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The Year of the Flood: A Novel

Margaret Atwood - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly...
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The Vaults

Toby Ball - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

In a dystopian 1930s America, a chilling series of events leads three men down a path to uncover their city's darkest secret.At the height of the most corrupt administration in the City's history, a mysterious duplicate file is discovered deep within the Vaults---a cavernous hall...
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Pure

Julianna Baggott - Grand Central
Format: Hardcover

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost-how the world went from...
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Directive 51

John Barnes - Ace Books
Format: Print book

View our feature on John Barnes's Directive 51. The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "a master of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumors surrounding something called "Daybreak."...
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Genesis

Bernard Beckett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

A stunning debut novel that's as rich in ideas as it is in suspense, destined to become a modern classic of post-apocalyptic literature Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she'll be admitted into the Academy - the elite governing...
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Veracity

Laura Bynum - Pocket Books
Format: Book

Harper Adams was six years old in 2012 when an act of viral terrorism wiped out one-half of the country's population. Out of the ashes rose a new government, the Confederation of the Willing, dedicated to maintaining order at any cost. The populace is controlled via government-sanctioned...
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The Office of Mercy: A Novel

Ariel Djanikian - Viking
Format: Hardcover

Athrilling debut of a postapocalyptic world for fans of The Hunger Games Weaving philosophy and science together into a riveting, dystopian story of love and adventure, The Office of Mercy illuminates an all-too-real future imagined by a phenomenal new voice in fiction. Twenty-four-year-old...
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The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations

Cory Doctorow - Tor
Format: Print book

Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another...
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The Dog Stars

Peter Heller - Vintage
Format: eBook

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through...
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Wool

Hugh Howey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

For suspense-filled, post-apocalyptic thrillers, Wool is more than a self-published eBook phenomenon -- it's the new standard in classic science fiction.In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live...
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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic...
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When She Woke

Hillary Jordan - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan's provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been eradicated and convicted felons are no longer imprisoned...
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World Made by Hand: A Novel

James Howard Kunstler - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence,...
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The Road (Oprahs Book Club)

Cormac McCarthy - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and sons fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthys stature as a living master. Its gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful"...
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The Suicide Collectors

David Oppegaard - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world's population has inexplicably died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. A mysterious, shadowy group called the Collectors has emerged, inevitably appearing to remove the bodies of the dead. But in the crumbling...
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Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel

Gary Shteyngart - Random House
Format: Print book

The author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart has risen to the top of the fiction world. Now, in his hilarious and heartfelt new novel, he envisions a deliciously dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years - and the timeless...
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Chalcot Crescent

Fay Weldon - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback

This is a wickedly sharp, history-bending, cosmos-colliding novel from one of Britain's most iconic authors. Meet Frances, Fay's might-have-been younger sister, an unreliable narrator who bends history and blends universes to create a sparkling and prophetic portrait of a once and future...
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Robopocalypse: A Novel

Daniel H. Wilson - Doubleday
Format: Print book

They are in your house. They are in your car. They are in the skies ... Now they're coming for you. In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively...
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Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Robert Charles Wilson - Tor
Format: Print book

From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence...
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