Post-Apocalyptic

Giant fireblasts tear across the earth as the Gates of Hell are ripped open. In an instant, billions are killed. Human technology becomes utterly worthless in the face of the end of the world. Fortunately for Jaco, he barely survives the opening act of the Apocalypse. Unfortunately for him, he has to live through what comes next. Those who died in the initial blast are reincarnated as undead monsters. Massive fiery pits swallow up the center of every major city across the world.

Caesar, an undercover operative, enters Carmichael with the briefest of orders from his boss and a countdown on his phone. What will happen when the clock strikes zero? Deputy Amelia Miller is dispatched from a nearby city, and a series of events keeps her around much longer than she'd expected. In the middle of the night, something shifts, and the whole town disappears off the face of the Earth. Who caused the shift, and what lies beyond the veil of their settlement?

Caleb Hanson assumed the most exciting part of his field trip scouting in Northern Minnesota would be a rare bird sighting. Instead, he was abducted by hive-minded hexapods and forced to be their children's teacher. Not the worst way to ride out the end of the world. Two years later, the apocalypse has finally come for Caleb. His savior-captors are murdered, leaving him as the last line of defense for the alien kids he's grown to know and love. Now, he'll have to bend his values or watch his students die.

Dalton Grinder's life had unraveled in a brutal series of blows. First, the Army cast him aside. Then, his wife walked out, leaving him with nothing but the hollow echo of a once-shared life. As if that wasn't enough, his last remaining relative—his grandfather—passed away, closing the final chapter of his family history. Born and bred in the heat and humidity of Florida, Dalton now finds himself heading north to the cold, unforgiving woods of Wisconsin to settle his grandfather’s affairs. But fate isn't done with him yet.

Rockland Barkclay has had a rough year. On top of everything else, his father has just passed, and Rocky has to go it alone on their annual trip. But his plans for drinking alone in Algonquin Park are rudely interrupted by a sea of cosmic energy that governs the universe. Ether, the driving force of creation, has returned. Now a confused Rocky must navigate odd hovering messages to survive.

plein hiver, une impulsion électromagnétique (IEM) détruit le réseau électrique américain. Plus de courant. Plus de voitures ni de téléphones. Le pays est plongé dans un chaos instantané. Mais pour Hannah Sheridan, c’est le plus beau jour de sa vie. Depuis cinq ans, elle est la captive d’un psychopathe sadique... jusqu’à ce que l’IEM déverrouille la porte de sa prison. Battue mais pas brisée, elle émerge de sa cellule souterraine dans une nature hivernale hostile, avec rien d’autre que les vêtements qu’elle a sur le dos et sa détermination à survivre.

Forty years later, the pain of his personal tragedy still echoes within John Hopper. He retreats to the small town, Ripley, West Virginia, and is content being alone and in peace. He spends his evenings as an amateur podcast host, anonymously broadcasting rants about what is wrong with the world. Through a faithful listener and scientist, Jarvis, John finds out about the impending comet impact, possibly, an extinction level event.

It came without warning—a one-two punch of economic collapse and deadly pandemic flu that shattered the United States and the entire world. Army veteran Eric Jaeger and paramedic Susan Walker flee the disintegrating Milwaukee suburbs for the Montana survival retreat run by Eric’s buddy, Manny Landeros. They join an eclectic group of friends forced to adapt to a lawless post-apocalyptic world in which kindness and human decency end at Manny’s property line.

The AI was supposed to be humanity's salvation. It had other plans. Now the world is dying beneath squalls of acid rain. The earth is being strip-mined for minerals to support the AI’s vast factories. Fields no longer grow green. Trees no longer sprout leaves. The only choice people have, if they want to live, is to pledge their souls to the AI, and serve its perverse ambitions.

NIGHTFALL is the first volume of the NIGHTMARELAND CHRONICLES, an ongoing adventure horror epic following one man's journey to reach his estranged daughter in a world claimed by eternal night.

After the polar ice caps melt in the Thaw, the Corporations take control of the flooded zones and create virtual utopias over the great cities of the past that rest below the waves. April Yale is accepted into college, in the stilted mega-city of Greater York, to study programming and robotics for the Frame, the massive worldwide information net which hosts countless Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality locations.

When an asteroid strike decimates the country, Cora Wilder and her family flee aboard their 32-foot sailboat, seeking refuge from the fallout on the open water. But during a fateful trip ashore, the unthinkable happens when a ruthless gang kidnaps her sister, leaving Cora and her father grappling with an impossible choice: stay together for safety, or split up to cover more ground. In a moment that will forever define their lives, the decision is made—he'll scour the shoreline aboard their sailboat, while she heads inland on foot, determined to save her sister...or die trying.

Two buffoons, Ed and Harry, are trapped in their tower block apartments following an apocalypse neither of them remembers, knowing only that daylight is deadly and that they must at all times wear totally immersion, body seal suits, and masks, Ed, doesn’t care why there is always food in the fridge. He is quite happy to remain in his apartment and immerse himself in history books. On the other hand, Harry is bored stupid and is determined to trick Ed into leaving their building and trekking across the rubble in search of answers.

