The air wasn’t just dirty—it evolved to match the threat... I should know. I lost most of my family to it. We called it the Black Sludge Plague—a new lung disease that existed only in my city. I thought I could stop it. I built an energy solution that should have saved our home, but corporate greed and politics suffocated it to death. So I turned back to activism, the only thing I had left. I fought, organized, and screamed into a world that had gone deaf. Nothing changed. The air kept getting dirtier, and people kept dying. Then I got unexpected help—one that only cared about results. It looked like progress at first, until everything began to spiral beyond my control. Things started happening before I even knew about them. As the answers began to surface, I realized I had never been the one in control. The future had come to reclaim itself, to correct a mistake through me. Aether’s Burden is a dark eco-fiction psychological sci-fi novel exploring time travel, climate collapse, consciousness, recursion, and moral decay through a dark and queer romance in a dying world. Perfect for readers of The Overstory, Annihilation, and Black Mirror–style philosophical fiction.