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.

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 ...

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 ...

Our Broken Bonds The world as they knew it is gone. An EMP attack, a series of devastating quakes, and now, rising floods leave survivors evacuating Portland, Oregon and scrambling for higher ground. But for Liam, Allie, and Mouse, survival isn’t enough—they must find each other before it's too late. Liam Bond and his younger sister Mouse have become separated. She is trapped somewhere within the ruins of a dying city. The coastline is sinking, and the only way in or out of the city is through the warlords and scavengers who have joined the fanatical cult known as Our Family—a group ...

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...

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.

Hope flickers in the ruins of a shattered world. Driven by a desperate search for her vanished friend, Amanda descends upon Sor's unforgiving planet. Unaware of the devastation that has unfolded, she plunges into a harsh landscape far removed from the advanced society she knew. A mysterious cosmic wave has swept across the planet, leaving only remnants of its former glory and its people scattered and struggling to survive. Among them is Woli, a descendant of Sor's original colonists. Unlike those resigned to their fate, Woli clings to dreams of a future beyond this brutal environment. When ...

The Earth wakes up. Not angry. Not vengeful. Aware. Beneath humanity’s feet, a planetary intelligence begins to think—not in words, but in pressure, heat, and balance. Scientists call it Lavaborn, a forge-mind born of geological time. Governments panic. Humanity argues. And one man begins to understand something far more unsettling than extinction: The Earth may not need us forever. This is not a story about saving the world. It is a story about what happens after survival is no longer the hardest problem. Lavaborn explores what intelligence owes to intelligence, what restraint really ...

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.

Three women. One soldier. An alien world trying to kill us before we can decide if we trust each other. I was a soldier until I was convicted of a crime I didn’t commit and exiled to a distant planet to help colonize it. When our ship went down, I thought surviving the crash would be the hard part. I was wrong. The planet’s crawling with predators. We’re running out of food and water. And every night, the cold creeps in a little more. The only people I can rely on are three women who are smart, stubborn, and far too distracting for their own good. Staying alive means staying focused. ...

Our Broken Skies Book Four in the Our Broken Planet Series The sky was supposed to be safer than the ground. After the EMP and the Great Quakes shattered the world, Delaney’s high school collapsed into rubble. Torn from her friends in the chaos, she’s whisked away by a military team working for Airlifter, a private aerospace giant building hybrid sustainable freight blimps meant to save what’s left of civilization, or perhaps themselves. But the skies are no sanctuary—they're filled with ash, violent storms, and betrayal. Her father, Michael, President and lead engineer at Airlifter...

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 ...

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 ...

An eclectic collection of stories from the members of the North Alabama Science Fiction and Cake Appreciation Society. Earl, Bubba, and the Flying Hubcap -- by Louise Herring-Jones – Two Alabama good ol’ boys have a close encounter. Messenger -- by Dan Thompson – A wanderer arrives at an isolated village with news about the plague that devastated the world. Pink Eggs in a White Box -- by Michael Guillebeau – A lonely technician finds love in an unexpected place. Mother Gone -- by Nancy G. Swanner – Three children search for their kidnapped mother, unaware that there is magic ...

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...

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.

Did someone order a post- apocalyptic story with a side of conspiracies, adventures and romance? After 25 years asleep in space, a crew comes back to Earth to see humanity has been wiped out by an invisible radiation. Is Earth survivable? Is any human alive? With the advanced technology of 2240, the post-apocalyptic life doesn't seem to be a fight for survival, but if humans are alive, there will always be chaos.

Chester is a solitary astronomer living in a base on Pluto. Like all human beings, he carries his own personal madness. He is a pure and honest soul who loves nature and is willing to fight for its defense. He suffers for the animals, the forests, jungles, and seas, and longs for the day when the natural life of planet Earth returns to its former glory. To achieve this, he executed a plan to perfection. Now, living alone and content in the Lighthouse of Pluto, a vile threat suddenly appears out of nowhere, threatening to ruin his life’s work and devastate life on the planet.

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.