Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
Urgent and poignant, Road Out of Winter is a glimpse of an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged … Read more
Category Archives: Apocalyptic
Dreamtime, Venetia Welby
Venetia Welby’s exquisite and hallucinogenic Dreamtime (Quartet, April) is set in a near future in which we have lost the … Read more
Indie Corner – Peter Brennan
Back to the Indie Corner series Welcome to the third post in our new Indie Corner series. Today we talk … Read more
Fungoid, William Meikle
When the end came, it wasn’t zombies, asteroids, global warming or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a … Read more
Orleans, Sherri L. Smith
After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years … Read more
After the Flood, Kassandra Montag
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the … Read more
Rule of Capture, Christopher Brown
In 2017, Christopher Brown published his debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, a near-future thriller that explores how climate change and broken … Read more
Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
This is Wanderers, Chuck Wendig‘s (Star Wars: Aftermath, Blackbirds) epic new novel of a dark future that weaves everything from … Read more
The Glad Shout, Alice Robinson
After a catastrophic storm destroys Melbourne, Isobel flees to higher ground with her husband and young daughter. Food and supplies … Read more
Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become … Read more
The Migration, Helen Marshall
Marshall is painting on a large canvas here and her style is unabashedly baroque: the novel is characterized by a … Read more
Spliced Series, Jon McGoran
In this gripping sci-fi thriller, genetically altered teens fight for survival in a near-future society that is redefining what it … Read more
Shrinking Sinking Land, Kell Cowley
One week before the Global Mandatory Hibernation and Flea Wheeler will do anything to avoid a long winter underground. A … Read more
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as … Read more
When the English Fall, David Williams
Staying with the apocalyptic, David Williams’ When The English Fall is a quirky addition to the growing volume of novels … Read more