First published 2023
The super rich live in luxury while masses toil and die for their profit. Tchaikovsky drops readers into three brutal futures where ordinary people face impossible choices. On a muddy battlefield, soldiers become expendable weapons in corporate wars. In scorching equatorial heat, workers risk everything just to survive another day. In a village crushed back into feudalism, families scrape by under the boot of new masters. These aren't stories about the powerful. They're about the people who clean up their messes, fight their battles, and pay for their comfort with blood. Each tale shows different faces of the same ugly truth: those at the top will burn the world before giving up their throne. But in the mud, dust, and grinding poverty, something else grows. The seed of revolution takes root in the hearts of people who have nothing left to lose.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, social-issues, political-thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, revolution
Setting: Equatorial, Battlefield
Period: Future
464 pages · Paperback · Solaris
Content warnings: violence