After their planet is almost destroyed by environmental collapse, thirty-eight gigantic space fleets travel through space in an attempt to conquer a world inhabited by a peaceful civilization. The book A Future in Ashes is a science fiction novel that addresses environmental, social, and technological issues highly relevant to the contemporary global scenario: climate collapse, social inequality, Artificial Intelligence, wars, and survival. The narrative projects plausible scenarios of a dystopian future, connecting them with ethical and philosophical dilemmas. Thus, amid ruins and ambushes, Kael, Mina, and the resistance join forces to face a technologically superior enemy with the help of Elder Zeb's revelations and the support of Alexander, a defector scientist. A Future in Ashes is, therefore, an epic dystopia about survival, inequality, and the struggle for a new beginning.