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This contemporary generational saga follows the existential crises of a man named Ivan and his family.
Ivan is a businessman who has sidelined his personal life to expand his business. He comes home each night to the abuse of his senile father.
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A confrontation with death causes Ivan to take his life more seriously. Aided by the spark of a new romance, Ivan searches for hidden parts of himself before the best years of his life pass him by.
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Meanwhile, his sister Lilly grows uncomfortable as she recognizes the worst parts of her father in her husband, Robert. The contours of her family dynamic lead to a reckoning in which she must evaluate what is best for her and her children.
A Collection of Existential Fiction
With the full weight and gravity of the world pressing down upon her, Alethea rests in an uneasy slumber...
Through this thoughtful collection of stories, Alethea's dreams come to life. Her concern for humanity manifests in the curiously tragic, romantic, and insightful lives of her dream’s main characters.
As the winds of change blow and the dirt is whisked away, the nature of her truth resurfaces in a myriad of times and places: the slave pit of a rock quarry to the King’s table; along distant mountain passes, and the many endless highways of civilization; between the lines of blank pages; in the heart of modern suburbia; underneath the red berries of a threatened coffee farm that rests deep in the El Salvadorian jungle; stuck under the surgical knife in a flickering makeshift operating room amidst the chaotic throngs of war; across time and space into our most painful traumatic pasts, unto our unfolding futures, and beyond,
Alethea and her dreams take us underneath the surface of our illusions to the distant future that our hearts long for.
Daniel's Books
Life is Weird: Second Edition
Alethea's Dreams
Son of a Madman
Daniel's Story
Born in Orange County, California in 1990, Daniel B. Martin grew up at the beach. In 2011 he moved to Hawaii to study philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Oahu. Martin spent a few years after my undergraduate studies living on Maui, in California, and on the road. In 2018 he relocated to the Netherlands to study for a Masters in Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture.
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Martin writes to influence the way humans interact with the world through their own intimate lived experiences. He chose to step his philosophy away from the Aristotelian and analytic confines of academia to focus on creating philosophically investigative fiction.
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Martin's work is published through his independent publishing house, Prefuture Publishing. His dedication to adding to the annals of history extends from his personal work and independent publishing house to his day job, as a publisher, working for a non-competitive major global publisher (which is entirely unrelated to his personal writing and philosophical pursuits).
Other Publications
Filthy Animals - upcoming full length novel to be published in 2025. This tragically comedic tale of a poor sleazeball want-to-be author’s daily life and existential rebellion takes place in a Bukowski-esque underbelly of Los Angles in the 1970s.