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1) Ventus
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Ventus is a large-scale Hard SF adventure novel in the tradition of Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, and Arthur C. Clarke. Karl Schroeder, a physicist and writer.
Young Jordan Mason, on the terraformed planet Ventus, has visions. Kidnapped by Calandria May-a human from offworld sent to investigate the AIs (the Winds) of Ventus-Jordan is desperate to find the meaning of his visions, desperate enough to risk calling down the Winds that destroy technology...
2) Omnifix
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Scott Mackay's gripping science fiction thriller asks how far humanity would go to survive -- if survival meant giving up their humanity Ten years ago, they attacked. Launching hundreds of weapons platforms throughout the Earth's solar system, the aliens used not fire or ordnance, but nanogens -- biological warfare unlike anything humankind had ever known. Ultimately, the aliens were finally beaten back ... but the dying had only...
Author
Publisher
FALL
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A century-and-more ago, while some people pondered the pinnacle that civilization had attained, others worried how it would come crashing down. Many of the era's best writers gave shape to those fears in wildly speculative stories that envisioned unthinkable fates and spectacular dooms for our planet and its people.
The End of the World collects twenty-one classic stories and poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the Earth's...
4) Pulse Point
Author
Publisher
Great Plains Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
For Kaia, setting foot outside can be deadly. Climate change has made Earth too dangerous for people to live anywhere but inside the City. Run on the energy created by its Citizens and sustainable in every way, the City uses microchips, called pulse points, to control the energy its inhabitants use.
When Kaia's pulse point malfunctions, she experiences freedom from the strict City rules for the first time in her life. With unlimited energy, she doesn't...
5) Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse; The Exile Book of Anthology Series, Number Nine
Series
Exile book of anthology volume number 9
Publisher
Exile Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We like to imagine the end. How we might survive. How we might live after the fateful moment that changes everything. That moment has arrived-welcome to Canada, after the apocalypse! Fractured is a collection of stories by more than 20 writers who imagine life after the end of days. The waters have risen around Vancouver, nuclear disasters have devastated the Prairies, a strange sickness has relocated the capital of the nation to Yellowknife, aliens...
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