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

Maze RunnerSeries

series11 books2009

Science fiction and dystopia.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
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Start with The Maze Runner →

Aftermath (Charles Sheffield)Series

series2 books1998

completed

Science fiction, dark in tone, set in space.

“Charles Sheffield's Aftermath duology opens with a near-future Earth devastated by a nearby supernova's radiation, which knocks out electronics and forces survivors to rebuild without most modern technology.”
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Start with Aftermath →

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Science fiction, dark in tone, 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 →

The TriffidsSeries

series3 books1951

Science fiction, dark in tone, set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
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Start with The Day of the Triffids →

The FiremanNovel

Joe Hillstandalone novel2016

Science fiction, dark in tone, about found family, set in north america.

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