The Salt-Crust Protocol

About this book

In an alternate history where the rampant coal dependency of the 1890s triggered a rapid, catastrophic greenhouse effect, the Earth of the 1930s is a boundless, boiling ocean. Above the deadly waves float the scrap-raft cities of the Deep-Float, where scavengers fight for survival. When Tavish, a sheltered and naive archivist from a high-altitude elite dirigible, is cast down into the brutal ocean-level slums, he must learn to survive in a world he only knew from sanitized history books. Armed with a mysterious encrypted cylinder, Tavish becomes the target of ruthless scrap-barons. As the narrative alternates between Tavish's desperate present and the 1890s perspective of Zaven, an engineer who foresaw the rising tides, a devastating conspiracy unfolds that links the architects of the old world's demise to the rulers of the new one.

Book details

Genres:

Climate Fiction, Steampunk

Language:

en

Published:

2026-04-03

Content rating:

R