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series2 books1969

Science fiction, tense in tone, about survival and plague and pandemic, set in contemporary.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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Start with The Andromeda Strain →

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

About genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
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Start with Wild Seed →

NightUniverse

universe134 books2006

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.”
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Start with Broken Lands →

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

CellNovel

Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006

Dystopia, set in our world.

“In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism.”
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Black Tide Rising (John Ringo)Series

series63 books2013

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.”
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Start with Under a Graveyard Sky →

Day by Day ArmageddonSeries

series6 books2004

Set in our world.

“An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him.”
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Start with Day by Day Armageddon →

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