Peds

✍ Scribed by James S. Dorr

• Book ID: 110699569
• Publisher: Untreed Reads
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 23 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781611874563
• ASIN: B009SZNWKI

✦ Synopsis

In a near-future world where the car is king and the people are divided between those who ride on a network of highways connecting the glittering hubs of the city, and those left on foot -- the lowly "Peds" -- who inhabit the lands that lie between them, Robert Balkoner has always believed these latter, even if disadvantaged, are well cared for by the city as a whole. These beliefs are shattered, however, when a freak auto accident thrusts him among the Peds, and he discovers a system more varied, complex, and sometimes horrific, than anything he might have imagined. Yet even here Balkoner also can find love, as well as a handful of rebels willing to barter their lives in a quest to improve conditions for themselves and their fellows. A novelette.