The Accelerates? Forty Days to Dust (Paperback or Softback)

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 a Ava, 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.

I am The King of Spiritual Hooligans without borders or limitations, a dreaming voyager celebrating love, misery, light, and darkness through vivid imagination, spurious style, and striking color. Realist, surrealist, socialist, cubist, capitalist, impressionist, modernist, or conformist - none of these confines me, other than Artist.My paintings are not about what we saw, or what we see, or what we will see.They are about what we felt when we saw, what we feel when we see, and what we will feel when we will see.I am an Armenian American artist, educator, and author based in Los Angeles. Born in the Lori province of Soviet Armenia, I trained at the Stepan Aghajanyan Fine Arts School and 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 blending automatism, neoplasticism, and binary code to explore the emotional dimensions of technology.As a longtime teacher of art and animation in Southern California, I see my students as my most meaningful legacy. My creative work spans animated short films, paintings, and writing, including 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.