Stop! Don't pick up this book! Arkdust isn't a book of science fiction! Arkdust isn't beholden to the rigors of telemetric orthodoxy or whatever! This book doesn't predict the future, guide humanity into a predetermined technological wonderland, it's no obelisk that "they" get to touch, toy, play with and weaponize in the halcyon days of an encroaching new world order, no. Arkdust is a guide through the washed-out apocalypse already upon us. Keep this in your back pocket, tucked between calculus text books, hidden from your stepdad, and left to rot on a public transit seat.
These stories from Alex Smith, a founding member of Metropolarity, the art/activist sci-fi collective, and curator of the queer Afrofuturist sci-fi reading Laser Life, embrace the ever morphizing strange, the characters on the margins selling their wares at the bazaar on a moon colony, the lone assasin that targets our hearts. Put this book back! Or join the insurrection today.