The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust - Hardcover

Salmastyan, Tak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1969208023 ISBN 13: 9781969208027

Publisher: Tak Salmastyan Art, 2025

Synopsis

Finalist, 2025 Chanticleer Cygnus Science Fiction Award

Winner, 2025 Best Indie Book Award (BIBA)

Readers' Favorite Five Star Award

Praise for The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust

"A hauntingly lyrical descent into a fractured world where memory and survival collide." - The Literary Reporter

"A riveting post-apocalyptic tale with a memorable cast." - Kirkus Reviews

"Sharp, poetic, and unrelenting..." - Literary Titan

"A well-written dystopian novel..." - Readers' Favorite

In the ruins of a world engineered to collapse, survival is not just resistance. It is a memory you have to fight for.

When Clara gives birth to a genetically altered child, the echoes of a failed experiment ripple across time.

Leo is one year old, trapped in a five-year-old's body, carrying the mind of someone a century old. Fragile. Brilliant. Haunted. He bears the weight of humanity's final gamble.

Beside him stand Ethan, his reluctant protector, and Mia, hardened by loss and fury. Together they scavenge what remains of a world that has forgotten how to breathe.

Ava, part girl, part code, all vengeance, hunts them from the fire they tried to escape.

Time is unraveling.

An infected dream written in equations.

Every breath could be their last.

The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust is a poetic post-apocalyptic reckoning. Part genetic horror. Part elegy. Part love letter to the children grown too fast.

For readers who believe memory is a weapon worth wielding.

About this title

About the Author

I am an Armenian American artist, educator, and author based in Los Angeles. I was born in the Lori province of Soviet Armenia and trained at the Stepan Aghajanyan Fine Arts School. I earned a Master of Arts from Yerevan State University before moving to the United States in 1990. I later completed an MBA at Pepperdine University and a Doctorate at Argosy University.My artwork has been exhibited internationally at ArtExpo New York, Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, and in cities including Tokyo, Berlin, Zug, Palma, Granada, and Dubai, as well as in festivals throughout California. I developed Autoplasticism and BinArtism(TM), two creative methods that blend automatism, neoplasticism, and binary code to explore the emotional dimensions of technology.As a teacher of art and animation in Southern California, I see my students as my most meaningful legacy. My creative work includes several animated short films, the dystopian novel The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust, and The Life's Theater: Echoes That Suffocate, the first in a five-volume series of essays and visual art.To learn more, please visit www.taksalmastyan.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tak Salmastyan Art
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1969208023
• ISBN 13: 9781969208027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310