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Anantam: A True Story From A Different Timeline
Paperback
HumorScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if you could rewrite your destiny... but not your ending?
Shri is a struggling insurance agent who sells policies to people who can't afford to die.
His wife earns more than him. His boss humiliates him daily. His life is a loop of fluorescent lights, train commutes, and quiet desperation.
Then he meets a roadside scientist who offers him something impossible.
No Miracle Pills.
Not A Machine.
Not Hardwork.
But a shortcut.
Using forbidden neuroscience and ancient philosophy, Shri hacks consciousness itself - accessing what feels like the hidden admin panel of reality.
He rewrites his destiny.
He gets the money. The hair. The power.
But reality doesn't like being edited.
Memories begin to contradict each other. His wife doesn't recognize him. The script he's living feels prewritten - and the ending may already be decided.
Trapped between the slum he escaped and the penthouse he created, Shri must answer an impossible question:
If you could rewrite your life... but couldn't change the ending, would you still do it?
Part Fight Club, part The Matrix, ANANTAM is a darkly comic sci-fi thriller that blends social satire with speculative fiction to explore free will, determinism, identity, and the dangerous price of ambition.
He only sold insurance.
Reality took it personally.
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