The MX is what's left of the world after mass extinction. Welcome home. Until recently, Vara Lyr-CT-Tau was one of the few humans on Earth with enough food to eat and clean air to breathe. Then her underground city exiled her for a crime she'd rather not talk about. She's guilty. She deserved it. Her new home is the the wasteland once called America, where a good day is living to eat another powdered worm. It holds dangers Vara has only ever heard about, and more that she hasn't. Out here, just breathing can kill you. Something called an ocean can drag you away and spit back your dead body. Out here, babies are born in a different and grosser way than they were born where Vara came from. Out here, people do bad things to each other. There are stories of another place, somewhere out there, just as good as the home Vara can't return to. Maybe this other place really exists. Maybe not. Either way, searching for it beats sitting and waiting to die. If only she could make some friends to come with her. That might be easier if the people out here didn't consider her a liar and a coward. And they're right. She is. For Vara, success in this bleak new existence will be measured by more than just simple survival. For what good is the will to live without a reason to? And is saving your skin even worth it if you lose your humanity? If you love post-apocalyptic and dystopian tales with a strong human element, where the choices are never simple and the answers rarely black-and-white, step outside your silo and into The MX. It's a dystopian road trip, but the roads are long gone.