Dystopian World

Three long years after the world Fell, Wildcat Leander Calloway Toler, a deputized lawman—or what passes for one in this Fallen World—finds himself being pursued across the Appalachian wastes with the daughter of a wealthy businessman in tow. Trapped and outgunned, Leander learns that those who took his family and left him for dead in the chaotic days after the Fall have returned. Infuriated by the bureaucracy of a corrupt system, Leander decides to take matters into his own hands and recruits a team of loyal companions.

Federico Stahl es uno de los grandes personajes de la literatura latinoamericana de este principio de siglo. En "El orden del mundo", asistimos a una de sus aventuras más intensas y emocionantes: lo que comienza con modales de novela realista, con recuerdos de la infancia y un registro transparente, va complicándose a medida que nos adentramos en las circunvalaciones mentales de Stahl. Sanchiz sabe que en literatura la forma es el fondo.

The Last Kids on Earth meets Margaret Peterson Haddix in this middle grade adventure about fourteen-year-old Izzy, an autistic girl surviving the end of the world who must team up with her loveable dog to uncover the hidden truth behind her family and the rest of humanity’s disappearance.

Thirteen-year-old Aluna has lived her entire life under the ocean, just like all of the Coral Kampii in the City of Shifting Tides. But after remaining hidden from the Above World for centuries, her colony is in trouble, its survival in doubt :  the tech that allows the Kampii to breathe underwater is beginning to fail, and many Kampii have already died. Yet the colony’s elders, including Aluna’s father, are unwilling to venture to the dry and dangerous Above World to search for answers. So it’s up to Aluna and her friend Hoku to face the terrors of land to find a solution.

Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She’s moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, and has plans for gardening, coffee clubs, and spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is finally exactly what she wants it to be. Then, one beautiful morning, she looks outside her kitchen window—and sees that a wall has appeared in her front yard overnight. Where did it come from? What does it mean? And why does it seem to keep growing?

The long awaited sequel to Dark Days Rough Roads is now here. Months after an EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse, strikes the country, Roger Haliday continues to fight for survival along with his friends and family. With the rogue militia under control they now face new dangers. The people around them and throughout the country are dying of starvation and illness. They are taking desperate and deadly measures in order to survive. Gangs are terrorizing cities and suburbs as they move through them searching for food, water, and supplies. With the gangs committing atrocious crimes along the way, the ...

There’s only one solution for a nasty case of writer’s block, and that’s murder. Specifically, that of one Mercy McCabe, a cunning SoHo art dealer who was once our Latina narrator’s rival for the scrumptious Bebe. When she discovers that McCabe has squandered Bebe’s affections after stealing her away, revenge is not enough: She must admit her guilt, sentence herself, and beg for her own execution, Soviet-style.

Safe Haven has grown too powerful to be ignored. The remaining government wants all survivors secured for their own use or eliminated, and they couldn't have chosen a better time to reemerge from their dystopian holes. Safe Haven has a new leader and a long list of challenges to overcome in their fight for survival. Adrian's condition is critical, the camp isn't ready to accept magic, Mother Nature still has them in her crosshairs, and they are low on food, water, and fuel. The next eight weeks will be the hardest they've gone through yet. Can they bring the pieces together in time?

Against the backdrop of a ravaged world, Andrew and Jamie have settled in a new community, more in love than ever. Finally they've reached safety and have each taken on roles and responsibilities in this new life. But it's soon clear they want different things.

Science fiction often envisions a future tinged with pessimism, drawing parallels from our current societal concerns. Yet, amidst the warning signals, the endurance of empathy holds the key to unlocking genuine hope. Empathy, in its essence, fosters not just survival but the conditions for thriving. It's a unifying force, transcending divisions. In "Sins of Variance" by Rob Williams, we encounter a crossroads in a future fraught with challenging choices for humanity. Williams presents a world where genetic modifications aim to eliminate conflict, prompting reflection on the repercussions of...

