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  • The Year of Compulsory Childbirth

    The Year of Compulsory Childbirth

    by Nigel Farringdon

    A world ravaged by AIDS, with a depleted population. A European Federation torn between three factions: the Procrusteans, the Libertarians and the Faithful. A Procrustean leader who enters into an unholy alliance with the Faithful to conscript women to have children. But geneticist Barbara Freeman does not accept the premise that collective survival takes precedence over civil liberties. Neither does rocket... (more)
  • Wool 3
    Wool: Book 3

    Wool 3

    Casting Off

    by Hugh Howey

    There were numbers on each of the pockets. Juliette could look down at her chest and read them, and so it occurred to her that they must be printed upside down. They were there for her to read, and for no one else. She numbly stared at them through her helmet visor while the door behind her was sealed. There was another door, a forbidden one, looming in front of her. It stood silently as it waited to be opened. ... (more)
  • 2032

    2032

    by A. S. Anand

    The year is 2032. After a series of catastrophic disasters, the Global Government is formed and transforms the world into identical metropolises called Sectors. This dystopian novel focuses on fifty days during a tumultuous year in the Earth's history. The reader is taken on an enthralling journey that sheds light on the disintegration of all aspects of society: from assassins to suicidal football managers, from... (more)
  • Pump

    Pump

    by Gary Denne

    In the not-too-distant future, after a catastrophic and world-wide economic collapse, the United States is a broken shell of its former self. But on the island of Manhattan, a comfortable standard of living still exists that only the world’s richest can afford. Sheltered from the chaos and anarchy of the outside world, New York City has become a privately-run sanctuary operated by a mysterious and powerful company... (more)
  • The Third Creation Story

    The Third Creation Story

    by Nick Lombardi

    Eleven bigots--each of a different ethnicity--wake up in a strange room to find they are the survivors of a catastrophe which has wiped out all life except for themselves. Trapped in the dark room, they are forced to work together to learn where they are and how they got there. Only then do they start to arrive at the final pulsing conclusion: that they must procreate in order to save the human species. This is... (more)
  • I am Cara

    I am Cara

    by Frederick Anderson

    A hundred years have passed since the human race's last attempt to wipe itself out, and this time it might just have worked! In a world where fertility has ceased and male children are no longer born, an almost entirely female population faces extinction. Free spirit Cara may seem to be a loose cannon, nearly as dangerous as the muderous female gangs she taunts - but maybe she also has an answer.....
  • Free Falling

    Free Falling

    by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

    When Matt and Sarah Woodson take a much-needed vacation with their ten-year old son, John, their intention is to find a relaxing, remote spot to take a break from the artificial stimulation of their busy world back in Jacksonville, Florida. What happens within hours of settling in to their rural, rustic little cottage in a far-flung spot on the coast of Ireland is an international incident that leaves the family... (more)
  • One by One

    One by One

    by Philip Tucker

    For Peter, the end of civilization begins quietly with the disappearance of his mother. At the police station he learns that thousands of others have gone mysteriously missing overnight, and that tens of millions more are vanishing daily across the globe. Without explanation humanity finds itself facing its final year on the planet, and it is only then that Peter falls in love. Her name is Sophia, and though both... (more)
  • Memento Nora

    Memento Nora

    by Angie Smibert

    In the future, it doesn't pay to remember. In Nora's world you don't have to put up with nightmares. Nora goes with her mother to TFC--a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic. There, she can describe her horrible memory and take the pill that will erase it. But at TFC, a chance encounter with a mysterious guy changes Nora's life. She doesn't take the pill. And when Nora learns the memory her mother has chosen to forget,... (more)
  • INVASION USA (Book 2) - The Battle For New York

    INVASION USA (Book 2) - The Battle For New York

    by T I WADE

    Continuation of INVASION USA I The End of Modern Civilization... Strap yourself in for a sweaty ride! At exactly midnight on December 31, 2012, every electronic device made in China for the last 30 years stops working. The shutdown of the United States of America, and 97% of the entire world, is accomplished by 12:30 am U.S. Eastern time on the first day of the New Year in 2013. It takes only 30 minutes to... (more)
  • Human Sister

