A Canticle for Leibowitz

By Walter M. Miller Jr.

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for most sensible Novel and broadly one in all the main complete, robust, and enduring classics of contemporary speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a real landmark of twentieth-century literature -- a chilling and still-provocative examine a post-apocalyptic future.

In a nightmarish ruined global slowly awakening to the sunshine after drowsing in darkness, the newborn rediscoveries of technology are secretly nourished by means of cloistered clergymen devoted to the learn and maintenance of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From the following the tale spans centuries of lack of information, violence, and barbarism, viewing via a pointy, satirical eye the relentless development of a human race damned by way of its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous error. heavily humorous, wonderful, and tragic, forever clean, inventive, and altogether outstanding, A Canticle for Leibowitz keeps its skill to enthrall and amaze. it's now, because it continuously has been, a masterpiece.

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Contamination Boxed Set (Books 0-3 in the series)

By T.W. Piperbrook

"Captivating" - Amazon Reviewer
A best-selling sequence with over 500 5-star reports!
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This specially-priced package includes the 1st 4 books within the illness series: 

*Contamination Zero
*Contamination 1: The Onset
*Contamination 2: Crossroads
*Contamination three: Wasteland

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Threnody

By Kirk Withrow

*Second Edition

John Wild is aware whatever is lifeless flawed the instant he reveals the neighborhood airport deserted.

Returning domestic from paintings on an remoted reservation, he's ignorant of the cataclysmic occasions that rocked the globe, leaving a plague-ridden, apocalyptic desert in its wake. As he struggles to outlive opposed to all odds, John learns that even if monsters stroll the earth, humans can nonetheless be the main harmful issues within the land.

Two issues, exceptionally else, develop into his concentration. Can John locate his relatives and support his longtime good friend, Dr. Lin San, in her look for a healing, or will the cruel plague turn out to be his demise--and the threnody of the complete human race?

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Yesterday's Gone: Season One

By Sean Platt

The number 1 bestselling horror and sci-fi sequence with over 1,000 5-star experiences starts off the following with Yesterday’s long past: Season One.

THEY WAKE TO THE UNKNOWN

On October 15, a handful of individuals wake in a post-apocalyptic panorama to discover that almost all of the world’s inhabitants has vanished in a mysterious occasion.

STRANGERS UNITE

A journalist wanders an empty long island looking for his spouse and son.

A serial killer unearths that he’s not best of the nutrition chain.

A mom shields her younger daughter from probability, yet how are you going to struggle an enemy you can’t see?

A bullied teenager is extremely joyful to discover each person long gone … till a knock on the door.

A distinctive agent grew to become enemy of the nation survives a fiery aircraft crash. He desperately must succeed in his daughter, yet destiny has anything else in store.

An eight-year-old boy units out on a trip to discover his lacking kin, yet unearths an outdated guy who may well simply be the most important to knowing everything.

DARKNESS IS COMING

The survivors aren't alone.

Something is watching.

Waiting.

And looking them down.

And one team of individuals has been getting ready for this second for years.

FATE can't be STOPPED

Where has each person gone?

Who are you able to belief whilst an individual may be an enemy?

Can humanity continue to exist the darkness that threatens to weigh down them all?

THE in basic terms sure bet IS THAT YESTERDAY’S GONE

Read the epic, twisting, curler coaster of a chain that readers are calling, “‘The Stand’ meets ‘LOST!’”

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Dark Grid: When The Lights Go Out...Permanently.

By David C. Waldron

Within the wake of a sunlight occasion, the likes of which hasn't been noticeable considering the fact that 1859 while the peak of expertise was once the telegraph, the northern hemisphere is confronted with a brand new reality...a existence with out energy. grids of almost the whole planet have shorted out because of anticipated, yet thoroughly unplanned for, sunspot job throughout the top of the present sunlight cycle.

Joel Taylor and his relations, besides a couple of shut relied on associates, need to come to a decision how--and even if--they can continue to exist of their suburban Nashville local as issues become worse inside an issue of days without electrical energy. when they choose to strike out all alone, the single query that is still is the place? in the course of the fresh previous army carrier of Eric Tripp, one of many small crew to depart the local, they're allowed to connect themselves to the neighborhood nationwide protect Unit till they come to a decision the place they're headed.

