The Bight

In a future where both temperatures and the seas have risen, Dr. Michael Gradowitz takes on a mission to survey the fallen and infested areas of quarantined New York City. His work is nominally to search for new medical materials created by the mutated flora and fauna that live in the dangerous tropical zone. However, he actually volunteered because he feels that he has to compete for the attention of his son, who has drifted away from him during a messy divorce.

Unfortunately, New York has not quite been abandoned and is inhabited by both die-hard survivors and other competing medical concerns. Gradowitz must overcome not only the toxic environment and hazardous vermin, but survive the anarchy of human tribes and the actions of cut throat competitors if he ever hopes to make a discovery worthy of his son's respect.

An engrossing narrative in novelette length of fallen world that still has room for a father to do his best for his son by veteran author and artist, A.L. Sirois.