera, a fragile human colony survives generations after Earth’s failure, losing technology while clinging to life on a terraformed planet. When strangers arrive with advanced knowledge and promises of help, their rescue may come at the colony’s expense, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 9,800 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like survival-driven, generation-spanning sci-fi.
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The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.
Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.
Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.
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The empire is fractured, the sandworms are dying, and the Lost Ones are returning.
Heretics of Dune
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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The empire is fractured, the sandworms are dying, and the Lost Ones are returning. Heretics of Dune earns 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon and pushes Frank Herbert’s iconic saga into uncharted territory. As a desert prophet emerges on Rakis, old religions and rival powers collide in this sweeping fifth entry of the legendary Dune Chronicles.
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Fifteen hundred years after the death of the God Emperor, the empire lies in tatters. Civilization has scattered across the stars. Rakis has dried into desert once more, and the sandworms—once gods, now relics—are dying.
Power vacuums don’t stay empty for long. As the Lost Ones return, old factions clash with new forces, and ancient prophecies awaken.
At the center of it all is Sheeana, a girl raised in the dust of Rakis with the uncanny ability to command the sandworms. Her rise sparks a wave of religious fervor, echoing Leto’s legacy and threatening to reshape the galaxy once again.
In this fifth installment of the Dune Chronicles, Herbert weaves a tale of rebellion, prophecy, and the ever-persistent hunger for power.
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In MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood closes her speculative trilogy with 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon and critical acclaim to match.
MaddAddam
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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In MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood closes her speculative trilogy with 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon and critical acclaim to match. Plague survivors, gene-spliced heirs, and fractured histories collide in a haunting, often hilarious meditation on humanity. If The Handmaid’s Tale looked inward, this one looks forward to whatever comes next.
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After the Waterless Flood, the world has changed beyond recognition. Most of humanity is gone. What remains is a fractured cast of survivors and the Crakers, a gentle, genetically engineered species meant to replace us.
Toby, a former healer, now becomes a reluctant historian. As she tells stories to the Crakers, the threads of the past unravel. The plague. The fall. The chaos. The love and violence that shaped a world now buried under ash and memory.
But even in a ruined world, danger lingers. Rival factions clash. Loyalties fracture. And the line between survival and surrender grows thin.
Told with dark wit and luminous prose, MaddAddam brings Margaret Atwood’s speculative epic to a close with the question we keep asking: What comes after the end?
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