From the Kansas plains in 1873 to the red dust of Mars in 2073, one family’s story echoes across centuries of collapse, survival, and reinvention.
In Walk the Vanished Earth, Samson hunts bison in a young America. Bea draws pictures of a past she can’t explain. Paul builds a floating city above a drowned New Orleans. And Moon—raised on Mars by alien “uncles”—must choose whether to become a mother in a world that no longer remembers Earth.
Told over seven generations, Erin Swan’s haunting debut blends climate fiction, dystopian vision, and intimate family drama. It explores what it means to endure, what we carry through time, and whether legacy matters when the planet itself is vanishing.
This isn’t just the end—it’s the beginning of something radical, and maybe even hopeful.
