Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic

When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth for the next two hundred years. This fictional 'account of the future' (similar to LAST AND FIRST MEN by...

A magnificent reworking of the Sleeping Beauty story by a master storytellerOn her 16th birthday, the princess Beauty sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse - only to be kidnapped by visitors from another...

In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense. Those who have undergone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546621621Author M P McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998653365Author Jacqueline BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Falling Dusk PublishingPublisher Falling Dusk PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122164Author Katie M FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Gallery/Scout PressPublisher Gallery/Scout PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765357151Author Richard MathesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Doherty (Tom) Associates,U.S.Publisher Doherty (Tom) Associates,U.S.

A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds...A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder...Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future...In a future scarred by fracking and ecological...

A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells'Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naive suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are...

In a lonely valley, deep in the mountains, a ranger watches over the last surviving grizzly bear. With the natural world exhausted and in tatters, Ben has dedicated himself to protecting this single fragment of the wild. One night,...

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another's personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345484109Author Terry BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

A novel of dystopian future in the tradition of SOYLENT GREEN and H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE, with an introduction by Ken MacLeodTinker was a good citizen of the Hive - a model worker. But when he was allowed sexual activation he found Mu Ren who, like...

It's late in the 21st century and bioengineering is now so common that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. Now you...

Children think we make them, but we don't ... They come into the world and make us. They make us by breaking us first. 'Moving ... refreshingly original' Guardian 'Utterly gripping' Karin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983268076Author Gj StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

You know about me. I'm Rico Dredd, Joe Dredd's big brother.I'm the clone that went bad, that brought shame on Judge Fargo's legacy.I was the very best the Academy of Law ever turned out. But after less than a year on the streets of Mega-City One, I was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538753729Author Octavia E ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

United States of America, 2033 A.D.In a time of widespread poverty, inequality and political unrest, Special Prosecutor Eustace Fargo's controversial new justice laws have come into effect.Protests and violence meet the first Judges as they hit the...

A mind-blowing anthology of 18 stories bringing you the infinite Earths of the multiverse. Featuring Alix E. Harrow, Clive Barker, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Annallee Newitz, Alastair Reynolds and more. Imagine infinite Earths, an endless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372549Author David R. BunchFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

An epic tale for fans of Justin Cronin, THE HUNGER GAMES and Cormac McCarthy. The final part in the PURE trilogy.Partridge has escaped the safety of his father's empire and left the Dome, where his people - the Pures - have sheltered for so long. He has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446676106Author Octavia E. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Warner BooksPublisher Little, Brown & Company

In an intimate portrayal of high-concept big ideas, can we engineer ourselves out of a problem of our own making?Set against the backdrop of rapidly escalating climate catastrophe, scientists Kate Larkin and Jay Gunesekera are recruited by tech...

Every time Zax Delatree falls asleep, he travels to a new reality. He has no control over his destination and never knows what he will see when he opens his eyes. Sometimes he wakes up in technological utopias, and other times in the bombed-out ruins of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179437Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Hordes of zombies threaten to wipe out all of mankind in this first action-horror novel set in the exciting (yet horrifying) world of the Zombicide games.The zombie apocalypse has driven humanity up into the Adirondacks. Enter Westlake, hardened career...

In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in domestic bliss. Though they hardly know each other, everything seems to be going perfectly - from the home they're building together to...

From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divides them. Get one - or get left behind. Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when David comes home from school...

Quite simply the best book about a whale since Moby Dick. The Idiot Gods is an epic tale of a quest for a new way of life on earth, told by an orca. David Zindell returns to the grand themes of Neverness...

'Move over King, Chuck Wendig is the new voice of modern American horror' Adam Christopher__________________________________________________________________________The thrilling sequel to the bestselling Wanderers, a 'career-defining epic [that] deserves...

The Zombie Combat Manual is a comprehensive guide that demonstrates how anyone, from seasoned fighter to average citizen, can become an effective warrior in the inevitable battle against the undead. With detailed illustrations and firsthand accounts from...

WINNER OF THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD The baker's dozen stories gathered here turn readers into travellers to the past and the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology,...

'In A Song for a New Day, liberty and creative endeavour are compromised by political and socioeconomic reality. Pinsker presents a frighteningly real near-future US [and] movingly charts Rosemary's coming-of-age story as her world and Luce's collide'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316547604Author Naomi AldermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 140mm...

Young Forktongue Davy has visions; epilepsy, his Ma calls it. He's barely able to help around the family farm. But something about the lad is attracting attention: the menacing stranger who might be the angel of death himself; the women-only community at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415935Author Premee MohamedFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

There are 22 candidates. There are 12 seats.The last interstellar colony ship is down to its final batch of humans after the robots in charge unhelpfully deleted the rest. But rebooting a species and training them for the arduous task of colonisation...