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Historical Fiction

P.X Untold: The Abstention

Name: P.X Untold: The Abstention
Author: Kerim Tapkan

by Kerim Tapkan

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Paris, autumn 1819. Conrad Laurent’s belief in neutrality encounters the obligations and consequences that restraint cannot remove. Returning to the historical world behind P.X: No Man’s Space, The Abstention explores conviction, responsibility, and the difficult question of when to intervene. A standalone novella within P.X Untold, it offers an intimate route into the universe’s hidden past. The P.X Untold stories explore defining moments in the lives of characters encountered in No Man’s Space. Each can be read individually, offering a complementary path into the people and choices behind the main trilogy.

What to expect

Mood: Thought-provoking
Setting and world: Historical setting
Pace and shape: A short read

Book details

Author: Kerim Tapkan
Genre: Historical Fiction
Formats: Ebook

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Kerim Tapkan

Kerim Tapkan is an Istanbul-based naval architect, senior project manager and science-fiction author with more than twenty-five years in custom yacht construction and refit. His engineering background shapes the spacecraft, technologies and civilizations of P.X, while the fiction follows the people and families caught within a much larger universe. P.X: No Man’s Space opens a planned trilogy built around first contact, hidden history and an interstellar conflict approaching Earth. The setting continues through P.X Untold companion stories, including The Abstention, and The Snorvix Codex, an in-universe archive of histories, species, ships and technologies. Developed as essentially a one-person project alongside his professional career, P.X also has an explorable website with character profiles, worldbuilding, artwork, short films and arcade experiences. His article “Engineering the Imagined” appeared in SNAME’s Marine Technology magazine in October 2026.

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