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“Scavenging” as a book category encompasses fiction and nonfiction that center on recovering value from the discarded, abandoned, or wrecked. These works follow scrappers, salvors, gleaners, and treasure hunters—from post-apocalyptic survivors and space-salvage crews to urban freegans and maritime wreck divers—who improvise, repurpose, and endure. Core themes include scarcity and resilience, the ethics of ownership and waste, environmental sustainability, and the hidden economies and communities that turn refuse into lifelines. Settings range from scrapyards, landfills, and derelict cities to shipbreaking beaches, deserts, and orbital graveyards, with an emphasis on tactile problem-solving and craft knowledge. Readers can expect gritty, resourceful narratives, practical know-how, and social histories that illuminate how societies adapt when new production falters or when cast-offs become the only resource, blending adventure and survival with critique of consumption and a celebration of ingenuity.

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