The End is Now — Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams

Herd Immunity — Tananarive Due – 2014
The Sixth Day of Deer Camp — Scott Sigler – 2014
Goodnight Stars — Annie Bellet – 2014
Rock Manning Can’t Hear You — Charlie Jane Anders – 2014
Fruiting Bodies — Seanan McGuire – 2014
Black Monday — Sarah Langan – 2014
Angels of the Apocalypse — Nancy Kress – 2014
Agent Isolated — David Wellington – 2014
The Gods Will Not Be Slain — Ken Liu – 2014
You’ve Never Seen Everything — Elizabeth Bear – 2014
Bring Them Down — Ben H. Winters – 2014
Twilight of the Music Machines — Megan Arkenberg – 2014
Sunset Hollow — Jonathan Maberry – 2014
Penance — Jake Kerr – 2014
Avtomat — Daniel H. Wilson – 2014
Dancing With Batgirl in the Land of Nod — Will McIntosh – 2014
By the Hair of the Moon — Jamie Ford – 2014
To Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood — Desirina Boskovich – 2014
In the Mountain — Hugh Howey – 2014
Dear John — Robin Wasserman – 2014

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The End Has Come — Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams

Bannerless — Carrie Vaughn – 2015
Like All Beautiful Places — Megan Arkenberg – 2015
Dancing With a Stranger in the Land of Nod — Will McIntosh – 2015
The Seventh Day of Deer Camp — Scott Sigler – 2015
Prototype — Sarah Langan – 2015
Acts of Creation — Chris Avellone – 2015
Resistance — Seanan McGuire – 2015
Wandering Star — Leife Shallcross – 2015
Heaven Come Down — Ben H. Winters – 2015
Agent Neutralized — David Wellington – 2015
Goodnight Earth — Annie Bellet – 2015
Carriers — Tananarive Due – 2015
In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land — Robin Wasserman – 2015
The Uncertainty Machine — Jamie Ford – 2015
Margin of Survival — Elizabeth Bear – 2015
Jingo and the Hammerman — Jonathan Maberry – 2015
The Last Movie Ever Made — Charlie Jane Anders – 2015
The Gray Sunrise — Jake Kerr – 2015
The Gods Have Not Died in Vain — Ken Liu – 2015
The Happiest Place . . . — Mira Grant – 2015
In the Woods — Hugh Howey – 2015
Blessings — Nancy Kress – 2015

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The End is Nigh — Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams

The Balm and the Wound — Robin Wasserman – 2014
Heaven is a Place on Planet X — Desirina Boskovich – 2014
Break! Break! Break! — Charlie Jane Anders – 2014
The Gods Will Not Be Chained — Ken Liu – 2014
Wedding Day — Jake Kerr – 2014
Removal Order — Tananarive Due – 2014
System Reset — Tobias S. Buckell – 2014
This Unkempt World is Falling to Pieces — Jamie Ford – 2014
Bring Her to Me — Ben H. Winters – 2014
In the Air — Hugh Howey – 2014
Goodnight Moon — Annie Bellet – 2014
Dancing with Death in the Land of Nod — Will McIntosh – 2014
Houses Without Air — Megan Arkenberg – 2014
The Fifth Day of Deer Camp — Scott Sigler – 2014
Enjoy the Moment — Jack McDevitt – 2014
Pretty Soon the Four Horsemen are Going to Come Riding Through — Nancy Kress – 2014
Spores — Seanan McGuire – 2014
She’s Got a Ticket to Ride — Jonathan Maberry – 2014
Agent Unknown — David Wellington – 2014
Enlightenment — Matthew Mather – 2014
Shooting the Apocalypse — Paolo Bacigalupi – 2014
Love Perverts — Sarah Langan – 2014

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Code Breakers: Beta — Colin F. Barnes

Basically, it’s more of the same as Prequel and Alpha, which is all quite good and keeps one rivetted and moving along at a very good pace but, and here’s the thing, i just can’t handle diving into Gamma at the moment, it’s all become a bit too much.

Yeah, for now at least, i’ve totally overloaded all of my data banks and overheated my CPU’s with all this hacking, AI’s, post apocalypse chaos, everyone wanting to kill each other and take over the world, etc., etc..

