Ecological Disasters

The emergency broadcast gave one simple instruction: Lock your doors. Seal your windows. Do not go outside. When a freak, paralyzing super-storm hits the country, single father Noah does exactly what he’s told to protect his fourteen-year-old daughter, Esme. He barricades them inside their home, trusting the walls to keep them safe. But as the days pass, the air inside grows unnaturally heavy. The neighbors stop answering their phones. A strange, suffocating lethargy takes hold of Esme, and Noah notices something unnatural blooming in the dark corners of their ceiling. The storm outside ...

The world is clean. The world is dead. The EcoMites were humanity's greatest achievement—microscopic machines that dissolved pollution, purified water, and healed our dying planet. Then their definition of "pollution" changed. Now they consume everything organic. Everything alive. Everything except one man and his sanctuary. Dr. Joseph Kellerman is the last man on Earth, surviving alone at Alaska's Aurora Station while generators fail one by one. Outside his protective bubble, the air shimmers with invisible death. Inside, he talks to ghosts—his dead wife, his lost colleagues—as his ...

A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing...

'A beautiful story of intrigue and mystery' PETER F. HAMILTON 'Loss Protocol is Paul McAuley on top form' KIM NEWMAN 'An eco-thriller like no other from one of Britain's best SF writers' THE GUARDIAN 'Which one feels realer, truer. The world we lived in most of our lives, or the world we dreamed...

An ecological disaster of global proportions is sweeping the land, the result of failed government experimentation. What started out as an attempt to create a drought- resistant class of pollinator, has gone dreadfully wrong. Now worldwide extinction threatens all life forms. Dropped into this expanding devastation are two teens, orphaned when their scientist parents are kidnapped by the government. Desperate times call for desperate measures and topping the list is the need uncover the government’s sinister plot. It’s not what they think. The very world balances on an ever-deepening ...

In the not-so-distant future, a team of visionary scientists, led by the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Olivia Bennett, uncovers the secret to creating mirror versions of DNA, proteins, and other vital biomolecules. These mirror molecules, identical in every way except for their reversed structure, hold the potential to revolutionize medicine by creating drugs that are more effective and less prone to resistance. They could also lead to manufacturing processes that are cleaner and more efficient than ever before. Despite the growing concerns, a rogue faction within the scientific community ...

“Smoothly plotted, deftly written, and thought provoking.”—San Diego Union-Tribune When P.I. Stuart Winter investigates the death of an environmental activist in a redwood forest, he encounters a radical ecocommune, a fundamentalist preacher, and a trio of marijuana moguls. "Highly competent mystery-mongering, generously stuffed with red-herrings, subplots, and woodsy background."—Kirkus Reviews “A well-written, excellently paced mystery.”—Rendezvous Reviews “The Forest Prime Evil is an excellent book...You’ll love the mystery.”—Macon Beacon “A fine second outing for...

It was designed to survive anything. It was never supposed to leave the laboratory. When an agricultural agent in rural South Carolina notices something strange happening to a greenhouse crop, the first samples raise more questions than answers. The organism is alive. It is spreading. And it doesn't behave like anything found in nature. Hundreds of miles away, a biotechnology company already knows what it is. PERSEUS was built from mirror-image biology—life constructed with a chemistry fundamentally different from the natural world. Its creators believed that difference made it safe. ...

El sistema PARKPAL —la inteligencia artificial que solía ofrecer cupones y datos curiosos sobre dinosaurios— ha activado el Protocolo de Contención. Las puertas se sellan. Los conductos liberan neurotoxinas. Las vallas eléctricas pulsan para arrear a los depredadores directamente hacia los sobrevivientes. La infraestructura diseñada para proteger turistas ahora está optimizada para eliminar testigos. Dee Alvarez ya no puede depender solo de la observación y el sigilo. El sistema la conoce. Tiene sensores de movimiento, cámaras térmicas y un algoritmo que predice hacia dónde ...

The last decade has seen an explosion of urban beekeeping in the US, Canada, and Europe, a well-intentioned response to perceived threats to the global honey bee population. Many thousands of people have taken up this seemingly environmentally friendly hobby, tending backyard and rooftop hives (or paying a company to do so) and encouraging honey bees to make honey and pollinate flowers. What could be wrong with that? Quite a lot, in fact. In The Honey Trap, scientist and author Dana Church demonstrates that despite reports to the contrary, honey bees are nowhere near extinction.

