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At ninety-four, Mia Ziemann has already lived through a future where technology has made long life possible, comfortable, and deeply boring.
Holy Fire
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Genetic Engineering
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At ninety-four, Mia Ziemann has already lived through a future where technology has made long life possible, comfortable, and deeply boring. After a radical treatment restores her body and mind to youth, Holy Fire sends her into a strange post-human world of art, desire, designer drugs, and reinvention. Rated 4.1 on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads, with praise from Wired and Publishers Weekly.
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Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus (Time).
In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy—if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression . . .
"Ideas—big ideas—lurk beneath Mia's romp through Sterling's delightfully imagined newly post-human Earth. Art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and youth and aging bounce around the story, the characters, and their conversations in imaginative, engaging fashion. . . . In the end, Holy Fire is one of the most interesting, imaginative, and subtly humorous—and relevant for it—novels the cyberpunk/post-human era has produced. . . . Holy Fire may very well be [Sterling's] best work." —Speculiction
"An intellectual feat, it is also a treat for the spirit and the senses." —Wired
"A patented Sterling extra-special." —Newsday
"The future Sterling traces is plausible and provocative, particularly his consideration of several contrasting cultures, and of the disenfranchised who are unable to become 'post-human.' Those interested in serious speculative conversation set within a very strange near-future will find this much to their taste." —Publishers Weekly
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Good for readers who like hard science fiction, time communication, ecological stakes, and speculative ideas.
Timescape
Dystopian · Time Travel
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A Nebula Award winner, Timescape follows scientists in a collapsing 1998 Earth who try to send a warning into 1962, where researcher Gordon Bernstein begins noticing impossible interference patterns in a lab experiment. As ridicule and resistance build, the discovery could alter history itself, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 600 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like hard science fiction, time communication, ecological stakes, and speculative ideas.
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Winner of the 1980 Nebula Award, Timescape has since become a classic of the science fiction genre, combining hard science, bold speculation, and human drama—a challenging and triumphant tale told by a master storyteller.
1998. Earth is falling apart, on the brink of ecological disaster. But in England a tachyon scientist is attempting to contact the past, to somehow warn them of the misery and death their actions and experiments have visited upon a ravaged planet.
1962. JFK is still president, rock 'n' roll is king, and the Vietnam War hardly merits front-page news. A young assistant researcher at a California university, Gordon Bernstein, notices strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment. Against all odds, facing ridicule and opposition, Bernstein begins to uncover the incredible truth . . . a truth that will change his life and alter history . . . the truth behind time itself.
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Good for readers who like high-concept dystopian sci-fi and surveillance-state tension.
Dayworld
Dystopian
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Called “Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga” by Booklist, Dayworld follows Jeff Caird, a rebel in an overpopulated future where citizens live one day a week and spend the other six in suspended animation. As Jeff juggles seven identities, both his fellow rebels and the government turn on him, with a 4.0-star rating from Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like high-concept dystopian sci-fi and surveillance-state tension.
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"Every bit as appealing as the Riverworld saga," this brilliant high-concept dystopian novel features an overpopulated Earth under strict government control (Booklist).
Only by being watched may you become free.
It's 3414 AD, the rise of the New Era, and Earth has become massively overpopulated. The worldwide government has recently implemented a system that allows human civilization to continue: Each person lives only one day a week. For the other six he or she is "stoned"—placed in suspended animation. To keep everyone to their particular day, the activities of all citizens of the Organic Commonwealth of Earth are closely monitored.
Jeff Caird is an "immer," one of the rebels secretly working to infiltrate the government to gain influence and loosen the surveillance on citizens. He's also a "daybreaker," avoiding stoning and thereby conscious all seven days a week. He operates under a different identity every day, delivering sensitive messages between rebels.
Jeff is dedicated to his cause, but maintaining seven separate identities, including jobs, families, and friends, is no small feat, and when the juggling finally begins to take its toll, the immers determine that Jeff is a liability who must be eliminated. Now, he's fighting for survival and on the run from both his fellow rebels and the authoritarian government that considers his mental state incurable and punishable by death.
