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In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and... (more)

Exodus

by Julie Bertagna

An internationally acclaimed bestseller, vividly and terrifyingly topical, is finally available to American audiences. Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it no longer exists. Cities have disappeared beneath the sea, technology no longer functions, and human civilization has reverted to a much more primitive state On an isolated northern island, the people of Wing are trying to hold... (more)

Zenith

by Julie Bertagna

The thrilling sequel to internationally acclaimed Exodus. In this compelling continuation of Julie Bertagna’s timely trilogy, the search for a future remains a terrifying fight for survival. Sixteen-year-old Mara and her ship of refugees are tracking the North Star in search of land in the mountains of Greenland to call home. A Gypsea boy named Tuck, orphaned when Mara’s ship plows through his floating city,... (more)

The Last of the Winnebagos

by Connie, (Ed) Willis

True Meaning of Smekday, The

by Adam Rex

It all starts with a school essay. When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge, bizarre spaceships descended on the Earth and... (more)

Earth Abides

by George R. Stewart, George P. Stewart

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for. From the Paperback edition.

Incompetence (Gollancz SF)

by Rob Grant

Bad is the new good. In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all it's not their fault they can't do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent. And now a murder has been committed and our possibly incompetent detective must... (more)

Skin Hunger

by Kathleen Duey

Sadima lives in a world where magic has been banned, leaving poor villagers prey to fakes and charlatans. A "magician" stole her family's few valuables and left Sadima's mother to die on the day Sadima was born. But vestiges of magic are hidden in old rhymes and hearth tales and in people like Sadima, who conceals her silent communication with animals for fear of rejection and ridicule. When rumors of her... (more)

The Sky Inside

by Clare B. Dunkle

Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they've stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever matter of national importance the president has on the table. Today,... (more)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks

“The end was near.” —Voices from the Zombie War The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and... (more)

Emberverse: Book 3

A Meeting at Corvallis

by S. M. Stirling

In the tenth year of The Change, the survivors in western Oregon have learned how to live in a world without technology-but there are those who would exploit the new world order. On one side stands Michael Havel's Bearkillers and their allies, Clan MacKenzie under the leadership of Juniper MacKenzie. On the other is the Lord Protector, Norman Arminger-the Warlord of Portland, whose neo-feudal empire rules over... (more)

Xenogenesis

Lilith's Brood

by Octavia E. Butler

Dawn: After nuclear war destroys the world, Earths survivors are rescued by the miraculously powerful Oankali aliens- who survive by merging genetically with primitive peoples without their permission. Adulthood Rites: Desperate to regain their world, childless humans seek to cleanse the alien taint by kidnapping hybrid children. But the raiders are blind to the truth of Earths new children. Imago: The futures of... (more)

Emberverse: Book 2

The Protector's War

by S. M. Stirling

The national bestselling alternate history epic continues... Ten years after The Change rendered technology inoperable throughout the world, two brave leaders built two thriving communities in Oregon's Willamette Valley. But now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland.

Emberverse: Book 1

Dies the Fire

A Novel of the Change

by S. M. Stirling

The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race-and a Dark Age more universal and complete than could possibly be imagined.

Seven Views of Olduvai GorgeMike Resnick

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

by Mike Resnick

Hugo and Nebula award winner. According to the limitation page this was published in an edition of 900 copies; 75 Deluxe, bound in leather, numbered and signed; 300 Limited, bound in cloth with a dust jacket, numbered and signed; 525 Trade, perfect bound in paper and signed.

Moon Crash Trilogy: Book 2

The Dead and the Gone

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event--an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Puerto Rican Alex Morales. When Alex's parents disappear in... (more)

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

by Carrie Ryan

Exodus

by Julie Bertagna

Zenith

by Julie Bertagna

The Last of the Winnebagos

by Connie, (Ed) Willis

True Meaning of Smekday, The

by Adam Rex

Earth Abides

by George R. Stewart, George P. Stewart

Incompetence (Gollancz SF)

by Rob Grant

Skin Hunger

by Kathleen Duey

The Sky Inside

by Clare B. Dunkle

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks

A Meeting at Corvallis

by S. M. Stirling

Lilith's Brood

by Octavia E. Butler

The Protector's War

by S. M. Stirling

Dies the Fire

A Novel of the Change

by S. M. Stirling

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge

by Mike Resnick

The Dead and the Gone

by Susan Beth Pfeffer