Wastelands (eBook, ePUB)

The Earth, devastated by solar flares, has been reduced to an endless desert known as the Wastelands. Life clings on in citadels in a highly stratified society. The pampered elite indulge in animal body mods while skilled artisans serve at their pleasure. Criminals and the disaffected, along with those deemed below par, are cast out into the Wastes.Uprisings have failed to achieve change and synthetic humanoids police draconian laws and regulations. When a figure modded out to far, as a vicious rodent, emerges from the Wastes, killing and eating several people, a bounty is placed on its head. Granville Hawk and his illegal synth, Sybil, go on the hunt and discover the creature is one of thousands. Mad though it seems, a faction within the elite plan to take over using an army of giant modded rats.With a ragtag band of like-minded souls, Granville tries to lever this to advantage and wrest power for the majority rather than the few and inter alia fulfil an ambition to terraform Earth back to what it was.