Caravan    by Stephen Goldin
Price: $2.99 USD. 48090 words. Published by Parsina Press on May 29, 2009. .
It's the 1980s in an alternate-world America. U.S. society has fallen apart under food shortages, fuel shortages, racial unrest and a host of other problems. A group of people intend to escape to another planet and start a whole new world...if they can make it safely across the country--stealing gas and fighting off bandits--to reach the ship before it leaves.