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  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has taken his divers a very long way from their humble beginning in the skies, having them fight for an unlikely oasis on Earth in the fifth installment. In the sixth one, Hell Divers VI: Allegiance , we follow Xavier as he tries to reign as the reluctant king of the islands, all while a new group of divers tries to locate other survivors on Earth, before hostile android defectors wipe them all out.

  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has taken us on a rather original and captivating adventure with The Hell Divers series, telling the story of a humanity stuck living in the skies on giant airships following World War III. In the fifth book, titled Hell Divers V: Captives , we follow our heroes as they try and reclaim a paradise on Earth, unaffected by radiation, but populated exclusively by cannibals.

  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has created a unique and special world with The Hell Divers series, putting the readers in the midst of a fantastic apocalypse wrought with dangers of all sorts. In the fourth book in the series, titled Hell Divers IV: Wolves , we follow the titular divers as they mount an expedition at sea in search of the legendary Metal Islands.

  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has created a uniquely infernal post-apocalyptic landscape in The Hell Divers series, one he has been developing intricately with each installment. In the third book of the series, Hell Divers III: Deliverance , we follow the exiled divers from the previous book on their search for a long-lost hero, Xavier “X” Rodriguez, all while being hunted down by Captain Jordan, leader of humanity's remnants.

  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has crafted a truly unique and compelling world when he published the first book in The Hell Divers series, and in the second one, titled Hell Divers II: Ghosts , takes us ten years after the events of the first book. We're following a new group of young divers serving aboard a massive 260-year-old ship, and while on a mission to Earth they discover a terrible truth their captain has hidden from them.

  Short Summary Nicholas Sansbury Smith has joined the ranks of many other authors who imagine a hopeless and post-apocalyptic future for humanity when he published The Hell Divers series, with the first novel aptly-titled Hell Divers . It takes us into a world where the remnants of humanity are forced to live on airships, centuries after the Earth was poisoned through World War III.  The Hell Divers are the ones keeping it all afloat, risking the plunge back on the surface to scavenge for essentials, and the story follows one such team landing in a zone with tremendous discoveries awaiting them.

  Bobby Akart has given us a rather chilling and thought-provoking depiction of the United States when faced with a local apocalypse in his Nuclear Winter Series.  In the third book, titled Nuclear Winter Whiteout , we keep on following the dispersed Albright family as they all try to make it back to the safety of their home in the Florida Keys, a journey none of them are guaranteed to make.

  Bobby Akart is keen on reminding us where our nuclear ambitions might lead us one day through his Nuclear Winter Series. In the second book, titled Nuclear Winter Armageddon , we continue the story of the Albright family as they must learn to navigate a new world frozen by the consequences of atomic warfare, trekking across the landscape in search of safety from the countless dangers of the new world.

  Bobby Akart has proven himself as a true literary master capable of reflecting on the more pressing topics for humanity through his book series. Recently, he started a new one titled Nuclear Winter First Strike , and in it, we are told the story of humanity as it stands on the verge of a nuclear Armageddon, facing the very real possibility of total extinction.

M.R. Carey debuted the stunning journey of Koli through a world turned hostile to us in the first book of The Rampart Trilogy, and in the second one, titled The Trials of Koli , we follow the young man on the most important quest of his life.  With his village and others like it dying out, he has set in search of a mysterious piece of technology from old times which he once heard about in a story describing the lost city of London.

Mike Carey has, like many other people, considered the innumerable ways in which our world could be brought to an end, and in his novel The Book of Koli he thrusts us into the middle of an apocalypse at the hands of Mother Nature. The story follows the titular Koli, a young boy living in the village of Mythen Rood, and as far as its inhabitants know, they are likely one of the last few bastions of humanity. The rules and walls of the village have kept them safe until now, but the burden finds its way onto Koli's shoulders, and he must venture into the deadly wilds to save his people.

Mike Carey is working hard to establish the mythos of the Hungry Plague Series , with the second book, titled The Boy on the Bridge , telling a standalone story set in the same common universe. This time around, we're following a clever boy who journeys on the quest for a cure in a post-apocalyptic land devastated by a plague where humanity only hangs by a thread and monsters are roaming the wilds.

Judging by the amount of post-apocalyptic literature that's being published every year, I'd wager to say that we just can't wait for the end of the world to come around for the chance to prove that we are indeed important renegades who can save the world, lead humanity and all that jazz. Let's face it though: the overwhelming majority of us would be ground to dust in virtually any post-apocalyptic scenario, whether it's an alien invasion, a virus or some good old-fashioned zombies. We seldom take the time to imagine what life in this kind of society would be like and look at it from beyond the confines of our own narrow viewpoint.