Time's Dark Laughter (New World Trilogy #2)

Five years has passed since Joshua Green the Scribe and Beauty the Centaur had set out across the desert to find the creatures who had destroyed their homes and carried off their wives.

But now Beauty’s wife has willingly abandoned him for the pleasures of mind-link with the mysterious Pluggers. Worse, she has taken with her the helmet that protected Joshua from the mental summons of the City with No Name.

While Beauty travels once more in search of his wife, Joshua’s fifteen year old brother Ollie, formerly a slave in a Vampire Harem, sets off with the Neuroman Jasmine to rescue the Scribe.

Soon they are engulfed in a deadly struggle against the creatures of a riotously mutated future world with no use, and little room, for humankind...