
Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline) – Along similar lines, Native marrow is thought to be the key to ending an affliction that steals the ability to dream.

To escape, Cassandra heads toward an island protected by magic-and falls into her place in a legend that could save her people or destroy them. Shadows Cast by Stars (Catherine Knutsson) – When it appears that Aboriginal and First Nations blood is the key to curing a pandemic, authorities begin snatching people. Where they’re all going is one mystery whether the rest of humanity will survive to find out, or whether it will devour itself in panic and fear, is another. Wanderers (Chuck Wendig) – A sleepwalking pandemic strikes the world and draws all the sleepers on a silent, eerie quest to walk toward an unknown destination. Is this the next step in human evolution, or is this our doom? The Genius Plague (David Walton) – Similarly mycological, this plague gives people superpowers-but also strangely unified goals. But everyone else might not be prepared for what she learns.

Pandora, a child who idolizes her teacher, wants to understand this new world and her place in it. Carey) – Rather than a virus, it’s a fungus that has engulfed the world and turned all but a precious few enclaves into zombies.

evil parsed on cosmic, American, and individual scales in an epic that defines the (sub-)genre.įeed (Mira Grant) – The plague is done, but what caused it? A pair of dogged investigators might not like what they find when they look for the origins of a virus that filled the infected with a singular desire to feed. The Stand (Stephen King) – A superflu kills 99.4% of the world population, and that’s just the start of this tale of good vs.
