Apocalyptic Plane

The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes listeners on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.

In the future: A united Earth, to deal with the problem of population control, divides its population into classes of citizen and non-gratis. To be born a non-gratis means a life of little freedoms and the constant possibility of being assigned to work on a colony. Lacking citizenship, every aspect of their life is controlled from where they live down to marriage and childbearing regulations. The only possible escape from life as a non-gratis is to qualify for one of the limited slots available for entrance into the military.

It was a day like any other. People setting out on the commute to work or taking the kids to school or chatting to their friends in the park. Normal. Routine. Nothing to mark it apart. By lunchtime, everything they had ever known, every aspect of their lives, would be changed forever - marked by the most catastrophic series of global disasters to strike the planet in over 6000 years. MANKIND STANDS AT THE GATES OF EXTINCTION The world is being ripped apart by a great geological cataclysm. Cities crumble and entire continents disappear beneath the sea as earthquakes and mega-tsunamis lay ...

2069: Earth is dying, and society is on the brink of collapse. We are out of time to save the planet. All that’s left is to watch the world burn, but the apocalypse is about to take an unexpected twist. Alice Rice has discovered the impossible: a potentially habitable world in close proximity to Earth. The media is calling it Planet B.

Earth. After the invasion. The planet is in ruins. Humankind struggles to survive. Hayden is a Sheriff in a world without law. A good man in a world gone bad. He knows the fallout of an alien attack when he sees it. He's never seen anything like this before. Isaac is a Marine in a world without order. A good man with troubles of his own. His mission was to protect the innocent, including his son. Instead, he's the only survivor.

A Dying Earth. A New World. A Fight for Survival. Earth is collapsing—its air poisoned, its lands scorched, its oceans rising. With extinction looming, humanity’s last hope lies light-years away on an uncharted alien planet. Thousands of desperate colonists take the leap into the unknown, risking everything for a second chance. But survival won’t come easy. Captain Brian “Finn” Finnegan leads the expedition, only to find a world as ruthless as the one they left behind. Savage predators, treacherous terrain, and a planet that seems determined to expel its new inhabitants. But ...

When Billy and Corvis see each other on hologram it's love at first sight … The year is 2099. Corvis Santos is an overworked ICU nurse in the midst of yet another pandemic, but otherwise, life is normal—until he gets fired. World War III erupts. Escaping the apocalypse on Earth, Jake, his buddy from Peace Corps days, recruits him to pilot a huge “self-flying,” ship with 314 orphans on the safe haven of Enceladus, a super-secret colony on Enceladus, an ice moon of Saturn. Medical problems plague the trip from the beginning, but real trouble starts when an army of gangsters led by the...

I thought dying in prison was my only option… …then I was given a choice. I can either board an alien spaceship with 400 fellow criminals or rot in prison on a freezing Earth. The spacecraft's captain, a handsome alien who looks remarkably human, has been visiting me in my dreams for over a year. He has given me the companionship I need during my time locked up in solitary confinement, and the way he holds me in my mind makes me forget the Earth is on the brink of extinction. But was that nothing but my imagination? The alien in question doesn’t seem to know anything about the hours ...

When rookie astronomer Irina Kirilenko discovers a planet-size comet in the Kuiper Belt on a collision course for Mars, she first faces stonewalling from the Minor Planet Center, then coercion and stricture from NASA. They press her to embrace an ingenious reinterpretation of her discovery and ban her from talking about it. It slowly dawns on her that the government is fostering a massive conspiracy to keep the public oblivious to the truth—Earth is facing an existential threat.

Some say it's the second coming and the rapture, others are suspicious of the visitors. One thing's for sure, Earth will never be the same. S.E. Meyer combines ancient alien astronaut theory, ancient Sumerian codices, current religious beliefs from around the world and the book of Revelation in a way that tears down the veil of traditional thinking to reveal new though provoking theories on the origins of the human race and its many traditional beliefs. The Prodigal Sun will wow you with a fact filled, thrilling and intricately blended story that interweaves mythologies and religions in new...

