Is one of conformity, and Tempest has to buy into that mindset for the first The difficulty I ran into was that the culture of AgraStar in the book Inspired by current environmental issues, specifically the genetic adjustment of seeds to resist blight and the risks of not allowing natural seed diversity, this is an action-adventure story that is Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake meets Nancy Farmer’s House of the Scorpion. But when they finally arrive at AgraStar headquarters, they discover that there’s an even bigger plot behind the blight-and it’s up to them to stop it from happening again.

With blight-resistant seeds in her pocket, Tempest teams up with a scavenger boy named Alder and runs for help. When a group of such rebels accidentally sets off an explosion in the research compound, it releases into the air a blight that kills every living thing in its path-including humans. Now she’s part of the security force guarding the fence and watching for scavengers-people who would rather steal genetically engineered food from the Company than work for it.

Seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres has lived on the AgraStar farm north of Atlanta, Georgia, since she was found outside its gates at the age of five. This stand-alone action-adventure story is perfect for fans of Oryx and Crake and The House of the Scorpion. When an agribusiness facility producing genetically engineered food releases a deadly toxin into the environment, seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres races to deliver the cure before time runs out.įrom the author of the acclaimed American Booksellers Association’s Indies Introduce pick Salvage, which was called “Brilliant, feminist science fiction” by Stephanie Perkins, the internationally bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss.

Salvage by alexandra duncan