Milk of Ruin

After civilization was beaten back by natural disaster after disaster, a defeated but defiant new world emerged. Gone was petroleum-based energy, gone was electricity, gone were the mega-cities and states and governments. What remained was a brutal wasteland dotted with small, independent cities and towns. America had become a land of steam power, gunfighters, and uncertainty once again. Only the foolish and most adventurous journeyed into the wastelands, braving the bandits, killers,...
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After civilization was beaten back by natural disaster after disaster, a defeated but defiant new world emerged. Gone was petroleum-based energy, gone was electricity, gone were the mega-cities and states and governments. What remained was a brutal wasteland dotted with small, independent cities and towns. America had become a land of steam power, gunfighters, and uncertainty once again. Only the foolish and most adventurous journeyed into the wastelands, braving the bandits, killers, rapists, slavers, thieves, and even mutated creatures, in search of something more than just living and dying in the relatively safe but strict and boring cities.Pip, a small dark child, despised and discriminated against by most people, is frightened of the world beyond her safe library basement. Eternal dreamer and Pip's best (and only) friend, Professor Herfmeier is bored with his world at the university. After years of his daily visits and his countless plans and schemes continuously bombarding her ears, she finally gives in and together they set off into the wastelands seeking adventure, freedom, fortune... and themselves.Beryl and Ella, friends since childhood, are happy being bandits and living in the wastelands together. Why not? They certainly have the skills to survive anywhere! But things change when they decide to help Pip and the professor on their journey.Life as they all know it is about the change forever.Milk Of Ruin is a book about friendship, discovery, adventure, danger, anarchy... but most importantly it's a book about what it means to be human. It's a feel-good, fun, and sometimes violent and brutal good time.It's a post-apocalyptic, steampunk, weird west, fantasy adventure!