Industrial Engineering 4th year student Bengüsu Özcan's second book Antika Adam was published by Pena Yayınları on September 6, 2016!
Antika Adam [Ancient Man] is the story of Koray, who is cryogenically preserved into the future as a responsible young man, and his ordeals in the new world where he finds himself. It is a gripping story of time travel gone awry.
Bengüsu Özcan said the following about her book: "I had been thinking about how some corporations can grow to be even stronger than governments, enticing students to become a part of them through interview techniques that were not unlike 'Hunger Games'. I also realized that I would eventually become entangled in this system regardless of how critical of it I am, and that it would evolve into something that would be considered natural, even approved of, by people in the future. Many 'developments' that are intrinsic to us to the extent that we don't question them at all, remain mysterious to the older generation, and they shy away from them. So I decided to write about how a person from my generation would adapt to the new world of an imaginary future after he travels in time. This is how my second book Antika Adam came to being.’’
About Antika Adam
If you were to take a break from life for 50 years, would you ride along with the change and adapt to your new world, or would you become embroiled in a quest for your distant past?
A story of time travel gone awry
"For reasons unknown, the universe expands continuously. As it expands we shrink; we are stuck in a corner of a solar system destined to expire among a million stars in each of a million galaxies that occupy a space no larger than the pupil of an eye, and we scream at the top of our lungs to lay a claim on everything else around us. Our faith that we can actually do this is what we get out of bed for day after day; if we were to lose that faith, what purpose would there be in breathing?"
All Koray remembered of the night before was fighting his illness when he woke up, reborn in a young and healthy body in the year 2079. He was the first human to travel into the future by cryogenic preservation. Yet, the world he finds himself in has a store of surprises for him.
