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Ecological hard science fiction

Feroxygen

The Earth We Saved Too Much

Millennia after a climate intervention transformed Earth, a forensic ignition cartographer investigates an impossible fire in a high-altitude citadel. In a world where breathing and burning depend on a fragile balance, every trace challenges what her society believes it knows.

Standalone novel in five parts

The story

In a future shaped by an intervention meant to stop runaway warming, oxygen begins to rise again and makes ordinary fire a planetary danger. Lia Orta, a forensic ignition cartographer in a high-altitude citadel, investigates an "impossible fire" as Nilo Aram works to keep his lowland community alive through dangerous peat-fire seasons. A parallel timeline follows the people who built the intervention and the choices that made it difficult to reverse. The project combines an ecological science-fiction premise with an investigation; its chapter drafts are still being assessed as the novel develops.

A hard-ecological-SF forensic investigation — an inverted climate catastrophe (too much oxygen, not too little) with the visual ambition of Scavengers Reign and the systems rigor of The Expanse.

Why it stands out

The premise reverses a familiar climate-fiction expectation — too much oxygen rather than too little — and gives the investigation a concrete environmental threat. A forensic cartographer reading heat and pressure gradients can make the worldbuilding serve the mystery rather than become an infodump. The dual timeline lets the novel examine how a well-intended intervention can outlast the institutions meant to govern it. Scientific assumptions remain under review; this profile describes the intended premise, not independently validated science.

The world

The project is set roughly 18,400 years after a human climate intervention and uses a working specification involving elevated atmospheric oxygen, high-altitude cities and peat-fire lowlands. The precise physical model, terminology and title/brand identity remain in development review. This is a fictional world specification, not a claim that the scientific model has been independently validated.

Scope and formats

Standalone novel planned in 5 parts and 40 chapters, with a target of 110,000–130,000 words. A 40-chapter outline and chapter drafts exist; their sequence and relationship to the evolving manuscript are still being reviewed.

Could become
Books, Film & TV, Animation, Games
Who it is for
Proposed audience: readers of speculative climate fiction and ecological thrillers interested in science-led worldbuilding and investigation. This is editorial positioning, not measured audience or market research.
Adaptation ideas
The ecological setting and investigation could support screen or interactive exploration, but no validated adaptation package or game-mechanics design is documented. This is a development possibility, not a market-readiness claim; the priority is to reconcile the title, scientific model and manuscript authority.
Stage
10 chapters counted; 2 further drafts under review (40 planned)
Development materials
Development materials include world, character and science documents, a 40-chapter outline, and pitch material. Twelve chapter drafts are currently catalogued; the novel remains in development and is not open for submission. This page does not provide downloadable files.

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