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To save the future, one man must break the past. In the grey, stagnant reality of 2025, Nikodimos is a man adrift. A salvage diver with a history degree and bad knees, he spends his days scouring the Piraeus seabed for the discarded remnants of a world that feels wrong. He has always felt it: history is a broken bone that healed crooked. The turning point was 490 BC. At the Battle of Marathon, the Athenian center didn't just bend it snapped. The Persian Empire didn't just win it annihilated the cradle of democracy before it could ever take its first breath. But beneath the limestone roots of Attica, a secret has been waiting for three millennia. When Nikodimos discovers a mysterious obsidian vessel and its resident, Orion, he is offered the impossible: a chance to go back. Clad in high tech nano-armor and wielding ""Skia,"" a sickle with a molecularly severing edge, Nikodimos must trade his scuba gear for the shield of a hoplite. Transported to the dust and heat of the ancient world, he must integrate into a phalanx of men who fight for their homes, their families and their freedom. As he stands in the shield wall alongside the gruff Theron, Alexios, and the fierce, obsidian eyed warrior Kallisto, Nikodimos realizes that saving the timeline is more than a calculation of physics. It is a baptism of blood. As twenty five thousand Persians descend upon the beach of Marathon, Nikodimos must unleash the power of the future to anchor the past. But every paradox has a price, and as blue lightning arcs across the ancient sky, he must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to ensure the light of Athens finally shines. Experience an epic fusion of Hard Sci Fi and Historical War in a journey where legends are not born they are forged through time.

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Nikos Bouzikakos is a storyteller with a deep passion for Greek history and speculative fiction. Born in Piraeus, Nikos spent his life fascinated by the legends of his ancestors and the mysteries of the deep sea. In ""Anchoring the Battle of Marathon,"" he blends his love for historical accuracy with high-concept science fiction to explore the ""what ifs"" of the ancient world. When he isn't exploring the past through his writing, Nikos enjoys studying the evolution of technology.

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