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Anton wakes on a dead red plain with half his mind gone and no idea who he is. A small grey robot dog stands over him, patient as the dust, holding a single tablet in its jaw. Good morning. You have one item of correspondence. Delivery is logged.

The correspondence is a warrant. It bears his own name - Anton V, unit five of five - and it charges him with nothing less than the end of the world.

As each day's dispatch peels back another layer, Anton recovers a hundred centuries of buried memory: a laboratory dug down toward the Earth's molten heart, where his team found a people who were not quite people - advanced, gentle, hollowed out, calling themselves the Three. A reincarnation engine fused to a machine that folds time. A wife he stole across the ages and learned, too late, to love. A golden civilization drowned at the dawn of history and dragged screaming back into the light. And, beneath all of it, a single unbearable question he has spent every life refusing to answer: why, when he has sworn over and over to end suffering, does he reach every single time for the knife?

He has been a god, a prisoner, a healer, a murderer, and the most honored mind his species ever produced. Now, in the ruins of a paradise he built and burned, with a hunter's light crossing the plain to collect him at last, Anton has one final chance to do the one thing he has never once managed in a hundred centuries - and discover what the door was truly for.

A haunting, time-spanning meditation on guilt, free will, and the terrible difference between helping a world and forcing it, ATON V asks whether a man who has only ever destroyed can, just once, choose to save - even when it costs him everything, and saves no one but the ones he loves.

Book details

• Full title: Aton V
• Author: Ivan Teller
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118
• EAN: 9798181342095
• ID: 52857597
• Publisher: Independently published
• Weight: 170 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. June 2026

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