The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust

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Tak Salmastyan Art, Apr 24, 2025 - Fiction - 324 pages

In the ruins of a world engineered to collapse, survival isn't just resistance; it's a memory you have to fight for.

When Clara gives birth to Ava, 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 stands Ethan, his reluctant protector, and Mia, hardened by loss and fury. Together, they scavenge what's left of a world that forgot how to breathe. But in the shadows, a presence waits. Ava, part girl, part code, all vengeance, hunts them from the fire they tried to escape.

Time is unraveling. The infected dream in equations. And 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.

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About the author (2025)

Tak¿Salmastyan is an Armenian American artist, educator, and author based in Los Angeles. Born in the Lori province of Soviet Armenia, he trained at Stepan Aghajanyan Fine Arts School and earned an MA from Yerevan State University before moving to the U.S. in 1990. He later completed an MBA at Pepperdine University and a Doctorate at Argosy University. His artwork has been shown internationally at ArtExpo New York, Gallery¿825 in Los Angeles, and in Tokyo, Berlin, Zug, Palma, Granada, Dubai, plus festivals across California. He developed Autoplasticism and BinArtism¿, methods that merge automatism, neoplasticism, and binary code to examine technology's emotional impact. A passionate teacher of art and animation in Southern California, he regards students as his most important legacy. His creative achievements include animated short films, the novel The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust, and the art and essay series The Life's Theater: Echoes That Suffocate. Visit www.taksalmastyan.com.

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