Category: Apocalyptic
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Review – Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Amanda Hocking Publication date: 6 Oct 2010 ISBN13: 9781453860953 First Line – “This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and…
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Review – Darkness Falling by Peter Crowther
Darkness Falling (Forever Twilight – #1) By Peter Crowther Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Angry Robot Publication date(first UK): 6 Oct 2011 ISBN: 978 0 85766 168 5 Synopsis taken from Angry Robot: It was a typical all-American backwater – until the night the monsters came. When four employees of KMRT Radio investigate an unearthly light…
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Review – THOSE THAT WAKE by Jesse Karp
Hardcover ; 336 pages Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: 03/21/2011ISBN-13- 9780547553115 New York City’s spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from one another and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this reality. They’ve never met. Seemingly, they never…
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Dystopia Reading CHallenge 2011
I’ve got my paranormal and time travel challenges for 2011 sorted, but wanted to find an apocalyptic challenge somewhere too… The closest I could find was the Dystopian challenge hosted by bareadingchallenges and it’s close enough. I might have to just challenge myself to get some of the ‘end of the world/last man standing’ stuff…
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Idlewild – Nick Sagan
From a bold new talent comes a smart, stylish near-future thriller that fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of Minority Report. Set in the day after tomorrow, Idlewild opens as a young man awakes with amnesia: He cannot remember who he is and doesn’t recognize anything around him-all he…
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Year Zero – Jeff Long
An archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land — a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, a young American field researcher and expectant father, the line between noble discovery and the plunder of ruins is sacred — until the night he crosses it. At a Roman landfill beneath the crucifixion grounds…
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A Brief History Of The Dead – Kevin Brockmeier
‘Remember me when I’m gone’ just took on a whole new meaning …Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends found themselves alone in one of the coldest, most remote places on earth. Her friends set out in search of help, and now Laura realises that they are not coming back.…
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I Spied A Pale Horse – Mark Timlin
As the new millennium approaches, it is the end of the world for John in more senses than one, for his wife and child are dead, and society lies in ruins as a plague devastates the world. When a pregnant young girl enters his life, he finds he has more to fight for than he…
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One – Conrad Williams
This is the United Kingdom, but it’s no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a…
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The Quiet Place – Richard Maynard
Set in the future, this story concerns a group of astronauts who return to Earth after what they believe is 60 years. They do in fact arrive centuries after they set off, to a land of savage hunting tribes whose only link with the lost culture is a crude version of former language. ——————————— I…