Atwood, Margaret
Buxton, Kira Jane
Sensing something is wrong with his owner, a domesticated crow abandons the only life he ever knew to discover that humans are turning into zombies and must use knowledge gleaned from his TV-viewing to save them.
Carey, M.R.
After being banished from the walled village of Mythen Rood for stealing old tech, Koli navigates the wilderness of the outside world with help from a quirky artificial intelligence named Monano.
Chen, Mike
Four survivors try to rebuild their personal lives six years after a global pandemic brings about a literal apocalypse.
Cline, Ernest
A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. Read by Wil Weaton.
DiFrancesco, Alex
In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. Makayla is a twenty-four-year-old woman who works at the convenience store chain that’s taken over the city. Jesse, an eighteen-year-old, genderqueer, anarchist punk lives in an abandoned IRT station in the Bronx. Their paths cross in the aftermath of the storm when they, along with others devastated by the loss of their homes, carve out a small sanctuary in an abandoned luxury condo. In an attempt to bring hope to those who feel forsaken, an unnamed, mysterious street artist begins graffitiing colorful murals along the sides of buildings. But the castaways of the storm aren’t the only ones who find beauty in the art. When the media begins broadcasting the emergence of the murals and one appears on the building Makayla, Jesse, and their friends are living in, it is only a matter of time before those who own the building come back to claim what is theirs. All City is more than a novel, it’s a foreshadowing of the world to come.
Eggers, Dave
Eisele, Kimi
The Lightest Object in the Universe
In a powerless world after a global economy collapse, an East Coast man desperate to reunite with the woman he loves encounters a menagerie of lost souls, opportunists and would-be rebuilders on a cross-country railroad journey.
Hart, Brian
In a near-future America where limited resources are controlled by violent separatist militias, a man undertakes a perilous bicycle journey to Alaska to return his wife’s ashes to their only surviving family members.
Hart, Rob
A darkly satirical thriller set in a near-future America wracked by violence, unemployment, and climate change finds two employees of a world-saving global giant discovering their employers’ true agenda.
Jameson, Hanna
Fearing she may be the last of her kind, Byx sets off to find a safe haven and to see if the legends of hidden dairnes are true.
Jen, Gish
Enduring life on the margins in a near-future world ruthlessly divided between the employed and unemployed, a once-professional couple give birth to an athletically gifted child, whose attention by the government compels her mother to challenge society’s foundations.
Kling, Marc-Uwe
Lanchester, John
When the island nation of an Earth-like world builds a concrete barrier around its entire coastline, a Defender charged with protecting his section of the Wall from desperate Others trapped outside begins questioning the political divides of his insular existence.
Maughan, Tim
When an act of anonymous cyberterrorism switches off the Internet, the once creative commune, the Croft, turns into a black market and urban farm where Mary attempts to stay alive.
Ogawa, Yoko
An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who once existed.
Pinsker, Sarah
After a global pandemic makes public gatherings illegal and concerts impossible, except for those willing to break the law for the love of music; and for one chance at human connection.
Ruta, Domenica
When her sister is murdered amid the theft of a valuable painting, an eerie echo of their mother’s murder 20 years earlier, pilot Beth teams up with the case’s original detective and childhood friends to identify a killer.
Winters, Ben H.
A veteran of the Speculative Service in an alternate-world California where the law and truth are valued above all else uses his rare authority to question the facts when truth enforcement is manipulated for corrupt purposes.
Zeh, Juli