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Inversion
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Our Workshop
Published: May 11 2024
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the world turns upside down, survival is no longer about escaping the disaster. It is about understanding what the disaster has revealed.
When sudden volcanic eruptions begin across the globe, scientists first scramble to explain the impossible. Ash, vapor, and ice rise into the upper atmosphere, forming a growing shell around the Earth. Governments urge calm. The public panics. Borders close. Roads jam. Families flee toward warmer regions, believing a new ice age is coming.
But the planet is not freezing.
It is changing.
As the atmosphere transforms, sea levels rise, weather systems destabilize, and the natural world begins behaving in ways no one can explain. In Ontario, Joy gathers her family into her home as society fractures around them. With the help of Ross, a man from her past who arrives just as the world begins to fall apart, she must decide whether to run with everyone else or stay, endure, and protect the people she loves.
Across the world, scientists, survivors, and ordinary people confront a truth more unsettling than catastrophe: humanity may have misunderstood the Earth itself. What appears to be disaster may be transformation. What seems like the end may be an inversion of everything humans believed they knew about survival, progress, and their place on the planet.
Blending speculative fiction, ecological warning, disaster thriller, and human drama, Inversion is a sweeping story of planetary upheaval, family resilience, scientific uncertainty, and the fragile line between fear and wonder.
For readers drawn to climate fiction, apocalyptic survival stories, ecological speculative fiction, and novels that ask what happens when the Earth stops behaving as a passive background to human life.
Contains mature themes, strong language, intimate scenes, depictions of suicide, and instances of animal death. Intended for adult readers.
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