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Finalist, 2025 Chanticleer Cygnus Science Fiction Award Winner, 2025 Best Indie Book Award (BIBA) Readers' Favorite Five Star Award Praise for The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust ""A hauntingly lyrical descent into a fractured world where memory and survival collide."" - The Literary Reporter""A riveting post-apocalyptic tale with a memorable cast."" - Kirkus Reviews""Sharp, poetic, and unrelenting..."" - Literary Titan""A well-written dystopian novel..."" - Readers' FavoriteIn the ruins of a world engineered to collapse, survival is not just resistance. It is a memory you have to fight for.When Clara gives birth to 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 stand Ethan, his reluctant protector, and Mia, hardened by loss and fury. Together they scavenge what remains of a world that has forgotten how to breathe.Ava, part girl, part code, all vengeance, hunts them from the fire they tried to escape.Time is unraveling.An infected dream written in equations.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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Online Book Club Editorial Review - The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust by Tak Salmastyan The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust is a haunting, fast-paced post-apocalyptic novel that explores the devastating consequences of unchecked greed and scientific manipulation. The corporate villainy behind the catastrophe is embodied in GeneCorp, a biotech company that turned a promising cancer therapy into a hormone-based infertility drug-one that allowed parents to customize their children's DNA. But instead of changing the future for the better, the drug mutated into a virus. GeneCorp Virus-40-DZX became airborne, spreading like wildfire and bringing civilization to its knees. What makes this novel so compelling is Tak Salmastyan's remarkable creativity in building both the world and its characters. Ethan quickly became my favorite-his strength, loyalty, and emotional depth were unforgettable. Watching him shoulder adult responsibilities while still a child himself was heartbreaking and powerful. Every scene with the Accelerates kept my pulse racing, and I often wished I could step into the story to help. 5/5 Online Book Club Editorial Review - The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust by Tak Salmastyan From the very first page, The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust by Tak Salmastyan pulled me into a haunting, emotionally charged journey through a world shattered by human greed. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where children are transformed into dangerous mutants by a genetic virus, this novel is both a chilling work of speculative fiction and a deeply moving story of survival, brotherhood, and hope. The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust is a must-read for fans of dystopian fiction, emotionally driven survival narratives, and readers who crave morally complex stories. It is a powerful reminder that even in the darkest of times, love remains our greatest tool for survival. 5/5 James: The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust by Tak Salmastyan is a gripping and unsettling post-apocalyptic tale that explores the devastating consequences of scientific hubris. 5/5 Mounce574 A dystopian horror story where scientific progress falls short of success. The descriptions are vivid. The emotional weight carried by the characters extremely heavy. 5/5

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I am an Armenian American artist, educator, and author based in Los Angeles. I was born in the Lori province of Soviet Armenia and trained at the Stepan Aghajanyan Fine Arts School. I earned a Master of Arts from Yerevan State University before moving to the United States in 1990. I later completed an MBA at Pepperdine University and a Doctorate at Argosy University.My artwork has been exhibited internationally at ArtExpo New York, Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, and in cities including Tokyo, Berlin, Zug, Palma, Granada, and Dubai, as well as in festivals throughout California. I developed Autoplasticism and BinArtism(TM), two creative methods that blend automatism, neoplasticism, and binary code to explore the emotional dimensions of technology.As a teacher of art and animation in Southern California, I see my students as my most meaningful legacy. My creative work includes several animated short films, the dystopian novel The Accelerates: Forty Days to Dust, and The Life's Theater: Echoes That Suffocate, the first in a five-volume series of essays and visual art.To learn more, please visit www.taksalmastyan.com.

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