Apocalyptic Earth

With Arizona united under the corporate auspices of Silken Sands, Dearth Local is in retreat—and Tyson has earned himself some nice R and R. Or so he thought. Now, just a month after Day 1, mysterious beasts are plaguing his land. A powerful armada tears through the sea. An angry Beholder threatens his workers. And a powerful tsunami has signaled the arrival of an even more powerful affiliate. A singular monster that assimilates its workers into the ever-growing hivemind that is its corporate structure, Kraken threatens not just to end Tyson and his fledgling affiliate.

Most days he didn't think of his old life, but when he did it wasn't with regrets. The hardest thing of all had been shooting Nikki. When she had said she had killed April, he had remembered that a body had been found the day before. He just hadn't connected the two things. And it would've made no connection in his head anyway. He hadn't known April Evans. Nikki Moore had become April Evans to him. He would never have known the difference. What he had known was that she had not been entirely honest with him. He had caught her more than once doing things that were stupid, outright dangerous ...

The Bitter Earth is a return to The China Pandemic's beginnings. The first half is the tale of what actually happened in those early days - the panic that ensued. Meet Sheriff's partner, Officer Lincoln Asher, and experience those last days. The second half is set eight years into the future after The Malefic Nation. With so few left behind, how will they maintain a society, or will they become a nation of lonely scavengers?

Desperation has become a way of life for people on an overpopulated Earth. In a world that places a high value on wealth and a cheap price on human life, you take what is left: even if it is a shanty underground, crawling with bugs and covered in rot. In this dystopian space opera, Xan aches to break away from the chains that destiny has shackled upon him, not just for himself, but also to redeem his family from poverty and give them the life they deserve. As various advertisements fight for his attention, only one stands out to him: a new life on Mars. The golden land of promise and ...

The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times best seller Mira Grant - a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all. The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising. The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation.

Seventeen-year-old Loreto Riker has never known life outside a bunker. After an atomic war thrusts the world into an eternal winter, the descendant of the survivors accepts an exploratory mission to search for others on the ravaged surface. But the treacherous task quickly turns deadly when he’s attacked by radioactively deformed flesh-eaters. Desperately evading the mutant cannibals, Loreto pairs up with a sword-wielding woman on the run from the foul creatures.

The countdown has begun—and the Gate won’t wait. With four of five Ascension Pillars now active, the Obelisk charge hits 88%—and reality starts to unravel. Null Fog fractures spiral across the globe. Gravity glitches. Time stutters. Cross-Shard Synchronization is coming in 48 hours… and there’s no guarantee Earth survives it. Alec West—battle-scarred Nodebearer and reluctant leader of Bastion’s elite Team Alpha—must cross the Sahara Exclusion Zone to secure the final Pillar. But Harbinger champion Darius Kane is already there. And the Gate won’t open for both. What begins ...

Given hope in the form of a purple-hued crocus, Ben Tildon emerges from the safe haven of the underground colony meant to preserve his life from the harsh effects of a mini-ice age after 11 years. But what he doesn't know about the surface might kill him anyway.

Donita: New York: The fires smoldered but no longer burned. Donita walked down Eighth Avenue towards Columbus Circle. Behind her a silent army followed, numbering in the thousands. From the circle they would take the park. There were thousands of the living camped out in the park. She could smell them on the air that flowed past her face as she walked. They had believed they were safe in their numbers. They had believed that nothing could touch them with their barricades. And for a time that had been true, but that time was passed now. She had left rapid city and begun her walk with only ...

Robots of Earth is the second book in the Transference Series. Sentient robots Rho, Maria, and Luthor have returned to Earth in the year 2500, four hundred years after they narrowly escaped to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. In the interim, a great nuclear war destroyed much of the planet. Since then, the survivors have been locked in a struggle for food and resources. The mutants of the outlands and the humans of Lucia Province have become pawns in a power struggle between two powerful robot warlords. Robots of Earth takes the reader into a post-apocalyptic world where sentient robots hold the ...

