Apocalyptic Fiction

Ben Davis was prepared for disaster. He just didn't know it would come so soon. He and his teenage son Joel, are miles deep in the backcountry of the San Juan Mountains when high-altitude nuclear electromagnetic detonations light up the pre-dawn sky. Ben, Joel, and their dog, Gunner, must make their way home - or whatever's left of it - on foot.

Burning Hollow, Tennessee has always been a town divided. For a century, the powerful Bickmore and Banks families fought for control, creating generational wounds that never healed. When an EMP attack plunges America into chaos, that bitter feud ignites in unfathomable ways.

Jed Welch thought washing out of the Marines Corps was the worst thing that could happen. It landed him back in his old life of crime, running with drug dealers in Queens. Just when he thought his luck couldn’t get worse, a global viral outbreak unleashed virulent hordes of Alpha predators. He quickly finds himself alone, saving his own skin, and on the run in New York City as the outbreak spreads.

The situation looks bleak for Braxton and his band of followers. Their offensive to gain control of a stable food source has been repelled by the Gang’s counterattack, and the survivors are now spread thin across the desert landscape. The odds of them surviving even another night grow slimmer as they attempt a disorganized retreat far beyond the limits of familiar terrain. In the town, the Gang unleashes its wrath upon the citizens. Rejoicing in their victory against the elusive Braxton, they exact a violent price from the most innocent members of the population. With his back against the...

Apocalypse Online: The Complete Series is 3000 Pages of LitRPG / Progression madness! At first everyone thought it was a game.... But aliens have arrived, and they are turning people into fertilizer. Brad and Sam are gamers. And when they started playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online, they had no idea that the game was a preview of reality! With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, our heroes will have a chance to survive the apocalypse. They just have to survive, level up, and find other survivors. Jake is no gamer.

A supervolcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves caught in an apocalyptic catastrophe in which humanity has no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world.

A series of global earthquakes cascade across the world, their ferocity unmatched by any other natural disaster in human history. Cities are turned to rubble in moments, deep bunkers are sealed shut in an instant, tens of millions are dead in the first hours, and as aftershocks threaten to further destabilize what remains, those few who survived are forced to navigate a broken country.

When one of their newest members–a veritable youngster–leaves the safety of Trinity House and ventures into Santa Fe alone, an act born of survival sets in motion a chain of events, like the butterfly effect, that puts the entire group in the crosshairs of a former mob hitman. After surviving an initial attack, mostly unscathed, with the madman’s whereabouts unknown and the possibility of another attempt on Trinity not a question of if, but when, the first cold snap of winter opens a window of opportunity that Army veteran Lee Riker and his small band deem impossible to ignore.

Tales From the New Earth are stories about a future where planet Earth is a very different place, and mankind has become a race of perfect humans. We get to know the New Earth first through the eyes of a 21st-century astrophysicist called Levi Adams, who is resurrected hundreds of years into this new reality, where technology has evolved beyond his wildest dreams, and non-humans rule the world. With the help of his best friend Marcel Williams, Levi will find his faith, meet his Maker, and get ready for the Final Test, when humans will face the threat of losing paradise once again.

Three days before nuclear war, a covert artificial intelligence program—designed to imitate American command systems—slips into Russia’s automated defenses and silently dismantles the final safeguards against catastrophe. The breach is invisible. The escalation irreversible. Far from command centers and decision rooms, two families in the suburbs north of New York City begin to notice only small signs that something is wrong. Power flickers. Systems stall. News grows contradictory. No one yet understands that the foundations of civilization are already failing.

Cassie Forrest isn't surprised to learn that the day she’s decided to get her life together is also the day the world ends. After all, she’s been on a self-imposed losing streak since her survivalist parents died: she’s stopped painting, broken off her engagement to Adrian and dated a real jerk. Rectifying her mistakes has to wait, however, because Cassie and her friends have just enough time to escape Brooklyn for her parents’ cabin before Bornavirus LX turns them into zombies, too.

The infection has begun, ravaging the American Southwest and leaving chaos in its wake. In this new world, there will be no last meal, no dying wish. The only reward left is to survive another day...The complete Contamination series - all in this one, special edition.

Over the course of a few months, along with the rest of the world, America collapses piece by piece turning the nation into a grim wasteland where the chances for survival are slim. Watch your six with counterterrorism agents as they try to keep a doctor and each other alive. Join a team of CDC doctors as they race to find a cure and the virus picks them off one by one. Scramble with a retired Air Force colonel thrust into the command of a Special Forces team trying to prop up a dying government.

If the power grid fails, how far will you go to survive?Madison spends her days tending plants as an agriculture student at the University of California, Davis. She plans to graduate and put those skills to work only a few hours from home in the Central Valley. The sun has always been her friend, until now.

In the rugged, snow-capped mountains of Colorado, a new dawn breaks over a world reshaped by the apocalypse. This first book in the Dark Road spin-off series follows Ben and his family after returning to the heart of the San Juan Mountain range in Durango, Colorado to rebuild their lives after a harrowing cross-country journey. But survival in this new reality is anything but simple.

Humanity won the war. Now they have to survive the peace. The Dominion is shattered. The Grand Architect is dead. And for the first time in five hundred years, the stars belong to someone else. Captain Will Statham should feel victorious. Instead, the Exodus Fleet is fracturing from the inside. Forty thousand liberated aliens are converging on the fleet, desperate for protection from the collapsing Dominion remnants hunting them through the dark. Civilian unrest is spreading across the cargo holds. The Irregulars are exhausted to the breaking point. And after years of fighting like a ...

On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history, the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed and cities began to starve, showing just how vulnerable the world could be to a targeted campaign of online sabotage. This final installment of this prescient epic of civilisation collapse finds the small ragtag band of survivors come together to face a new, but eerily familiar threat - the rise of a fascist militia among the ruins of a failing country.

A man must survive the zombie apocalypse armed with only a shotgun, a Samurai bat, and the will to live among the unliving in this horror series debut. It’s been two years since civilization ended in an unstoppable wave of chaos and blood. Now, former house painter Augustus “Gus” Berry lives a day-to-day existence of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable moment when “they” will come up the side of his mountain and penetrate his fortress.

Army veteran Lee Riker is staying in an Atlanta shelter and supporting himself with the odd carpentry job when his sister, Tara, summons him home to Indiana for the reading of their mother’s will. Riker boards a Greyhound bus in Atlanta with his duffel bag, less than $200 to his name, and a secret he must protect at all costs. Riker makes it to Middletown only to learn his sister has recently witnessed a gruesome death. Insisting she saw the victim rise from a pool of his own blood to attack the Samaritan rendering aid, Tara floats the idea that the man may have been a zombie.

8 billion zombies. 9 epic books. 1 man. A year ago, Amo woke from a coma to a world that felt too loud, too crowded, too overwhelming. To survive, he rebuilt his life in the quiet corners of Manhattan – finally finding his anchor in Lara. One perfect date, and he thought his life had truly begun. The next morning, Lara was gone. Everyone was gone. Eight billion people turned into monsters overnight. Planes spiral from the sky. Manhattan is a bloody wasteland. But the zombies aren't rampaging mindlessly — they're moving. Deliberately. Together. All in the same direction. Amo follows them...