Clockworld

"Now it's been acknowledged, now he's had to think about it, it won't go away. War Vladistov. One fucking conversation, two swigs of lukewarm beer, a crap almost-snog, the appearance of crazy Xiaoping Hathaway, and suddenly the world is way too complex for Josie to handle.

"Josie starts to get a bad feeling, a feeling he can't shake. A premonition of bad things to come.

"It chases him all the way back to the dorms like a shadow."

What do you get when you put a bunch of capital-P Problem Kids on a planet where almost all the vegetation is narcotic? An absolute disaster, but that's how it always is with teenagers. Josie, War, Ping and Aubrey--four broken boys stuck at on the other side of the Milky Way and fit together like pieces from four different jigsaw puzzles--struggle day to day with their own mounting personal problems. And that's before you consider the forest full of space drugs encroaching from every side of the campus.