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61) Gold Fame Citrus
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Description
"The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future. Unrelenting...
62) Karma of the sun
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In the twenty-second century, the people of Earth inhabit giant fusion-powered cities sprawling across the planet. What's more, they are hosting the Cephians, advanced plantlike aliens who have come to assess humankind's readiness to join their galactic community. Although they are friendly, the aliens have been in the solar system for forty years, and humanity's patience and trust are starting to wear thin-at times violently so. Eminent astrobiologist...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sid lives in a tourist town where magic lies buried beneath the earth, but other than that, has a completely ordinary existence, until one day her brother goes missing and the ground opens up, unleashing the magic and zombies within.
Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with...
Author
Series
City where we once lived books volume 1
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing...
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"Millions have vanished . . . War has erupted around the globe . . . Cities have been ransacked and overrunwith lawlessness . . . Yet this is only the beginning of the chaos that is to come. Emma Grady has seen civilization collapse and New York gutted by nuclear attack. Amidst this international crisis, she and her growing family of outcasts must unravel the meaning of these strange and horrifying events, even as they struggle to survive. On the...
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"After a mysterious global event known only as 'The Change,' six strangers wake up in an underground research facility. They soon learn that they're part of the Extinction Trials--a scientific experiment to restart the human race. But the Extinction Trials hides a very big secret. And so does the world outside"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Description
"The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result...
69) Wayward: a novel
Author
Series
Wanderers volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Description
"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they...
Author
Publisher
Scibner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Francesca is Caro's stepmother, and Pauly's mother. A scientist, she can see what is going to happen. The high house was once her holiday home; now looked after by locals Grandy and Sally, she has turned it into an ark, for when the time comes. The mill powers the generator; the orchard is carefully pruned; the greenhouse has all its glass intact. Almost a family, but not quite, they plant, store seed, and watch the weather carefully."--Publisher....
71) Hollow kingdom
Author
Series
Hollow kingdom (Buxton) volume 1
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Description
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 (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®.Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies--from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis--fail...
72) Frontier
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
c2023.
Description
"In the distant future most of the human race has fled a ravaged Earth to find new life on other planets. For those who stayed a lawless society remains. Technology has been renounced, and saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travelers and gunslingers, abound. What passes for justice is presided over by the High Sheriff, and carried out by his cruel and ruthless Deputy. Then a ship falls from the sky, bringing the planet's first visitor in...
73) The departing
Author
Series
End time saga volume 4
Publisher
[Rune Publishing LLC]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Steele and his followers retreat before the might of Colonel Jackson's rogue military unit. Jackson is always two-steps ahead in their small apocalyptic war and Steele's back is against the ropes. Back in her small hometown of Hacklebarney, Iowa, Gwen struggles to convince her cautious neighbors to provide refuge for Steele's haggard forces. If she doesn't succeed, Jackson's noose will tighten and her friends and loved ones will be crushed on the...
74) The living dead
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Description
New York Times best-selling author Daniel Kraus completes George A. Romero's brand-new masterpiece of zombie horror, the massive novel left unfinished at Romero's death!
George A. Romero invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, creating a monster that has become a key part of pop culture. Romero often felt hemmed in by the constraints of film-making. To tell the story of the rise of the zombies and the fall of humanity the way it...
75) End time
Author
Series
End time saga volume 1
Publisher
[Rune Publishing LLC]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A highly contagious microbe is spreading unchecked through the streets of Kinshasa, killing everyone in its wake only to bring them back again as the ravenous undead. Only Dr. Joseph Jackowski, a CDC virologist, understands the extent of the outbreak at hand. The doctor may hold the key to fighting the virus, but nothing matters unless the team of elite counterterrorism agents can rescue him and get him back to Washington, DC alive.
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"When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her fathers fox and rabbit sermononce a parable to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition
Description
"The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist…Antarctica." --publisher's website.
78) The breaking
Author
Series
End time saga volume 2
Publisher
[Rune Publishing LLC]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Dr. Joseph Jackowski is the only person alive who can stop the zombie virus but he's been conscripted into the National Guard and is no closer to developing a cure. Meanwhile, retired Air Force Colonel Michael Kinnick is looking for Dr. Jackowski in West Virginia where he finds, instead, former counterterrorism agent Mark Steele and his group facing off with a town of ruthless survivors.
79) Pestilence
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 1
Description
"When Pestilence, the first of the horsemen, comes for Sara Burn's town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed. Too bad no one told her Pestilence can't be killed. Alive and furious, the horseman takes Sara prisoner, determined to make her suffer for impeding his mission....
80) The rising
Author
Series
End time saga volume 3
Publisher
[Rune Publishing LLC]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Steele has successfully guided his group to the shores of Lake Michigan only to find his family home in ruins and his mother missing. The area is controlled by a cult calling themselves The Chosen and if Steele and his band of survivors don't fall in line, The Pastor will make an example of them. Dr. Jackowski is safe inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex until one of his team becomes ill with the virus.
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