Our Future, Our Fault Books in Order

Our Future, Our Fault is Carolyn McCray's pulpy post-apocalyptic playground, a future where human mistakes have remade the planet so thoroughly that survival itself feels like science fiction.

The setup is wild in the best way. Centuries after a tipping point wrecks the old world, the climate has lurched into a brutal new balance. Dinosaurs roam again. Synthetic humans, called Syns, are still a threat. Freak weather can kill as quickly as teeth. And somewhere out there is New Avalon, the kind of destination that sounds like refuge, myth, or both.

The world is trying to eat everybody.

That constant pressure gives the series its identity. These books are less about careful realism and more about survival momentum. Characters keep moving because staying still is deadly. Every landscape matters. Open ground, ruined settlements, storms, and creatures all carry risk, and McCray uses that to keep the pace up even when the books are handling larger worldbuilding ideas in the background.

The title hints at what the series is really getting at. This future did not happen by accident. The wreckage has a human cause, and the monsters outside are matched by old human habits that never really died. That gives the books a little more bite than a simple dinosaur thrill ride. The danger is not only prehistoric. It is technological, political, and very much our own fault.

Still, the ride is the thing.

Readers coming to New Avalon or Neo-Jurassic should expect action first. The series works like an adventure chase through a broken ecosystem, with bursts of dystopian tension and just enough hopeful destination-building to keep the characters pushing forward. New Avalon matters because it offers a possibility, not just another place to hide.

If you like post-apocalyptic fiction that is willing to be a little outrageous, this series has a strong hook. It mixes creature danger, ruined-future survival, and the search for safe ground into something fast, strange, and easy to tear through. It is not subtle, but it knows that. The fun comes from seeing how many threats McCray can throw at her people before they either break or adapt.