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A strange sickness spreads quietly at first, rewriting behavior before erupting into violence.
Infected
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror
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A strange sickness spreads quietly at first, rewriting behavior before erupting into violence. When a former football player discovers growing welts and invasive voices inside his own body, he becomes the most valuable clue in a national outbreak. Infected blends medical thriller tension with body horror, tracking a man forced into an intimate battle with a parasite that thinks, plans, and wants something from him.
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A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page.
“Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone.”—Rocky Mountain News
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common—they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey—a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey—awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
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Disaster unfolds in stages, each survival only leading to the next reckoning.
Split
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Disaster unfolds in stages, each survival only leading to the next reckoning. In Split, Wallace Graves escapes an earthquake and tsunami only to face a collapsing world and a forced evacuation of the West Coast. As he journeys across a fractured country to reach his daughter, the story focuses on endurance, human connection, and what remains when stability disappears.
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When the power dies, the illusion of order collapses with it.
Where the Grid Ends
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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When the power dies, the illusion of order collapses with it. Where the Grid Ends follows multiple lives shattered by an EMP attack as cities descend into lawless survival. Trapped civilians, abducted children, and desperate parents collide in a fractured urban landscape where preparation becomes the only currency that matters in this post apocalypse survival thriller.
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No power. No law. Just the fight for survival.
When an EMP wipes out power, chaos takes over. Dr. Annabelle Wheeler is trapped in a psychiatric hospital overrun by violent inmates. Across the city, Hazel, Lucy, and Katherine are kidnapped by a ruthless gangster. With no power or law, two ex-Marines race through a crumbling city to save their daughters.
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After a meteor shower blinds most of humanity, one man navigates a shattered London where trust is dangerous and carnivorous plants rule the streets.
The Day of the Triffids
Horror · Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After a meteor shower blinds most of humanity, one man navigates a shattered London where trust is dangerous and carnivorous plants rule the streets. The Day of the Triffids is a tense, unsettling classic that blends survival horror with moral dilemma, earning 4.4 stars on Amazon and enduring critical praise.
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The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.”—now in development as a miniseries directed by Johan Renck.
“[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndham’s vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story.”—The Guardian
What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?
Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids—plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.
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When invisible barriers appear across Earth, ordinary lives are shattered by an impossible mystery.
The Glass
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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When invisible barriers appear across Earth, ordinary lives are shattered by an impossible mystery. A father, a detective, a journalist, and two lovers are drawn together as they cross the Glass and uncover a truth that could reshape humanity. The Glass: The Complete Series delivers epic science fiction tension and emotional depth, with 4.5 stars on Amazon and Goodreads.
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THE GLASS: THE COMPLETE SERIES is over 1200 pages of thrilling adventure, inspiring characters, and mysterious aliens. With over 5000 ratings, you won’t want to miss out. What’s really behind the Glass?
A hush falls over Earth as invisible barriers appear at random. Cars crash into them; trees are sliced in half, but nothing prepares humanity for what comes next.
As the effects take hold, Ransom learns his young daughter Chrissy is prone to inclinations, which is exactly what he’d feared the most. Drake, a seasoned detective, joins forces with Britt, a brilliant journalist, as well as Peggy and Will, two small town lovers unwittingly thrust into danger.
The road won’t be easy, and they have no choice but to venture past the Glass. What they find on the other side is another story.
From the best-selling author of The Event, First Life, Echoes From the Moon, and Lost Contact.
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A cheerful service robot with misplaced confidence is sent on a delivery that could decide humanity’s fate.
The Wrong Unit
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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A cheerful service robot with misplaced confidence is sent on a delivery that could decide humanity’s fate. As logic collides with human chaos, The Wrong Unit blends witty science fiction, unlikely heroics, and unexpected warmth. Readers have embraced the novel’s humor and heart, awarding it 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads ratings.
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE HUMANS ARE SO CRANKY ABOUT. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over a thousand calories per day, and they’re allowed to mate. Plus, they have me.
An Autonomous Servile Unit, housed in a mobile/bipedal chassis. I do my job well: keep the humans healthy and happy.
“Hey you.”
Heyoo. That’s my name, I suppose. It’s easier for the humans to remember than 413s98-itr8. I guess I’ve gotten used to it.
Rob Dircks, bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla?, has a “unit” with a problem: how to deliver his package, out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to guide him. Oh, and with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. It’s a science fiction tale of technology gone haywire, unlikely heroes, and the nature of humanity. (Woah. That last part sounds deep. Don’t worry, it’s not.)
This heartwarming science fiction comedy has been placed on the "Listens You Love" sale list, garnering a 4.6-star average.
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In a future where Earth lies in ruins, a boy from the wasteland becomes the architect of its possible rebirth.
The Forever Hero
Post-Apocalyptic · Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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In a future where Earth lies in ruins, a boy from the wasteland becomes the architect of its possible rebirth. Spanning centuries and star systems, this classic science fiction trilogy explores power, endurance, and the cost of saving a world. A sweeping, thoughtful epic with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 1,600 Goodreads ratings.
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.
Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears--to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.
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In a broken world ruled by old sins, Ruby risks everything for one forbidden night.
Marked
Dystopian · Romance · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a broken world ruled by old sins, Ruby risks everything for one forbidden night. When her longtime crush is marked for death, she must trust the town’s most feared enforcer to save him. Survival, loyalty, and buried truths collide in this gripping dystopian romance. With 4.3 stars on Amazon and over 2,500 Goodreads ratings.
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The world we knew is GONE.
Ruby had barely started kindergarten when the world collapsed, but by now she's over it. Like, really over it. To celebrate their upcoming graduation, the teenagers in Port Gibson are gathering to play a forbidden game from Before, a game called spin the bottle.
Pretty much every girl in Port Gibson likes the same two guys, and Ruby knows them both. Wesley, the charismatic son of the town Mayor who's being groomed to step into his dad's job, and Sam, the ripped but terrifying second-in-command to the town's Security Chief. But only Wesley's graduating with Ruby, and if he shows up, she's determined to finally seize her chance to kiss her long time crush.
When things go sideways, endangering her dear Wesley's life, there's only one person Ruby can ask for help, no matter how scary and enigmatic he is: Samuel Roth. Can Ruby convince Sam to risk his life to save Wesley's? And can Ruby navigate the post-apocalyptic world in time to save her crush, or will the long forgotten past come back to claim its due?
Kirkus Reviews said of Marked, "Baker’s prose is sharp and vivid, and she manages to immediately plunge her readers into the world of the novel. The story is swiftly paced and features some surprising twists and intriguing characters. The combination of sci-fi, mystery, and teen romance makes for a compelling adventure.
A promising YA debut about a girl’s search for a future in the wreckage of the past.
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The world ended in war and disease, but survival did not bring peace.
The After War
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The world ended in war and disease, but survival did not bring peace. In The After War, two cousins leave their bunker for the first time since humanity nearly vanished, while a lone survivalist begins a long journey east with only his aging dog for company. As scattered survivors struggle to rebuild, corruption and fragile alliances threaten what remains of civilization.
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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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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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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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