Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Vol. 4 (associational titles)
Explore Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Vol. 4 with associational titles—discover gripping apocalyptic books and novels in this curated list of survival, dystopia, and end-of-world tales.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the bestselling, award-winning the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic. Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
In a futuristic society filled with chaos, young Lauren Olamina begins a journey that will test her will and ultimately start a new faith. Includes questions for discussion.
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Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
"Enthralling...compelling and truly original." - Denver Post Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers -- or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny.
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Lilith's Brood
by Octavia E. Butler
The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative, sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. This is their story...
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Seed to Harvest
by Octavia E. Butler
The Patternist novels details a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.
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Glimmering
by Elizabeth Hand
In the violence- and pollution-stricken world of 1999, HIV-positive publisher Jack Finnegan is drawn into the seductive web of Leonard Thorpe, who possesses a magical elixir that cures Jack and transforms his world
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Winterlong
by Elizabeth Hand
In the ruins of a once great city, separated twin children are reunited and undertake a dangerous journey to participate in a blood ritual that will signal the end of human history
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The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
The first in the Dark Tower series, the Gunslinger pursues the evil "Man in Black" across a desolate wasteland.
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The Drawing of the Three
by Stephen King
Roland is drawn through a gateway of time and space into the drug-and-crime-ridden world of the twentieth-century to battle a dark power determined to prevent his search for the Dark Tower.
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The Waste Lands:
by Stephen King
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
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Wizard and Glass
by Stephen King
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
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The Dark Tower V
by Stephen King
Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the DARK TOWER series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus" (Locus). Roland Deschain and his ka-tet are bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest for the Dark Tower. Their path takes them to the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis. But beyond the tranquil farm town, the ground rises to the hulking darkness of Thunderclap, the source of a terrible affliction that is stealing the town's soul. The wolves of Thunderclap and their unspeakable depredation are coming. To resist them is to risk all, but these are odds the gunslingers are used to. Their guns, however, will not be enough....
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The Dark Tower VI
by Stephen King
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The penultimate volume in the Dark Tower series, The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, a #1 New York Times bestseller, is a pivotal installment in the epic saga. Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York City to the border of End World, hoping to prevent the unthinkable. Meanwhile, Eddie and Roland have tumbled into the state of Maine -- where the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot is about to meet his destiny....
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The Dark Tower VII
by Stephen King
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited—breathtakingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings...and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.
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Cell
by Stephen King
The latest, terrifying, #1 "New York Times" bestseller by Stephen King, about the mayhem unleashed when a mysterious force transforms cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, is available in a Premium Edition paperback.
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The Walking Dead
by Robert Kirkman
Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.
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The Walking Dead: The walking dead #13-24
by Robert Kirkman
Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.
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The Walking Dead 3
by Robert Kirkman
Each oversized volume features twelve issues, along with the cover art, of the hit horror series--a never-ending zombie movie on paper.
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The Walking Dead
by Robert Kirkman
Police officer Rick Grimes and a few human survivors battle hordes of decomposing zombies.
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The Taking
by Dean Ray Koontz
Molly and Neil Sloan and their neighbors in a small California mountain town encounter a threat that transforms their peaceful streets into a ghostly labyrinth as they discover the horrifying reality of what is happening around them.
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Amnesia Moon
by Jonathan Lethem
Trying to avoid his day-to-day struggles and unable to remember his life before nuclear war, Chaos attempts to live as one of the mutated survivors, until he is told that the bombs never fell and sets off on a journey for the truth. Reprint.
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This Is the Way the World Ends
by James Morrow
George Paxton was an ordinary man until something extraordinary happened--nuclear holocaust. Now George Paxton is about to discover what happens after the end of the world. "Astute, highly engaging, and finally moving".--Los Angeles Times.
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Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
The story of an isolated post-holocaust community of clones who are determined to preserve civilization, Where Late the Sweet Bids Sang" is widely regarded as Wilhelm's finest work.
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Way of the Wolf
by E. E. Knight
As the Reapers enslave human souls in an attempt to create a New Order, thriving on blood, terror, and fear, Lieutenant David Valentine, a member of an elite guerrilla force known as the Wolves, is determined to destroy the Reapers and reclaim Earth for all humankind. Original.
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Choice of the Cat
by E.E. Knight
The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control.
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Tale of the Thunderbolt
by E.E. Knight
As the Resistance attempts to overthrow their vampiric alien masters, elite Cat force member David Valentine embarks on a terrifying journey in search of a long-lost weapon that will guarantee their victory-and the end of the Kurian Order's domination of Earth.
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Valentine's Rising
by E. E. Knight
David Valentine returns to the Ozark Free Territory, prepared to fight and die rather than surrender to the enemy, and leads a brave group of soldiers on a dangerous mission to take down the Kurian Order and restore peace to his homeland. Original.
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Valentine's Exile
by E.E. Knight
David Valentine is revered as a hero for his part in fighting to regain Earth's freedom. When a former Quisling traitor is badly wounded, he asks Valentine to find his wife, who has vanished into the darkness of the Kurian Order. With the help of old friends and new allies, Valentine traces her to a mysterious, heavily guarded compound in Ohio. And what Valentine finds within will shake his sanity to its very core.
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Valentine's Resolve
by E. E. Knight
Returning from three years of exile, David Valentine reluctantly joins forces with the Marshal, a legendary and autocratic resistance fighter with a personal vendetta, to free the Lightweavers--allies of humankind--imprisoned by a Kurian overlord.
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The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
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Field Guide to the Apocalypse
by Meghann Marco
We're a culture obsessed with the end of the world. Whether it's Y2K or an asteroid barrelling towards us, the fact that 37 percent of species are set to become extinct in the next fifty years due to global warming, or weapons of mass destruction popping up in turkey farms, Armageddon might not be far off. We're also obsessed with movies, and studios have been releasing films about the end of the world as long as Hollywood has been Hollywood. Now, in FIELD GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Meghann Marco combines two of our favourite obsessions. Using information gleaned from dozens of movies wherein the unthinkable occurs, FIELD GUIDE offers practical advice on a variety of situations that may well occur as the apocalypse draws near. You'll learn how to deal with damn dirty apes (PLANET OF THE APES), how to convert a '70s muscle car to run on bathtub gin (MAD MAX), how to deal with last-woman-on-earth survival guilt, how to identify yourself as a replicant (BLADE RUNNER), and how to synthesise a species-saving vaccine from your own mucus. The FIELD GUIDE couldn't be more timely: According to Blade Runner all living animals will be genetic copies by 2019. Buy FIELD GUIDE now before you have to get copies for all your clones!