New Release: Junk Rat

Wulan is fourteen, alone, and running out of time.

On Miller’s World, scav-kids don’t grow old. They freeze, starve, or bleed out in gutters—and that’s if they’re lucky. Wulan survives by picking through the ruins of a dead civilization with a glitchy pre-war drone who’s equal parts guardian angel and smartass.

When a fence cheats her out of her first real score and leaves her with nothing, Wulan has to choose between staying solo and slowly dying, or trusting a crew of kids led by an alien girl with a reputation as a killer.

But on Miller’s World, trust is a currency no one can afford. And winter is coming.

Junk Rat is the prequel novella to my YA Space Opera Doors to the Stars (coming September 2026), and is available free exclusively at books.rawilliamson.com/junkrat. For fans of Becky Chamber’s warmth and Paolo Bacigalupi’s grit.