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  • Cover of The Fireman
    The FiremanNovel

    Joe Hill · standalone novel · 2016

    About found family.

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  • Cover of Down to a Sunless Sea
    Down to a Sunless SeaNovel

    David Graham · standalone novel · 1979

    Science fiction and post-apocalyptic, dark and tense in tone, about survival, set in near future and our world.

    “The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”

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  • Cover of I Am Legend
    I Am LegendNovel

    Richard Matheson · standalone novel · 1954

    About vampires and last of their kind, set in mid 20th century.

    “The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague.”

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  • Cover of Z for Zachariah
    Z for ZachariahNovel

    Robert C. O'Brien · standalone novel · 1975

    About coming of age and loneliness, set in countryside & village.

    “Sixteen-year-old Ann Burden, on an Amish family farm in an isolated valley, believes she is the only survivor of nuclear war and nerve gas.”

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  • Cover of The Passage
    The PassageSeries

    series · 3 books · 2010

    About vampires.

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  • Cover of War Against the Chtorr
    War Against the ChtorrSeries

    series · 7 books · 1983

    About aliens and ecological collapse.

    “The Chtorr series was originally planned as a trilogy, but as the story became more intricate, Gerrold realized that three books would not be enough for him to tell the entire story.”

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    Start with A Matter for Men →

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