The Dust Road
“Heat is the venerable enemy.
Hope is what remains.”
- Author
- Claudia Befu
- Genre
- Climate fiction
- Setting
- Year 2550
- Form
- Mosaic novel
- Paperback
- ISBN 978-3-200-11042-7
- eBook
- ASIN B0HNRC3CDM
About the story
“In every carbon cycle, death is the engine of life.”
It is the year 2550. After four centuries of climate collapse, Europe is a fragmented continent ruled by former data moguls who inherited Earth’s last forest. The smuggling caravans of the Dust Pirates connect the last surviving human colonies along an underground trade route.
Step onto the Dust Road to learn the stories of those who travel it: a Siberian filmmaker who witnesses a human sacrifice, a Scandinavian seed-grower who risks everything to smuggle a seedling, a Mexihcah boy who must leave his tribe to find the Dust Pirates, an AI officer on a mission to save the last forest, and Shia Santos, a Japanese-Portuguese girl about to uncover the secret of our makers.
“To survive on the Dust Road will cost them more than the water of their bodies.”
Told as a collection of interconnected stories, The Dust Road is a mosaic novel about ecological reckoning, sacrifice, and the fragile persistence of hope at the end of the world.
Book design & illustrations
The print and ebook editions have been designed, illustrated, and typeset by the book artist Barış Şehri.
