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: Post-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
The Swimmers, Marian Womack
A claustrophobic, literary dystopia set in the hot, luscious landscape of Andalusia from the author of The Golden Key. After … 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
A Diary in the Age of Water, Nina Munteanu
Reviewed by Mary Woodbury Nina Munteanu’s newest novel, A Diary in the Age of Water, deftly follows four generations of … Read more
The Bear, Andrew Krivak
In this arresting, exquisite novel, time acquires a new quality. When human civilization is over and there’s no hope left … 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
Dead Astronauts, Jeff VanderMeer
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted … Read more
Remember Tomorrow, Amanda Saint
A dystopian future that echoes the present times. A reflection of society in a stark, unforgiving mirror. Unsettling, honest and … Read more
The Philodendrist Heresy, Interview with Jed Brody
About The Philodendrist Heresey Danielle Gasket’s search for ancestral secrets is imperiled by warring factions that agree about nothing but … 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
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