Apocalyptic Survival Fiction

Eternal Bones is a trilogy that unveils how Fairy and Mutants emerge on Earth after an alien-induced cataclysm. The civilizations we knew during the year 2065 were destroyed, leaving a single person occupying the International Space Station to watch the devastation firsthand. A freelance group of scientists discovered the climatic trend and escaped the disaster, but little did they know that forces beyond their comprehension were managing the future of humanity. Once the survivors emerge from their stasis pods, they realize that the Earth they once knew had drastically changed.

The EMP strike was just the beginning of it all.... Clara Thomas was a 9th grade English teacher, living a simple life at home with her sister and grandmother. She always had plans to settle down some day and become a writer. Sometimes, plans are just dreams left unfulfilled. They thought that the widespread outage was just within their vicinity. They were wrong. Without any electricity and power, Clara needs to help her family survive.

A new colony of humans. But are they truly human? Their whole life has been one big experiment. But the relationships, the love, and the loss have been real. Surviving the wasteland was only the beginning; and meeting the Founders only brought Rhun and Jordan more questions. They’ve been bred for combat. Can they bring what’s left of humanity together and avoid all out war? First they must save their homes and those they left behind from the same fate as the decimated City 6.

The day of the solar flare marked the moment life as Lance knew it went up in smoke. Out of time and options, the teen finds himself plunged into a world of chaos. Any dreams he had for the future are reduced to ash as he and his tight-knit group of friends battle to survive. But when frightening new threats emerge from the smoke, Lance and his crew are faced with an impossible decision. Will they hold on to the laws and morals of their charred society? Or blaze ahead doing whatever they must to survive?"

The story begins when the young teen who suffers a head injury emerges from a sailboat that ran aground during a hurricane. The trauma of discovering she is amnesic is soon dwarfed by the realization she is totally alone. Gradually, her expectation that people will return to the community they evacuated is replaced with the startling truth that everyone is gone. Vanished from the face of the Earth. Hindered by a selective memory that affords only brief glimpses of her past, Ivy and her new friend Tonka—a West Highland White Terrier—set off on a quest to find other people.

From killers to conservationists, Carnegie-shortlisted Chris Vick tells the story of three generations of the Kristensen family, their history as whale hunters and later their mission to save the great whales and our planet.

An heiress, giga-yacht, and underwater habitat become part of Captain Gills McBain's life at a very opportune time.

When a massive solar flare wipes out power across the U.S., veterinarian Aria Jenkins is stranded at her grandfather’s remote homestead with her young sister. In this gripping tale of survival fiction, society crumbles into chaos. Aria must rely on prepper knowledge and navigate the new dystopian reality to protect her family from growing dangers. In this blend of post-apocalyptic fiction and EMP survival, Aria faces the ultimate test of resilience in a nation gone dark.

A last chance. The situation for Dessa and her friends looks bleak. Sanctuary’s final end game is revealed. They have one chance to survive this, but the cost might be too great to bear.

Two months have passed since Patch Collins narrowly escaped the Board, leaving her loved ones behind to navigate the escalating tensions in America. Patch finds herself in an unfamiliar world, struggling with her mental health, and surrounded by those who abandoned the very idea of American diplomacy long ago. When a familiar enemy resurfaces and she learns the previously unknown fate of a loved one, Patch must make a choice: stay and live a life of relative safety, or risk everything to expose the Board’s actions to the world.

When the helicopter goes down after dropping them off, they realize they’re in trouble. The platform loses power. Cell phones don’t work. Everything electronic is dead. There are whispers of an EMP attack. Now that they’re stranded with a skeleton crew on a steel platform miles from shore, battered by massive waves, the deadly truth of their predicament slowly sinks in.

A zombie apocalypse may seem like a fantasy right now. But what happens when an outbreak hits? Will you be prepared? The zombie apocalypse is a disaster few believe will truly ever occur despite how it has captured the popular imagination. The Center for Disease Control and the Pentagon have developed zombie apocalypse scenarios. If these powerhouses of the American government can take the apocalypse seriously, so can you.

The world we live in now is one where you have to fight or die. There are no exceptions. Sometimes, fighting against the people who want to take what you have is harder than dealing with the walkers. The world may never be the same again. I'm thinking it won't. How could it be? We have lost 75 percent or more of the human population. We have always said the government was incompetent, well, they finally proved it with the zombie outbreak.

Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his parents and most of his community, Finn has lived alone on the rugged coast with only his loyal dog, Rowdy, for company. He has stayed alive for two winters—hunting and fishing and trading food, and keeping out of sight of the Wilders, an armed and dangerous gang that controls the north, led by a ruthless man named Ramage. But Finn’s isolation is shattered when a girl runs onto the beach. Rose is a Siley—an asylum seeker—and she has escaped from Ramage, who had enslaved her and her younger sister, Kas.

The biggest problem with being trapped on a jellyfish isn’t what you’d expect. You get over the fear of death (because you start looking forward to it) and the smell of fish (because it quickly becomes your breakfast, lunch, and dinner). Boredom is an issue, sure, but it’s not the main one; the biggest problem is not being able to get away from everyone.

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Four years after the mysterious mass animal die-offs around the globe, billions die of famine, the ocean and waterways are polluted, insects destroy crops, plants overgrow, and looting, murder, and chaos unfold. The most fortunate now live behind walls in 100 of the largest cities in the former United States under totalitarian rule. To avoid the harsh and desolate existence beyond the city, most residents follow the strict rules - but not everyone.

Zack and his team started over after being driven from their homes to a hideout in the woods. The USA was attacked with nuclear EMP weapons, has no power, and food is in short supply. It is now mid-winter, and while Zack and his friends prepared for survival, many of their neighbors are cold and starving. A corrupt mayor has taken control of the food supply and only doles it out to his supporters.

Ruth’s brother, Ronny, may have discovered the key to stopping AILS, the shadowy organization behind the EMP strikes. Ruth and fisherman John decide to seek him out on the mainland, leaving her granddaughter Stella and the rest of the crew to prepare for an impending attack. But as civilization decays around them, they quickly learn they’re not the only ones who are fighting to survive…

In Scorpion, the sequel to Jeff Sweat's YA futuristic thriller Mayfly, Jemma, Lady, and Pico all left the Holy Wood to seek answers to the End, and when they find the Old Guys - the only adults to have survived the original wipeout of everyone over the age of 17 - they think they've found help at last. But there's a lot the Old Guys aren't telling them. In fact, some of them don't seem interested in solving the End at all and just want Jemma and her friends to leave. Meanwhile, war is brewing among the tribes of the rest of the Children.