The future is dying. Humanity’s last hope lies two thousand years in the past.
Climate collapse has pushed civilization beyond the point of recovery. Earth will heal one day, but humanity may not survive long enough to see it.
Marcus Lee is an aging former soldier haunted by old failures and estranged from the family he once swore to protect. When Umeda Rin, the brilliant head of Kage Systems, offers him one final mission, Marcus learns that time itself may provide the escape humanity desperately needs.
His consciousness is sent back to Roman Britannia, where he awakens inside the younger body of a criminal with enemies, debts, and a death sentence waiting for him. His memories are fractured. His mission is unclear. His only guide is Athena, an advanced artificial intelligence trapped within his mind.
To survive, Marcus must adapt to a brutal world of Roman legions, frontier settlements, political ambition, and violent rebellion. His modern military experience may give him an advantage, but history is already moving around him, and every choice risks changing the future he was sent to save.
If Marcus can earn a place in this ancient world, he may be able to prepare it for those who will follow. If he fails, humanity’s final chance will die with him.
Blending military science fiction, time travel, climate fiction, and historical adventure, Depth of Time is a story of survival, sacrifice, identity, and one soldier’s last chance to give his family—and the human race—a future.
Genre: Science Fiction
Climate collapse has pushed civilization beyond the point of recovery. Earth will heal one day, but humanity may not survive long enough to see it.
Marcus Lee is an aging former soldier haunted by old failures and estranged from the family he once swore to protect. When Umeda Rin, the brilliant head of Kage Systems, offers him one final mission, Marcus learns that time itself may provide the escape humanity desperately needs.
His consciousness is sent back to Roman Britannia, where he awakens inside the younger body of a criminal with enemies, debts, and a death sentence waiting for him. His memories are fractured. His mission is unclear. His only guide is Athena, an advanced artificial intelligence trapped within his mind.
To survive, Marcus must adapt to a brutal world of Roman legions, frontier settlements, political ambition, and violent rebellion. His modern military experience may give him an advantage, but history is already moving around him, and every choice risks changing the future he was sent to save.
If Marcus can earn a place in this ancient world, he may be able to prepare it for those who will follow. If he fails, humanity’s final chance will die with him.
Blending military science fiction, time travel, climate fiction, and historical adventure, Depth of Time is a story of survival, sacrifice, identity, and one soldier’s last chance to give his family—and the human race—a future.
Genre: Science Fiction
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