Category

Science Fiction: Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic

The Black Orb
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit… One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine...
Dawn

Dawn 2021

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent alien race—intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying,...
Edge

Edge 2012

Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a...
The Herald

The Herald 2013

There were no air raid sirens. No missiles or bombs. No mushroom clouds. No panic in the streets. The end, when it came, was like nothing we ever expected. First hit was a small Gulf Coast city. Seventy thousand dead, just like that. Then Rome. Flags toppled and nations crumbled, as people began...
HUXLEY

HUXLEY 2025

HUXLEY's original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm, forever changing the landscape of graphic novels. But that was just the beginning. Ben Mauro's epic, decade-long franchise quickly grew with prequels that dive deeper into the universe's deep lore and rich history. The...
All the Beastly Things
The year is 2171, and the Earth is not what it once was. The natural world reigns supreme, wild and ungovernable, after a series of wasting plagues and unmitigated climate disasters, the twin coups of fascism and AI, and a final, catastrophic nuclear fallout. Small monastic communities have emerged...
All We Have Left
The world might not have ended all at once. But end it did. Kayla Hollins is a survivor. Living in the fragmented wasteland of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, she’s outlived a colony, a cult, a paramilitary group, and most of her family. So when her younger sister April falls seriously ill, Kayla...
Ammonite

Ammonite 2002

Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit...
The Power

The Power 2017

In *The Power*, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and...
Arboreality
A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s...
The Road

The Road 2006

In a bleak, ash-covered world where civilization has collapsed, a father and his young son travel south along a desolate road, searching for warmth, safety, and any sign of life. The cause of the devastation is unknown, but its effects are absolute: cities lie in ruins, food is scarce, and danger...
Spin

Spin 2006

Spin, Book 1
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big...
Vortex

Vortex 2012

Spin, Book 3
Centuries after the events that reshaped humanity’s place in the cosmos, a young man named Turk Findley finds himself at the center of a mystery that stretches across time and space. Living on a distant colony world, Turk is plagued by fragments of memories that are not his own—echoes of another...
We Were Forbidden
In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest. She and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their eternal march through its strange depths. Attending a rigid French school in 1940s Casablanca, a teenage girl is barred from ever questioning...
What We Can Know
2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, "A Corona for Vivien." Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal is consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit...
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
As the world collapses under the weight of environmental disaster and societal breakdown, a small group of survivors retreats to an isolated valley, determined to preserve humanity at any cost. Their solution is radical: cloning. Free from disease, war, and the unpredictability of natural...
Axis

Axis 2008

Spin, Book 2
Decades after the mysterious barrier known as the Spin transformed Earth’s relationship with the universe, humanity has begun to adapt—but the answers it uncovered have only deepened the mystery. As the effects of the Spin ripple across the solar system, new worlds become reachable, offering both...
A Canticle for Leibowitz
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine...
All the Beastly Things

All the Beastly Things November 17, 2026

The year is 2171, and the Earth is not what it once was. The natural world reigns supreme, wild and ungovernable, after a series of wasting plagues and unmitigated climate disasters, the twin coups of fascism and AI, and a final, catastrophic nuclear fallout. Small monastic communities have emerged...
We Were Forbidden

We Were Forbidden July 7, 2026

In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest. She and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their eternal march through its strange depths. Attending a rigid French school in 1940s Casablanca, a teenage girl is barred from ever questioning...
All We Have Left

All We Have Left June 30, 2026

The world might not have ended all at once. But end it did. Kayla Hollins is a survivor. Living in the fragmented wasteland of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, she’s outlived a colony, a cult, a paramilitary group, and most of her family. So when her younger sister April falls seriously ill, Kayla...
What We Can Know

What We Can Know June 16, 2026

2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, "A Corona for Vivien." Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal is consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit...
HUXLEY

HUXLEY December 2, 2025

HUXLEY's original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm, forever changing the landscape of graphic novels. But that was just the beginning. Ben Mauro's epic, decade-long franchise quickly grew with prequels that dive deeper into the universe's deep lore and rich history. The...
The Black Orb

The Black Orb February 4, 2025

The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit… One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside...
Arboreality

Arboreality September 29, 2022

A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a violin for a child prodigy. Campbell’s...
Dawn

Dawn April 27, 2021

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent alien race—intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying,...
The Power

The Power October 10, 2017

In *The Power*, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and...
The Herald

The Herald September 25, 2013

There were no air raid sirens. No missiles or bombs. No mushroom clouds. No panic in the streets. The end, when it came, was like nothing we ever expected. First hit was a small Gulf Coast city. Seventy thousand dead, just like that. Then Rome. Flags toppled and nations crumbled, as people began...
Edge

Edge June 26, 2012

Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a...
Vortex

Vortex February 28, 2012

Spin, Book 3
Centuries after the events that reshaped humanity’s place in the cosmos, a young man named Turk Findley finds himself at the center of a mystery that stretches across time and space. Living on a distant colony world, Turk is plagued by fragments of memories that are not his own—echoes of another...
Axis

Axis June 3, 2008

Spin, Book 2
Decades after the mysterious barrier known as the Spin transformed Earth’s relationship with the universe, humanity has begun to adapt—but the answers it uncovered have only deepened the mystery. As the effects of the Spin ripple across the solar system, new worlds become reachable, offering both...
The Road

The Road September 26, 2006

In a bleak, ash-covered world where civilization has collapsed, a father and his young son travel south along a desolate road, searching for warmth, safety, and any sign of life. The cause of the devastation is unknown, but its effects are absolute: cities lie in ruins, food is scarce, and danger...
Spin

Spin February 7, 2006

Spin, Book 1
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big...
Ammonite

Ammonite April 30, 2002

Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit...
Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang
As the world collapses under the weight of environmental disaster and societal breakdown, a small group of survivors retreats to an isolated valley, determined to preserve humanity at any cost. Their solution is radical: cloning. Free from disease, war, and the unpredictability of natural...
A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz February 1, 1961

In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine...