For three centuries, he lives only thirty days a year.

Between awakenings, the world moves on without him. Languages thin and vanish. Empires crumble. Technologies become opaque. Intelligence surpasses its human origins. The people he loves age, change, and die while he remains almost unchanged.

The Thirty-Day Man is a contemplative dystopian science fiction novel about time rationed, love distorted by policy, fragmented memories, artificial minds, and the fragile rituals that make a human life coherent.

It follows one man's attempt to remain present—to be a husband, a father, a friend—when continuity itself has been broken.

It is a story about what it costs to remain human when time no longer belongs to you.

This is not a fast-paced or action-driven story. It is a meditation on endurance, consent, and what remains human when mortality is optional. It favours reflection over spectacle, and will appeal most to readers who enjoy philosophical science fiction.

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