Living in the desert isn't the end of the world, but you'll have to bear the hardships of earning a life every day - with every shred of your existence. Those misfortunes, however, become the motivation for some to move on, to stand on top of the people who once looked down on them. Let's follow their journeys through the vast, mucky wasteland.

The future is supposed to hold much promise for humanity -- but what if instead the whole world is struggling to survive? Environmental disasters, strange illnesses, and aliens are only a few of the worries humanity has in store in these tales of sci-fi adventure.