Apocalyptic Plane

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes listeners on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.

In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.

It was a day like any other. People setting out on the commute to work or taking the kids to school or chatting to their friends in the park. Normal. Routine. Nothing to mark it apart. By lunchtime, everything they had ever known, every aspect of their lives, would be changed forever - marked by the most catastrophic series of global disasters to strike the planet in over 6000 years. MANKIND STANDS AT THE GATES OF EXTINCTION The world is being ripped apart by a great geological cataclysm. Cities crumble and entire continents disappear beneath the sea as earthquakes and mega-tsunamis lay ...

I was a loser who chose to stay behind and help when humanity bailed on a dying Earth. A cosmic afterthought, clinging to a fading hope that I could get a girl to notice me for my selfless act. When that blew up in my face and she tried to steal my cruiser-class starship, I decided enough was enough. Driven by my inheritance—a map to worlds untouched by human greed—I decided to do what I always wanted to do: blow this popsicle stand and say hello to the great unknown. My name is Logan Pierce, and I was supposed to be exploring those hidden realms with my AI buddy, Steve. But fate had ...

Earth. After the invasion. The planet is in ruins. Humankind struggles to survive. Hayden is a Sheriff in a world without law. A good man in a world gone bad. He knows the fallout of an alien attack when he sees it. He's never seen anything like this before. Isaac is a Marine in a world without order. A good man with troubles of his own. His mission was to protect the innocent, including his son. Instead, he's the only survivor.

A Dying Earth. A New World. A Fight for Survival. Earth is collapsing—its air poisoned, its lands scorched, its oceans rising. With extinction looming, humanity’s last hope lies light-years away on an uncharted alien planet. Thousands of desperate colonists take the leap into the unknown, risking everything for a second chance. But survival won’t come easy. Captain Brian “Finn” Finnegan leads the expedition, only to find a world as ruthless as the one they left behind. Savage predators, treacherous terrain, and a planet that seems determined to expel its new inhabitants. But ...

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

When Billy and Corvis see each other on hologram it's love at first sight … The year is 2099. Corvis Santos is an overworked ICU nurse in the midst of yet another pandemic, but otherwise, life is normal—until he gets fired. World War III erupts. Escaping the apocalypse on Earth, Jake, his buddy from Peace Corps days, recruits him to pilot a huge “self-flying,” ship with 314 orphans on the safe haven of Enceladus, a super-secret colony on Enceladus, an ice moon of Saturn. Medical problems plague the trip from the beginning, but real trouble starts when an army of gangsters led by the...

When rookie astronomer Irina Kirilenko discovers a planet-size comet in the Kuiper Belt on a collision course for Mars, she first faces stonewalling from the Minor Planet Center, then coercion and stricture from NASA. They press her to embrace an ingenious reinterpretation of her discovery and ban her from talking about it. It slowly dawns on her that the government is fostering a massive conspiracy to keep the public oblivious to the truth—Earth is facing an existential threat.

The first thing one notices, as he visits Cicala, is the ground. It isn't grassy as one might expect. It has texture. The next, and most striking, sight are ponds of water that soar overhead on their never-ending circuit. Closer examination reveals plant and animal life which is strange and beautiful. These are the sights that were witnessed by Earth's 'cradle of humanity' two thousand years ago when they arrived as strangers. They are no longer strangers. It is their home.

For Mo Collins, surviving the zombie apocalypse isn’t getting any easier. Defeating blunatics, saving survivors, recovering treasure, and securing Guntersville Island has been taking up Mo’s time when he would rather just make time with his girl. But he can’t avoid his scripted destiny; his personal Oracle, Smokes, won’t let him. He can still bitch about it, though.

I thought dying in prison was my only option… …then I was given a choice. I can either board an alien spaceship with 400 fellow criminals or rot in prison on a freezing Earth. The spacecraft's captain, a handsome alien who looks remarkably human, has been visiting me in my dreams for over a year. He has given me the companionship I need during my time locked up in solitary confinement, and the way he holds me in my mind makes me forget the Earth is on the brink of extinction. But was that nothing but my imagination? The alien in question doesn’t seem to know anything about the hours ...

Our Broken City On May Day, a catastrophic EMP attack combined with a series of devastating earthquakes brings the Pacific Northwest and the world to its knees. No power. No communication. No way out. Portland, Oregon, is left in ruins, and in the chaos, a ruthless cult known as Our Family seizes control. For Allie Bond, making it home to her family is the only thing that matters. Stranded in the crumbling city, she’s hunted by Our Family’s fanatical leader, a man who sees her as a threat to his first and only chance at building an empire. Kraig, a former cop with his own haunted past, ...

Some say it's the second coming and the rapture, others are suspicious of the visitors. One thing's for sure, Earth will never be the same. S.E. Meyer combines ancient alien astronaut theory, ancient Sumerian codices, current religious beliefs from around the world and the book of Revelation in a way that tears down the veil of traditional thinking to reveal new though provoking theories on the origins of the human race and its many traditional beliefs. The Prodigal Sun will wow you with a fact filled, thrilling and intricately blended story that interweaves mythologies and religions in new...

After fleeing the only refuge she's known for much of her life, Avery, along with her sister, June, and new friends, Will, Oliver, and Riley forge through the forest to uncharted territory in search of a better life, in search of other survivors. But Avery soon learns that life beyond the woods is far worse than she ever imagined. She finds that safety does not exist for human beings in a world run by Urthmen.

Book 3 of Harvest Series Family. Betrayal. Redemption. Annie Trent hasn’t heard from her father in six months. The message she finally receives is a riddle and a uniform to infiltrate Fjordstrom, a top-secret government facility. Desperate for answers, Annie stumbles into a whirlwind of secrets, lies, and an alien enemy captive. To find her father, Annie must consider risking everything—including aligning with the enemy. Torn between loyalty, survival, uncovering the truth, and treason of the highest order, her father’s life—and humanity’s future—depend on just how far she’s ...

In 2050, the world's temperature has increased by three degrees Fahrenheit. 200 million people are leaving regions of the earth that have become unable to sustain life. The war to reduce carbon dioxide has come too late. A desperation has spread over the land. In the United States, giant hordes of travellers seeking cooler climates roam aimlessly from town to town searching for a few oases rumored to exist, as if missed by time itself.

As World Leaders Xiao, Rothchild, and Fisk work with and against one another, their government and way of life fall apart. One misstep creates a ripple effect that leads to the demise of the planet. Tal Fisk and Jae Xiao, star-crossed lovers, meet as the stars have ordained. Fate and power work to keep them apart while they defy their parents.

The last thing Steven remembers was waiting in a prison cell for the results of an appeals trial. His crime: speaking out against unfair treatment of workers. His opinion of his sentence: it's political. Next thing he wakes up on a commercial ship run by the Merlin Company, where he meets Luciane, Rollo and Jack, fellow prisoners of an inconveniently political nature, and the four will be sent down to a planet where a research team has vanished. Everything needed to survive and return is on the abandoned base, and all the company wants is to know what happened to twelve scientists.

Human survival is top priority as they wait for the day they can once again walk the earth. Trapped in an underground silo because the air outside is too toxic to breathe, the people of Silo 1000 are very aware they're only one of many such self-contained units. Human survival is top priority as they wait for the day they can once again walk the earth. In such a reality, Maryann Holston never bothered trying to fall in love. She knows she'll have to take whatever fate the silo thinks is best for the betterment of all. But as she runs into childhood friend, Paul Allison, she realizes that ...