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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower may just be the end of life as they know it, six couples--friends, exes, crushes and rivals--must take shelter. Inhibitions are abandoned, confessions are made and love blossoms, but what happens when the world doesn't end? Filled with humor, heat and hope, this riveting collection of interconnected multicultural stories by acclaimed authors Lane Clarke,...
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"Full of indelible characters and darkly comic twists, the stories in Kate Folk's debut collection are perfectly pitched for the madness of our modern moment. A ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the scene of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, leaving one woman to decide whom she wants to spend eternity with. A woman navigates finding a partner while beautiful humanoid robots called "blots"...
4) Cosmogramma
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. Kill parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on interbreeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity. Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Four complete stories of apocalyptic disasters that befall the citizens of the United States by one of America's most popular apocalyptic fiction writers. Read how some Americans rise up to meet the challenges and fight to survive when disaster strikes. In What? The sun did all this! a massively strong CME that strikes the earth destroying the electric grid and most electric devices. One man attempts to reunite with his scattered family. In Surviving...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Five complete early stories from one of America's most popular apocalyptic writers. How I Survived WW3 is a story that follows a regular working man that happens to survive World War Three after making just a few preparations. The Carrington Event Revisited is the story of a catastrophic solar coronal mass ejection event similar to the one that hit the Earth in 1859. A Collapse to a Fresh Start is a story of two young people who make their way out...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Covid was only a dry run. A test... Virus H3J2 is the real deal. Fast. Deadly. Unstoppable... As hundreds of millions of Americans die, for those left, surviving the attack is only the beginning Isaac Race thought he'd found a new family and home. A new Life. He had, but it's all about to be snatched away. When an ambitious enemy launches a sneak attack on the USA, his peaceful life is shattered and Isaac, by his very nature a loner, must band together...
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Wastelands volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"For decades, the apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting short stories of all time. From David Brin's seminal "The Postman" to Hugh Howey's "Deep Blood Kettle" and Tananarive Due's prescient "Patient Zero", the end of the world continues to thrill. This companion volume to the critically acclaimed "Wastelands" offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction."--Back cover.
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2012.
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English
Description
Covers the zombie plague and "fightback" by surviving humans through a collection of short fiction in the form of newspaper stories, emails, diaries, letters, tweets, transcripts of conversations and videorecordings, government documents, and other materials.
12) We shall rise
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 10
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The world has been brought to its knees by the 'zombie virus.' Nations have fallen, cities have been overrun by the infected, and the human race has come perilously close to extinction. But with the first winter come and gone, the infected have been reduced to not much more than a background nuisance and survivors around the world are taking stock and vowing to rebuild and rise up stronger, better, and unafraid. All new stories from New York Times...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die is an anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction centering queer joy and community in the face of disaster. What does hope look like when everything is lost? Now, more than ever, we need to revel in the bright spots amidst the darkness. The twenty-three stories (and two poems) contained here, as well as the roleplaying game Dream Askew by Avery Alder, imagine queer community in myriad futures interrupted...
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