Ankit Saxena writes across two very different worlds: the warm, honest chaos of parenting in his Close Encounters series, and dark, character-driven dystopia in the new Miner Town series. Miner Town: Awakening is a fast, dystopian story for listeners who love The Hunger Games, Scythe, and Maze Runner — four kids in a mining settlement, a machine waking beneath them, and a buried truth worth dying for.