The future is dead but insists on persevering.

When our narrator meets Alice, his aimless existence spirals into a procession of technocratic galas, sanitized art, and fatuous socialites. From meatless barbecues to curfewless parties, he wanders through a multiverse of ineffectual what-ifs.

And it breaks him.

Enter Mr. George, part-time photographer and rising emblem, one terrorist act away from finding meaning, who drags him into an underworld of uncensored poetry, homemade explosives, and a growing brigade of toothless young men eager to efface history.

As the first one-world election looms, one reckoning becomes inescapable: will he detonate progress, or will he dissolve into it?

Emblems and Dust is a literary dystopia about the quiet extinction of self.