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New in September!

 

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Dystopian fans, get excited. September is going to be a great month for your genre of choice.

These 5 new books run the gamut of dystopian sub-genres -- there's climate fiction (Cli-Fi), zombie fiction, post-apocalyptic, post-pandemic and even a little extraterrestrial action. Get your holds on these upcoming titles, and enjoy!

1. One Year After by William R. Forstchen

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Arriving September 15

Fail Safe collides with Norman Rockwell in this fitfully entertaining novel about an America ripped apart at its seams. - Kirkus

New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen brings a sequel to his hit novel One Second After. Months before publication, One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at the dangers of EMPs. An EMP is a weapon with the power to destroy the entire United States in a single act of terrorism, in a single second. Now, One Year After returns to the small town of Black Mountain, and the man who struggled so hard to rebuild it in the wake of devastation-John Matherson. It is a thrilling follow-up and should delight fans in every way.

2. Loosed Upon the World, edited by John Joseph Adams

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Arriving September 15

Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, the first, definitive anthology of climate fiction--a cutting-edge genre made popular by Margaret Atwood. Is it the end of the world as we know it? Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is exploring the world we live in now--and in the very near future--as the effects of global warming become more evident. Join bestselling, award-winning writers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire and many others at the brink of tomorrow. Loosed Upon the World is so believable, it's frightening.

3. End Time by Keith Korman

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The complicated puzzle of a plot is pleasantly twisty, and the ending feels satisfyingly correct. - Publishers Weekly

What is happening to the country-and the planet? A government bio-lab experiment goes hideously wrong, infecting people with scientifically-programmed madness . . . Random kidnappings of women and girls proliferate throughout the land . . . Some people suddenly succumb to horrifically-virulent viruses while others become able to read minds . . . Mysteriously summoned to confront these frightening questions, three people are thrown together on a bizarre cross-country quest: Cheryl Gibson, an LA cop; Billy Howahkan, a Lakota Sioux with seeming supernatural gifts; and Bhakti Singh, a distinguished space scientist. This unlikely group must track down a pair of children with extraordinary powers, children who will determine humanity's fate-obliteration or salvation.

4. Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

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"The Girl with All the Gifts" is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin and Neil Gaiman."

While this one isn't brand new, it's still worth seeking out if you haven't already.

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl. Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, The Girl with All the Gifts is a powerful and affecting thriller.

5. Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

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"The book is packed with persuasive detail, luminous writing, and a grasp of the history needed to tell a story that is original yet familiar, strange yet all too believable." - Library Journal

Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. With the Central Valley barren, underground aquifer drained, and Sierra snowpack entirely depleted, most "Mojavs," prevented by both armed vigilantes and an indifferent bureaucracy from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to internment camps. Two young Mojavs--Luz, once a poster child for the Bureau of Conservation and its enemies, and Ray, a veteran of the "forever war" turned surfer--squat in a starlet's abandoned mansion. Holdouts, they subsist on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge and improvise. The couple's fragile love somehow blooms in this arid place, and for the moment, it seems enough. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, the thirst for a better future begins.

Bonus! Coming in October: She Came from Beyond by Nadine Darling

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"You don't have to be a sci-fi fan to enjoy Darling's darkly comic debut novel about love and families (and retro TV shows and obscure B movies) with characters who range from quirky to mentally unstable." - Library Journal

Esme "Easy" Hardwick, is the geek eye candy on a cable access show that's a cross between Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Elvira. She was raised in San Francisco by two gay dads, and although an inebriated Jim Nabors once told her that her mother was Adrienne Barbeau, her biological origins remain a mystery to her. Now on the cusp of thirty and a very minor celebrity in Troubador, Oregon, Easy is content with her quiet life in a go-nowhere town and her internet flirtations with ardent fans. But when Syfy picks up her show and her online message board repartee with one of her fans carries over into real life romance, complete with ex-wives, children, and unexpected pregnancy, things quickly spin out of control and she's forced into a reckoning with her past in order to embrace a future she never could have anticipated.

Looking for something more?

Catch up on the Fiction 5 archives, where you're sure to find your next favorite book.

 
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