Suspense/Thriller

The Socrates Project, Daron Sheehan

The Socrates Project is a secret attempt by the United Nations to avert the predicted collapse of our civilisations. Simon Oceandis heads up the sicads, who must blend modern science and ancient wisdom to find the solutions before time runs out. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Buy on Amazon

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Arctic Drift, Clive Cussler

A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming…a series of unexplained deaths in British Columbia…a rash of international incidents between the United States and a longtime ally that threatens to erupt into a shooting war. NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, know there’s a connection—but […]

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A Being Darkly Wise, John Atcheson

After answering a newspaper ad, Pete Anderson encounters Jake Christianson, a physicist, a former Navy SEAL, and a disciple of Lynx, one of the last of the Dunne-za Indians. After three months of training, Pete finds himself and eleven others plunged into a Neolithic paradise. But as Jake reveals that […]

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Primitive, Mark Nykanen

A “neo-primitive” cult kidnaps a famous fashion model and holds her hostage, forcing her to act as their spokesperson. As time runs out her estranged daughter allies with a dangerous activist group to rescue her, while battling dark agendas from the government and Big Oil. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads […]

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The Drowned Cities, Paolo Bacigalupi

In a dark future America where violence, terror, and grief touch everyone, young refugees Mahlia and Mouse have managed to leave behind the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities by escaping into the jungle outskirts. But when they discover a wounded half-man–a bioengineered war beast named Tool–who is being hunted […]

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Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi

In America’s Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota–and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached […]

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The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

What Happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits, when said bio-terrorism’s genetic drift forces mankind to the cusp of post-human evolution? Award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers one of the most highly acclaimed science fiction novels of the twenty-first century. Goodreads Reviews Back […]

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Sixty Days and Counting, Kim Stanley Robinson

By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a […]

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Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson

Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers–and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation’s capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology, and the consequences of global warming–which could trigger […]

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Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson

When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That […]

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Solar, Ian McEwan

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Michael’s personal and professional lives begin to intersect in unexpected ways, an opportunity presents itself in the guise of an invitation to travel to New Mexico. Here is a chance for him to extricate himself from […]

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Odds Against Tomorrow, Nathaniel Rich

New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most […]

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The Healer, Antti Tuomainen

It’s two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling a ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned vehicles are left burning in the streets; the authorities have issued warnings about malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola, and the plague. People are fleeing to the far north of Finland and Norway where conditions […]

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Far North, Marcel Theroux

Far North takes the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity’s origins to its possible end. Haunting, spare, yet stubbornly hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world’s fragility and beauty, and its ability to recover from our worst trespasses. Out on the […]

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Water’s Edge, Rachel Meehan

With their own water and power supplies, fourteen year old Nairne and her family are well prepared, but most people are less fortunate. When Nairne persuades her father, Daniel, to house some of the evacuees on their small holding in the south of Scotland she plunges the family into a […]

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