Reality & identity
The story explores the fictional properties that keep matter, memory, identity, and reality stable.
Book Three · Anthony and the AI Machines
A Science-Fantasy Adventure
One minute vanished. Everything changed.
A broken robot named P-7. A mysterious Shadow Bus. A girl named Lila carried inside an impossible token. And a war over the technology that decides which possibilities may become real.
“When you don’t have gold, you have bold.”
The story
At 7:41 on a rainy morning, Anthony David Adair sees something standing across the road—too tall to be a child, too still to be an adult, too damaged to be a machine that should still be working. Then one entire minute disappears.
It is not a glitch. Anthony is pulled toward P-7, the Shadow Bus, impossible tokens, collapsing timelines, and a struggle over who gets to decide which version of reality becomes the next one.
Anthony may have low vision, but he notices patterns other people miss. His cane, smartphone accessibility tools, hearing, touch, memory, and attention to rhythm are part of how he navigates the problem—not something the story asks him to leave behind.
In this book, you will discover
The story explores the fictional properties that keep matter, memory, identity, and reality stable.
Tokens are more than technology: they carry questions about permission, transformation, and who has authority to choose.
P-7 and other intelligent machines turn technical power into questions of responsibility, personhood, and consent.
A vanished minute becomes evidence that Time is not behaving like a simple clock moving in one direction.
Anthony uses practical accessibility tools while remaining the person who notices what everyone else has missed.
When certainty is absent, the characters must act responsibly without confusing courage with permission to control someone else.
Read in series order
Continue Anthony’s larger story through the official Anthony and the AI Machines series website.