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  • Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

    Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks...
  • Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton

    Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology...
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  • Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Extinction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    If you need some zombies killed, who do you call? The Lucky Thirteen. A few weeks have passed since the events in Aurora, and Bree, Nate, and the gang are back on the road. The odd mall to raid, cattle to herd, provisions to deliver—all no match for our trusty group of scavengers. The world is yours for the taking when killing zombies becomes routine...
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
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    queer  dystopian  science fiction  m-m  length-epic
  • Revolution by Shelly Crane

    Revolution by Shelly Crane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the fourth and final installment, everything is on the line. Merrick's life is in the balance and Lily is their only hope. Ellie and her new powers are miraculous, but also problematic; if she's with the bunker family, they won't be able to sense when the Lighters are there...
  • Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary

    Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Forgotten World, book six in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After the longest winter of her life, Vivian is thrilled to have Ginny back at her side...
  • Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Resurgence by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Not so lucky anymore… Civilization is on the brink of crumbling—and this time not just due to the zombie apocalypse. The roads have become dangerous, and what havens have been established are no longer safe. Murmurs of unrest—or maybe even a brewing civil war—are getting loud. No longer are zombies the only thing preying on those that think to brave the world outside the settlements...
  • Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Affliction by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Something is rotten in the state of California… The dawning civil war has ended in a truce. Scavengers and traders all over the country are settling down for the long, hard winter to come. With their new camp outside the maze of New Angeles at the coast growing every day, Bree, Nate, and the gang have their hands full—yet something is not quite right...
  • 残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past...
    Categorized as:
    queer  dystopian  science fiction  m-m  length-epic
  • Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability...
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    queer  dystopian  science fiction  war  length-epic
  • Lost World by Kate L. Mary

    Lost World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Lost World, the fourth book in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has destroyed the world and the dead have come back to claim it as their own... With their shelter destroyed and their sense of security shattered, Vivian, Axl and the group set off in search of a safe place...
  • Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Mordacious by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the universe of the Until the End of the World series Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option...
  • Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book two of The City Series is here! Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead. Add in the less-than-sociable new neighbors only blocks away, and the hunt for sustenance has come to feel more like a race than a ramble...
  • New World by Kate L. Mary

    New World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New World, book five in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After weeks on the road and devastating losses, the survivors have finally found safety. But as winter falls on Colorado, it brings with it both new challenges, and new hope...
  • The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer

    The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location...
  • Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer

    Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    *2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war…a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end...
  • The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series! A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead. Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world...
  • Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…Survivors contains three action-packed novellas in the Hell Squad series.Includes:Nate – Long before the aliens invaded, former Marine Nate Caldwell came home a broken man. Going off-grid in a cabin he inherited in Australia’s Blue Mountains, he survived the invasion with only his dog Blue for company...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode One by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. It’s been six months since Reagan Willow fled the Colony and Matthias Allen’s tyrannical clutches. Six months since she broke Hendrix Parker’s heart. Six months since she watched Kane Allen sacrifice his life to save hers...
  • Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 2, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and Page are still trapped with Kane in the cabin in the woods and they have no idea if help is coming or if anyone will be able to find them. Besides the utter boredom and eerie solitude, they have to deal with Kane’s crazy mom and the danger Kane poses to Reagan, in more than just the physical sense...
  • Vindicta by A.L. Masters

    Vindicta by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nashville is falling.Herds are forming.Humanity is facing extinction.They might be the last chance at salvation the city has left.Kate, Storm, and the rest of the Special Forces detachment head to Nashville to bolster the city’s final defense, but when they arrive they find that things haven’t gone according to plan...
  • Silent World by Kate L. Mary

    Silent World by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Seven in the Broken World Series... When Jim ran out of that farmhouse in Forgotten World, not only did he leave the promise of safety behind, but he was sure he was about to meet a horrible end. Amira has lived most of her life surrounded by silence, and this new world has dangers lurking around every corner that could mean the end for her...
  • Dom: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Dom: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival… Squad Three berserker Dom Santora has an ugly past he can’t forget. Born and raised in the darkness, he spent his life before the alien invasion as a Mafia enforcer...
  • The Eve by Keary Taylor

