The Best In Apocalyptic Fiction
Explore the best apocalyptic fiction books that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Discover thrilling tales of survival, dystopia, and the end of the world in our top picks.
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Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven
The trade paper re-launch of a classic sci-fi bestseller from the authors of the acclaimed alien invasion epic "Footfall". For millionaire Tim Hamner, the comet …
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The Sleep of the Gods
by MR James Sperl
What would you do if you--and only you--learned the end of the world was about to occur? Unfortunately for Catherine Hayesly, she's about to find …
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The Conqueror Worms
by Brian Keene
Non-stop torrential rains have flooded most of the United States, destroying coastal cities. In West Virginia, the floods have forced mammoth carnivorous earthworms above ground …
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Plague Year
by Jeff Carlson
When the nanotechnology designed to fight cancer evolves into a machine plague, killing nearly five billion people, a group of survivors, struggling to stay alive, …
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The Last Jihad
by Joel C. Rosenberg
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy are two of the shrewdest strategists on Wall Street and close friends of the president of the United States. Their …
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Swan Song
by Robert McCammon
In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, an ancient evil roams a devastated America, gathering the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child named …
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Aftermath
by Charles Sheffield
An exploding star causes electromagnetic storms which destroy most of the world's computers. The novel traces the effect of this on various people, from patients …
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The Postman
by David Brin
Gordon is a wanderer who trades tales for food and shelter. When someone gives him an old postal worker's jacket, he gains strength from it, …
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Footfall
by Larry Niven
"NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN NIVEN AND POURNELLE. --Tom Clancy They first appear as a series of dots on astronomical plates, heading from Saturn directly …
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Final Impact
by Yvonne Navarro
Life As the World Knows It "New York, Early October... [fade to Marti Nunciata] "From the middle segment of the seven o'clock Cable News Network" …
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Wastelands
by John Joseph Adams
With stories from George R.R. Martin (author of Game of Thrones), Gene Wolf, Carol Emshwiller, Stephen King, and more! "I can't help but give this …
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World War Z
by Max Brooks
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly …
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Earth Winter
by Richard Moran
When the northern hemisphere is plunged into a new Ice Age by a mid-Atlantic volcano, Ben Meade applies his genius to rediverting the Gulf Stream …
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Richter Ten
by Arthur C. Clarke
The only surviving member of his family after the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake, young Lewis Crane devotes his life to seismology and is terrified when …
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The Empire of Ice
by Richard Moran
In the year 2000, an active volcano emerges from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, threatening to plunge the British Isles into a new ice age.
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Icefire
by Judith Reeves-Stevens
Once lovers, now enemies, Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey must join forces to stop a cabal of Chinese officials from devastating …
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In His Image
by James Beauseigneur
Based on events surrounding efforts to authenticate the Shroud of Turin, BeauSeigneur takes readers on a brilliantly researched and vividly imagined journey to find whether …
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Black Monday
by Bob Reiss
In the wake of a globally disastrous plague involving a microbe that consumes oil while destroying all gas-operated machinery, the survival of the world's governments …