Books like 'A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers'
Readers who enjoyed A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers by Victor LaValle, John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, A. Merc Rustad, Lizz Huerta, Maria Dahvana Headley, Malka Ann Older, Sam J. Miller, Tananarive Due, Ashok K. Banker, Omar El Akkad, Daniel José Older, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Justina Ireland, Violet Allen, Gabby Rivera, Tobias S. Buckell, Hugh Howey, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, N.K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Kai Cheng Thom, Daniel H. Wilson, Catherynne M. Valente, Seanan McGuire & Alice Sola Kim also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo
16 ratingsA hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S...Categorized as:
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![The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
38 ratingsA classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr... -
![The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway]()
The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway
25 ratingsThe Jorgmund Pipe is the backbone of the world, and it's on fire. Gonzo Lubitsch, professional hero and troubleshooter, is hired to put it out, but there's more to the fire, and the Pipe itself, than meets the eye. The job will take Gonzo and his best friend, our narrator, back to their own beginnings... -
![World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks]()
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
46 ratingsThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet... -
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![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:
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![Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling]()
Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling
24 ratingsThe Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white flash that rendered all electronic devices and fuels inoperable. What follows is the most terrible global catastrophe in the history of the human race-and a Dark Age more universal and complete than could possibly be imagined... -
![Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky]()
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
35 ratingsThe year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind... -
![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:
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Feed by Mira Grant
34 ratingsThe year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED...Categorized as:
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![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...Categorized as:
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![Countdown City by Ben H. Winters]()
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
24 ratingsThere are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Hank Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband... -
![City of Savages by Lee Kelly]()
City of Savages by Lee Kelly
14 ratingsIt has been nearly two decades since the breakout of the Third World War, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp ruled by island native Rolladin, who controls the city’s survivors with an iron fist. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city’s borders. But for Sky’s younger sister, Phee, the Central Park POW camp is the only home she’d ever want... -
![Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles]()
Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles
18 ratingsConspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 pm...Categorized as:
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![Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole]()
Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole
12 ratings“Rich in atmospheric details and rife with unexpected dangers…[a] refreshingly diverse cast of characters possess strong, sympathetic and magnetic personalities, ensuring that readers will be engaged with each step of their journey...Categorized as:
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![The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters]()
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
29 ratingsWhat’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields... -
![Moxyland by Lauren Beukes]()
Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
16 ratingsA new paperback edition of Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable that follows four narrators living in a dystopian near-future.Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid... -
![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:
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![Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins]()
Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins
50 ratingsThis Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin... -
![Rise: A Newsflesh Collection by Mira Grant]()
Rise: A Newsflesh Collection by Mira Grant
14 ratingsCollected here for the first time is every piece of short fiction from New York Times Bestseller Mira Grant's acclaimed Newsflesh series, with two new never-before-published novellas and all eight short works available for the first time in print.We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop... -
![Ex-Communication by Peter Clines]()
Ex-Communication by Peter Clines
19 ratings“All of us try to cheat death. I was just better prepared to do it than most folks.” In the years since the wave of living death swept the globe, St George and his fellow heroes haven’t just kept Los Angeles’ last humans alive—they’ve created a real community, a bustling town that’s spreading beyond its original walls and swelling with new refugees...Categorized as:
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![Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo]()
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo
18 ratings"The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn't give you the date and it didn't give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN... -
![Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines]()
Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines
19 ratingsGeorge Bailey is an ordinary guy, working the nine to five as a handyman and trying to make the best of the little he’s got. But when he sleeps, he dreams of fire and flying, of zombies and superheroes.When the two realities start to merge, George begins to question if e’s gone mad. That, or something has gone terribly wrong...The latest instalment in the Ex Series...Categorized as:
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![The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks]()
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
43 ratingsThe Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now... -
![Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez]()
Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
19 ratingsEmperor Mollusk.Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth.Not bad for a guy without a spine.But what's a villain to do after he's done . . . everything...Categorized as:
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