Everlasting Antiquity is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 novelist, short story

Short story

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 writer and satirist Hikmet Temel Akarsu

Hikmet Temel Akarsu

Hikmet Temel Akarsu is a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, satirist and playwright. He was born in Gümüşhane, Turkey in 1960, and moved to Istanbul with his family at the age of nine....

’s novel series he began in 2000. The first three books from the series of six, namely, Antiope, İphigeneia, Helen, Cassandra, Penthesilea ve Electra, have been published so far.

In the first book, Asexual Colony or Antiope, the writer applies a mystic/realistic, semi-fantastic style while telling the allegoric

Allegory

Allegory is a demonstrative form of representation explaining meaning other than the words that are spoken. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation...

 tales of modern Amazons

Amazons

The Amazons are a nation of all-female warriors in Greek mythology and Classical antiquity. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia...

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In the second book, Cyber Tragedy or Iphigeneia, he abandons the previous concept. Here, the writer tells a cyberpunk

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a postmodern and science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk, and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983...

 story about the modern cyber world with endless references to mythology

Mythology

The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

. Inspired by the tragedy “Iphigenia in Aulis,” Akarsu talks about two cyber world companies in battle.

The third book tells the allegorical story of the most famous and interesting mythological tale, “The Beauty Contest” while analyzing the social and political order of the world we live in today. Also a cyberpunk novel just like the previous one, the third book utilizes the cyberpunk world as a background and instead constructs a dystopic

Dystopia

A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...

 one in an Orwellian

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...

 style.

According to the writer’s bulletin on his Myspace

Myspace

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page, he began writing the fourth book “Standing Up Against Fate or Cassandra.”