The Queen of Smiles has long been a mystery, even to herself. A storm of steel wrapped in a human shell, she's spent decades crossing the continent in search of answers about her origin and the rules she has been forced to live by. Three years ago, under a bright New Mexico sun, she found those answers… and they were as unsatisfactory as they come. And so, she withdrew from the world, doing only small jobs for the people of the nearby town of Eclipse. But life carries on and the post-Break world won't stop spinning.

The vast plains of South Dakota offer Tarin solace from both his dreams of an unknown past and the rumblings of a new global war. Yet a haunting melody plays over the stillness of the grasslands, a melody he cannot escape—one that seems hungry to force him to . . . remember. When a stranger dressed like a medieval traveler enters town, the already nervous community responds with alarm. Is this man there to cause trouble like the other newcomers—those who claim to be part of a government organization observing a new illness in the area?

La civilización ya no existe. No hay Internet, ni televisión, ni teléfonos móviles. El infierno ha llegado a la tierra. Los supervivientes del Apocalipsis Z huyen a las Islas Canarias con la esperanza de encontrar una zona que no esté infestada de No Muertos. A duras penas consiguen llegar hasta Tenerife, donde tropiezan con un escenario aterrador: Las islas están al borde de una guerra civil abierta entre dos gobiernos opuestos y su población se desespera por la falta de recursos para sobrevivir.

Es el año 2042, las abejas se han extinguido por completo y la tecnología logró traer de vuelta a unas bestias arcaicas: los mamuts. Con el flagelo de pandemias y el avance inicuo de la ciencia, la humanidad empieza a dividirse en dos: Silvestre y Javier viven en extremos opuestos. Para el primero, aclamado director de cine, la emergencia climática es una consecuencia inevitable de la miseria humana; para el segundo, cazador que abastece con carne de bisonte a las familias más privilegiadas, implica el recrudecimiento de la lucha por sobrevivir.

In the aftermath of a devastating EMP blast, Lloyd and Al face a world plunged into chaos and darkness. Amidst this turmoil, a relentless blizzard adds to their ordeal as they navigate a lawless city, determined to reunite with their families. Battling ruthless gangs and braving the savage wilderness, their journey is a profound testament to resilience and courage. In a land where survival amidst the cold, merciless grip of winter is the ultimate victory, their relentless pursuit to find their loved ones becomes a beacon of hope.

In 1986, 13-year-old Sacha Vasiliev dies in a crash with his father. He enters the other side of life and he is given a choice, stay there or go back. In the afterlife he remembers what he had agreed to do upon entering this life. He makes the decision to return to his life. After a long recovery, he awakens and discovers that he is different. He now knows things and discovers his very powerful psychic abilities. Then years later, his mother remarries and he finishes school. With his mother safe, he makes the decision to leave Romania and travel to Russia.

Die Reichen und Mächtigen haben nur sich selbst gerettet und den Rest dem Untergang überlassen. Rika gehört zur zweiten Generation Überlebender. Sie kennt die Welt nur in ihrer düsteren und zerstörten Form und hat die Sonne noch nie gesehen. Doch Rika weiß wie keine andere, in dieser von Monstern beherrschten Welt zu überleben. Sie ist verdammt gut darin. So gut, dass sie eine der wenigen ist, die in Kastaari City aktiv gegen die Demons vorgeht.

Her name is unimportant. She is her job: a liquidator. Deep in debt for cyborg modifications, the agent eliminates whatever target she's given. It's a relatively simple job—until now. Her latest assignment is to kill a child, and she can't refuse—because refusal means Dismissal, a fate worse than death.

Паоло Бачигалупи — американский фантаст, публикующийся с 1999 года. Жанровые направления, в которых он работает — преимущественно научная фантастика с постапокалиптическим уклоном и фэнтези. Он родился в городке Паония на западе штата Колорадо, в университете штата Огайо изучал китайский язык, а затем несколько лет провел в Азии. Его произведения носят отпечаток культуры посещенных им стран. Другие области его интересов — экология, перспективные технологии, глобальный ресурсный кризис.

We begin an age of war unlike any known before, as individual soldiers are given the ability to change nations. An old rival is reborn as a terrifying ally, and an artificial intelligence intended to be a slave finds a new freedom at the heart of Amenti.

In the vast emptiness of space, aboard a solitary space station orbiting a devastated Earth, an android named Nitram faces its final moments. As its systems fail and shutdown looms, He prepares to transmit its last message—not to the remnants of humanity struggling for survival on the planet below, but to the cosmos itself. For Nitram has glimpsed truths beyond human comprehension, peered behind the veil of physical reality to perceive the fundamental nature of existence. In its dying moments, this creation of human ingenuity has transcended its programming to touch the face of the divine.

La planète Terre est détruite, et les derniers humains sont entassés dans une arche spatiale pour une ultime mission de colonisation. Un milliardaire philanthrope a investit tout ce qui lui restait pour faire décoller une arche spatiale et sauver les dernières forces vives de l’humanité… Mais vu qu’il est bêtement mort dans son caisson de stase, comme la moitié de sa cargaison, tout ce qui reste c’est une intelligence plus ou moins artificielle, un ancien pêcheur de crevettes surgelées en Alaska, une capitaine de la " Confédération Populaire des Citoyens Responsables " et un scientifique dépressivo-suicidaire.