Station Eleven meets The Last of Us in this post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic from USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Ann Christy.
Go back underground and into the silos! A new series set in Hugh Howey’s world of WOOL. Part One of the Silo 49 Series.
A lot can change in a century, and Silo 49 has transformed from a dying silo into one filled with life and hope. Graham set Silo 49 free from the machinations of Silo One and the control of the WOOL agenda in Silo 49: Going Dark. Since then, they have been alone and one their own, with no one to guide them… or suppress them. Their silo has changed for the better, but a gentler and kinder lie is still a lie and the truth waits to be found.
Silo 49 has endured. In Going Dark they freed themselves from the control of Silo 1. In Deep Dark they discovered their forgotten past. In the third installment of the Silo 49 series, all that they have worked for through many generations finally comes to fruition.
Even in a good silo, life can be hell.
Elizabeth the Other, born to the silo and living under the stain of her father’s actions, has no one. She is alone, untouchable and unloved. Her only outlet is 25 Drums, the place where teen shadows mix, mingle and find a mate. She will find no life partner there, but she can dance. And tomorrow is her 20th birthday.
Long after the dust has settled and the survivors of the Silo Saga have gone to seed, Hugh Howey’s bestselling WOOL trilogy continues to captivate readers worldwide. The power of Hugh’s story is underscored all the more by the number of authors who have embraced the invitation to tell their own stories in his ever-expanding world.
The world sees the portals as an invasion. For Lysa, they’re an invitation.
The portals appeared without warning. Every thirteen minutes they take a thousand humans, leaving exact duplicates in their place. Now, chaos reigns and no one is sure anyone is still the person they knew. Whoever is sending the portals has destroyed human society without firing a shot.
Epidemiologist Giselle Quick is a happy woman. After being lured away from the CDC to work in the private sector, she now has it all: fulfilling work, a great paycheck, and time to spend with her sons. And seriously, who wouldn’t like getting paid to play diabolical games all day? That those games save lives makes it perfect.
Long ago the United States fractured into warring nations, peaceful times a fleeting thing and mistrust the only constant. Texas is the worst of them all, a cruel and totalitarian nation where crime is punished not with prison, but with a tattoo. For each crime a strike is marked upon the offender’s neck. At five strikes… death.
If there’s one good thing about the end of the world, it’s that Jillian wasn’t alone when it happened. Her neighborhood is still populated and more importantly, no one is trying to eat anyone else. The rest of the world isn’t so lucky. Where the Awakened roam, terror follows.
The last time Veronica checked, the world outside was still dead… and still covered by the sort-of-undead remnants of humanity. That was this morning. Now, she has to run that gauntlet to try and save Emily, just as Emily once saved her.
Sam’s first year of teaching is over and he thinks he’s got a handle on being a responsible adult. Life is smooth sailing and he couldn’t be happier if he tried. Then everything changes in one terrible day and he’s not ready for any of it.
In this holiday volume of the Between Life and Death series, there are no epic battles, no desperate search for the truth, no struggles to find love in a world of the dead. In Christmas Between Life and Death, the crew experiences the calm after the storm. With the smoke cleared and the battlefields left behind them, they now have to face a world that needs to be celebrated. They need to bring the traditions back.
It’s time to re-imagine Christmas.
Welcome to the World of Perfect Partners, Incorporated!
Step into the world of sentient androids. Humans no longer have to woo a human mate or wait for that perfect match… they simply order their heart’s desire and live life to the fullest. Called PePrs – say it like pepper, the spice – they have become indispensable to humanity. They do the jobs we don’t want to do, act as our windows to the wider world, fill all our social needs, and have become the expressions of our collective will. From the battlefield to the dog pound, from our perfect mate to the nanny that cares for our children… almost every task can now be done by a PePr, leaving humans to explore a life free of drudgery.
It sounds perfect. Then again, things that start perfect don’t usually stay that way.
Ella is an excellent private investigator and she’s got one heck of a case on her hands. PePrs are disappearing, falling completely off the grid with no way to recover them. The number of disappearances has grown so high that disturbing rumors are beginning to circulate. The worst one for the humans is that the underground has finally reached the city. The very notion of escaping PePrs, left to their own devices, and quite possibly looking for payback against their less-than-kind owners, is making the humans jumpy.
Dark Collections – Volume One
The End. Those two little words can mean so much. But how will things end… and will it hurt? That’s what we really want to know.
Delve into the darkness and join us at the end of the world. From a blighted sky to an invasion from beyond, from untethered time to one person driven beyond the edge of sanity, from a child’s game to an unseen apocalypse… it’s all imagined here, and imagined darkly.
What happens after the end? A new beginning. All we can do is hope we’re there for the start of what comes next.
