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The Interval
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Science FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Neil Powell
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A colossal object rises from the ocean and begins rolling inland at five miles per hour.
It does not attack.
It does not speak.
It does not stop.
Within days, identical forms emerge from the seafloor across the globe, advancing steadily across coastlines, farmland, highways, and cities. There is no explosion, no ultimatum-only motion. Governments mobilize. Scientists calculate trajectories. News cycles spin. Ordinary people gather at the edge, watching the boundary shift yard by yard.
The phenomenon resists interpretation. It cannot be negotiated with or redirected. It can only be measured.
As weeks stretch into months, humanity is forced into a strange new rhythm: adapting infrastructure, recalculating borders, reorganizing economies-learning to live alongside something vast and indifferent. The crisis is not sudden destruction, but sustained uncertainty.
Blending speculative scale with literary restraint, The Interval explores how institutions behave under prolonged pressure, how meaning is constructed in the absence of answers, and what emerges when the world must accommodate the incomprehensible rather than defeat it.
For readers of thoughtful, idea-driven fiction that balances scientific plausibility with psychological and cultural insight, The Interval is a meditation on time, systems, and the quiet spaces where history turns.
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