A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to...
Regression (Civilization)
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary: -
Author:Summary:A new anthology of postapocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned authors in speculative fiction today. This eclectic mix of tales explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and harbingers of the biblical apocalypse.
- Author:Chappell-Pollack, Nancy, Nelson, ColleenSummary:
Following the events of Pulse Point, 12-year old Ama and the other Underlanders living in a world of darkness dig for brine, the City's real energy source. Underland is a dangerous place: cave-ins, starvation and illness are...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life. Two people find they have unexpectedly survived: Ren, a young...
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Author:Homer-Dixon, ThomasSummary: -
Author:McCarthy, CormacSummary:America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with...
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Author:Welsh, JenniferSummary:#1 National BestsellerPart of the CBC Massey Lectures SeriesIn 1989, as the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Cold War dissipated, the American political commentator Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay, entitled “The End of History.”...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to...
- Author:Ferguson, NiallSummary:
An examination of institutional dysfunction in the Western world argues that such values as a free market and representative government are being compromised while future generations are inheriting unmanageable levels of debt.
- Author:Forstchen, William R.Summary:
John Matherson turns his attention to restoring the social order that existed prior to the EMP attack that plunged the United States into darkness. But when news breaks that members of the government knew an attack was coming, the...
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Author:Percy, BenjaminSummary:A super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts like the Sanctuary, a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant defense and fear-mongering leaders. A small...
- Author:Mayer, ShannonSummary:
My name is Mara, and I want desperately to become a mother. All of my dreams were dashed when the world was promised hope but instead became a place of danger, death...and monsters. Nevermores, human but feral and lethal creatures with...
- Author:Penner, Robert G.Summary:
Strange Labour is a powerful meditation on the meaning of humanity in a universe that is indifferent to our extinction, and a provocative re-imagining of many of the tropes and clichés that have shaped the post-apocalyptic novel. Most...
- Author:Mandel, Emily St. JohnSummary:
One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to...
- Author:Cline, ErnestSummary:
A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity...
- Author:Miller, Derek B.Summary:
When Lilly was first Chief Engineer at The Commonwealth, nearly fifty years ago, the Central Archive wasn't yet the greatest repository of knowledge in the known world, protected by scribes copying every piece of found material - books...
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Author:Forstchen, William R.Summary:Two years after the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, learn that most of their young people are to be drafted into an "Army of National...
- Author:Potter, AndrewSummary:
A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus,...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and...
- Author:Taylor, SteveSummary:
La Chute est une recherche exhaustive qui renverse l’opinion générale à propos de la nature humaine et de celle de la civilisation. L’auteur s’appuie sur des preuves accumulées depuis les dernières décennies qui indiquent que la...
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