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A pilot survives a pandemic that kills most of humanity and learns to live in the beautiful, dangerous emptiness of Colorado.
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The Guide
A grieving young fishing guide takes a job at an exclusive Colorado lodge during a pandemic, and while escorting a famous singer along the river he begins to notice what the lodge is hiding.
Station Eleven
A travelling Shakespeare company performs King Lear in the Great Lakes region twenty years after a flu pandemic wiped out civilisation.
The Painter
A painter and ex-convict retreats to the Colorado mountains, where art, fly-fishing, and a violent past collide.
I Am Legend
Robert Neville may be the last man alive in Los Angeles after a plague turned everyone else into vampires; by day he hunts them and searches for the cause, and by night he barricades himself in his house while they call for him to come out.
The 5th Wave
After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.
Wool
Thousands of people live in a vast underground silo, and the worst crime is asking to go outside, until Juliette, a mechanic from the deep levels, is made sheriff and starts asking why.
Ship Breaker
Nailer, a teenager on the drowned Gulf Coast, strips copper wiring from wrecked oil tankers for a scavenging crew. After a hurricane he finds a beached clipper ship with a rich girl alive in the wreckage, and has to decide whether to strip the ship and leave her or help her.
Zone One
A thoroughly average man works on a sweeper team clearing the last zombies from a walled-off Lower Manhattan as a provisional government tries to rebrand the apocalypse.
Borne
In a ruined city stalked by Mord, a giant flying bear, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small green creature caught in Mord's fur and takes it home, against the wishes of her partner, Wick, who deals in biotech that alters memory.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
In a radioactive, half-abandoned San Francisco, bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunts escaped androids who are almost indistinguishable from humans, while dreaming of owning a real animal.
The Day of the Triffids
Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched the previous night's green meteor shower has gone blind, and that the triffids, tall walking plants with poisonous stings, are loose.