Post Apocalyptic

One of the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A post-apocalyptic classic set in a burned-out America. A father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there . . . The Road is a masterpiece of American fiction from Cormac McCarthy. The landscape is destroyed. Nothing moves save the ash on the wind. Cruel, lawless men stalk the roadside, lying in wait. Attempting to survive in this brave new world, the young boy and his protector have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves. They must keep walking. In this unflinching study of the best and worst of humankind, Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope, but one in which, miraculously, this young family may yet find tenderness. With an introduction from John Banville, author of The Sea. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. 'The Road made me cry for days' – Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven 'The most important environmental book ever written' – George Monbiot, author of Feral and Regenesis Adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron.

A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty...

First come the days of the plague. Then come the dreams.Dreams that warn of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worndown boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms....

Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'icenine', a lethal chemical capable o...

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, guntoting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep...

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren?s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to sal...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science, Apocalyptic lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must...

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into th...

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join...

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dre...

Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of an...

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acidetched firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once...

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a ...

Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW!"Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage (2010) and Station Eleven (2014)." BooklistWHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBERSet in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an ext...

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man su...

alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth headon were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a hundred. And then ... even less. alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth headon were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a h...

A manmade plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the greeneyed Crakers ? a gentle species bioengineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with streetsmart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers? reluctant prophet, SnowmantheJimmy,...

A collapsed economy and an increasingly savage society were causing thousands to abandon America. Captain Jonah Scott was a pilot, hired to fly some lucky refugees to London. But once in the air, nuclear war broke out, and Scott became responsible for the entire human race!...

New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real ... a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages ... A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnet...

The ChungLi virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvation in its wake. The rest of the world looks on with concern, though safe in the expectation that a countervirus will be developed any day. Then ChungLi mutates and spreads. Wheat, barley, oats, rye: no grass crop is safe, and global famine threaten...

Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a postapocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the madeup role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth fo...

Nebula Award Finalist A "brilliantly crafted, engrossing" dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Awardwinning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian). In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kin...

Eternity Road is set 1000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of citystates. Legend has it that the Road...

Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job _x0097_ transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe _x0097_ and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a halfhuman fourlegged Dege...

Librarian note: This is a later printing of ISBN 0307275434 with a slightly different cover than the one used on the first printing. As Goodreads does not allow for more that one record per ISBN a record for the first printing was added without the ISBN.Told with P. D. James_x0092_s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storyte...

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassicera jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of sci...

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edgeofyourseat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic nearfuture world_x0097_a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One gl...

The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the halfdestroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burnedout deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civil...

Set in a postapocalyptic England, RIDDLEY WALKER tells the tale of one twelve year old boy and his journey through the ruins of civilisation. After the death of his father in an accident, Riddley must become a man. But his inquiring mind and strange ways set him apart from his people, and when he discovers a relic of the old time, he sets in motio...

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh...

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy_x0096_abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl_x0097_and risk...

The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardenersa religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal lifehas long predicted a natural disaster that will alter...