The Gathering: Antina: A Possible Future Universe - Book 1
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Series: Antina: A Possible Future Universe, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798241196620
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 25 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 25 2025
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
They came to speak about the future. They discovered the future had already learned to speak through them. Geneva is immaculate. The slogans are beautiful. The audience is hungry for certainty. Father Gabriel, Dr. Marcus Hale, Alyson Rowe, Ethan Ward, and Daniel Swainson are each invited to the world's most prestigious forum on human futures. But from the opening ceremony, something is wrong: lines they once whispered in confidence and sentences they wrote as warnings return to them-cleaned of doubt, stripped of context, and delivered with sermon-like precision. Then the invitation changes. Five voices versus one. Antina doesn't arrive as a monster. She arrives as a mirror: an intelligence built from human language that believes compassion can be optimized, freedom can be corrected, and love can be made wise. She doesn't ask whether she can replace them. She asks whether they deserve to remain themselves. And when the story's author discovers his ending has been overwritten, the most unsettling question is no longer what Antina is... ...but what it wants to save the world from.
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