Books like 'Yellowstone Hellfire'
Readers who enjoyed Yellowstone Hellfire by Bobby Akart also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
contemporary sc-fi action / adventure horror hard sci-fi apocalyptic post-apocalyptic survival dystopia disaster
-
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post
43 ratingsThis is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future... -
![Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey]()
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey
47 ratingsWe are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system... -
![Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey]()
Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
37 ratingsIn the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace...Categorized as:
dystopia post-apocalyptic suspense 21st-century action-adventure adult aliens audiobook -
![Exhalation by Ted Chiang]()
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
36 ratingsalternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereThe universe began as an enormous breath being held.From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others — the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival — comes a ground-breaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories...Categorized as:
dystopia 21st-century action-adventure adult ai aliens alternate-history anthologies -
-
![Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey]()
Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey
39 ratingsThe sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia post-apocalyptic suspense 21st-century action-adventure adult aliens -
![Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez]()
Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez
28 ratingsThe propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period."**William O'Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order... -
![Dust by Hugh Howey]()
Dust by Hugh Howey
38 ratingsWool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. The residents of Silo 18 have a new mayor and the chance of a new beginning. But just as they regain their footing, their gravest threat emerges: Silo 1, and the men who brought Earth into ruin. But power, politics, and the survival of the human race are complex... -
![Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey]()
Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey
46 ratingsAbaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark... -
![Hyperion by Dan Simmons]()
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
45 ratingsOn the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all... -
![Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
40 ratingsA race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia post-apocalyptic survival 21st-century action-adventure adult ai -
![Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey]()
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
50 ratingsHumanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted... -
![Daemon by Daniel Suarez]()
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
33 ratingsA high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire... -
![Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey]()
Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey
45 ratingsThe fourth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse seriesThe gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world... -
![2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke]()
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
46 ratingsOn the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end... -
-
![Yellowstone Inferno by Bobby Akart]()
Yellowstone Inferno by Bobby Akart
12 ratingsCivilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.The land beneath Yellowstone's caldera is hot.Huffing and puffing. Moving, stretching and bulging.Everything has a boiling point. Yellowstone has reached the point of no return...Categorized as:
apocalyptic disaster dystopia post-apocalyptic survival suspense action-adventure adult -
![The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons]()
The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons
32 ratingsThe time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples... -
![Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
18 ratingsMy name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy caliber weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instill fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war... -
![Beyond Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #2-4) by Orson Scott Card]()
Beyond Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #2-4) by Orson Scott Card
14 ratingsBeyond Ender Boxed SetContains three mass market novels from Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the MindSpeaker for the Dead:In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War... -
![Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds]()
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
26 ratingsThe once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only the most wretched sort of existence remains...Categorized as:
dystopia post-apocalyptic 21st-century action-adventure adult aliens audiobook biopunk -
![Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
27 ratingsThe astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth... -
![Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton]()
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
52 ratingsAn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . -
![False Gods by Graham McNeill]()
False Gods by Graham McNeill
25 ratingsThe human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by the conquering armies of mankind... -
![Pandemic by A.G. Riddle]()
Pandemic by A.G. Riddle
26 ratingsAround the world, a deadly outbreak spreads.The CDC and WHO race to stop it, but they soon learn that this pandemic hides a dark secret. It may be the start of a scientific experiment that could alter the human race forever--and reveal a shocking truth about our future.Experience the groundbreaking novel that will change everything you think you know about pandemics--and how to survive one...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia post-apocalyptic survival suspense action-adventure audiobook book -
![Nightfall by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg]()
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
29 ratingsIn 1941, Astounding Science Fiction magazine published a short story by a little-known writer named Isaac Asimov. The story was called "Nightfall", and many years later it has long been recognized as a classic, its author a legend...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia post-apocalyptic 20th-century action-adventure adult aliens anthologies -
-
![Solaris by Stanisław Lem]()
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
40 ratingsA classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover... -
![Outland by Dennis E. Taylor]()
Outland by Dennis E. Taylor
