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Apocalyptic fiction

  • Bounty
    Author:
    Pchajek, Jason
    Summary:

    "The year is 2120, and Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within Winnipeg’s sublevels, he is the undisputed king of bounty hunters, working for the elite Bounty Commission Eco-Terror Taskforce. The job: defend the ecological infrastructure holding back climate collapse. But when a series of bounties go wrong, Nikos finds himself on the trail of a troubling new player among the city’s anti-establishment. Duty bound to protect the people, Nikos must risk it all to unearth an insidious enemy bent on destroying everything he’s ever known."-- Provided by publisher.
  • Borne : a novel
    Author:
    VanderMeer, Jeff
    Summary:

    In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her lover, Wick, is keeping secrets about working there, so she searches his stuff and finds a journal titled "Mord." What is he hiding?
  • Aurora
    Author:
    Koepp, David
    Summary:

    SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW"Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down."--Stephen KingFrom the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family. In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out--not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood. Across the country lives Aubrey's estranged brother, Thom. A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security. But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckonings--which not everyone will survive ... Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest.
  • Apollyon : The destroyer is unleashed : Left behind, book 5
    Author:
    LaHaye, Tim F., Jenkins, Jerry B.
    Summary:

    The Tribulation Force travels to Israel for the Meeting of Witnesses as further judgments are released upon the world. Satan falls from heaven and opens the bottomless pit, releasing Apollyon and his plague of locusts that torture the unsaved.
  • Any sign of life
    Author:
    Carson, Rae
    Summary:

    After falling ill, Paige Miller wakes to a world that has perished. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident, and there are worse things than being alone.
  • An unkindness of ghosts
    Author:
    Solomon, Rivers
    Summary:

    Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. There may be a way off the ship--if she's willing to fight for it.
  • All that's left in the world : All that's left in the world, book 1
    Author:
    Brown, Erik J.
    Summary:

    When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie's house, he has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed everyone both boys have ever loved. Only one thing feels certain: the undeniable pull they have toward each other.
  • All city
    Author:
    DiFrancesco, Alex
    Summary:

    In a near-future New York City ravaged by climate change and economic inequality, a superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out.
  • A desolate splendor
    Author:
    Jantunen, John
    Summary:

    A chilling portrait of a family--fighting to preserve their humanity in a cruel and merciless world. The collapse of civilization has left the survivors scattered amongst a few settlements along the wilderness fringe of a land ravaged by war. Preyed upon by roving bands of sadistic ex-soldiers and ever at the mercy of a natural world that has turned against them, a family is facing their final days. Hope appears in the guise of their young son. Raised in isolation and taught by his father to survive at any cost, he is thrust headlong into a battle for the future of humankind after rescuing a girl fleeing from a savage and relentless cult bent on burning the world back to Eden. Raw and unflinching, A Desolate Splendor weaves a stark, and eerily familiar, portrayal of life on the brink of extinction and heralds the rise of an exciting new voice in apocalyptic fiction.
  • 48 hours
    Author:
    Forstchen, William R.
    Summary:

    A powerful solar flare will strike the earth in less than 48 hours. To preserve the infrastructure our lives depend on, everything must go dark. Hospital emergency generators will be disconnected, the entire internet will be turned off, media broadcasts will go dark, and all nuclear reactors will be shut down to standby. The potential for panic and societal breakdown is clear. This story follows how several men and women respond to crisis as society descends into violence and chaos.

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