    The Eve by Keary Taylor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A plan was laid out as the Evolution crushed mankind, a plan that was right under Eden’s nose all along. And Eve is the key to everything. New Eden—mankind—they have a small chance at fixing their dismembered planet. But it will be a reckless sprint against time and the coming Bane to retrieve the final piece to the plot. New Eden’s worst fears have become reality...
  • Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. General Adam Holmes’ life is dedicated to keeping his small band of survivors alive. On the run, with only Hell Squad and the other soldiers for protection, they are making their last dangerous drive to the secret stronghold of the Enclave...
  • Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Dead by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After making it through winter, Rowan, Devon, and Kiaya have settled into a routine and are looking forward to creating a future full of hope, new relationships, and even a brand new life. Too bad it’s impossible to escape trouble completely during a zombie apocalypse...
  • Angus: A Broken World Novel by Kate L. Mary

    Angus: A Broken World Novel by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BrotherAssholeSurvivorSaviorPrisonerGodAngus James has played many roles in his life, but none have prepared him for the one he now finds himself in. Alone for too long, traveling the wastelands of what was once the United States, he’s all but given up hope of ever seeing another living person.Then he finds her...
  • The Replication by A.L. Masters

    The Replication by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can they stay sane in an insane world? Do they even want to?JaredThey made it out of the rubble alive. Mostly. The survivors had lost everything in the disaster. All of it destroyed in one horrific blink of an eye. They were going to have to regroup somewhere and heal, gather more supplies. Cheyenne Mountain, and the answers it would hopefully bring, could wait a little longer...
  • The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    The Elimination by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The survivors, with an unexpected last-minute change to their travel plans, move toward Fort Carson, Colorado in search of answers. It is a thousand-mile journey that provides unforeseen opportunities, unexpected losses, and tangled alliances. They must find the strength to endure the worst that the startling new world has to offer and to survive with their humanity—and lives—intact...
  • Far from Lost by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Lost by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How far would you go to save what you thought you’d lost during the apocalypse?After learning her father is alive, going with Heath had seemed like a no-brainer to Rowan. Her dad was all she had left, after all. The only remaining piece of the life she’d loved so much...
  • Far from Home by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Home by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Now a COMPLETE series!How far would you go to survive the apocalypse?As the only child in an upper-middle class family, Rowan has had it easy. Doted on by a mother who never wanted anything but a child to love, she's never wanted for anything. Kiaya’s life, however, has been anything but easy...
  • The Turning by A.L. Masters

    The Turning by A.L. Masters

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When humanity is threatened by an explosion at a Russian research laboratory, co-workers and friends in a small southern town must band together for survival. They realize too late that this is no ordinary plague...and that the enemy they have to fight may not be the only thing they need to worry about.Book One of The Salvation Plague series...
  • Roth by Anna Hackett

    Roth by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on… Roth Masters is a protector to the bone. Driven by the losses of his past, he fights side-by-side with Hell Squad to protect the human survivors of the alien invasion. As leader of Squad Nine, he and his team are known for their perfect timing in a firefight...
  • Niko: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Niko: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on… Mackenna Carides is tough, strong, and excellent at her job as second-in-command of Squad Nine. She often works side by side with Hell Squad on some of the toughest missions to fight back against the alien raptors. Now she’s helping the survivors of Blue Mountain Base settle into their new home at the Enclave...
  • Far from Safe by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Safe by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After traveling the country in hopes of reaching the safety of home, Rowan finds herself in a world turned upside down. Her parents are gone, and she’s surrounded by people she barely knows, and the only refuge she’s ever known is anything but safe...
  • 7SEEDS 4 by Yumi Tamura, 田村由美

    7SEEDS 4 by Yumi Tamura, 田村由美

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    7SEEDS (Seven...
  • TruLove by Nicole Pyland

