Plague. It started in Calcutta but moved around the world with amazing speed. Suddenly Neil finds himself one of the few, the very few, survivors of a global catastrophe. He will have to learn to live in a world where none of the old rules apply and the greatest challenge may be the battle against isolation and desperate loneliness.

Eva should have died. Instead, she wakes in the hospital, unable to remember the accident that brought her there. Eva knows there is something they don't want to tell her, some price to be paid for survival. Just what technical wizardry has been employed to save her? Will she be able to live with it?

Zimbabwe, 2194: Tendai, Rita and Kuda are the privileged children of General Matsika, the country's chief of security. They live safely on a walled estate, far away from dirt, squalor, and reality. But the children are curious and the walls cannot hold them. It is up to the mutant detectives, the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, to find them before it is too late!

Life in the 22nd century is fine - until you finish school. What then? Lisse and her friends find themselves jobless, hopeless, with a bleak future of scavenging in the slums stretching out before them... until they hear about the Game. The Game offers them new worlds, new hope - but is it real, and will they live to enjoy it?

What if you went away camping for a few days... and came back to find your country had been invaded and everything you knew had gone? What would you do? How far would you go to survive? Seven Australian teenagers are about to find out. The battle continues in The dead of night, A killing frost,and Darkness, be my friend.

The barren urban landscape crawls with electronic creatures, creatures hunting children. There are no adults. The overlords have seen to that. The children are enslaved, waiting in the Dormitories for their "Sad Birthday", when their transplanted brains will be used to create new Overlords. Very rarely, some do escape. If they find their way to the artificial intelligence, Shade, they may be able to fight for a future. But Shade is more memory than man. Can he be trusted?

Ann Burden is alone, really alone. She seems to be the last survivor of a global nuclear war. Then she sees the smoke of a campfire. The arrival of John R. Loomis seems like a miracle, but is it a dream come true, or the beginning of a nightmare?

Joella, Peter and Liane start out at a train station, but their journey is far longer than they expected. They are kidnapped, transported to another world, and forced to perform in a brutal circus for the amusement of the aliens. Unfortunately, no performance amuses these savage beings so much as a death.

Miranda, Doug, Taryn and Elijah are freaks. They have psychic abilities that isolate them from the rest of humanity. An experimental program, the Ark, offers them a chance to use their talents. Perhaps they are not misfits, but the future of humankind - or does the Ark hold a darker purpose?

Henry Kitson is too smart for his own good. Perfect exam scores land him a job in the elite class that operates the country's computerized living systems, a bizarre world of power and madness. Henry's leisure time is spent in London's savage underworld. It is here that he meets Keri, the bike-racing champion of Futuretrack 5. Together they become accidental revolutionaries.