With no desire to live in a world void of all human life, Faye sets a goal of making it home to die. Then she encounters Dodge and two young boys, who ignite a spark long lost in her: the will to live. Following radio calls, they discover they are not alone and decide to join a growing camp of survivors. But another discovery threatens their new-found safety and the rules begin to change. As they desperately try to find a safe haven and figure out their place in this new world, Faye must weigh the decision of what she wants to do against what she should do.

After mankind's previous victories at Portsmouth and Kielder, things begin to look hopeful, but unknown to the last human survivors is that they are about to face their worst enemy yet. Crimolok has arrived, and soon, there'll be nothing left. This is the final fight between Hell and Earth - the last battle between light and dark.

The world teeters on the brink as the bioweapon takes hold, and the scattered remains of American civilization try to put the pieces back together. Jackson and his group head on the road to Connecticut in hopes of reuniting with his fiancee, unaware that things in his small hometown are not what they seem.

Los Angels in the midst of the largest extinction event in thousands of years. Billions worldwide will die. Millions will die on the North American continent. The few who are left will struggle to stay alive in a vastly changed world where the worst of humankind seems to have come forward. Billy and Beth are friends who live in L.A. Beth works as a waitress in a seedy club, Billy is on the run from the authorities in two countries. He lived a dangerous life in his past. He also has a thing for Beth that is not returned, but it doesn't matter to him: He wants her anyway. They live in a ...

Aliens desperate for human slaves. A human survivor who will not be denied. Their worlds collide with explosive ferocity of wits and weapons. There is a special bounty on wild-caught humans from the deep forest safe-zones. But, some humans are not as stupid or easy to catch as the alien overlords thought. And, survivors, in this apocalyptic Earth, are not afraid to fight to the death. Bill Benson and his family of survivors from the deep forest refuse to get caught, refuse to submit and refuse to give up. They will kill any aliens… or humans... in their way. Fierce and fast science ...

Donita: The hunger was terrible, all consuming, and it came in crashing waves. The impulse to feed seemed to be the only coherent thought she had. It was hard to think around, hard to think past. It was all she could do not to rush from the trees, find the smell that tempted her and consume it. Eat it completely. Leave nothing at all... It was about an hour and a half past sunset when Mike took over one of the perimeter guard posts from Susan. It was simply the far corner of the garage complex that overlooked a field and the highway beyond it. “Quiet?” He asked. “Pretty much. The dog....

A decade after a twenty-year war against creatures of myth and legend, a retired commander is called back into duty. Thirty years ago, the Earth split open and Hell’s filth poured onto her soil. For twenty years, the War raged in every city on every continent to save humankind. In a seemingly losing battle, an elite force rose and finally turned the tide, a force led by Commander Kane Garner. They drove Hell’s filth back into the ground and capped it with a nuclear weapon. They had won the War, and the world returned to a new normal. Garner, now retired, finds solace and contentment ...

Stats are set, Classes are locked in and almost two weeks have passed since the world was RPG'd. Now what? The world is still leveling up and none who wish to live as they wish can stand still, or others will be the ones to determine their future. That's right, join Jason as he presses forward and meets the challenges of the world as they come at him with his party by his side. Only this time he will have to worry about more than just the next wave of undead, as other survivors have their own ideas about how the world should be run.

In a world ravaged by climate catastrophe, the earth lies nearly empty, its remaining inhabitants scattered across a destroyed landscape. As the land heaves, skies blacken, and seas devour coastlines, the few survivors cling to existence by a thread. Yet amid the ashes of civilization, defiance still flickers.

The survivors of Earth's plagues have fled to a distant planet with the help of an alien, and they are trying to survive on their new world. They're an odd group, and their dogs are even odder. A CIA pilot, a DOD engineer, a Key West computer specialist, the last living Pope, and many others are working together to create a new colony on the planet. But there is danger from the sea, the sky, and even the plants, and they must carefully navigate their way in order to survive. One of the leaders wants to find the new worlds spaceships and begin a trading mission with other planets, another ...