Forever Lost In Time

By Samuel Hurley

Forever Lost in Time is a haunting fusion of historical fiction and dystopian science-fiction. A tale of one man adrift between centuries, searching for meaning in the ruins of human ambition.In the year 1702, sailor Bob Mamet finds fleeting peace in a Caribbean port, his restless life stilled by love and music. But a strange storm tears him from that fragile happiness, hurling him into a bleak future where humanity has become the machinery of its own enslavement. Awaking aboard a colossal reptilian starship ruled by silence and servitude, Bob witnesses a civilization hollowed by obedience and the echo of extinct dreams.Forever Lost in Time explores memory, rebellion, and the ache of love that outlives centuries, a lyrical odyssey through the wreckage of history and the heart's unbroken will to be free.Born from the experience of feeling hopeless in a capitalist society. Watching friends and co-workers quickly thrusted away from layoffs and being replaced. A commentary on what could happen to us all if we stop loving.Once, the world turned by hand. Men built ships, sang in taverns, dreamed of sky and sea. Now it hums by code and current. A single, sleepless machine that trades time for output and breath for efficiency. We have built engines so vast that even the stars seem small beside them, and yet we call this progress.Every dawn we rise to feed the gears. We queue, we commute, we scroll. We whisper that it's only temporary, that the next quarter, the next raise, the next algorithm will finally make life easier. But the cost has already been paid. Our wonder, our creativity, our stillness, each mortgaged away for comfort that never arrives.When the great companies trim their ranks to please unseen investors, it's not just workers they discard. It's the music of a thousand quiet dreamers, artists turned coders, poets turned product managers, who once believed that innovation would set them free. Instead, they find themselves ghosts in a system that knows no mercy, dismissed by the very engines they built.The modern ship sails without a captain now. Its crew obeys metrics, not stars. And though the sky outside still glows with endless promise, the windows grow smaller every year.Yet somewhere, deep in that hum of endless motion, a question survives: If a machine can never love, why do we keep trying to serve it?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW78Y1DP
• ISBN13: 9798251844764
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"