    TruLove by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In an ever-changing and complex world, it can be hard to find love. But there’s a new company called TruLove, and they offer people a chance to take a few tests and receive a list of the top ten people on the planet that they could be happy with. No more of this ‘one person in the world for each person...
  • Far from Over by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Over by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After barely escaping Heath with their lives, Rowan, Kiaya, and Devon are thrilled to have a safe place to live as winter sets in. With plenty of supplies, a group that works together well, and the security of their new home, things are looking up. Even better? The freezing temperatures might have taken care of the zombies once and for all...
  • Far from Done by Kate L. Mary

    Far from Done by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than a year has passed since a deadly virus swept the globe, killing almost everyone and turning them into monsters. Rowan, Devon, and Kiaya have lost, loved, and worked hard to build lives out of the shattered pieces of the former world, and they’re determined to do whatever it takes to make sure nothing destroys what they’ve built.But the threat is still out there...
  • Survival by Rita Potter

    Survival by Rita Potter

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Forty-eight hours after the Upheaval, reality is beginning to set in at the Whitaker Estate. The world, As We Know It, has ended.Dillon Mitchell and her friends are left to survive, after discovering most of the population, at least in the United States, has mysteriously died...
  • The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds space opera trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have found a new home on Seventh Cradle. But the peace they’ve built is short-lived as mysterious assailants ambush the settlement and Naira is haunted by visions of a monstrous future...
  • 7SEEDS 1 by Yumi Tamura

    7SEEDS 1 by Yumi Tamura

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Scientists had predicted this disaster, and in response, the leaders of every country met to develop a plan for human survival before the meteor hit. The 7Seeds project was developed out of this meeting. Each country froze a number of young healthy people, which allowed them to survive the meteor...
  • The Loudest Silence by Kate L. Mary

    The Loudest Silence by Kate L. Mary

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    From the author of the Amazon bestselling Broken World series, comes an exciting new Zombie Apocalypse series...When Regan was a young girl living in the small town of Altus, OK, Kellan was just her brother’s best friend. Then the virus came, turning the world’s population into zombies, and he became so much more. They were only kids, but he saved her. Watched over her. Kept her alive...
  • Stitch by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Stitch by Eli Easton, Jamie Fessenden

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stitch is an anthology of 4 novellas by m/m romance authors, each with a Frankenstein/Creature theme. It is the first in a series of gothic m/m romance anthologies called gothika. The stories in this volume are: Made For Aaron by Sue Brown As a teenager, Aaron Fox was sent to an asylum by his parents because he was gay, leaving him emotionally fragile after the treatment...
  • Odium II by Claire C. Riley

    Odium II by Claire C. Riley

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fortune favors…the DEAD! Some secrets are too horrific to ever be forgiven, and some people should never be trusted. Tortured, starved, and on the run, Nina thinks she’s faced the worst that mankind has to offer, but she’s wrong. She may have survived this long, but she hasn’t come out of it unscathed, and there’s worse to come...
  • Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

    Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds.Scales is the best at what she She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town...
  • The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    The Significant by Kyra Anderson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The beloved leader of a planet... A non-citizen fugitive... And a secret love that could kill them both. Kailynn Evada was born on the most powerful planet in the Altereye System, but was raised in the non-citizen district of Trid. She always dreamed of revolution and changing the injustices of the planet Tiao. But when her brother’s plot to destroy the A.I...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Hanger, Vol. 2 by Hirotaka Kisaragi

    Hanger, Vol. 2 by Hirotaka Kisaragi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In a futuristic Neo-Tokyo, crime is rising rapidly in the wake of a new generation of super-drugs capable of enhancing the user's physical and mental abilities. Hajime Tsukomo is a new recruit on a federal task force trained to go after these powered-up criminals...
  • Ash by Anna Hackett

    Ash by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the middle of an alien invasion, will the bad boy berserker catch the geeky tech genius? Computer genius Marin Mitchell is doing her part to help humanity survive the raptor invasion, working tirelessly to decrypt alien data. She spends her days working and drooling over a certain tattooed, biker berserker from Squad Three. But Marin knows the rules: geeks do not snag sexy bad boys...
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