Museum of Life

Welcome to the Museum of Life, an archive of preserved human minds, forever crossing in and out of existence. Museum visitors can experience a tapestry of stories, including our signature exhibitions featuring some of the most extraordinary historical figures and moments that gave birth to our new world. We hope you’ll enjoy these curated collections of lives.

Your curators,
Deya & Sayuri Santos
Museum of Life ⬡

The Museum of Life is an ongoing body of work that will comprise several novels and short story collections set in the same universe.

At a conceptual level, this story-world is an attempt to depict the future of life on Earth in the wake of dramatic climate change.

The Museum of Life universe spans fifteen centuries (2100 ÆV—3600 ÆV) and is segmented into three historical periods:

• The Data War (2100 ÆV—2500 ÆV)

• The Dust Road (2500 ÆV—2850 ÆV)

• The Deep Dive (2900 ÆV—3600 ÆV)

This page is the complete reading atlas for the Museum of Life universe.

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The Data War period

The Data Moguls attempt to rule Earth while fighting for the last resources.

Sci-fi shorts

• Illegal: Cli-fi • Biopunk • Thriller (Lunar Award 🥇winner)
  Survival in the dome city.

• Wildfire: Cli-fi • Future history • Transhumanism
  A data mogul watches the last forest burn.

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The Dust Road period

Survival in a post-apocalyptic wasteland ravaged by climate change and human greed—the first encounter with our Makers.

Sci-fi shorts

• Smuggler: Cli-fi • Dystopian • Child protagonist
  They call us the zombie children.

• Ice: Cli-fi • Drama • Tween protagonist
  A dream vacation with ice.

• Ladybug: Sci-fi • Literary • Fictional memoir
  The memories we leave behind.

• Human Island: Cli-fi • Dystopian • Dark twist
  The last sharks.

Story series

• There Is Hope: A climate fiction mosaic novel about life on planet devastated by climate change and the things that give people hope.

This novel was serialized on Story Voyager from 2023 to 2025. The series is now available to read in the paid archive together with worldbuilding material and field notes. New readers can start here.

There Is Hope will be released in print in 2026.

Cover designed by Barış Şehri

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The Deep Dive period

The last attempt to overturn our new world order.

Sci-fi shorts

• Welcome to Gulmohur: Sci-fi • Utopian • Strong female lead
  A sacred mother is getting her first pupil.

Story mini-series

• Initiation: Sci-fi • Biopunk • Coming of age

  • Episode 1: Changes
    A young girl learns the date of her initiation.

  • Episode 2: Rebel
    A young girl rebels against her mother.

  • Episode 3: Hunger
    A young girl cannot still her hunger.

  • Episode 4: Mindbinding
    A young girl gets initiated into the ancient practice of mindbinding.

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Auxiliary material

🔒 A deep dive into the worldbuilding of Museum of Life for paid members. Free articles are marked (F).

• A dystopian world as the prequel to a utopian world

• Kelp forests give hope to climate refugees

• The Dust Pirates of Central Europe

• Corn, science fiction and the future of food (F)

• Access to seeds will determine your social class in the future

• Tree huggers and digital minds (F)

• The economy of controlling women (F)

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Field notes

The following non-fiction articles document the scientific, historical, and literary research that informed the world of the Museum of Life.

All Field Notes are free to read (F).

• The fiction of climate change (F)

• Allow me to get rich and I will save the world (F)

• The Great Dying and the Little Ice Age: Exploring forgotten chapters of climate history (F)

• A depressing reading list for a future worth living (F)

• Climate change started thousands of years ago (F)

• We won’t save the planet in the next 200 years (F)

• Beyond the attention economy, true power lies in access to individuals (F)

• We need a new ecology of thought (F)

• Nature doesn’t need rights (F)

• Surviving the unexpected (F)

• The economy of collapse (F)

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What readers say

“Excellent! The writing feels careful and intentional. It’s a fascinating world.”
— Peter Clayborne

“Beautifully written and utterly believable, unfortunately.”
— Terry Freedman

“This is straight up seductive sci-fi in every respect.”
— Appleton King

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Thank you for reading,
—Claudia Befu