What the Dust Remembers
by D.L. Branson
A human story about the lasting effects of generational trauma, told through the lens of a sci-fi story.
ABOUT THE BOOK
HE SPENT HIS LIFE DELIVERING THE PAST. HE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS THE FUTURE.
In the ruined remains of Nevada, silence is the only luxury left. Callisto Warren is a Terra-Strider—a courier who navigates the irradiated wasteland between the buried bunker-cities known as Divs. Above him, the United Martian Republic rules from the safety of the Red Planet. Below him, the infected Hollows roam the dust, victims of the JOVA virus that broke the world.
Callisto survives by being invisible. He asks no questions. He delivers his cargo. He keeps moving.
But when he discovers his estranged mother has returned from Mars, the carefully constructed silence of his life shatters. She didn’t just abandon him as a child; she hid him. And now, the corporations that own the sky are hunting him down.
As Callisto peels back the layers of his past, he uncovers a secret more terrifying than the monsters in the dark: The virus wasn’t an accident. It was a design.
For fans of the biological horror of Annihilation, Hell Followed With Us, and the emotional depth of The Last of Us, D.L. Branson’s debut is a visceral journey into corporate apocalypse and the things we bury in the dust.
Book Details:
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Format: eBook
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