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Amaryllis is a dystopian graphic novel.

Following years of fossil fuel emissions, agricultural activities and a large number of industrial factories, the pollution in the air has reached historically high levels. The thick and polluted air has had a detrimental effect on the world’s resources, causing the people to instead rely on synthetic substitutes.

A skin disorder called Aerosis is believed by many to be caused by this pollution. Although not contagious, the disease is thought to be inheritable and newborn babies soon develop the “Mark.” Even though it has not been proven to have any negative effects on the infected individuals, it has become a social stigma.

The City is split into two regions: Des, the disease-riddled part of the city where the people live in poverty, and Top, the part of the city built on the nearby island where the elite 1% of the population lives in luxury.

Set in an unspecified coastal city in the year 2160, Amaryllis explores elements of dystopian literature through the perspective of the story’s protagonist, Eve. Inspired by works such as Orwell’s 1984 and E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”, the novel contributes to the conversation on contemporary social concerns.