So i’m off for some quiter paced reading for a while and maybe i’ll get back to reading Gamma and finishing the series sometime in the future, maybe not.

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Code Breakers: Alpha — Colin F. Barnes

After the super lively prequel i was wondering if this could keep up, and i have to say that it more than matched my hopes.   This is all rather full on stuff, it just doesn’t stop steaming along full tilt.   I can’t remember the last time i read a book so fast, just didn’t want to put it down.

Back are our two wonderful protagonists from the prequel and this time they’re joined by Jerry.   Jerry’s lead a rather sheltered life in a nice big, clean, domed city, that is, until it all goes wrong one day and he has to leave and run off into the wasteland outside.

There’s also lots of other great characters added to the mix with lots of cyberpunky, post-apocalyptic, dystopian shenanigans to go along with them.   Yes, folks, we loves any kind of shenanigans at Kindle Worm HQ and this ones got several different kinds.

Full steam ahead into Beta: don’t go away, i’ll be back soon.

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Code Breakers: Prequel — Colin F. Barnes

A quick and lively prequel for the main series, which i have dived eagerly straight into without a pause.

Characters are really well written and perfectly suited for this nuked out, post apocalyptic wasteland that the world has become.   I am so hoping the rest of the series holds up to what’s been suggested here because it looks like it’s going to be a rather good read.

Next up: Code Breakers: Alpha.

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I Am Legend — Richard Matheson

So i got 23% into this book and i simply cannot take another page of this.

Stupid, alcoholic, smoking, crap eating, sad, miserable idiot getting chased by lots of vampires.   Woohoo!   Yes folks, another dull and boring vampire story, only difference from the norm is that this one is post-apocalyptic as the vampires have wiped out all humans apart from this one pathetic, sad alcoholic.

Seriously, if you had the daylight hours of every day to do whatever you want, go wherever you want, you have the whole world and its contents at your disposal before the vampires came out at night to hunt and all you could think to do was live like this sad twat because you’re a pathetic, miserable alcoholic, then you may as well just throw yourself into the vampire’s grasp and get it over with.   Stop torturing yourself, and most of all, stop torturing us poor readers who have large “To Read” piles to get through.

I have no idea about the rest of the book, but the first quarter of it has no sci-fi whatsoever in it.   How this has managed to get itself into “SF Masterworks” is quite beyond me.   I suppose there always has to be the bottom of pile, hopefully this is it because i’m going to despair if there are any worse books than this in the series.

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The Girl in Red — Christina Henry

Having read all of Christina’s previous books — which i’ve extremely enjoyed — i had very high hopes for this book: alas, it was not to be.

So “Red”, our protagonist and narator, is on a journey to her Grandma’s house across several hundred miles of the USA after a coughing plague has culled nearly all the people: basically it’s a post-apocalyptic survival story.

And the whole book is taken up with the first half of this journey until there’s an endoparasitoid-bursting-out-the-chest-thing — WTF!!!   Remember Alien and Sigourney Weaver?   Yeah, that’s what an endoparasitoid-bursting-out-the-chest-thing is.

The army turn up and the soldier guy who chases the endoparasitoid-bursting-out-the-chest-things admits to Red that the government made it in a lab.   He lets Red carry on with her journey instead of taking her to the quarantine camp, and in a few pages Red arrives at her Grandma’s.   It’s like the second half of Red’s journey didn’t happen, like she was just magically transported to her Grandma’s.   And no explanation as to the endoparasitoid and why the government would make such a thing.

And it’s this one single, silly, ridiculous idea of an endoparasitoid thrown into the story with no purpose whatsoever that completely ruins the book — and also the second half of Red’s journey being skipped over as though it didn’t really happen, or was in a completely different world to the first half.

We don’t even get to know how Grandma has been surviving or anything.

Basically, the ending is utter garbage and totally ruins the whole story.   It’s just a total nonsensical ending.

It just left me which such a disappointment.   This is far below Christina’s usual standard.

Ho hum: i suppose we all have to write something crap once in a while.

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