Infected with the deadliest plague known to humanity. The world must unite to combat and defeat a parasitic mutation that has engulfed the world for thousands of years with its incurable disease of death, destruction, division, and chaos. Immerse yourself in this alternate history of how humanity fought, struggled, and survived an abomination created to infiltrate, deceive, and destroy the planet and humanity to bring the world into a purgatory hell of darkness and death.

Airwaves: A Wayfarers Story follows Dr. Abby Eaton, an on-air personality for AM 63, a pirate radio station on a fading AM band. Simultaneously, the IW2, a new internet, emerges as a free and open alternative to the heavily censored, hyper-algorithmic ALL web. The IW2 resurrects the spirit of the old internet, prioritizing the wants and needs of the people over control and censorship. As the ALL World Order targets both AM 63 and the IW2, Abby faces intense challenges. Her 13-year-old daughter becomes entangled with a boy on the IW2, a relationship that could put her in grave danger. How ...

Pirate Radio AM 63 survived the manufactured weather assault by the World Weather Syndicate. But now, a new threat looms, not against the station directly, but one that could take down its primary broadcast delivery platform. An event in far-off Hawaii could have a devastating effect on AM 63’s worldwide reach. What was this event? More significantly, did this event actually occur? The rising one-world government in the form of the ALL World Order harbors a deep hatred for AM 63’s primary broadcast delivery platform and for radio in general. What machinations will the five in charge who...

The Terminator meets Zombieland. "A new twist on time travel dystopia." ★★★★★ "On edge of seat till 2am. Mindblowing." ★★★★★ "There is nothing same-old about this story." ★★★★★ I can see the future. But I can't stop the apocalypse. It can't be real, can it? Each time I slip into the future, I bring back more proof. Humanity is on the brink of a genetically-engineered apocalypse. ⌛ Bodies rotting in the streets. ⌛ Wilderness eating away at my hometown. ⌛ Zombies hunting down the few survivors. I'm the only one who can stop it. Because for me, it hasn't ...

Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of only 100 children selected as a social experiment by the Mainland government to be taken from their mothers in the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity. But when her Mainland mother dies when Elimina is just a teenager, Elimina finds herself alone, forced into an unfamiliar life of servitude, unsure of who she is and where she belongs.

Born at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse to the head of the CDC and the leader of the new world, Jackson Star has always known that he would one day rule. But as Jackson and his father creep closer to achieving their goals, things slowly begin to unravel.

Twisted Mind is a dark and disturbing look into Jackson’s brain, and the inner-workings of the CDC. It will give readers a glimpse of the future, as well as answer questions that have plagued us from the very beginning of the Broken World series.

Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos”.

Not long from now, in a recognisable yet changed London, Signy and Matthew lead a dull, difficult life. They've only really stayed together for the sake of their six year old son, Jed. But they're surviving, just about. Until the day the technology that runs their world stops working. Unable to use their phones, pay for anything, even open the smart door to their flat, Matthew assumes that this is just a momentary glitch in the computers that now run the world.

Survival is Russel’s second biggest problem. In this new world, the major cities are in chaos. Cathy, a prepper with a knack for calling out criminals, only wants justice. Marcus Wright thinks she’s been sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. He can be ruthless. She wants to stop him. He moves on her first. Russel has been trying to quit, but who gives up drinking during an apocalypse? If it hadn’t been for Cathy, he wouldn’t have survived the plane wreck. She saved his life. Now, Cathy’s in trouble. He misses Sarah, but he can’t go home until he helps her.

What would you do if you woke up one morning to find that you were the only person left alive? That’s what happens to Meg on the day after she is admitted to hospital for the birth of her child. What follows is a fight for survival in a world where battles between good and evil constantly rage around her. Just as Meg is about to discover the truth about this new world, she finds the rules have changed yet again, and she is back where it all began. From the author of In a House in Yemen, In Times of Trouble and In Conversations with Strangers, “In Strange Worlds” takes the reader on a ...