Man-made disasters may include nuclear explosions, accidents caused by experimenting with bacteria or with man's biological heritage, accidents in aircraft or ocean vessels, or accidents caused by tampering with nature's equilibrium (e.g., destroying the ozone layer) -- again, the author's imagination has a wide range. Frequently, the disaster has a political link. The titles listed below are located at the different City of Mesa Library locations.

SF=Science Fiction
Fic=Fiction

Location Codes:
MN=Main Branch
DR=Dobson Ranch Branch
RM=Red Mountain Branch (East Mesa)

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. 2003 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
Jimmy or Snowman recalls his past with his friends Crake and Oryx and how his world fell apart.

Baxter, Stephen. Moonseed. 1998 (SF MN, DR, RM)
Lab analysis of a moon rock unleashes strange events on earth that soon will make it uninhabitable.

Cambor, Kathleen. In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden. 2001 (Fic MN RM)
A summer retreat for wealthy families near the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in the shadow of the South Fork Dam is lost, when the dam burst in 1889 and destroys the retreat and the town.

Chambers, Stephen. Hope's End. 2001 (SF MN)
After the city of Hope is decimated by a mysterious plague and life reverts to a state of anarchy, Vel heads underground to escape the secret police and stumbles upon a profound secret that could change the world forever.

Child, Lincoln. Utophia. 2002 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
Utopia, a Nevada amusement park extraordinaire, features several elaborate holographic theme worlds all run by an ultra sophisticated computer system and serviced by robots. So, what could possible go wrong?

Cohen, Edward. Firewater: A Green Novel. 2003 (Fic MN)
Firewater is a brutally funny environmental suspense novel featuring Chief Shelldrake, favorite son for the U.S. presidency and last hope for the world's survival. He is the perfect anti-hero for the post-apocalypse.

Coonts, Stephen. Liberty. 2003 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
Jack Grafton is informed that a terrorist group has purchased some nuclear warheads with the idea to start a holy war between Western Civilization and the Muslim world.

Crichton, Michael. Prey. 2003 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
Deep in the remote Nevada desert, eight people are trapped inside of the Xymos Corporation by a rapidly evolving swarm of predatory molecules that have massed together to form a powerful and intelligent organism that is targeting its creators.

Edric, Robert. The Broken Lands: A Novel of Artic Disaster. 2002 (Fic MN, RM)
Imagines what might have occurred on Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition to the Broken Lands in 1845, when the entire expedition mysteriously vanished.

Gaines, Susan, Carbon Dreams. 2001 (FIC MN, RM)
The story of one scientist's struggle to come to terms with her conflicting responsibilities to science and society.

Grass, Gunter. Crabwalk. 2002 (Fic DR, RM)
Presents a fictional exploration of the worst maritime disaster in history, the 1945 sinking of a German cruise ship packed with refugees by a Soviet sub--a disaster that killed nine thousand people.

Hagberg, David. By Dawn's Early Light. 2003 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
Commander Frank Dillion Jr. must rescue a CIA team from Pakistan to prevent an attack on India that will leave millions dead.

Irvine, Ian. The Last Albatross. 2000 (SF MN, DR)
Hercus Barges, a classic mad engineer, develops the idea of saving Earth from ecological disaster by destroying or at least decimating the human race with stolen plutonium.

Johansen, Iris. Dead Aim. 2003 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
During an assignment photographing a disaster, photojournalist Alex Graham begins to suspect that the "natural" catastrophe had really been a case of premeditated mass murder

Long, Jeff. Year Zero. 2002 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
When he opens an ancient relic, a wealthy artifact collector accidentally unleashes a virulent airborne plague that threatens to annihilate all life on Earth.

Ludlum, Robert. & Shelby, Phillip. The Cassandra Compact. 2001 (Fic MN DR, RM)
What starts out as a rescue mission for a Russian scientist, begins Jon Smith's involvement in a plot to steal a sample of smallpox and mutate it into a super virus.

Palmer, Michael. Fatal. 2002 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
Who is responsible for the gross skin abnormalities and dementia in the West Virginia town of Belinda, the coalmine company or a super vaccine that is soon to be approved for the public? More than one person is needed to solve this mystery.

Pineiro, R.J. Firewall. 2003 (Fic MN)
Bruce Tucker and Monica Fox each know half a code to control a military spy satellite that can destroy the world and everyone is looking for them to control the information.

Zeman, David. Pinocchio Syndrome. 2003 (Fic MN, DR, RM)
A terrorist attack shocks the nation; six months later a mysterious disease is afflicting thousands of people around the world; can Karen Embry discovery what is happening and why?

Zicree, Marc Scott. Magic Time. 2001 (DR, RM)
When a top-secret government experiment goes wrong, a burst of energy nullifies the effects of technology and reawakens magical forces that transform some individuals into monsters with supernatural powers.

SL, 9/03; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL