Author of sci-fi/fantasy, horror and adventure/thriller fiction

Craig DiLouie

Craig DiLouie is an author of popular thriller, apocalyptic/horror, and sci-fi/fantasy fiction.

In hundreds of reviews, Craig’s novels have been praised for their strong characters, action, and gritty realism. Each book promises an exciting experience with people you’ll care about in a world that feels real.

These works have been nominated for major literary awards such as the Bram Stoker Award and Audie Award, translated into multiple languages, and optioned for film. He is a member of the HWA, SFWA, International Thriller Writers, and IFWA.

At this site, you can find all of Craig’s major works, interviews, and hundreds of interesting blog posts. Be sure to sign up for Craig’s mailing list here so you can stay tuned on new releases.

Our War

A brother and sister become child soldiers fighting on opposite sides of a second American civil war.

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One of Us

When a disease produces a generation of monsters, these children must somehow fit in–or fight for what’s theirs.

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Crash Dive Series

In this riveting adventure series, Charlie Harrison goes to war in the submarines against the Japanese Navy during WWII.

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Suffer the Children

A mysterious disease strikes down the world’s children before bringing them back with a bizarre need that might end the world. How far would you go for someone you love?

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The Alchemists

During the tumultuous Renaissance, two great men resume an old duel to determine which is superior, magic or science.

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The Infection War

The first two books in Craig DiLouie’s classic apocalyptic series, newly revised and published in an omnibus paperback edition for bookstores.

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The Infection

In this classic in the apocalyptic/zombie genre, five ordinary people must pay the price of survival at the end of the world.

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The Killing Floor

In this sequel to The Infection, the survivor of a slaughter discovers he’s not just immune, but has the power to save the world…or end it.

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Tooth and Nail

In this classic zombie story that launched the military zombie subgenre, a company of soldiers fights to maintain in New York during an outbreak of a bizarre disease that turns people into rabid maniacs.

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The Retreat Series

In this series, an infantry battalion must fight its way across an apocalyptic America to reach Florida, the last bastion of government.

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The End of the Road

In this grotesque short story, five college friends cross America to find themselves. They won’t like what they find.

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Part epic war story, part cautionary tale, OUR WAR is brutal, unflinching, and mesmerizing. DiLouie once again delivers an emotional body-slam of a book, one that’ll leave you shaken to your core.

AUTHOR PETER CLINES
on OUR WAR

Frightening in its familiarity, ONE OF US is a tale of human monsters and monstrous humans--authentic, brutal, and inevitable.

AUTHOR DAVID WALTON
on One of Us

Tense enough so that you can almost hear the clock ticking.

AUTHOR JACK KETCHUM
on Suffer the Children

DiLouie flavors Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King” with a dash of Joe Haldeman’s THE FOREVER WAR to create this rollicking military SF farce.

PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY
on The Great Planet Robbery

Adventure in the grand tradition: high stakes on the high seas, a gripping story that moves at frenetic pace without sacrificing character or detail.

AUTHOR JOHN DIXON
on the Crash Dive series

"Gripping ... DiLouie carefully recreates our society and our military ... then proceeds to bring the horror, devastation and heroes we require.

FANGORIA MAGAZINE
on The Infection

STARS LIKE COLD FIRE by Brent Nichols

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I recently decided to read more local authors, as my town, Calgary, has some great writers. This turned up a gem for me, STARS LIKE COLD FIRE by Brent Nichols. This sci fi opera reads like HORATIO HORNBLOWER in space, combining good pacing and craft with plenty of dramatic tension and some terrific action.

BLACK SUMMER (2019)

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Produced by Asylum and set in the same zombie apocalypse as Z NATION, BLACK SUMMER (2019) is a Netflix series about a group of people trying to find sanctuary as the military pulls out and society collapses from the rapidly spreading infection. I picked away at this one all year, finally finished it, and found it overall good stuff but difficult to stay committed to.

THE KING (2019)

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Netflix’s THE KING provides a mashup of the historical and Shakespearean Henry IV Part 2 and Henry V with beautiful cinematography and plenty of medieval grit, but fails to either provide a true biopic or the powerful level of storytelling in its source material. Overall, it’s very enjoyable the way THE OUTLAW KING was, but as with that film, there was a pronounced lack of character development. The result is I was fully immersed in the film while I was watching, but then when it ended I shrugged and forgot about it.

GENERATION ZERO

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GENERATION ZERO challenges you to survive an amazing open-world set in Sweden in the 1980s–a country in which everyone is either dead or disappeared, and an ecology of killer robots roams the towns and countryside. Your task is to collect supplies and weapons while completing missions to fight the robots, find out what happened, and stay alive.

STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel

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In Emily St. John Mandel’s STATION ELEVEN, a new swine flu sweeps the planet, killing 99% of humanity and leaving a dazed few to live in the ruins and hopefully rebuild. On the plus side, the writing is beautiful, with snappy dialogue and engaging characterization. On the negative side, all of the characters connect through a central character who dies before the apocalypse begins, and whose story, largely irrelevant, occurs solely in the past, resulting in a tale that feels disjointed and never quite comes together.