Faraday's Orphans (Ace Science Fiction)

The Story

Berk Nielsen has it all: a nice apartment in the City, a beautiful wife, and a job doing what he loves - flying a helicopter on recon missions across the unprotected deserts. But when Berk becomes stranded on the Outside, he finds himself at the mercy of the burning sun and the dangerous clans who carve out a primitive existence beyond the confines of the domes. What he doesn't expect to encounter in this desolate land is a companion - a wild, young girl who calls herself Sadonya. And the freedom that he never realized he desired...