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1) Cactus Land
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The unease of a world unraveling is the essence of our time and of Cactus Land. In an unknown country plagued by vague wars and illusory terror, six people grapple with truth, love, and the end of time as we know it.
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This near-term novella is fiction today, but...What if a weaponized virus escapes the lab after mutating and the cure no longer works. Suppose it mutates again while infecting the initial victims, goes dormant if the victim -recovers, and returns to be contagious again before killing the weakened host.'After the Virus Apocalypse' is a novella ripped from today's headlines.
3) Factions
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When a seated American president does the unthinkable to ensure reelection, his decision turns into unexpected damage.
Twenty years later, three teams are sent from different parts of the country to deal with the ramifications of his decision.
Their travels will bring them closer amidst ever-present danger and determine if a divided nation can draw back together.
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A 3 book, Steampunk/Cyberpunk, box set with a strong female protagonist flying high above, the chaos of a post-apocalyptic world.
I Will Breathe
The year is 2836, eight hundred years since The Great War. Liberty has grown up in this post-apocalyptic climate. Her home is an airship built by her adopted father. It has been five-years since, his death and each day is just another day of trying to survive in a hostile environment. That is until a dying...
5) Her Alias
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Would you abandon your husband and daughter to live with your enemy, if it kept your loved ones safe?
Not that she had much choice, since Jem threatened to kill her if she refused.
But living in the house of the most powerful alien in the City meant her death too, if he ever discovered her true identity. In spite of the constant edge of her existence, she enjoys tremendous luxury living with High Commissioner A'nden. She is able to keep Jem at bay,...
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The Great War had decimated the world, killing millions and wiping out all the modern technologies of that time. After many of the survivors had died from starvation and thirst, the few remaining figured out by trial and error that if they were going to survive they needed rules.
Over eight hundred years later, nature's resources are slowly recovering, but the population has dwindled to only a handful of people. Most are suspicious and quite content...
7) One
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What if you never knew your parents?What if population control was the only way a society could survive?What if it was all a lie...?
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He believes he has nothing to lose. Upon his retirement from Missoula County in Montana, he sells everything and moves to Florida with the goal of stopping Kahn, no matter what it takes. After working his way into the inner circle of Kahn's campaign, Whitmore's health begins to rapidly deteriorate and his resolve to rid the world of the cancer that is Kahn wanes. But in his time in the campaign, Whitmore learns he isn't the only one hoping Kahn will...
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2074. Following the Israel/Iran nuclear war of 2035 a biblical flood of Muslim people moved westwards and overwhelmed central Europe. Natural disasters, non-natural disasters, conflicts and finally plague destroyed most of the world's population. What was once England escaped the main ravages and is now separated into two de facto states: the Muslim "United Kings' Caliphate" of 7 million in the north, and the Christian "New Anglia" of 5 million in...
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Thais Fenwick was eleven years old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off most of the world's population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. But when raiders attack her town, she and her blind sister are taken away to the East-Central Territory, destined to live the cruel and unjust kind of life about which her late mother warned her. Atticus...
11) Fort
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CIVILIZATION HAS FALLEN…The GAG Virus has infected most of humanity, stripping the consciousness from the host body and transforming innocent people into belligerent Ghosts and rabid Ghouls.BUT ONE GIRL DOESN'T KNOW…Near the remains of Cleveland, Ohio, Abbey's father has managed her agoraphobia and kept her safe from the apocalypse for four years by maintaining a fragile refuge of fantasy and denial…an elaborate blanket fort spanning the upper...
12) The Erased
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You've been imprisoned by a shadowy government project and your identity has been erased; the only question is why. Welcome Home.In a dystopian society where severe laws are in place to regulate the media you're allowed to view, anyone and anything can be erased. Most people get their information and entertainment from the Knowledgebase -- a computer network dubbed the "sum total of human knowledge." But forces are at work to edit and shape the Knowledgebase...
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Leaders who rely on war and fear. The men and women who refuse to accept a tyrannical government. And an unreliable means of time travel in which most people don't survive. Welcome to the nightmarish future of The Theta Timeline, where '1984' meets 'Slaughterhouse-Five.'Freedom was not stolen overnight, but gradually chipped away through a campaign of war and terror. People were told new laws and restrictions were for their own good. But the reality...
14) Pet
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In the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that sets the world ablaze, Caleb and Nivitha find themselves thrown into a harsh, unforgiving new reality. They must face their fears, adapt to the dangers of their environment, and decide whether to trust others or isolate themselves. Caleb, social by nature, quickly makes a new group of friends among the survivors.Nivitha, determined to protect her younger sister Asha, guards herself against the remaining...
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Isn't Mars going to get crowded with all of the colonists who are lining up to go there? Why not head to another, even nearer planet -- a friendlier planet for human life -- Venus! Yes, I know about how bad conditions on its surface are. I was as disappointed as you were with the information that the first Russian and American probes sent back from the earth's sister planet back in the '60's. No Edgar Rice Burroughs princesses and swordsmen for us!...
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The end of man was not signaled by marauding gangs or explosions, but with silence. People simply grew older knowing a younger generation would not be there to replace them. The final two residents in the neighborhood of Camelot, an old man and his invalid brother, are trapped in their house by forests full of cats and dogs battling with the bears and wolves to eat anything they can find. As the man struggles to survive, he recounts all the ways society...
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God has gone missing, and not simply between the sheets of the mortal residents of Perido. With little recourse, the rival religious groups, the church of Iron and chapel of steam, do the unthinkable and hire a firm of necromancers to track their missing diety. Enter Emma Elric, apprentice to Lyceum, and new-hire to Abelworth, Cain, and Lyceum. Eager to impress her boss, Emma will do whatever it takes, including selling parts of what make her up....
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After the effects of the ultimate weapon, all advanced life in the galaxy has been eradicated. But some have escaped, taken refuge. It seems there is nothing left for the enemy to take. And yet they approach, apparently denuded of their previous capabilities and too far away to present an immediate threat. Apparently.Toramin has lived longer than anyone on his world. Too long, he believes, as age seems finally to be taking its toll. Not that death...
19) Disobedience
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Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But desire and rebellion flare, and soon Shael escapes to Riverwish, a settlement attempting to forge a new way of living that counters the camp's repression.
As the complexities of this...
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As the human population continues to decline, most people travel south to maintain a semblance of the life they know. Entire cities are abandoned. But following a senseless act of violence, one man travels north, toward forgotten lands. Is it possible for a loving husband and father, surrounded by reminders of mankind's impending extinction, to reclaim what he lost?A DIFFERENT ALCHEMY is the tale of a man realizing that everyone has their own pain...
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