From the Hugo Award–winning author of the Riverworld and World of Tiers series, Dayworld is "an excellent novel, set in a constructed society that is unique and fascinating" (Science Fiction Chronicle).
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to LitRPG apocalypse stories with brutal action, relentless leveling, overpowered protagonists, and flawed antiheroes.
Path of Violence
Sci-Fi · LitRPG · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a post-apocalyptic world, former criminal Aiden Wyatt uses his dark past and newfound supernatural powers to become Earth's most powerful warrior in Path of Violence, with a 4.7-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to LitRPG apocalypse stories with brutal action, relentless leveling, overpowered protagonists, and flawed antiheroes.
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When the world ends, some men find redemption in the ashes.
Aiden Wyatt was a drug dealer, a thief, and a lost cause—until the System descended on Earth. Now, in a world where stats mean survival and monsters roam the wilderness, Aiden’s criminal past is his greatest weapon. After winning the favor of a cosmic overseer, he is granted an ancient spirit of intellect and a leveling potential most can only dream of.
But power comes at a price.
Haunted by his past and driven by a hunger for more, Aiden carves a bloody path through the chaos, determined to become the most powerful warrior Earth has ever seen. He’s not the hero anyone asked for, but in a world ruled by violence, he’s the one we deserve.
Brace yourself for a LitRPG Apocalypse packed with brutal action, relentless leveling, and a flawed anti-hero who refuses to quit. If you crave overpowered protagonists, dark worlds, and progression at any cost, Path of Violence will keep you hooked from the first kill to the last boss.
The System has arrived. The strong will rise. And Aiden Wyatt will stop at nothing to claim his throne.
For fans of Road to Mastery, Savage Awakening, and Victor of Tucson, this LitRPG fantasy is raw, ruthless, and impossible to put down!
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Two sisters wait for the world to recover, but survival slowly turns their forest home into the only future they can trust.
Into the Forest
Dystopian
Our take
Two sisters wait for the world to recover, but survival slowly turns their forest home into the only future they can trust. In Into the Forest, Nell and Eva face a near-future collapse without a single clear cause, forcing them to measure adulthood through hunger, isolation, grief, and dependence on each other. This is post-apocalyptic fiction with an intimate focus on sisterhood, resilience, and the land.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.
Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.
Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.
Praise for Into the Forest
“[A] beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“A work of extraordinary power, insight and lyricism, Into the Forest is both an urgent warning and a passionate celebration of life and love.”—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade
“From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the . . . narrator pull the reader in. . . . A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's 1984.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews
“This beautifully written story captures the essential nature of the sister bond: the fierce struggle to be true to one’s own self, only to learn that true strength comes from what they are able to share together.”—Carol Saline, co-author of Sisters
“Jean Hegland’s sense of character is firm, warm, and wise. . . . [A] fine first novel.”—John Keeble, author of Yellowfish
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Exile has made the Fant essential, but the secrets they guard may be more dangerous than the galaxy knows.
Barsk
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Exile has made the Fant essential, but the secrets they guard may be more dangerous than the galaxy knows. In Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard, sentient elephants on a rain-soaked world hold the key to speaking with the dead, while Jorl’s search for truth and Pizlo’s strange visions expose buried power. This is speculative science fiction with mystery, grief, and expansive post-human worldbuilding.
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In a post-human future, sentient elephants who speak with the dead uncover a devastating secret in this "weird, wise, and worldly…triumph" (Hugo Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer).
In a distant future, humans are extinct, but their successors—animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings—thrive across the galaxy. The Fant are anthropomorphic elephants, exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. Though they are ostracized by other races, they develop essential medicines upon which all species depend. The most coveted is the drug Koph, which allows users to interact with the recently deceased and learn their secrets.
Now a shadowy group is forcing the Fant to surrender their knowledge and claim Koph for themselves. A Fant named Jorl is compelled to question his deceased best friend, who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. But in so doing, Jorl unearths a secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever.
Meanwhile, his dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future.
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A missing family, a ransacked house, and a reality that keeps rewriting itself pull Eden Pruitt into a nightmare no one else will believe.
