Apocalyptic Future

In a world rebuilt on fear, one woman discovers the crisis holding civilization together may be a lie. Twelve years after climate collapse and cyberwar nearly ended civilization, the Compliance State keeps humanity alive through total surveillance. Biometric bands track every heartbeat. Predictive algorithms flag dissidents before they act. Climate dashboards broadcast extinction projections that justify every restriction, every ration, every controlled breath. Elena Ward is a senior data auditor who believes the system is flawed but necessary, until she discovers that the atmospheric data ...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR An unsettling masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will impact us all. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem, New York Times...

Step into the machine that launched modern science fiction—now clearer and more compelling than ever. This Adapted for Modern Readers edition of The Time Machine keeps H. G. Wells’s groundbreaking story intact while updating the reading experience for today. Clean formatting, contemporary typography, and gently clarified language remove Victorian clutter without touching the plot, tone, or ideas, so you can focus on the mystery, tension, and wonder at the heart of this classic journey. First published in the late nineteenth century, The Time Machine captures an era obsessed with ...

Get ready for a thrilling ride with Silo 42: Deception, the first book in the Silo 42 series! In a post-apocolyptic world torn apart by war, 50 isolated underground Silos have been built to protect the last remaining humans. But Silo 42 is different - a society that embraces Native American values and thrives in secrecy. However, their prosperity may be short-lived as Silo 1 becomes suspicious of their success and threatens to expose them. With the fate of his Silo and its inhabitants in his hands, Ahotay Lathrop must navigate a delicate balance to protect his people. But will they be able ...

They crossed the stars to build a new home. But by the time they arrived, humanity was already a ghost. After the harrowing journey of the Aurora across centuries and light-years, Captain Morrow and her mismatched crew hoped to find an untouched world ripe for hope and rebuilding. Instead, they awaken to a silent planet—its cities shattered, its stations derelict, and the only survivor a centuries-old, half-human being whose memories might be as dangerous as they are vital. Determined to understand their fate and claim a place in this impossible future, Morrow’s crew must navigate the ...

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a “page-turning” (Los Angeles Times), “propulsive” (The Boston Globe), “thrilling” (BookPage, starred review) tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● In this official Gears of War tie-in novel—leading directly into the events of Gears of War: E-Day—the last human survivors of a vicious alien attack fight a pivotal battle that sets the stage for humanity’s darkest day. As kids, the three of them were...

The author of the #1 bestselling Twilight series delivers a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future where the fate of humanity is at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their...

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A near-catastrophic collision with a mysterious vessel… …and now the luxury liner Atlantica is cut off from the world. No satellites. No land in sight. Not a single plane in the sky. At first, passengers hope it’s just a temporary glitch. But signs quickly mount that they’re stranded somewhere—or perhaps nowhere at all. Elite soldier Jack Sullivan and officer Nia Evans fight to maintain control, but rising panic soon turns the ship into a boiling cauldron of fear, distrust, and violence. It's only a matter of time before complete chaos erupts. Then, the mysterious vessel reappears...

From book 1: Paul's been having a bad day, perhaps one of the worst days he's ever had. And now into the middle of all this, his instructor just got drafted by some mystical goddess to help save a world... From book 2: Coyote has a new task for Paul, one that involves him traveling north hundreds of miles over the post-apocalyptic landscape of California, the place that Paul once called home... From book 3: Coyote has one final task for Paul, the one that is the whole reason Coyote shanghaied him here in the first place.

In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity—or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller. "Heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human." —Josh Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Melanie is a very special girl. Dr...

The Silo 42 adventure continues ... Connection, the second thriller in the Protopian Silo 42 series, begins four years after the end of book one Deception. Life underground continues but change is afoot. Ahotay, the Silo Chief and Native American grandson of the first Silo 42 Head of IT, has requested as his dying wish, that the many life-enhancing lessons learned by the Silo 42 residents be shared with other silos. This noble yet dangerous request carries great risk if discovered by Silo 1. It is up to Stewart the courageous shadow to Chief Ahotay, and his “bad-ass” senior electrical ...

From the acclaimed author of The One, now available in an expanded edition, The Family Experiment is a dark and brilliant speculative thriller about families: real and virtual. Some families are virtually perfect… The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic...

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories...

Hope drove them upward. Now survival on the surface will test them. Silo 42: Journey is the fourth gripping saga in the Silo 42 series. Having left the only home they've known, a determined caravan of former silo dwellers steps outside into a world no one in over a century has ever seen. They quickly discover that the surface is wilder and more dangerous than they imagined—untamed forests, vanished cities, evolved animals, and unfamiliar weather. Their food is limited. Their maps are guesswork. And the rules of survival are unlike anything they have imagined. Led by skilled scouts, ...

Fans of Hugh Howey and Kim Stanley Robinson will find much to love in Silo 42: Arrival—a hopeful post-apocalyptic novel about building a better world after the old one has failed. After surviving the exodus from Silo 42 and the long march east to the Atlantic Ocean, the pioneers finally reach the coast—only to discover that freedom is far more complicated than escape. As the community begins building Sunrise Village from the ground up, new alliances, old conflicts, and unexpected realities reshape how they build a resilient life. Calen, one of the silo engineers, is invited into the ...

A nuclear disaster strikes Europe… …but inside the cutting-edge thorium reactor, everything appears normal. No system failures. No containment breach. Not a single malfunction. Yet - hospitals overflow with radiation victims. Wildlife drops dead in forests. Trees wither and decay for miles. Something is poisoning the land—something no sensor can detect. Something that shouldn't exist. When the IAEA sends specialist investigator Jonathan Beck to the scene, he faces an impossible paradox. The reactor is clean. The science says it's safe. But people are dying. He isn't alone in the hunt....

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future. Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human...

The AMAZON TOP 100 CATEGORY BEST SELLER that readers are calling compelling, thought-provoking, a must read! An ancient threat buried beneath the ice. A global outbreak no one saw coming. A desperate race to save humanity. When microbiologist Sonny Evans is invited to join a cutting-edge research mission in Antarctica, it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. The team’s goal: drill into Earth’s oldest ice and unlock secrets frozen for millions of years. What they uncover should have stayed buried. The mission takes a dark turn when a team member collapses—blinded by something no ...