The Pickers
In 2049, on a floating landfill off the coast of Brazil, a robot family will do anything to survive — even steal from the dead.
Chapter One: What the Belt Takes
The Ilha Novo smelled of brine and burning plastic.
It was not a real island. It had been a real landfill once — a heaving, catastrophic sprawl of compacted waste dumped into the Atlantic forty kilometres off the coast of Recife. By 2049, the Brazilian federal authority had capped it, layered it with reclaimed soil, and ca…
