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Nicky believes three things that aren’t true. She thinks the apocalypse was a horrible accident. She assumes her dream of being a journalist died with most of humanity. And she’s sure that she’s straight. She’s about to meet someone who’ll make her question all three–it’s a shame she’s the worst woman in what’s left of the world. Life as Nicky knew it ended when a mystery virus turned a tenth of humans into nocturnal, feral monsters, and everyone else into their prey. Now she’s found a new home and a new family in a survivor community near York.

Miriam Tanner is in shock. After finding the severed arm of the woman she rejected despite her growing feelings, the Special Operations Group combat medic spirals while genetically engineered Altered refugees flood her human city. As tensions between the two groups escalate, her world shifts again with the nightmare news that the Apostates, Altered terrorists, have overthrown their government.

Nobody leaves Queen. On the tidally locked, women-only planet, a vulva and an authority problem are the only immigration requirements. Emigration is banned. Ember spends her days cruising Queen’s endless sand dunes, hunting sand pirates, and wallowing in memories of her dead wife. After an ambush, Ember is dragged to the pirate camp and learns her wife’s biggest secret—before her death, she’d joined the pirates, built an illegal spaceship, and plotted to leave the planet. Ember’s sister, Nadia, stumbles across other secrets kept—a flourishing, impossible ecosystem.

Sam “Valkyrie” Ryan is reeling. Struggling with her brother’s recent decision to make their next assignment his last, the recon specialist fights to change his mind. But she has no time to process her emotions when they’re tasked to protect a pivotal reconciliation summit between the Altered and Humans from human-supremacist terrorists.

“Unferth shines in her ability to craft relatable characters in extraordinary circumstances. … [Earth 7] explores deep ontological questions about the nature of life. This is profound.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Well, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth...

Miriam Tanner is breaking. A seasoned veteran, the self-critical marine struggles to keep breathing as unending violence grinds humanity to dust. But when a sickening execution feed airs, she throws herself into a mission where failure means more comrades in body bags. With her team fracturing under the pressure, Miriam falters when she’s trapped behind enemy lines with a ghost from the past who haunts her every decision.

Outlast. Outgrow. Outlive. In the ashes of Earth, evolution is the ultimate weapon. The Earth will never be the same. Ravaged by climate destruction, nuclear devastation, and other cataclysmic events, the planet and its people continue to undergo radical changes to survive. A portion of humanity now lives aboard the city-size utopian space station Astrea—the lucky few. Most who fend for themselves on the Earth's surface have become Nomads: plant/fungus hybrids connected to the growing planetary mind of Earth.

200 years ago it devoured Earth. 20 years ago it devoured Gilgamesh. 2 weeks ago it entered our dreams. Al isn’t just a spy, he’s one of the best covert agents alive. At least, he was before everyone in the system started dreaming about him. Now his cover’s blown and he’s out of his depth, scrambling for answers to a mystery humanity has never been able to solve. The Goo. The great cosmic, planet-eating substance that swallowed whole systems.

After almost a year in deep space, Narigo is in need of some company. Encountering Earth, he is eager to learn more about humanity and their fascinating ways. However, the people on this planet are far different than anything he's ever encountered before. One thing leads to another and the young alien begins to wonder if maybe he's gotten in too deep. Meanwhile, Jennifer is an unassuming high school student trying to come to grips with her sexuality.

Without warning, the world’s most corrupt leaders, climate profiteers, and enablers of human suffering vanished. No trials. No negotiations. Just removal. An alien force known only as the Arbiters intervened—not to punish, but to confront humanity with the consequences of its moral collapse and its near-total disregard for the Earth. Harvey Langston, an autocrat who rose to power after democracy fell, wakes on a dying planet stripped of control. Mateo, a wrongfully deported gay man who survived the very system Langston created, returns to a fractured United States seeking reckoning.

The gods Kimmy and Kita wanted to explore the far future they created and pilot military robot mechs as mortals. They never expected to find a hellish, xenophobic galaxy. When their daughter is taken, they’ll do anything to get her back.

Kita, the God of Evil, is running out of time. She must unite the galaxy against Aven’s oppressive domination to free her daughter from the deadly Aven slave mines. Kita’s task is made harder by a broken body and her partner cheating—no one throws a brokenhearted tantrum like the God of Evil.