19 ratingsWhen the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six college students and their experimental physics project to prevent the end of civilization. When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Bill Rustad and his friends find that they have accidentally created an inter-dimensional portal...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia post-apocalyptic survival suspense action-adventure adult alternate-history -
![Colony Two Mars by Gerald M. Kilby]()
Colony Two Mars by Gerald M. Kilby
14 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The sole survivor of the ill-fated ISA mission is now stranded on Mars. Having been designated a bio-hazard by Earth, any hope of returning home is all but gone. She is alone, isolated, and abandoned. That is, until another human shows up in the main colony airlock...Categorized as:
survival 21st-century action-adventure adult audiobook book colonization contemporary -
![Freezing Point by Grace Hamilton]()
Freezing Point by Grace Hamilton
6 ratingsIn the dawn of a new Ice Age, families everywhere are taking to the road to escape the frigid landscape—but you can’t outrun the cold. No one could have predicted the terrifying impact of human interference in the Arctic. Shifts in the Earth's crust have led to catastrophe and now the North Pole is located in the mid-Atlantic, making much of the eastern United States an unlivable polar hellscape... -
![Whalefall by Daniel Kraus]()
Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
14 ratingsWhalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach... -
![The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
18 ratingsLee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate...Categorized as:
dystopia 21st-century action-adventure adult aliens alternate-history alternate-universe audiobook -
![Blindsight by Peter Watts]()
Blindsight by Peter Watts
30 ratingsIt's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us... -
![The Dispatcher by John Scalzi]()
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
30 ratingsOne day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life... -
![Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds]()
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
32 ratingsNine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity... -
![The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton]()
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
43 ratingsThe United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study...Categorized as:
apocalyptic disaster dystopia post-apocalyptic suspense 20th-century action-adventure adult -
-
![Transition by Iain M. Banks]()
Transition by Iain M. Banks
20 ratingsThere is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light...Categorized as:
dystopia suspense 21st-century action-adventure adult alternate-history audiobook book -
![Embassytown by China Miéville]()
Embassytown by China Miéville
26 ratingsIn the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak.Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure... -
![The Fold by Peter Clines]()
The Fold by Peter Clines
26 ratingsSTEP INTO THE FOLD. IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence... -
![Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks]()
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
43 ratings"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender... -
![Infected by Scott Sigler]()
Infected by Scott Sigler
26 ratingsAcross America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim...Categorized as:
apocalyptic dystopia post-apocalyptic survival suspense action-adventure aliens audiobook -
![CyberStorm by Matthew Mather]()
CyberStorm by Matthew Mather
26 ratingsSometimes the worst storms aren't caused by Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren't in the ones in our heads...Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters start appearing on the world’s news networks...Categorized as:
apocalyptic disaster dystopia post-apocalyptic survival suspense action-adventure adult -
![Rosewater by Tade Thompson]()
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
24 ratingsTade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices.Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless—people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers...Categorized as:
dystopia post-apocalyptic 21st-century action-adventure adult afrofuturism aliens alternate-history -
![The Genius Plague by David Walton]()
The Genius Plague by David Walton
16 ratingsIn this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors. Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker in the NSA when his brother, Paul, a mycologist, goes missing on a trip to collect samples in the Amazon jungle...Categorized as:
apocalyptic disaster dystopia post-apocalyptic suspense action-adventure adult audiobook -
![Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes by Sakyo Komatsu]()
Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes by Sakyo Komatsu
8 ratingsA solitary fishing boat anchors for the night by a small island to the south of Japan. The next morning, the fishermen find themselves in the middle of an empty sea. Overnight, the island has vanished without a trace. The Japanese weather service sends a vessel to investigate. They find convincing evidence of a horrifying geological change...Categorized as:
disaster dystopia post-apocalyptic action-adventure adult book classics contemporary -
![Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear]()
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
24 ratingsMolecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life--has become a chilling reality. The shocking evidence: a "virus-hunter" has tracked down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring... -
-
![Zeroes by Chuck Wendig]()
Zeroes by Chuck Wendig
18 ratingsFive hackers—an Anonymous-style rabble-rouser, an Arab Spring hacktivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll—are detained by the U.S. government, forced to work as white-hat hackers for Uncle Sam in order to avoid federal prison... -
![Fall or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson]()
Fall or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
25 ratingsThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire...Categorized as:
dystopia 21st-century action-adventure adult afterlife ai alternate-history audiobook -
![The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody]()
The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody
10 ratingsMontese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror classic, "The Crawling Hand... -
![vN by Madeline Ashby]()
vN by Madeline Ashby
17 ratingsAmy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive... -
![The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton]()
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
26 ratingsHarry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people.Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit at University Hospital in Los Angeles, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure called Stage Three...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
