Dystopian

Protocol 9 Agent's Motto: "We come when called, serve in silence, and fall for those we may never know." When a viral outbreak turns most of the population into violent, animalistic predators, the agents are activated. Their mission: to navigate the chaos, stop the enemy behind the virus, and...

Set in a future that grows more plausible by the day, Stranger Beauty asks what traces will remain after a life has ended. There are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. Stranger Beauty is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. The architecture of the novel is not a stunt.

Beth Wild was born as a Subterranean and after almost dying in a fire set by raiders from the skyscrapers, she joins the resistance movement. Now fleeing the Celestial authorities with her team of freedom fighters, Beth is strapped into a SkyBird escape vessel and hurtles to the ground. There...

Narrated by Nolan North—featuring a special guest appearance from MrBeast. "You are someone who will look the impossible in the face and tell it to sit down and shut up. The world needs that. The world needs you.” A thousand strangers receive the invitation. One hundred make the cut. An...

Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, with the latest in services and facilities for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, overlooking the luxurious French Riviera, the residents lack nothing. Yet one day Dr. Greenwood from Eden-Olympia's clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and she and her husband, Paul, are given Dr. Greenwood's house as a residence.

We only bow to the God of War In a citadel always at war, the strongest warriors rule. Ellie is nobody – a lowly apprentice with faded, half-useless magic. Survival is her only goal. Until Stella, the citadel’s all-seeing governor, starts singling Ellie out for special attention: secret...

Cal Ransom is done playing detective. He has a ship to run, a crew to protect, and a corporation that would love to see him disappear. But after Aralx, the repossessions don't look like bad luck anymore. They look like a plan. And the one place that might prove it is the one place Cal swore he...

A deadly island. A brutal regime. A forbidden attraction that could destroy them both. Briar Hollis would rather die fighting than live kneeling—and New America's brutal regime is about to grant her wish. Condemned for refusing to breed the next generation of their twisted society, she's given...

A deadly infection spreads across Europe. The Undead series: a terrifying account of one man desperately struggling to survive this harrowing event day by day. At Tower Bridge, Howie, Dave, and their group of survivors take stock of the previous day's battle. After an initial confrontation...

It's a year after a suspected EMP attack on their country. A small group of senior citizens in Happy Valley—a large retirement community in South Carolina’s Low Country—realize that their situation is becoming more and more desperate. They must leave if they are to survive, but where to go?...

Bright Haven is my flock and I am their Blessed Lamb. Under the guidance of our Father, I lead our congregation for the glory of the Lord. Seeking salvation from the rot that has set in across the country, we cleanse those who sin against us in the red rains, offering them a chance at God's...

Bloomsbury presents The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, ready by Luke R. Francis An apocalyptic novel about belief, religion, and the power of myth that blends the gripping, end-of-the-world storytelling of The Passage with the biting wit and epic queer romance that makes Natasha Pulley’s books...

A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland. “This remarkable book contains multitudes. With wide-ranging intelligence and his trademark wit, Kurt Andersen has written...

One unemployed factory worker has nothing left to lose. Paris is in danger! When Pierre, a desperate laborer cast aside by society, decides to poison the city's water supply with a deadly plague, he sets in motion a disaster that no government, army, or scientist can contain. As disease tears...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Here is the audio-tailored description for Before The Silence by Izzy Bond, formatted specifically for audiobook platforms (Author's Republic, Audible, Apple Books) and kept under the 2,000-character limit (1,850 characters): Before the law, there was...