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Post-Apocalyptic Books

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PUSH BACK

by R. E. McDermott

2016

Earth reels in the aftermath of a savage solar storm, a global disaster of unprecedented proportion which leaves most of the world without electrical power or the means to restore it. Across the world, the responses of unprepared national g…

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THE LAST HIGHWAY

by Cole Maddox

2026

The lights went out on a Tuesday. By Friday, the country had a different name. When a coordinated cyberattack collapses the eastern power grid and the satellites begin falling from the sky, America doesn't end — it ruptures. And somewhe…

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Feast of the Locusts

by Mark Goodwin

2019

AVAILABLE MARCH 12! The first wave of computer malware, known as the Locust Virus, destroyed the American financial system. But the worst is yet to come! Kate has managed to survive a massive cyber-attack which annihilated the US banking sy…

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Post-Apocalyptic Realism

by Tonio Kröner

2019

Accounts of the present suggest that we are living at a time marked by the threat of an impending ultimate catastrophe, whether it be on economic, ecological, or social grounds.The contributions in this publication offer different reflectio…

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Edge of Collapse

by Kyla Stone

2020

In the dead of winter, a super EMP destroys the nation's power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos. But for twenty-six-year-old Hannah Sheridan, it's the best day…

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Nuclear Winter Desolation

by Bobby Akart

2021

As Nuclear Winter wrapped its gloomy arms around the planet, man experienced a state of anguished misery and desolation. In order to survive, some became territorial, shunning outsiders. Those in positions of leadership wielded it like a cl…

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Consume

by Saul Tanpepper

2020

What if the cure is worse than the disease? CONSUME (Book 4 in the BUNKER 12 series)A tragic accident inside the long-abandoned tenth bunker has left Finn clinging to life, and his friends facing the possibility that the nanites injected in…

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Post-Apocalyptic Environmentalism

by Carl Cassegård, Håkan Thörn

2022

This book analyses how the environmental movement has developed three overarching narratives that co-exist and compete within it. The first is the narrative of green progress, which has been prominent from the start in environmentalist thou…

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