Stardust is a queer, subversive piece of science fiction that takes cues from gothic horror. It contains content that might be disturbing, triggering or innapropriate for some audiences. It also contains explicit sex scenes. Please view the content warnings and use discretion when reading. It also relies on colored text in a way that may not be accessible to colorblind readers or readers using some screenreaders.

In a near-future dystopian United States wracked by a years-past alien invasion, Dusties are a part of normal, everyday life. They hold authority within the US government, extract human labor and resources, and the atmosphere is cloggest with stardust, the substance they dissolve into on their deaths. The rich and powerful, humans and Dusties alike, are spared from the disastrous effects of stardust on the environment and human health, while the common people make do with respirators and air filters. The population is still reeling from the initial bombings, a one-time occurrence that nevertheless resulted in mass death, and while the US built back the destroyed infrastructure, has sparked civic dissatisfaction and violent unrest.

July, a psychotic bisexual soldier in a conservative military resistance group, and Cas, a sardonic strategist in the same group with a pretentious chip on their shoulder, have spent their entire adolescence living underground after the deaths of their families, holed up in the subway tunnels of NYC. Their lives are upended when a spaceship crash-lands just over the Jersey border, introducing them to Aston and Sage, key figures in the initial Dusty invasion, and kicking off a plan to assassinate the President.

Once the assassination fails, all four are plunged into a hellish nightmare where the line between reality and dreaming blurs to the point of no return, dimensions crash and blend into one another, politics intertwine with what can only be described as magic, and the stardust that chokes their atmosphere seems to have more significance than they knew. At the center of it all, June, July's presumed-dead twin sister, is discovered to not only be alive, but to have been adopted by the Secretary of State under mysterious circumstances--and now she wants July back in her life, too. by any means necessary.