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Compound, The

by S. A. Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can’t get out. He won’t let them.

Alas, Babylon (Perennial Classics)

by Pat Frank

The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.

"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds... (more)

When the Wind Blows

by Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.

Z For Zachariah

by Robert C. O'Brien

A gripping, thought-provoking story about life after a nuclear holocaust, by a Newbery Medalist.

Fail-Safe,

by Eugene Burdick

Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows why. Their destination -- Moscow. In a bomb shelter beneath the White House, the calm young president turns to his Russian translator and says, "I think we are ready to talk to Premier Kruschchev." Not far away, in the War Room at the Pentagon, the secretary of... (more)

The Sum of All Fears

by Tom Clancy

The old certainties of the Cold War have been swept away by the new tide of detente that has washed over the superpowers. But even if international superpower relations have changed, human nature has not altered very much. The new powder keg is the Middle East where this adventure story is set.

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy - the tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, most life on earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.

New Windmills: Z for Zachariah (Pack of 16) (New Windmills)

New Windmills: Z for Zachariah (Pack of 16) (New Windmills)

by Robert C. O'Brien

One of a series of fiction for schools, this is the story of a 16-year-old girl living alone in the aftermath of atomic war, until the arrival of another survivor.

John Wells: Book 2

The Ghost War

by Alex Berenson

CIA agent John Wells returns, in a novel that reaches beyond today's headlines to foretell dangers yet to come, from the author of The Faithful Spy - "one of the best spy stories ever told" ( The Wall Street Journal ). Alex Berenson's 2006 debut was one of the most acclaimed suspense novels of the year, "the best spy thriller in a long, long while" ( The Kansas City Star ). The Ghost War proves that he is... (more)

Fail-Safe

by Eugene Burdick

On the Beach

Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center)

Galactic Center: Book 2

Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center)

by Gregory Benford

Lancer, a spaceship built to specifications found in the computers of an alien derelict, journeys to the star, Ra, from which the Earth has received mysterious radio transmissions in English

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative look at a post-apocalyptic future. In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in... (more)

Fahrenheit 451

A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do....

The Third World War: A Terrifying Novel of Global Conflict

The Third World War: A Terrifying Novel of Global Conflict

by Humphrey Hawksley

After Iraq, a lull... then the opening stages of the Third World War... more chaotic and horrifying than any war in history. Hundreds die in the Indian parliament in Delhi. The president of Pakistan is assassinated. A U.S. military base is hit by a North Korean missile. America and Britain discover chilling links between the attacks. But U.S. President Jim West wants to avoid another war. Mary Newman, his young... (more)

Warday and the Journey Onward

by W. Strieber, Whitley Strieber

The unthinkable happened five years ago and now two writers have set out to find what's left of America. New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between. It was a "limited" nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers'... (more)

Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove

by Peter Goodchild

"One Nobel Prize-winning physicist called Edward Teller, ""A great man of vast imagination...<one of the> most thoughtful statesmen of science."" Another called him, ""A danger to all that is important...It would have been a better world without <him>."" That both opinions about Teller were commonly held and equally true is one of the enduring mysteries about the man dubbed ""the father of the... (more)

Fiskadoro

by Denis Johnson

Hailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldiers, screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones," Fiskadoro is a stunning novel... (more)

Imperial Ambitions, Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post-9/11 WorldNoam Chomsky

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by S. A. Bodeen

by Pat Frank

by Nevil Shute

by Raymond Briggs

by Robert C. O'Brien

by Eugene Burdick

by Tom Clancy

by Cormac McCarthy

by Robert C. O'Brien

by Alex Berenson

by Eugene Burdick

by Gregory Benford

by Walter M. Miller

A Novel

by Ray Bradbury

by Humphrey Hawksley

by W. Strieber, Whitley Strieber

by Peter Goodchild

by Denis Johnson

by Noam Chomsky