Scavengers

By Cynthia Echterling
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Published: July 27, 2011
Words: 91,788 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781466092860

Short description

What does it mean to be human? It is one thing for anthropologist, Thomas Martin, to study the savages who live in the ruins, eating rats, garbage and their own dead. It is quite another to become one of them and survive. Scavengers is a post-apocalyptic story of devastation and rebirth.

Extended description

What does it mean to be human? It is one thing for anthropologist, Thomas Martin, to study the savages who live in the ruins, eating rats, garbage and their own dead. It is quite another to become one of them and survive. Scavengers is a post-apocalyptic story of devastation and rebirth.

It may have been a war as the government claimed, an accident, a natural disaster. No one remembered, but generations later, the descendents of the North Americans, long in exile in South America, return to the devastation. From the ruins of past glory, they rebuild their cities surrounded by walls to keep out the savage descendents of those who were left behind. Officially classified as subhuman, these survivors, eke out a living, hunting vermin and wild dogs. Now, many live off the government surplus, dumped outside the walls too keep them at bay. Fear of dregs and disease keeps people in this city and under government control.

Dr. Thomas Martin,is determined to learn the truth about dregs, obse.. (Read more) What does it mean to be human? It is one thing for anthropologist, Thomas Martin, to study the savages who live in the ruins, eating rats, garbage and their own dead. It is quite another to become one of them and survive. Scavengers is a post-apocalyptic story of devastation and rebirth.

It may have been a war as the government claimed, an accident, a natural disaster. No one remembered, but generations later, the descendents of the North Americans, long in exile in South America, return to the devastation. From the ruins of past glory, they rebuild their cities surrounded by walls to keep out the savage descendents of those who were left behind. Officially classified as subhuman, these survivors, eke out a living, hunting vermin and wild dogs. Now, many live off the government surplus, dumped outside the walls too keep them at bay. Fear of dregs and disease keeps people in this city and under government control.

Dr. Thomas Martin,is determined to learn the truth about dregs, obsessed with the idea that dregs are fully human, brings a scavenger into the lab for research and proves that dregs are capable of speech. In so doing he sets off a chain of events that uncovers a government conspiracy and forces him to escape into the ruins.

His lab technician, Paul Raymond, and former lover, anthropologist Cathrine Fuller, work together to find out why the Institute for Medical Research and the Military want Thomas Martin dead. Then the question becomes, what do they do about it?

"A fascinating exploration of a civilized, intelligent scientist being slowly and painfully integrated into a primitive and savage culture. This was the highlight of the story for me, a 4.5-to-5 star immersion into the breaking and remaking of an educated man into a scavenger, a hunter for his tribe - his people." -Papyrus

"A chilling and sobering look at "what if". I've always been a big fan of post-apocalypse books. "Scavengers" is a well written story taking a long-used theme and adding a fresh look. With occasional stomach rumbling details, the author weaves a strong character-driven tale, one of survival and, yes, even rebirth. Well done."
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literary, military, apocalypse, speculative fiction, science fiction, conspiracy, anthropology, rats, post apocalyptic, survival, homo sapiens, georgia, apocalypse apocalyptic fiction end of the world end times world war iii conspiracy theory secret societies ufo, genetics, cannibalism

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