When Platinum Rusts

How far would you go to preserve what little of humanity remains-before you stop recognising it?Doctor Selest Dvali is running out of time, resources, and moral excuses. On the ruins of a failed colonisation project, she attempts the unthinkable: to engineer a new kind of human strong enough to survive the end of civilisation-without knowing what that survival will cost.But the deeper she goes, the more the lines blur. Ethics erode. Mistakes multiply. And every failure leaves a permanent scar.Among towering forests and half-living machines, Selest's experiment becomes Eternum's last fragile hope-and its greatest risk.This novel stands fully on its own, uncovering a buried legacy that later generations will try-and fail-to understand.A quiet, unsettling dystopia about love, responsibility, and the lies we tell ourselves when survival is at stake.Perfect for readers who enjoy morally complex science fiction and slow-burn biopunk-atmospheric, character-driven, and unsettling, without the nihilism.