    Human Sister

    by Jim Bainbridge

    The ancient moralities and worldviews of established religions and the ruling majorities of Earth's most powerful nation-states have been fighting a rearguard action against the encroachment of science on what they consider to be the core of the human self: its mind and consciousness. The United Nations Human Genome Protection Act has outlawed all genetic enhancements of human offspring, and the old contenders for... (more)
  • But the Children Survived

    But the Children Survived

    by A. L. Jambor

    Nine-year-old Mindy Lane is alone in her grandmother’s mobile home. With her is her Grammy’s eighteen-year-old terrier dog, Baby Girl. She has been staying with her grandmother while her parents travel. Across the street, a man sits on his porch. His skin is peeling off his face and he smells really bad. A hurricane has knocked out the water and electricity. Grammy left the house seven days ago to buy... (more)
  • Dysfunction

    Dysfunction

    by Mike Oppenheim

    On July 4th, 2025, Earth experienced a devastating series of geomagnetic storms due to a series of solar flares and solar coronal mass ejections. Scientists had long predicted such events, but there was no way to predict their onset, and thus no warning system was developed. Earth’s magnetic field was severely disrupted and most of the western hemisphere was decimated. Years later, remnants of a small colony of... (more)
  • Show Time

    Show Time

    by Phil Harvey

    Future viewing audiences have become totally desensitized to violence and entirely dependent on sensation to escape their boring workaday lives an addiction nurtured by the media with graphic portrayals of war and crime and with so-called reality programming. Now, TV execs in pursuit of the only things they care about higher ratings and bigger paychecks have created the ultimate reality show: Seven people, each... (more)
  • Forecast

    Forecast

    by Chris Keith

    When the nuclear bombs are dropped on Europe, Brad Sutcliffe and his crew of four are 132,000 feet above the continent doing weather experiments onboard Fable-1, the world's largest helium balloon. Stranded in the stratosphere with their oxygen running out and the world on fire beneath them, the crew make the terrifying decision to return to ground level by parachuting from their balloon. From that point on,... (more)
  • Hard Roads

    Hard Roads

    by Terry McDonald

    In the year 2017 a plague decimates the global human population with a survival rate of only one in six hundred. One nation after another is infected and accusations of bio-terrorism lead to nuclear war. The Western Hemisphere is spared from any nukes but eventually the plague arrives in the USA leaving only a half million alive. A three year nuclear winter kills even more. Social structure is nonexistent and... (more)
  • The 11th Floor

    The 11th Floor

    by Charles Culver

    Luke awakens next to a dead body. He is unsure of his location, and the city in which he finds himself is empty. In an attempt to get home, he encounters many bizarre circumstances which test his sanity. Unknown to him, several other people are also in the city, experiencing similar events and disturbing challenges that they must each overcome. Their journeys all lead them to the same building where they are... (more)
  • THE END - Book One (THE EVENT)

    THE END - Book One (THE EVENT)

    by Marshall Huffman

    The Earth as mankind knew it was no more. THE END chronicles the lives of the few who managed to survive by sheer luck. Facing seemingly insurmountable challenges, they must find a way to co-exist or perish. Not knowing the reason for the population's devastation, they simply call it 'The Event'. In the struggle to survive, new leaders emerge to change the course of civilization for better or worse. Those... (more)
  • Enfold Me - A Novel of Post-Israel

    Enfold Me - A Novel of Post-Israel

    by Steven Greenberg

    Written by an Israeli and IDF veteran, Enfold Me is a provocative, timely, and dark story of one man’s journey through a chillingly-realistic post-Israel Middle East. Precipitated by a massive earthquake and an Iranian-led attack, the fall of Israel rips Daniel Blum from his suburban family life and scientific career. Isolated and alone, he endures the subjugation and terror of life in Hamas-controlled Northern... (more)
  • The Sundered

    The Sundered

    by Ruthanne Reid

    Harry Iskinder knows the rules. Don't touch the water, or it will pull you under. Conserve food, because there's no arable land. Use Sundered slaves gently, or they die too quickly to be worthwhile. With extinction on the horizon and a world lost to deadly flood, Harry searches for a cure: the Hope of Humanity, the mysterious artifact that gave humans control over the Sundered centuries ago.According to legend,... (more)
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