The Carbon Silence
On the ocean-world Pelagia, every breath is rationed, every molecule traced, and every citizen’s carbon ledger is tattooed into law. When Eira Voss—a forensic accountant for the Planetary Climate Authority—finds a dead man whose emissions record continues to spend after his heart stops, she uncovers a private market trading in identity, oxygen, and culpability. The anomaly leads her beneath the floating cities into the brine-dark industrial reefs where the planet’s terraformi…
By H.C. Nosseck · Free AI-generated novel · Science fiction · EN