Mycelium Skies: The Boy Who Fell From Eden
New book by David William Beck. Mycelium Skies is a dystopian science fiction novel about survival, systems, and the control of resources. It asks a brutal question: who gets to live when resources are controlled from above?
Short description
When Eden Academy is damaged, seventeen-year-old Samaki "Sam" Johnson is forced to leave the only home he has ever known. Thrown into an unfamiliar city shaped by an anarcho-capitalist order, he must learn fast whether he will sink or swim. As Sam meets people with very different lives, values, and hopes, he begins to realise that what he carries inside him matters to more than just himself. Hunted by powerful interests and guided by unlikely allies, Sam steps into a world of shadow and light where connection, choice, and trust may matter more than power.
Full synopsis
Eden Academy was a quiet, protected place, set apart from the rest of the world. It was where Sam Johnson grew up, safe from danger and routine in its calm order. It was also where questions were left unanswered. Sam never knew what happened to his parents, only that their story was never spoken aloud, as if silence itself was part of the lesson.
When the academy is damaged, Sam is forced out into the city below, a place he knows only from rumours and half-told stories. At its centre stands a single vast mycelium tower, a symbol of wealth and control in a world that has slipped into anarcho-capitalism. Around it spreads a city shaped by deals, private power, and sharp divides, but also by resilience and quiet acts of care.
As Sam finds his footing, he meets people who challenge everything he thought he understood. Lola, Morris, and others each carry their own beliefs about freedom, fairness, and survival. Through them, Sam sees many versions of the same city, some harsh, some kind, all incomplete on their own. What begins as survival slowly becomes connection.
Sam learns that there is something unusual about him, something tied to his past and valuable to those who already hold power. Corporate systems are watching. Outside forces are circling. Yet alongside the danger is a growing sense that change is possible, not through control, but through people choosing to stand together.
As Sam searches for the truth about who he is and where he came from, he discovers that hope can exist even in unequal systems, and that light is often found where people look after one another. Mycelium Skies is a story about growing up, about meeting the world as it is, and about finding meaning and agency in the spaces between shadow and light.
Why this book, and why now?
This story explores how systems of power shape everyday life, not just through force, but through relationships, access, and silence. Set in a future shaped by anarcho-capitalism, Mycelium Skies asks what kind of world grows when everything has a price, and what kind of hope remains when people still choose connection.
Reader guide
- Genre: science fiction, dystopian, speculative fiction
- Reader vibe: tense, thoughtful, hopeful under pressure
- Themes: identity, inequality, systems of control, chosen family
Book list
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