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If society fell apart, could your family survive? Jim Powell thought he was ready. He was a regular guy who travelled a lot for work and hated every second he was away from his young family. But when ISIS operatives unleashed a coordinated attack on America’s infrastructure, his entire world shattered. The electrical grid collapsed, communication networks were damaged, critical bridges and dams were destroyed, and major fuel refineries have gone up in massive fiery clouds.

In the shadow of a dying star and under the ominous gaze of the Obsidian Order, young Elara Nova stumbles upon a secret that could alter the balance of the universe —a hidden power that echoes through the ruins of an ancient, godlike civilization. Elara’s journey begins with a single spark: a mysterious tome revealing the location of the fabled Astralis Core, a force so potent it was buried millennia ago to prevent galactic annihilation.

The world has been plunged into the chaos of war, fear and violence after a brilliant madman destroyed an American city, killed thousands and unleashed four entities into the world possessing supernatural powers. Some believe these abilities were bestowed by science, others believe these four are the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, given their powers by divine prophecy.

Washington is gone. One strike erased the political center of the world. After that, everything began to fall apart. Communications failed. Satellites went silent. Fuel, medicine, and supply chains stopped moving. Electricity survives only in scattered places where small grids and generators still work. Cities struggle to function. Hospitals run out of supplies. Millions begin moving, searching for water, medicine, and safety. But the explosions were only the beginning. Disease spreads in crowded shelters. People with injuries receive no treatment.

When Technology Is Hard To Come By, It Helps If Yours Is Built In. Saddle up for a wild ride through the alien world of Blanken 9 in this electrifying fusion of Sci-Fi and Western! Zestrum Doniphon is a good man with a bad reputation. A job offer from Claude Etcheverry, a wealthy rancher who has amassed a private army of cyborgs to monopolize Copperbank’s water supply, pulls Doniphon into a budding range war.

America is falling, one bite at a time. When a devastating bioterror attack unleashes a zombie-like plague, the nation descends into chaos. Cities crumble, the government seizes power, and survivors face a nightmarish new reality. Stranded in the neon jungle of Las Vegas, an unlikely group of...

It is the third century of the atomic era. Most people are genetically altered to eliminate racial features, but not Amber or her new husband Jerry. Religion has also been outlawed, and the young couple have just escaped religious persecution. What will the sanctuary they have arrived at be like?

A classic, post-apocalyptic vision of America created by C. L. Moore, an undisputed master of science fiction's golden age. In the wake of a nuclear war, the totalitarian system known as Comus has restored order in a shattered America. Comus controls every aspect of American life, from...

Had Ellena Reed stayed home that weekend, she would've been nothing but ash on her kitchen floor when the warheads hit. Instead, she's wading through a Georgia swamp with her stepsister Button, while civilization burns. With radioactive dust settling through the cypress trees, Ellena digs deep into instincts she never knew she had. At their campground, a man appears who claims to be an ex-SEAL.

Im Jahr 2120 gibt es an der Ostseeküste kaum noch Menschen. Mit ihren fünfzehn Jahren kennt Julia außer ihrer Familie bloß eine Handvoll Nachbarn. Internet und Verkehrsnetze sind längst zusammengebrochen. Nur der gelegentliche Besuch eines Boten oder Händlers bringt Nachrichten aus dem...

When the refinery falls, the Guard withdraws from the Texas territory. The re-emergence of the infected bring an unforeseen plague of death and destruction in its wake. New infected variants soon appear up and down the coast, each genetically adapting to their environment to be the perfect hunter. Those few survivors who withdraw to the water watch as everything they've built over the last five years go up in smoke. With the loss of the refinery, crude production plummets, leaving the United Islands in dire straits. Under new leadership, directives are shifted from defense to offense.

The Alog plunges listeners into a futuristic Los Angeles where society is governed by the enigmatic Veritas Corporation. Justin Larkin, a solitary figure tethered to the flow of digital streams, discovers a hidden truth that threatens to upend the controlled reality crafted by the Alog—a powerful, omnipresent system managing life in Sector One.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN OUR CULTURE...

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society’s most powerful, medically-enhanced elites. “Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway.” —William Gibson...

The first English translation of celebrated Swiss-German novelist Sibylle Berg, Grime is a manifesto for fury, escape, and individual...

“Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games” (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review). It’s...

In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be...

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an...

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** From the author of Silence Once Begun, a beguiling new novel about a man starting over at the most basic level, and the strange woman who insinuates herself into his life and memory. A man and a woman have moved into a small house in a small village...

When a group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities comes out of hiding, their clash with a violent society will spark a revolution—or an apocalypse. “Much like the X-Men comics, Proehl masterfully uses science fiction as a lens to examine social inequality and human evil...