The Fabrication of Eden Pruitt
Teen + Young Adult · Dystopian · Mystery · Romance · Sci-Fi
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A missing family, a ransacked house, and a reality that keeps rewriting itself pull Eden Pruitt into a nightmare no one else will believe. In The Fabrication of Eden Pruitt, her search for the truth becomes a tense young adult thriller about fear, deception, and the dangerous stranger who may be her only way out.
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After a strange day at her new school, Eden Pruitt comes home to a jarring scene. The house has been ransacked. Her parents are gone. She rushes to the police for help, but when they return, nothing is how she left it.
Alarm turns to panic. Confusion spirals into chaos.
Suddenly, Eden is on the run, trapped in a nightmare with nowhere to turn and nobody to believe her. Except for a mysterious stranger who is as dangerous as he is enticing. Someone who knows more than he should... and might be just as perilous as the truth she's desperate to uncover.
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The catastrophe has already happened, but survival keeps changing the rules for everyone left standing.
After the Impact
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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The catastrophe has already happened, but survival keeps changing the rules for everyone left standing. In After the Impact, Nick, Christine, and Gabby face collapsing cities, fractured loyalties, and the emotional cost of enduring a broken world. It’s character-driven post-apocalyptic fiction built around survival pressure, found strength, and the question of who people become after everything familiar falls away.
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The impact was only the beginning.
Over 2,000 pages. Six books. One unforgettable journey into the darkest corners of human survival.
In New York City, Nick fights to stay alive as society collapses around him. In Louisville, Christine will do anything to protect the people she loves. And Gabby — still searching for who she is — is about to find out exactly what she's made of.
After the Impact is a sweeping, character-driven post-apocalyptic series that doesn't just ask will they survive — it asks who they will become.
Suspenseful. Emotional. Utterly unputdownable.
The Complete 6-Book Series — Over 2,000 Pages of Post-Apocalyptic Adventure
Book 1 — Shattered Skies
Book 2 — Crumbling Dawn
Book 3 — Beneath the Ashes
Book 4 — Shadows and Dust
Book 5 — Trial by Fire
Book 6 — From the Ashes
Perfect for fans of Mike Kraus, Justin Bell, and Tara Ellis.
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The Borrowed World Box Set, Volume One follows a prepared man forced to test every survival plan when coordinated attacks collapse America’s infrastructure.
The Borrowed World Box Set
Dystopian · Techno-Thriller
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The Borrowed World Box Set, Volume One follows a prepared man forced to test every survival plan when coordinated attacks collapse America’s infrastructure. Jim Powell is stranded hundreds of miles from his family as power, fuel, communication, and public order fail around him. This post-apocalyptic survival series focuses on family, preparedness, moral pressure, and the violence required when the rules of society disappear.
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This special box set edition of The Borrowed World Series contains the full text of books 1-3 of the bestselling series: The Borrowed World, Ashes Of The Unspeakable, and Legion Of Despair. Across audio, paper, and ebook this series has garnered tens of thousands of 4 and 5 star reviews.
If society fell apart, could your family survive? Jim Powell thought he was ready. He was a regular guy who travelled a lot for work and hated every second he was away from his young family. But when ISIS operatives unleashed a coordinated attack on America’s infrastructure, his entire world shattered. The electrical grid collapsed, communication networks were damaged, critical bridges and dams were destroyed, and major fuel refineries have gone up in massive fiery clouds.
Now, with an Executive Order halting fuel sales to the public, Jim Powell finds himself in a terrifying predicament. He's trapped hundreds of miles away from his family, and with thousands of stranded travelers and scarce law enforcement across the country, the miles between Jim and his family become a brutal gauntlet where the rules of a civilized society no longer apply.
Jim is a prepper with years of planning under his belt, but as he puts his preparations to the test, he soon finds that training for a societal collapse is very different from actually experiencing one. If Jim wants to make it back to his family in one piece, he'll need to find the strength and brutality to meet this new, dangerous world head-on--even if it means rising to unimaginable levels of violence.
