Apocalyptic Life

This audiobook features a pair of dystopian tales! A Slice of Perfection: Jax lives the perfect life. Ananke completes him. The City: Only those who have lived my ever truly die. Volume 3 in the SciFi Stories series by the award-winning author Michael Lynes.

The stories in this second anthology explore the legends of the Outlands, beyond the border of humanity's immediate control, where strange and powerful creatures roam.

The difference between a man and a robot is not that one has a soul. The difference is that man can choose to ignore it. The Uberbots have taken over. The few human survivors remain hidden. Returning from an excursion that began before the revolution, Thomas walks through his ominously silent city until he comes face to face with his creation: the Uberbots. Captured and imprisoned, Thomas is brought before the Uberbots and given a task only he, as the creator of the Uberbots, can achieve. While keen on escaping, Thomas quickly learns the Uberbots are not easily overcome.

The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where fifteen-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who’s become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their status teeter on the edge—and now it’s about to plunge into the abyss.

September 11, 2018, 2:30 p.m. EST: Oz McTatey watches as a cyber-attack devastates everything connected to the internet. At 2:47 p.m. EST, Oz and his team witness a second Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) terrorist attack that destroys the power grid, disables vehicles, and causes catastrophic malfunctions of all electronic devices. The United States is forever changed.

Seventeen-year-old Krista has already proven she can survive the zombie hordes. After moving to North Platte with her distant cousin General Liet to help build a wall that will keep the zombies in the West, it becomes apparent that the zombies aren't the biggest threat - some survivors are far more dangerous than Krista had ever imagined. With the help of Quinn, a survivor and fighter from the zombie-infested wildlands of the West, they free the garrison at North Platte from the power-hungry Liet. But there is a bigger battle to fight.

Life is a fast-paced thriller with a satirical, conspiracy backdrop. This is part one of a trilogy. Each book stands by itself but grows in intensity with each subsequent book. Life: A young computer hacker, Robinhood of the future, discovers our world is manipulated through our thought, created by the governments raising the tax rate to astronomical levels to enslave mankind's thoughts into poverty. Now he must join "The Uprising," to fight the powers, and accept his new role as their leader.

On the run from invading forces, Vicki escapes into the woods with Ambrose. After his truck is stolen, she has to make a choice: accept her fiancé, Will, is dead, or keep searching—possibly in vain. Can she learn to love Ambrose as she loved Will? Khaki. That's what everyone thinks of him, but Vicki knows the truth, and after that kiss, Ambrose yearns for more. He wants Vicki to forget about her fiancé and accept the fact he is dead. They saw him being dragged off in handcuffs before the explosion! But what if he's not dead? What if he made it out alive?

My name is Cassidy Daniels, and I am viable. That's what they call it now that so many women have died. One day, everything was normal, the next, chaos. It hit us in two waves, a few weeks apart. In the end, 75% of the worlds' population of females was gone, and no one knew why. Everyone knows loss now. Everyone knows pain. People looked to the leaders of our country for answers, for help. Their solution was to open facilities of protection, where those of us who survived could go for safety. If only that were the truth. We live in a new world now. Nothing will ever be the same again. I ...

The thrilling conclusion to the Next series. Struggling to survive in a hostile post-apocalyptic world, Rachel Wheeler and her friends are caught between a strange mutant species and a desperate military government. Rachel is torn between two mighty forces, but she is the last hope for altering a terrible, ruthless verdict that will destroy them all.

Do the impossible or lose your family forever.... Edgar Hill, unsympathetic husband and halfhearted father, finds himself in a hopeless situation. Despite all his best efforts, he hasn't managed to keep his family together. In fact they are further from him than ever - 550 miles, to be precise. And in a world near annihilated by a terrible disaster, leaving the UK harsh and brutal, uncrossable by car or bike, his journey to find his loved ones will be fraught with challenges.

If there’s one good thing about the end of the world, it’s that Jillian wasn’t alone when it happened. Her neighborhood is still populated and more importantly, no one is trying to eat anyone else. The rest of the world isn’t so lucky. Where the awakened roam, terror follows. A medical miracle turned bad is the cause of it all. What’s worse, almost everyone has some form of the medicine in their system. Medical nanites changed the landscape is wonderful ways, but when those medical miracles went haywire, it was the end of the world.

When the last man on Earth reveals he has a nuclear weapon pointed at the tiny Martian colony, the colonists can only survive by working together. Jaye, a Trueborn Child of Mars, isn’t like her father, Merlin. Like all the Trueborn, she is cursed with perfect memory and deep sensitivity. But not even the knowledge that Merlin killed her mother can change the fact: They need each other for more than survival.

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later the family are forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to place, shelter to shelter, their journey traces both fear and wonder as Z's small fists grasp at the things he sees, as he grows and stretches, thriving and content against all the odds.

Undead or Breathing is the story of three rough-edged, thrill-seeking brothers in rural Colorado, whose world turns upside down when their parents contract a strange illness that makes them want to bite. Victims of the disease are uncoordinated and psychotic, their former thought processes narrowed down to just one phrase, which they repeat mindlessly in wheezy, rasping bursts. The boys have logged countless gaming hours shooting zombies. They’ve seen hundreds of zombie-related episodes on TV.

Randy Tagget and Keisha Miller return to the Augusta from their self-imposed exile, with orbital nomad Pierre Martin in tow. The environment has changed in their absence and the experiment in human survival is preparing to move into phase III. Yet even as they close in on their goal of returning to the surface of the planet to re-establish a human presence on earth, the risks inherent with achieving that goal become increasingly clear and intimidatingly unavoidable.

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid and complicated life is set against a background hum of darkening news reports from which she deliberately turns away. When a new romance becomes claustrophobic, Ruth chooses to leave behind the failing relationship, but also her beloved friends and family, and travels to the other side of the world in pursuit of her dream life working with whales in New Zealand.

The world has struggled with deadly winters for decades--killer storms has taken thousands of lives. Now in the year 2020, it is in the grip of a new Ice Age, all because man had altered the weather to suit his own needs, not realizing the terrifying forces he had unleashed...Chicago is in the throes of a deathfreeze.

As the world faces soaring pollution, overpopulation, and rising sea level, the ruling elite comes up with a bold, terrifying plan. Detective Bremen is tired of crime and politics. All he wants is a safe future for his son, Petie. But during a gruesome murder investigation, he is thrown into a twisted world of corruption and deceit.

The nightmare that began in My Short Life As A Zombie reaches new heights of mind-blowing apocalyptic mayhem, as shape-shifters confront the undead. But is it possible for anything - even werewolves - to stop the zombie apocalypse? Valerie barely survived an attack by her infected co-worker, Bobby. Now she has to find a way across the infected city, through millions of the walking dead, to rescue her young brother, trapped in the attic of their murdered parents’ home. It seems impossible, insane...