Forager

by Peter R. Stone

Twenty-year-old Ethan Jones has a secret that even his parents and foraging companions don't know - he's a mutant. And if he's found out, he'll be dragged away by the town's paramilitary Custodians to be dissected like a science project. The dull drudgery of Ethan's life is shattered when he rescues a mysterious Japanese girl from Skel savages while out foraging in the post-apocalyptic ruins of 2122AD Melbourne. When he takes the girl back to Newhome, she breaks the town's rigid...