Eternal

AKIN ATILLA

May 2026 · Arvellan Publishing

About this ebook

When humanity forgets how to feel, what is eternity for?

Imagine a city where pain has been silenced, memory has been softened, and human beings have been gently led away from their own inner voice.

The Protocol promised humanity a safer, longer, and more peaceful life. Illness was controlled. Fear was subdued. The weight of loss was made easier to bear. People lived longer, suffered less, and moved through a world that was orderly, quiet, and almost flawless.

But inside that perfect order, something essential had been forgotten.

Feeling.

Elena lives in a colony room where she knows everything and feels nothing. She knows the rain, the pine trees, the pigeon on the windowsill, and the face of the man who visits her. But none of this knowledge carries warmth. None of it reaches the place where life once lived.

Until a small orange awakens something the system had buried.

For Dr. Sam Warren, Elena’s awakening is more than a fragile hope of recovering the woman he loves. It is the first crack in the world he has served for years. As the language of the system begins to unravel — treatment, transfer, concluded — Sam discovers that the words written in files may be hiding something far darker than death.

An orange. A record. A missing name.

A promise that refuses to disappear.

As the truth begins to surface, Elena and Sam are drawn into a struggle where remembering becomes resistance, love becomes evidence, and remaining human may mean standing against the entire system.

Eternal is a dystopian science fiction novel about the ancient question hidden beneath the promise of endless life:

If humanity is freed from pain, does it become truly free — or does it lose the last thing that makes it human?

About the author

Akın Atilla is an international business executive and entrepreneur with extensive experience in executive leadership, brand development, strategy, project management, and business development across multiple industries. Throughout his professional career, his work across different countries, cultures, and sectors has given him the opportunity to closely observe human behavior, systems, decision-making processes, and the shifting structure of the modern world.

Eternal is not merely the author’s exploration of a possible future; it is a literary inquiry into the fragile relationship human beings have with memory, emotion, pain, control, and freedom. In this novel, Akın Atilla focuses on the essential question hidden beneath technology, order, and the promise of eternity:

Can a human being remain human after losing the ability to feel?

Akın Atilla