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  • Cover of Night
    NightUniverse

    universe · 134 books · 2006

    Set in contemporary.

    “Jonathan Maberry's Night is one dark country stitched from horror and hard science, where a weaponized pathogen and an old nightmare called Doctor Nine turn out to haunt the same map.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Broken Lands →

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    includes Rot & Ruin, Dead of Night (Maberry), Joe Ledger, Joe Ledger / Rot and Ruin, Pine Deep, The Sam Hunter Case Files

  • Cover of Forest of Hands and Teeth
    Forest of Hands and TeethSeries

    series · 9 books · 2009

    “The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows the first heroine's break from that village into the wider, undead-infested world; The Dead-Tossed Waves and The Dark and Hollow Places carry the aftermath forward through new narrators.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Forest of Hands and Teeth →

    similar bysurvivaldarknear futurezombie horrortensepost-apocalyptic+2 more

  • Cover of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
    H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

    universe · 65 books · 1898

    Alien invasion.

    “No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The War of the Worlds →

    similar byscience fiction+1 more

    includes The War of the Worlds

  • Cover of Farnham's Freehold
    Farnham's FreeholdNovel

    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1964

    Time travel, about race and racism.

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  • Cover of Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
    Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

    series · 9 books · 1962

    completed

    Science fiction, set in near future.

    “Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with The Man in the High Castle →

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  • Cover of Black Tide Rising (John Ringo)
    Black Tide Rising (John Ringo)Series

    series · 63 books · 2013

    Science fiction and post-apocalyptic.

    “John Ringo's original quartet spawned an extended shared-world series co-written with several collaborators, following other survivor groups through the same collapse.”

    from the catalogue
    Start with Under a Graveyard Sky →

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