Dystopian Science Fiction

For dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet's most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages. In the United States, the military scrambles to speed the nation's recovery on multiple fronts including putting down riots, establishing relief camps, delivering medical aid, and bringing communication and travel back on line. Just as a real foothold is established in retaking the skies (utilizing existing commercial aircraft supplemented by military resources and ground control systems), a mysterious virus takes hold of the population, spreading globally over the very flight routes that the survivors fought so hard to rebuild.

In "Firebase Alpha," the zombie apocalypse has plunged the world into chaos, leaving seasoned veterans John Mcgammon and Ethan Bennett to defend their sanctuary against the relentless undead. Firebase Alpha stands as a last bastion of hope, fortified and prepared for the horrors that now roam the outside world. However, the true terror emerges from within the horde: Raisa, a cunning and intelligent zombie who commands the infected, turning them into a cohesive and deadly force. As Raisa’s influence grows, she becomes a formidable adversary, exploiting the weaknesses of those trying to ...

Survival in a post-apocalyptic world is not for the faint hearted. It requires difficult decisions and the deployment of extreme violence to hold onto what you have and take what you need. A motley clan of survivors is making its way across the country to fulfil a mysterious mission accompanying an enigmatic character.Beset by challenges, they are held together by a combination of their own will to live and their ability to share the individual skills they possess, as they continue their quest.There are others though. From another desperate place where they are also fighting for their very ...

Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language. She awakens in a windowless room full of lab equipment and spends a minute getting used to the pumping heart, tingly skin, and air filling the lungs of her new healthy body. Her name is Mary, and she has returned from the Ten Sigma Program, a virtual universe designed to produce the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen through the harshest training methods ever devised. Now stuffed with every type of lethal knowledge and a victor in countless life-and-death struggles, she has one goal: to reunite with her ...

In the future, true love is something that can be created to a person's specifications. Meet Denise Merritt - the perfect woman. She is beautiful, caring, emotional, sensitive, smart, friendly, and has the best personality a person could possibly have. She is also not real. Denise is an android (model) and she was made for the man, Steven Adams (mate), who wants to spend the rest of his life with someone special. Once he finally meets her, he had hoped to live out the rest of his life with the only person in the world he truly loves, but he gets swept into an unwelcome adventure when he ...

A girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last of humankind. But when the girl finds herself alone in an unknown landscape, it is a bear that will lead her back home through a vast wilderness that offers the greatest lessons of all, if she can only learn to listen.

The invasive species…is us. Humanity teeters on the precipice of environmental collapse. The planet bears the scars of exponential warming, rampant pollution, and the ominous specter of mass extinctions on land and sea. Drought, wildfires, flooding, and storms wreak havoc, while the dire consequences of poverty and starvation deepen. As Earth's systems spiral towards irreversible decline, the President of the United States makes an audacious move, appointing an unlikely ally, an obscure park ranger, as the new Secretary of Conservation. Unbeknownst to the world, he is not only an outsider...

Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

The society was dangerously polarized.Violent mobs hit the streets.Some whispered a civil war was coming. Then the nukes went off.Survivors recruited freedom-loving citizens to armed resistance in Manhattan, Boston, and Philadelphia.The globalist enemy knows who to target… the hunt is on, but the resistance is wily, supplied with technology from a billionaire industrialist.In Manhattan, ominous rumors abound. There is activity in the hot zone. Who would risk the radiation to venture into that wasteland?Boston is fighting back, the resistance growing in size and power, but a new threat ...

He thought he was at rock bottom. Then the world blew up. Now, he’s the only one that can save the city. But it may take more than he has to give . . . Detective Kurt Weller has been framed, shamed, and beaten. And now he wakes up to the end of the world. Bombs are dropping, and dead people are trying to eat him.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: That sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

Saff, a determined new doctor in the first year of her internship, had clawed her way out of a tumultuous past, only to be dragged back into it when the zombie outbreak hits. Forced to join her estranged father and his band of raiders, she's confronted with the harsh reality that desperation can make monsters out of anyone—even her.

The Sea Wolf sets out to search for the Metal Islands. Leading the expedition is legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez. After enduring a decade on the poisoned surface, his survival skills will be put to the test on the dangerous open seas. But storms, sea monsters, and the cannibalistic Cazadores aren't the only threat to X and his small crew. Their mission will uncover hard truths about the history of the war that left humankind stranded in the air for centuries. The fate of those still living on the airships might very well rest on this perilous journey to find a new home.

From the Author: Don’t read this book if you don’t like super niched sci-fi, genetically engineered Amish avatars, or heavy science fiction based on today’s real science; it’s just taken a step (or several steps) further. BUT If you do, Thomish is unique, no one has ever written about genetically engineered Amish recivilizing the planet over and over again, and the science is well-researched. (Being a nerd is kind of what I do…) Synopsis: The world’s gone to hell, and Thomas—an AI in a human body grown from stem cells and placenta—stands in the wreckage of rural Arkansas ...

The Threadbreaker Conflict A Reluctant Agent, a Hidden War, and the Fight for a Free Galaxy They engineered silence. He became the noise. Jaruk Locan didn’t sign up to save anyone. As an intelligence agent drifting through the cracks of a fractured solar system, his job was simple: observe, report, disappear. But when a covert mission unearths a synthetic conspiracy to overwrite autonomy itself, Jaruk is forced to choose between obedience—and something dangerously close to defiance. Across a galaxy policed by engineered minds, rogue artificial intelligence, and a new elite of gene-...

What would you do if the government took your liberty?California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. In Bug Out! California Book 15, the Deep State is exposed. They become a bigger danger than the surviving funders of the war.In Book 16 – Darkness to Light, the Deep State is frantic, upping ...

When a dream becomes all too real, a pair of strangers find themselves in parallel universes. Neither knows how nor why they’re there, but they found themselves in grave danger. Soon, the realities of their predicament come to light. They are being manipulated and used but by whom and why is yet undetermined. As the pressures mount, their deepest fears, anxieties, and strengths are exposed and weaponized against them until they’re forced to make an impossible choice. Put to the ultimate test and facing insurmountable pressure at home, they must form a bond and hope their growing ...

As war wages, a new generation of Bells, Coaltonstones and Goodwins are facing a harsh existence under Minese occupation. These are the last days of 2075. Karl Parks may soon be fitted into the Botman Regiment, which oversees the recycling of the debtors. Karl’s twin brother's spirit, Danny, has returned from Belunga, where he was sent to fight on the front line. Danny isn't sure what he was fighting for and he wishes for his old life back when Sue-Anne, soon to be Karl's wife, was his. ESCAPE FROM TUT ISLAND is S. E. McKenzie's second young adult novel.

A failed biological attack ravaged the population of the world. Millions dead, and millions more turned into feral creatures that spend their time hunting down survivors who are desperately trying to rebuild society and make a life for themselves. Several years have passed since the majority of the infected population suddenly dropped out of sight. With the threat seemingly abated, Hunter Ashcroft and other survivors begin to branch out in an effort to find other pockets of civilization. During an expedition to explore the remnants of Nashville, Tennessee, they are surprised to find a ...