![]() ![]() ![]() Having decimated not just Earth’s resources but those of the entire solar system, we now travel back in time to recover resources from the past. Our tether to survival is a thin one, and it’s wholly dependent upon time travel. Scientists predict mankind’s demise by the year 3000. World War III was followed by the Warring Tech period, the Core Conflicts of the origin planets (Venus, Earth, and Mars), and the Gas Wars, in which the resources of the gas giants were fought over, creating “the deadliest conflict in the history of mankind, causing a billion deaths over a span of forty years.” What’s more, we’ve taken the wars that marred the Earth with us. Anyone with the means to flee has done so during the preceding centuries, populating neighboring planets and their moons. We’ve finally rendered Earth a desolate wasteland. It’s the 26th century, and mankind has finally done it. Tor, 2015Wesley Chu’s Time Salvager is a rapid-fire thriller set in a dystopic future defined by rust, decay, and absolute corporate hegemony. ![]()
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