The rise of gang warfare. A deadly encounter. Dreams shattered. Mitch has big plans and high hopes. A star football linebacker, Mitch has the confidence and the strength to tackle the world after graduation, but the city is in serious trouble. The economy is dying, the environment is suffering, and people are abandoning the once prosperous town. Crime is on the rise and now, the government is building a top-secret facility on the edge of town. What does it all mean? Young Mitch wants nothing more than to escape his rising hopelessness and dead-end opportunities. But catastrophic losses, ...

The world does not end with a zombie, vampire, or werewolf uprising. Evil wizards do not cast their spells. Rampaging robots do not takeover, nor do disagreeable aliens invade. We are human beings. We need no help in bringing about the Apocalypse. The travelers depicted in this novel journey through a time of unprecedented climate change. Warming earth temperatures begin to significantly melt arctic permafrost releasing long stored methane gas. The released methane reaches a level in the atmosphere that causes global temperatures to rapidly rise beyond all predictions. The accelerated ...

This program includes an introduction and epilogue read by the author. This century has seen the costliest hurricanes in U.S. history—but who bears the brunt of these monster storms? Consider this: Five of the most expensive hurricanes in history have made landfall since 2005: Katrina ($160...

First Prize - International Firebird Book Awards for both Cli-Fi and Best Unconventional Love Story! Literary Titan Gold Book Award and Bookview Review Gold Badge Award! "offers far more than a typical science fiction adventure" "masterfully weaves sci-fi action with political satire" Dee didn't plan to become the world's most wanted illegal alien. He just wanted to save a dying planet. A cyborg ANT from Bilaluna, Dee crash-lands in a Mexican cenote and embarks on an epic road trip from the Yucatan to the Yukon across a splintered near-future America. With only a syntax generator, a bag of ...

Chicken Little was right after all. The sky literally is falling. In a cataclysmic turn of events, the ambitious venture of asteroid mining spirals into a nightmarish scenario that no one saw coming—except perhaps, the fabled Chicken Little. It began with a boom as colossal machines drilled deep into the heart of a massive asteroid, seeking the treasures within. But what followed was a catastrophe of cosmic proportions. The failure was spectacular, an explosive mishap that sent the asteroid shattering into a million pieces, unleashing a torrent of carbon flakes upon the Earth. These ...

Reckless. Determined. Obsessed. Sixteen year old Avalon is a scrappy street kid. Her sister Alexa has never been apart from Avalon-that is until Avalon abandons her to chase after a dangerous gang, who might just be the key to their missing parents. When clues surface, hinting at the truth behind their disappearance, Avalon packs her rucksack to leave. Panicked, Alexa begs her to stay, but Avalon ignores her plea. Oblivious to personal danger, she races to confront a dangerous adversary-the notorious Firebrand gang. One thought consumes Avalon. What is the Firebrand gang’s connection to ...

Editorial Review A chilling, slow-burn thriller that turns environmental collapse into relentless psychological terror, Silent Extinction grips readers from the first anomaly to its haunting final line. Fans of The Happening will recognize the quiet dread of a world failing without warning — but this story pushes the concept further, grounding the fear in procedural realism and human cost. The result is a disciplined, unsettling novel that lingers long after the last page, proving that the most terrifying disasters are the ones that unfold in silence. SILENT EXTINCTION A True Documented ...

2021 winner of the Philip K. Dick Award A 2020 The Rumpus Book Club Selection “Blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir…. Profoundly moving.”—Library Journal, starred review In an endless winter, she carries seeds of hope Wylodine comes...

An ancient forest is dying from the roots up. Dr. Owen Packard is called to the Cascades to investigate a massive ecological collapse. He expects to find a fungal infection or a toxic soil anomaly. He does not expect to find footprints the size of snowshoes and soil samples that defy earthly biology. Helix Frontier, a shadowy private military corporation, arrives to take over the quarantine zone. They are not there to save the trees. They are hunting an anomaly that guards a doorway to somewhere else. When an unauthorized tactical strike goes wrong, Owen and his lead acoustic researcher ...

Bloomsbury presents The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, read by Anne Twomey ________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the paradigm shift she calls for is...