A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Here lies a pipe, there a reed that could be carved into a weapon, beyond a city he once lived in. He could swear his daughter's name began with a J, but what was it, exactly? Then he encounters an old man,...

10 years after the end of the world, former insurance salesman Mortimer Tate leaves his secluded cabin and discovers a desolate landscape complete with cowboys, bandits, and cannibals, where the only traces of civilization are found at Joey Armageddon's Sassy-a-Go-Go club.

Self-proclaimed Mayan descendant Robert Quetzal claims the earth will end on December 21, 2012. He also offers a way out - for a price. Wealthy oil executive Andrew Morgan, mad at God over the loss of his family in a plane crash, puts his faith in Quetzal. Then he meets Lisa Campbell, a smart, intuitive journalist researching the Mayan calendar. Lisa, a Christian, thinks the 2012 prophecy is nonsense. Then a series of catastrophic events escalates...

Millions of spiders are poised to take over the Earth, and it's become obvious that they work as one. Among the government, there is dissent: do we try to kill all of the spiders, or do we gamble on Professor Guyer's theory that we need to kill only the queens? President Stephanie Pilgrim has gone as far as she can: more than two dozen American cities hit with tactical nukes, the country torn asunder. She believes in Professor Guyer ... but Ben Broussard...