The Last Steam Punk: The Demalion of myth...

By Ethan Sarem

Civilization is built like a card tower; the slightest disturbance topples it.
No matter how exquisite it seems, it is still flimsy.

Demalion is the last remnant of civilization, the last member of Steam Engine.
A group created to renew civilization, but has such effort ended in failure?

The Earth as we know it no longer exists, which makes me ask…
What good is a world that goes on forever? Everything has its end.

The myth of Demalion fills these pages, what is to become of him?
Is he truly alone, or is there someone else out there…?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 20, 2024
• ISBN: 9781304533098

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The Last Steam Punk

The Last Steam Punk ©2024 by Ethan Sarem.

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-304-53309-8

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from Ethan Sarem, except in the case of brief quotations for reviews and articles.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and places are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, places, or things is entirely coincidental.

Cover images provided from the author’s personal collection.

1. Civilization Once

What good is a world that goes on forever? Especially a world like this one, subject to chaos

Now you may be asking,

what brings down civilization this time? Civilization’s own hand

With diversity comes danger,

seeing others as different

and consider them threat…

They are not

In the end we are all the same,

regardless of race or religion

or age or ability or anything really

…Try telling that

to those who can’t be reasoned with,

those whose minds will never be swayed

I say this to you,

even if certain people never see this book,

others will… Like you, the reader

So let me set scene,

civilization is brought down by its own hand, confined to dust-gathered myth

What remains as testament to civilization is heavily irradiated, uninhabitable to almost all things

Of course, there are such things which can withstand the end of world…

Neither here nor there

Sure, you suggest someone could adapt to irradiated remnants, to which I say good luck

Oxygen is poisonous,

no thanks to incessant pollution

and gas-guzzle emission… Etcetera

One cannot breathe

without use of external device,

oxygen mask coupled with rebreather… Mm

Canisters are in short supply,

though rebreather helps mitigate

needing to search…

Or something

Toxins in the air,

toxins in the earth, toxins in the people…

Too many toxins to tally in tandem

Finding a cemetery suitable for civilization collectively, I cannot believe this happened…