Apocalyptic Survival Fiction

Leaving home can be a dangerous journey. . . Not leaving home can be even more dangerous. A worldwide terrorist attack hits all of the major cities, causing an EMP. Austin is fortunate enough to survive the devastating, apocalyptic event. But with a collapsed economy, and terrorists roaming the streets, he soon realizes the real trouble is far from over.

James would much rather hang out with his friends than go hunting with his father, the survivalist. What starts out as another uneventful trip, however, takes a hard turn for the worse when they’re attacked without explanation. Panic-stricken and running for his life and trying to get back to his family, James and a handful of other survivors are forced to fight an enemy they cannot beat on grounds they do not know.

In 2036, a rapidly destabilizing climate culminated in a worldwide snowstorm that froze the entire planet. Billions are now dead due to starvation, disease, civil unrest, and the plummeting temperatures. What remains of humanity now live in small settlements or isolated makeshift villages, carving out miserable lives in this grim new reality.

In the silent depths of Diablo Lake, where shadows dance upon the water's edge, secrets linger like whispers in the night. Five years have passed since the world was torn asunder, yet the scars of our past haunt us still, etched into the very fabric of our souls. I watch from the shadows as life unfolds around me, a silent guardian amidst the chaos. Clarisse tends to the wounded with a quiet determination, her eyes betraying the weight of our shared burden.

One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic stand-alone set in the same world as the USA Today best-selling The Girl With All the Gifts. Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.

After a sudden mysterious disease is unleashed on the country, claiming millions of lives, including that of his family, Mark is left alone. The cities are in chaos with survivors killing for food and water. Knowing as supplies dwindle the insanity will spread to his neighborhood, he creates a fortress in the basement of his suburban home, stock piles food, water, weapons, and medical supplies, and stays out of sight during the day.

On a quiet evening like any other, virtually anything that uses fuel goes up in flames, killing billions in the first 24 hours alone. Remnants of governments reel as they try to deal with the destruction of their countries and decimation of their military infrastructure as their cities burn to the ground.

For Alex, being left home alone for the weekend means the freedom to play his computer games and hang out with his friends without hassle from his mother. Then the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, plunging his hometown into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence. Alex begins a harrowing trek to search for his family and finds help in Darla, a travel partner he meets along the way. Together they must find the strength and skills to survive and outlast an epic disaster.

John Eric Carver and Shrek have fought their way through a viral apocalypse and into the aftermath. Working with fifty other survivors in the remote mountains outside of San Diego, they have created a community safe from the monsters called Variants. But outside their small haven, giant packs of the beasts roam the cities in search of humans to feed their insatiable appetite.

How well would you fare if the apocalypse fell upon you? Could you survive more than a few days? Would you be able to feed yourself? Find clean water? Safe shelter? Heal your wounds? Allistor is a gamer geek who has spent most of his life indoors, playing virtual reality MMORPGS and reading classic LitRPG books. But when Earth is seized by an ancient race wielding incredibly advanced tech, who transport the entire planet to a new location with twin suns, he finds himself fighting to survive in real life.

Some truths are worth dying for. Others will kill you to stay buried. Former detective Jodi Jason’s career in LA ended the moment she reported what she saw: beings that shouldn’t exist. Especially on Earth. Leaving chaos in her investigative wake didn’t help her case either. Exiled to Broken Canyon, California—population 996 and shrinking fast—Jodi mourned her past life and missed her partner. She expected nothing exciting would ever happen in Broken Canyon. She was wrong. Bodies are dropping. The FBI has come knocking. And the daylight is disappearing hour by hour as if something...

Even before becoming a husband and father, safety had been Shane McDonald’s priority for most of his 45 years. As a nuclear engineer, it’s his responsibility to keep the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant functioning at optimum levels to avoid what protesters fear most: a meltdown. But when a coronal mass ejection from the sun wipes out power across the globe, stopping a nuclear chain reaction is no longer his primary concern.

Seventeen-year-old Moxie has just been given an extraordinary offer: to become the youngest human ever to receive eternal life. The physical body must be cast off, but it’s a small price to pay to live forever. Thrilled at first; doubts soon crop up. Her nannybot and friends are all in favor, but Moxie isn’t convinced and embarks on a journey of self-discovery. She must decide if her physical body is a worthless vestige like an appendix, or an integral part of who she is.

What happens when all means of transportation and communication suddenly vanish? What happens when you can't call for help? What happens when the only person you can rely on is yourself? Captain Kate Hillman is about to discover those answers after an EMP sends New York City, and it's nine million residents, back into the stone age.

Can you picture a societal collapse so bad that the land becomes uninhabitable? What happens when it's up to one small group of people to reverse the societal collapse?After the collapse of society, Jason now lives in a house on a small island in the middle of the sea. Over the years, he had heard tales about what life was like on the land, but he had never experienced it for himself. He eventually discovers that the land was taken over by pirates many years ago. The societal collapse caused by the pirates was so severe that it drove many people to the sea. The people who remained on the ...

When Cady runs, it isn’t because hell is chasing after her. It’s because her daughter is in danger and Cady believes escape is the only option. If she only knew. As Cady and her daughter make their way north, Scott realizes just what he lost and he’s willing to fight to get it back. And Cady’s mom? Lookout, because she’s headed back to her daughter’s place, and come hell or high water, she’s going to make it. Who she leads there may help or hinder her survival. This post-apocalyptic series is complete at 6 books. Don’t tell the women that – they might not all make it. ...

With a blistering wave of ground assaults now crushing Knoxville, foreign troops engage in wholesale slaughter, forcing small pockets of survivors to flee in a mass exodus. Wyatt Rutledge has led an assemblage of refugees to the safety of Burning Hollow, but their salvation presents the gravest of threats to the Banks family farm and everyone else in the holler.

How much could you take? Society continues to unravel. Supplies are low, and the survivors are more desperate than ever. Max is on his own, without food or water. A day's journey has turned into four days and four nights. If he can't find the gas they desperately need, what will happen to his friends back at camp? Georgia and Mandy wait for Max to return. Without food, they struggle daily. At any moment, the enemy could appear. Weakened by her injury, will Georgia be able to lead the defense of the camp? Will the others have enough strength to follow?

While on a trip into the backcountry, Henry Shaw, a veteran bush pilot is forced to depend on his estranged daughter to survive an unforgiving wilderness. Stranded miles from civilization, injured, and with winter bearing down, hope is bleak. After a terrifying turn of events reveal the plane crash may not have been an accident, tempers flare, secrets unravel, and a trauma from the past resurfaces. Facing overwhelming odds and nonstop danger, it’s now up to Kara to decide whether to remain or embark on a perilous trek across a harsh landscape to make it out alive.

When there’s nothing left to live for, what will you do with your last six bullets? Thirteen months ago, civilization ended with the arrival of a massive asteroid. For Burt James, a seasoned survivalist, it was the event he'd long prepared for. While the rest of the world descended into chaos, scrambling for food and water, he secluded himself in his fortified hilltop home in a small Australian Outback town. But now, he's out of supplies and down to his final six bullets—and must face the hardest choice of his life.