The "Hill Country" in Texas is the area around Austin. Eleven years after the nova of Beatlegeaus destroyed every unprotected piece of electronics with a solonoid, and also killed all animal life that was outdoors when the radiation hit, the country has evolved into a number of city-states with no real protection for small towners or farmers. A culture of bandits has developed who steal what they can use (including women who they rape and leave pregnant), kill or burn everything else. They are working their way to Austin in huge numbers and so are the refugees from the Hill Country fleeing them. Can Austin survive?
I love this inventive, scientifically smart, not only YA author.
I have now started Ken Follett's A Dangerous Fortune. Set at a prestigious boys' school in 1866 England, an elementary age student drowns in a nearby waterfilled quarry. The young bully who caused it is actually hailed as a hero in the incident.
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