In And Then Begin Again, there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope at the end of the long darkness. Not everyone will see it, but then again, not everyone should see it. From the most unlikely superhero to an alternate timeline, from a school where things aren’t quite as they seem to a new world on the brink of disaster, from a man who cheats time to the last survivor of a space disaster… it’s all imagined here, and there is always hope.
In Bringing All The Bad, two novels delve into the dark, where monsters disguise themselves as human. There, we discover what it really means to be special… and female.
When an ancient vampire rises, Girard must find her before the entire vampire world is destroyed.
The Future Chronicles – Special Edition includes fifteen stories, selected and new, from some of today’s best writers in speculative fiction.
It includes ten selected stories from some of the Chronicles‘ popular titles – Robot, Telepath, Alien, and A.I.– to give new readers a taste of the series; and includes five completely new stories, first published in this Special Edition.
Z. Among the most monstrous creations of our imaginations, the zombie terrifies, with its capacity to pursue its prey, to run it down, exhaust it to surrender, unrelentingly.
In this title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles series of speculative fiction anthologies, fourteen authors confront the nightmare, that horrific mirror of ourselves that pursues us with untiring hunger.
The Z Chronicles features stories by bestselling authors Hugh Howey (Wool), Jennifer Foehner Wells (Fluency), plus twelve more of today’s top authors in speculative and science fiction.
The future is history… From Samuel Peralta, creator of the bestselling Future Chronicles anthology series, comes a new speculative anthology series that turns the world you know upside down.
In Alt.History 101, thirteen top speculative fiction authors re-imagine the world – as one where the inventor of the smallpox vaccine died before he’d created it, as one where the women’s suffragist movement failed to win the right to vote, as one where the death penalty exists but where all forms of capital punishment are ruled inhumane – and ten other compelling stories charting the histories of these worlds.
Enter worlds so much like our own, yet so different – where everything you know… is history.
Time travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past. And what if it were possible to travel into our own, more recent past? Would we be able to change our present, or are we prisoners of predestination? Is fate what we make of it?
Robots. Androids. Artificial Intelligence. Scientists predict that the “singularity” — the moment when mankind designs the first greater-than-human intelligence — is nearly within our grasp. Believe it or not, truly sentient machines may be a reality within as little as 20 years.
Will these “post-human” intelligences be our friends? Our servants? Our rivals? What will we learn from them? What will they learn from us? Will we allow them to lead their own lives? Will they have basic human rights? Will we?
Science and society will be forced to address these questions sooner than you think. But science fiction is addressing these questions today. In THE ROBOT CHRONICLES, thirteen of today’s top sci-fi writers explore the approaching collision of humanity and technology.
Doomsday. The end of the world as we know it. Some say it will end in fire, some say in ice. Some say it will end with a bang, some with a whimper.
In this title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles series of speculative fiction anthologies created by award-winning author Samuel Peralta, fifteen authors confront the Apocalypse, the end of days, the undiscovered country from which no traveler returns.
Set in bestselling worlds fully realized by their authors, these stories unfold as seen through the eyes of animals — tamed and feral, domestic and savage — as they traverse a world of perdition where often their capacity for nobility and self-sacrifice transcends our own.
Twelve great authors – plus me – have contributed stories with the common theme of Time travel for this anthology. Time travel doesn’t have to be cut and dried either. Temporally fluid comes to mind as another description.
Flee the apocalypse of modern-day Earth, fly a fighter in the cold emptiness of deep space, and find new life on the distant shores of an alien world. You might even discover something about yourself as each author opens a window on the soul of mankind. Who are we, really? Should we survive? How do we become something greater without losing what makes us human? Take your first steps into tomorrow. Travel the cosmos to find amazing adventure. Walk beside unforgettable characters on the bridge across the stars…
They walk among us. They are our friends and family, our neighbors… even our enemies. Individuals with extraordinary abilities.
Some view their powers as a blessing. Others, a curse.
From humanity’s first contact with alien life, to the challenges of space travel, to colonies established light years from Earth, this anthology celebrates the wide sweep of space opera at its most sublime. Eleven of today’s bestselling authors join forces to bring you these tales of action, adventure, and brilliant imagination.
There are worlds beyond worlds out there to explore, and millions of stories spinning across the galaxies. So sit back and be transported… to the dark beyond the stars.
On the heels of the bestselling DARK BEYOND THE STARS anthology comes another collection of spectacular tales by eleven authors both well-known and brand new.
Space opera. Big, sprawling sci-fi stories that encompass strange new worlds, alien life forms, and deep space battles. You’ll find all of that here.
Take a journey across the galaxy with these short stories and go BEYOND THE STARS to A Planet Too Far…
