The Present He Abandoned: A Novel of Relativity and Consequence

By Toby Mikle

Dorian Vale is dying. The richest man of his age cannot buy immortality, so he buys distance from consequence: a near-light-speed ship called the Forward. For him, each voyage lasts six months. On Earth, eighty years pass.

He returns to children older than parents, trials with no living witnesses, worshippers who reject the real man, laws that no longer recognize him, and a future that learns to make him smaller. The Present He Abandoned is a cold, satirical science fiction novel about relativity, memory, wealth, law, and the cost of refusing to share time with other people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6Y9DDM1
• ISBN13: 9798184888743
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"