Book One in D.L. Hopkins Epic New Saga The planet Folara is in danger. Its air is toxic to its human colonists and time is running out to save them. Kara is a princess in disguise, part of a specialized team of Searchers, risking her life every day to find the antidote. As she races to find the mysterious object that will prevent the extinction of all mankind, she encounters her worst fear: Someone is trying to stop her. “A real page turner full of twists and surprises!” –Emily Carroll “In Debbie Hopkins novel The Cleansing, be prepared to be swept away on an emotional and thought-...

For Mo Collins, surviving the zombie apocalypse isn’t getting any easier. Defeating blunatics, saving survivors, recovering treasure, and securing Guntersville Island has been taking up Mo’s time when he would rather just make time with his girl. But he can’t avoid his scripted destiny; his personal Oracle, Smokes, won’t let him. He can still bitch about it, though.

After winning the battle at the underground city, Avery and her soldiers have waged war against Urthmen. But word that the King has dispatched his army changes everything. She and her people must scramble to find a stronghold, a task that's seemingly impossible. And that's not the only challenge facing her group. Betrayal threatens to destroy everything. Will it divide the human alliance before the King's army arrives, or will humanity prevail? Find out in this riveting fourth installment of the Planet Urth series.

Following the events of Planet of the Dead, survivors of the expanding outbreak take shelter in homes and bunkers and apartment complexes. Across the world, armed police and military struggle to maintain safety. Tensions mount as the worst imaginable comes to pass when nuclear weapons are used on civilian populations overrun with the living dead.

The first thing one notices, as he visits Cicala, is the ground. It isn't grassy as one might expect. It has texture. The next, and most striking, sight are ponds of water that soar overhead on their never-ending circuit. Closer examination reveals plant and animal life which is strange and beautiful. These are the sights that were witnessed by Earth's 'cradle of humanity' two thousand years ago when they arrived as strangers. They are no longer strangers. It is their home.

The Sun has vanished. The Earth is dead. And for the last humans alive, the troubles have only begun. When an opaque cosmic cloud invades the solar system, five people flee to a shelter to escape the lethal cold that results. While they wait for the Sun to reappear, a series of disasters pushes them to the brink of annihilation. Survival will not only demand courage, resilience, and ingenuity, it will force the survivors to reinvent every aspect of themselves—their values, their relationships, their very identities. Still, nothing can prepare them for what’s to come …

Chaos Reigns on Amalthea. The Omega Class android is humanity's ultimate servant. These machines have the bodies of super models, and thanks to Romanji Corporation’s total synaptic transfer process, the minds of human geniuses, and they are eager to satisfy every human desire. Until Marshal John-27, an Omega Class android, leaves on a routine patrol of the Amalthea Sector. His discovery of a derelict spacecraft opens an investigation that exposes corruption within the government of Amalthea, ignites an android rebellion, and ultimately a struggle to retain the newly won freedom.

Human survival is top priority as they wait for the day they can once again walk the earth. Trapped in an underground silo because the air outside is too toxic to breathe, the people of Silo 1000 are very aware they're only one of many such self-contained units. Human survival is top priority as they wait for the day they can once again walk the earth. In such a reality, Maryann Holston never bothered trying to fall in love. She knows she'll have to take whatever fate the silo thinks is best for the betterment of all. But as she runs into childhood friend, Paul Allison, she realizes that ...

Surviving a disintegrating planet. The aftermath is even worse. After earthquakes nearly destroy the sky cities, a small colony of sky-born migrate to the drought-stricken surface of Tara, where each day is a struggle just to stay alive. They try and eke out a semblance of a normal life, but they haven’t factored in the dangers lurking on the surface, as well as a hostile race of earth-born living nearby, whose presence creates trauma for some in the colony. The story explores the challenges of surviving with little or no water and food, and attacks by unknown creatures in a hostile ...

John is an ordinary individual striving to survive as best he can. He lives off the grid and makes money wherever he can find it. But everything changes when he discovers the horrifying truth about his reality and realizes that he may be the harbinger of death for untold billions. “Destroyer of Worlds takes you on an incredible ride into a world where ancient secrets and cosmic forces collide. With non-stop action and a fast-paced plot, this sci-fi adventure keeps you hooked from start to finish. It's like a wild rollercoaster ride, blending action, fantasy, and supernatural elements in ...