After Armageddon

About this book

By 2200, catastrophe has divided Earth into two societies separated by toxic waters and armed convoys. The First World is a frozen utopia where nature is rationed, fertility is controlled, citizens are tracked by implanted technology, and faith has become a crime. The Zero World is an open-air inferno ruled by slavery, improvised cults, and the trade in human beings. Between them travels Mass, carrying a damaged memory and an obsessive need to find the mother who vanished amid the chaos of the ports. His journey north reveals a threat greater than piracy or storms: a system in which bodies are interchangeable commodities and immortality is reserved for the powerful. Salah Ali Ngab's dystopian novel asks what remains of survival when memory, freedom, and the soul have been stripped away.