Dystopian World

Are you ready for the coming apocalypse? A seemingly simple virus slowly sweeps the globe. Bella is an Australian student at Oxford University who meets Mr 303 for the first time. When she is wrongfully arrested in Amsterdam, he comes to her rescue and takes her to Australia, just as the deadly virus begins to take hold on the world population. Will they be safe in the outback? Herbie reunites with his childhood sweetheart after many years, but the virus suddenly threatens to take her away again. Sian is the queen of pop and at the top of her game; she is used to getting her way and being ...

Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you down into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. Based in the latest research in neuroscience, this audiobook offers dozens of little things you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towardsa happier, healthier life.

For centuries the bloody hands of Dhoranka, a death hungry warlord with the power over earth, water, and fire, have terrorized mankind. Battling his savagery stood the Oranthium, an ancient secret order determined to crush the ugly face of evil. Finally, news breaks that Dhoranka has been killed, but under the most mysterious circumstances, as no body was ever recovered. Years later, with balance restored, a young boy emerges in the Oranthium with Dhoranka’s power. They decide to send him on his first mission to the World of Laughter. It is a test of power and virtue. Without power, evil ...

With the electric power grid still down, and prison populations freed to prey on innocent people, every day brings new and deadly challenges for those just trying to survive. As weeks and months pass, The Great Die-Off is underway. The experts predicted that up to 90% of the population of America won't survive the first year. The Evans family and their allies are determined to beat those odds. Old enemies resurface and new threats endanger their survival in this action packed post-EMP survival thriller. New villains are confronted by new heroes, as the saga continues across oceans and ...

Will one squad's desperate stand against a robot uprising save the human race from the brink of extinction? Logan Asher and his elite squad emerged from the ashes of the old world to wage a guerrilla war against the machines. Every day brings them new recruits, and yet for every man Logan has, the machines have ten. When the squad discovers a seeming rival faction of robots under the control of a mysterious man who calls himself the Progenitor, Logan believes he's found the secret to saving humanity. It will require convincing the Progenitor to help them. And leading Logan's men into the ...

Emma and Sydney are college juniors in central Florida when a deadly EMP attack strikes, ending their career dreams. The girls share a house with five other students, a contentious and divided group that is thrown together by growing chaos and vicious attacks. As society collapses and dark forces organize to prey on the weak and helpless, can Emma’s training as a disaster prepper save her group as they are forced to begin a desperate trek across the state?

When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Vivian Thomas sets out for California in hopes of seeing the daughter she gave up for adoption. Then her car breaks down, and she's faced with a choice. Give up or accept a ride from redneck brothers Angus and Axl, but she's prepared to do whatever it takes to reach her daughter.

Deep within the darkest corners of distant worlds there are rumblings of an uprising. With the small secret gatherings growing in number, it seems once more evil has a reason to unite. There is a toxic energy in the air. Slowly the haunting whisper from this darkness is spreading, bringing with it a sense of fear and danger. The Oranthium must stand together and strike as one. However there is unrest at the Oranthium as a new arrival causes a divide within the group. Zachary needs to conquer his own demons and lead them. This is no time for weakness. Dhoranka is back.

On a holiday in England, Alex Carhill is caught in the nightmare of a nuclear holocaust. In a matter of hours a mid-summer’s day is turned into a nuclear winter. This is the story of his survival in a world that no longer has rules; where climatic extremes, murder, starvation and disease are commonplace. As the land slowly heals, the survivors scratch together an existence in a contaminated wasteland ravaged by plagues of insects and disease. In this world, through hardship and pain, a new society is forged based on new rules and values moulded from the demands and necessities of life. ...

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision.

An ecological disaster of global proportions is sweeping the land, the result of failed government experimentation. What started out as an attempt to create a drought- resistant class of pollinator, has gone dreadfully wrong. Now worldwide extinction threatens all life forms. Dropped into this expanding devastation are two teens, orphaned when their scientist parents are kidnapped by the government. Desperate times call for desperate measures and topping the list is the need uncover the government’s sinister plot. It’s not what they think. The very world balances on an ever-deepening ...

Sura Neelin is on the run from her creditors, from her past, and her father's murderers. She can't get a job, she can't get a place to live, she can't even walk down the street: the total surveillance society that is mid-21st-century America means that every camera and every pair of smart glasses is her enemy. But Sura might have a chance in the alternate reality of the games. People can disappear in the LARP game worlds, into the alternate economy of Notchcoin and blockchains.

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the Earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

When the government disappears someone she loves, rescue is the only option. Estelle won the right to a simpler life at the edge of bright glittering New City. She is a celebrity dissident, tolerated by the Congloms, acclaimed by the youth of the city, and living the life of her dreams. Parties, pretty clothes, William, it’s all good. Or is it? Maybe it’s all a facade. Safe from a distance. And probably can’t last. Because the government won’t let her win. And when someone she loves disappears, Estelle fully learns the heavy cost of her defiance. An exciting and dramatic coming of ...

If reality can be edited, what’s left to trust? Kevin—author by passion, cabin crew by paycheck—spends his life criss-crossing the globe, believing he’s seen every corner worth seeing. Then a distracted passenger forgets a matte-black tablet in the seat-back pocket, and Kevin’s ordinary layover spirals into something impossible. First come the maps that don’t match any atlas. Then the photographs of skylines twice as tall as the ones on every postcard. Finally, the quiet men appear—asking polite questions that feel like loaded guns. Someone has spent decades polishing the ...

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

S.F. Namora is a literary periodical magazine focusing on genre-based short science fiction stories. Our aim is to satisfy your daily need of science fiction. Short stories are the perfect medium for science fiction. There's something about short-form sci-fi that has the potential to be especially mind-blowing. In just a few pages, the author must set up an entire new world (or a world that is just ever so slightly different than our own), and then deftly twist this new world into some kind of satisfying (or devastating) conclusion. It's no mean feat. Lucky for us, though, some of the ...

I played all those cool video games. I watched all those movies. I even read the books. In most of 'em, the hero shoots the bad guys, drives a sweet car, never gets hungry, and always seems to get laid by the end. Yeah. Whatever. I gotta be straight with you about why I wrote this journal, and it comes down to one thing, the apocalypse kinda sucks. It doesn’t meet my expectations at all.

With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.

Emma Peterson and her growing band of warriors have become skilled at protecting their homestead, but as they also defend others in need, they are increasingly at risk. In a world without laws the worst parts of human nature are revealed, and vicious predators thrive at the expense of the defenseless. Emma is driven to intervene to protect the innocent, but when she and her followers battle wickedness they pay an increasing price in blood and suffering. Is success even possible in their cruel and darkened world, or will the good inevitably perish with the evil? Follow Emma, Olivia, Shelby, ...