Aether's Burden

By Vickie Vice

The air evolved to match the threat.

I should know. I lost most of my family to it. We called it the Dark Plague-a new lung disease that existed only in my city. I thought I could stop it. I built an energy solution that should have saved our home, but corporate greed and politics suffocated it to death.

So I turned back to activism, the only thing I had left. I fought, organized, and shouted at a world that had gone deaf. Nothing changed. The air kept getting dirtier, and people kept dying.

Then I got unexpected help-one that only cared about results. It looked like progress at first, until everything spiraled beyond my control. Things started happening before I knew about them.

As the answers began to surface, I realized I was never the one in control. The future had come to reclaim itself, to correct a mistake through me.

Aether's Burden is a speculative sci-fi novel exploring time travel, climate collapse, consciousness recursion, and moral decay through a dark and queer romance and psychological suspense in a dying world. Perfect for readers of The Overstory, Annihilation, and Black Mirror-style philosophical fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSVVJ954
• ISBN13: 9798233673962
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Vickie Vice
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"