With the facility out, and no conversation with better authority, the protect is by itself and downtown Nashville is turning into a much less secure position to be. the whole Armory, crew and all, relocates to Natchez hint kingdom Park to establish operations during the crisis...however lengthy which may be.

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The Sheep Look Up

By John Brunner

Nebula Award Finalist: A prophetic examine the aptitude results of the escalating destruction of the Earth

In a close to destiny, the pollution is so undesirable that everybody wears fuel mask. the child mortality fee is hovering, and delivery defects, new ailments, and actual illnesses of all types abound. The water is undrinkable—unless you’re terrible and feature no selection. huge organizations scuffling with over gains from fuel mask, ingesting water, and fresh meals tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.
 
Environmentalist Austin teach is at the run. The “trainites,” a gaggle of violent environmental activists, wish him to guide their flow; the govt. wishes him useless; and the media calls for entertainment. yet teach simply desires to survive.
 
greater than a singular of technology fiction, The Sheep glance Up is a skillful and scary political and social remark that takes its position subsequent to different amazing works of dystopian literature, corresponding to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and George Orwell’s 1984.
 

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Wavesong (Obernewtyn Chronicles, Book 5)

By Isobelle Carmody

With the tip of the wintertime that isolates Obernewtyn from the remainder of the area, Farseeker guildmistress Elspeth Gordie back units out for the lowlands. yet she quickly reveals that no longer every body welcomes the adjustments led to by way of the uprising. there's a traitor one of the rebels—a traitor whose hatred of Misfits places Elspeth at risk as she makes an attempt to thwart an invasion of fanatical Herders.

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

By Carrie Ryan

In Mary's international there are basic truths.
   The Sisterhood consistently is aware top.
   The Guardians will guard and serve.
   The Unconsecrated won't ever relent.
   and also you should always brain the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the woodland of palms and the teeth.
   yet, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s studying issues she by no means desired to find out about the Sisterhood and its secrets and techniques, and the Guardians and their strength. And, while the fence is breached and her global is thrown into chaos, concerning the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness.
   Now, she needs to choose from her village and her destiny, among the single she loves and the person who loves her. And she needs to face the reality concerning the wooded area of arms and the teeth. may well there be existence outdoors an international surrounded in rather a lot death?

[STAR] "A bleak yet gripping story...Poignant and powerful."-Publishers Weekly, Starred

"A postapocalyptic romance of the 1st order, elegantly written from name to final line."-Scott Westerfeld, writer of the Uglies sequence and Leviathan

"Intelligent, darkish, and bewitching, The woodland of arms and Teeth transitions without problems among horror and wonder. Mary's global is one who readers won't quickly forget."-Cassandra Clare, bestselling writer of City of Bones

"Opening The woodland of fingers and Teeth is like cracking Pandora's field: a blur of darkness and a priceless little bit of desire pour out. this can be a superbly crafted, page-turning, robust novel. I completely loved it."-Melissa Marr, bestselling writer of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange

"Dark and horny and frightening. just one of the Unconsecrated may placed this e-book down."-Justine Larbalestier, writer of How to Ditch Your Fairy

From the Hardcover edition.

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The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, Book 3) Publisher: Plume

Roland, The final Gunslinger, strikes ever in the direction of The darkish Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a barren region of damnation in a macabre international that could be a twisted picture of our own...
The wait will quickly be over for the thousands of fanatics eagerly awaiting the following installment of Stephen King's riveting The Waste Lands. input the area of the mightiest mind's eye of our time because the final Gunslinger crosses the wasteland of damnation and techniques the darkish Tower of his goals and nightmares. 12 full-color illustrations; line paintings all through

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Renewal 4 - Down on the River

By JF Perkins

Book Details:

ASIN: B005BZKS06
Publisher: JF Perkins
Publication Date: 2011-07-09
Number of Pages: 61
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books


Synopsis from Amazon:

When the struggle for post-Breakdown legislations and order starts off, Terry joins the small band from espresso County on a project to the hot country capital, in a plea for reliable justice opposed to neighborhood tyranny within the wilds of Tennessee. a bigger concern forces a detour into the damaged and hazardous territory of a destroyed Nashville to stand an unknown enemy.

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