Immersing himself in the OASIS, a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia, to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.

Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude, until the mysterious ex-military man who's been living in the wilds of Cove Mountain appears to warn her of an impending threat that could endanger both of them.

Living in Manhattan, which is now a prisoner-of-war camp, sisters Skyler and Phee, after they discover their mom's hidden journal from the war's outbreak, set in motion a series of events that forces them to join a group of strangers on an escape mission through a city rife with cannibals and sadistic cults.

Apocalypse prophecies and terrorist uprisings in a near-future world erupt when, after an EMP attack, all of the planet's technologies abruptly stop working, triggering global looting, food riots and insurrections--a situation that places humanity's fate in the hands of a small mountain village in the American south.

The United States of America is no more. Broken into warring territories, its center has become a wasteland DMZ known as "the Tropic of Kansas." Two travelers appear in this arid American wilderness: Sig, the fugitive orphan of political dissidents, and his foster sister Tania, a government investigator whose search for Sig leads her into her own past--and towards an unexpected future. Sig promised those he loves that he would make it to the revolutionary...

"Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden...

"The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels. This first official graphic novel adaptation of McCarthy’s work is illustrated by acclaimed French cartoonist Manu Larcenet, who ably transforms the...