Category: post-apocalyptic
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All Fall Down by M.J. Arlidge – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB “You have one hour to live.” Those are the only words on the phone call. Then they hang up. Surely, a prank? A mistake? A wrong number? Anything but the chilling truth… That someone is watching, waiting, working to take your life in one hour. But why? The job of…
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Cynetic Wolf by Matt Ward – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB It’s 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient half-human, half-animal hybrids. The world is anything but equal. Hybrids everywhere are suffering, but sixteen-year-old Raek Mekorian, a wolfish with a nose for trouble, doesn’t see an alternative. Except…
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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB From a Tang Dynasty legend of a young girl trained as an assassin with the ability to skip between dimensions on a secluded mountain sanctuary to a space colony called Nova Pacifica that reflects on a post-apocalyptic world of the American Empire and ‘Moonwalker’ Neil Armstrong, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is…
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Addressed To Kill by Keith Wright – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Christmas is Murder! It is 1987. A perverted criminal sociopath is on the loose. An innocent young woman is murdered in horrific circumstances. DI Stark announces, ‘Christmas is cancelled,’ and his team investigate; aware that every second the maniac is on the loose, moves him closer to his next victim. A second woman…
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Blue Gold by David Barker – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB The near future. Climate change and geopolitical tension have given rise to a new international threat – a world war for water. This most vital of resources has become a precious commodity and some will stop at nothing to control its flow. When a satellite disappears over Iceland, Sim Atkins thinks he knows…
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Maxine Unleashes Doomsday by Nick Kolakowski – Book Review. @nkolakowski #MaxineUnleashesDoomsday
PUBLISHERS BLURB The United States has collapsed. Bandits stalk the highways, preying on the weak and unaware. In order to transport goods between heavily fortified cities, companies hire convoy escorts. Maxine is the best of these new road warriors: tough, smart, and unbelievably fast. But she also has a secret: She’s the niece of New…
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A Savage Generation by David Tallerman – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB Sickness is ravaging America, driving the infected to savagery. Petty criminal Ben Silensky is determined to get his girlfriend Carlita and son Kyle free of the quarantined city they live in, enough so to risk a foolhardy crime and then to team up with Carlita’s equally desperate cop cousin Nando. Once they’re out,…
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One Of Us by Rachel McLean – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB ‘Leave, or die.’ Jess Dyer has won safety for her sister-in-law Ruth and proved her worth as the leader of her refugee community. Sarah Evans has stood up to her parents and discovered who she can trust. But the villagers still aren’t welcome. When the local population expresses its anger, can Jess keep…
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Wanderers by Chuck Wendig – Book Review
PUBLISHERS BLURB A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up one…
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