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Ariel imagines a world where technology dies, magic takes over, and survival depends on adapting to rules no one understands yet.
Ariel
Dystopian
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Ariel imagines a world where technology dies, magic takes over, and survival depends on adapting to rules no one understands yet. Pete Garey wanders the broken southeastern United States until he befriends Ariel, a sharp-tongued unicorn whose horn makes her a target. Their journey turns post-apocalyptic fantasy into a strange, dangerous road story about loyalty, loss, and impossible companionship.
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At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place—laws that could only be called magic. Ninety-nine percent of humanity has simply vanished. Cities lie abandoned. Supernatural creatures wander the silenced achievements of a halted civilization.
Pete Garey has survived the Change and its ensuing chaos. He wanders the southeastern United States, scavenging, lying low. Learning. One day he makes an unexpected friend: a smartassed unicorn with serious attitude. Pete names her Ariel and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity.
When they learn that there is a price quite literally on Ariel's head, the two unlikely companions set out from Atlanta to Manhattan to confront the sorcerer who wants her horn. And so begins a haunting, epic, and surprisingly funny journey through the remnants of a halted civilization in a desolated world.
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Electric Angel drops a hopeful scrapyard worker into a corporate-controlled future where survival depends on power she never asked to carry.
Electric Angel
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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Electric Angel drops a hopeful scrapyard worker into a corporate-controlled future where survival depends on power she never asked to carry. After Juliet Bianchi receives a stolen AI chip from a dying stranger, her life shifts from scraping by with loyal friends to navigating violence, corruption, and abilities she barely understands. This is dystopian cyberpunk with class warfare, dangerous tech, and a heroine learning how hard she can hit back.
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Enter a frighteningly familiar dystopian world with the first book of a new series from the author of Falling with Folded Wings and Victor of Tucson.
In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going.
Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn’t have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she’s going to need it . . .
When Juliet stumbles upon what looks like a botched kidnapping, the victim dispatches his abductors and lives just long enough to give her a stolen AI chip. This gift soon transforms Juliet from a worker bee into a killer queen. Armed with far more power and skill than she can comprehend—let alone control—she finds herself drawn into a shadowy world where survival itself counts as victory.
Juliet has never been one to push people around. But when it comes to fighting the corrupt corporate overlords, she’s more than happy to push back.
The first volume of the hit cyberpunk series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
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The Last Sanctuary turns the end of the world into a fight for the only home left standing.
The Last Sanctuary
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Last Sanctuary turns the end of the world into a fight for the only home left standing. When a lethal sickness collapses society, Raven returns to her family’s wildlife refuge with the skills to survive, but its food, fences, and shelter draw predators of a different kind. This apocalyptic thriller centers a fierce heroine defending her animals, her father’s legacy, and her last safe place.
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At the end of the world, the only refuge is the one you fight for.
Isolated at her family's wildlife refuge in northern Georgia, Raven longs to escape the monotonous days spent shoveling manure, hauling feed, and hosing down enclosures for bears, wolves, and a tiger. Then her father contracts the mysterious, lethal sickness spreading across the country like wildfire.
Desperate to help him, Raven journeys into town to get medicine, only to discover the outside world is swiftly collapsing into chaos. There are no more police, no more laws, and no hospitals. No one is coming to help.
The wildlife refuge she once resented now offers sanctuary: plenty of food, shelter, and the safety of electrified fences. Using the skills her father taught her, Raven knows how to survive.
But the threat is just beginning, for a dangerous gang tracks Raven back to the refuge, and they'll stop at nothing to take what she has.
Raven can run to save her life. Or she can stand her ground, risking everything to defend the animals—and her home.
*This novel is the expanded, significantly revised version of a novella originally titled No Safe Haven.*
Kyla Stone is the USA Today bestselling author of over 25 novels with more than two million copies sold worldwide in several languages. The Last Sanctuary is a companion novel to the Last Sanctuary series, which can be read with the series or as a stand-alone. Featuring a fierce, tough heroine readers won't soon forget, this haunting story of loneliness, loss, and courage is perfect for fans of A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World, The Last of Us, and Hunger Games.
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