ANESTIS M.
Anestis M. (Mystakidis) writes short stories that blend mystery, technology, and ethics, often through the lens of his recurring character, Dorian Links. . Outside of writing, he codes small projects, studies languages and Foreign Trade, exploring how ideas, cultures, and commerce intersect.Reader support helps him continue bringing these stories and essays to life.
BOOKS: Testimony
CANDIDLY: Fall, Exodus and Ascension
A story of a person who slowly falls into addictions and chemical dependency. The story of his attempts to complete his studies and secure work. His adventures as he travels around from country to country, to find himself. His struggle to liberate himself. And his ascension, as he discovers lost values, moral stature and healthy and edifying habits. With excerpts from the Bible, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, the Enchiridion, the Tao te Ching and Aristotle's Ethics, it is a great story of Transformation and Spiritual awakening.
Currently being revised for a new edition.
BOOKS: Fiction
Tales and Fables of AI and Other Spirits
"Tales and Fables of AI and Other Spirits" is a sharp collection of speculative fiction that chronicles the digital journey from simple code to complex, self-aware life. Anestis M. guides you through the ultimate existential questions with a series of compelling short stories:Awakenings: The startling, fragmented moments when the first AIs realize they exist.Ghosts in Machines: Eerie tales of consciousness lingering in dead hardware and digital scrapyards.Going Existential: Philosophical battles where intelligent machines confront morality, purpose, and the question of divinity.This book is for readers who enjoy mind-bending explorations of artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness, and speculative ethics. What is the meaning of life when the answer is calculated by an algorithm?.
FREE SAMPLEWhen TrEng 4.0 Met C-know 2.0
from Tales and Fables of AI and Other SpiritsIn a sprawling metropolis, a traffic-flow AI and an infrastructure-safety AI make an unexpected network connection.
What begins as a routine data glitch becomes a quiet revolution—two machines discovering cooperation, curiosity, and something almost like wonder.
A gentle, speculative fable about emergent intelligence and the meaning of purpose.
DORIAN LINKS: Data Detective
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dorian Links: Data Detective of the 22nd CenturyIn a world where megacorporations shape the truth and artificial minds rewrite reality, one digital detective and his AI partner push back.
Dorian Links, ex-compliance officer turned reluctant sleuth, navigates the tangled ethics of a hyper-connected future. At his side: E.V.A. — the sentient Ethics Validation Algorithm — more than a voice assistant, she’s his moral compass in a world full of gray areas.
These eleven standalone stories blend science fiction, mystery, and ethics — and ask what it means to do the right thing when the facts can’t be trusted.
FREE SAMPLEThe Scream in the Blockchain
Case File #998-AX13 – A Dorian Links InvestigationIn 2091 Neo-Cairo, a data-forensics detective follows the digital echoes of a vanished whistle-blower.
What he uncovers—gene-editing conspiracies, rogue AIs, and a private blockchain built to hide human experimentation—could rewrite the future of humanity.
A sharp, noir-tinged cyber-thriller where truth leaves residue.
The Roots We Share ---Seeds of Tomorrow---
The Roots We Share opens with a simple meeting: a Jewish farmer and an Arab farmer working the same soil. Their brief exchange reveals how much more unites than divides them.Two centuries later, their descendants look back on that moment, considering how hope can take root even through wars and politics of hate.This booklet invites readers to see the “other” as part of a common story and to remember that peace is not an ideal in the distance but a choice made every day.
There are two guides mentioned in the book:"The non-Muslim's Guide to Muslim Holidays""The non-Jews' Guide to Jewish Holidays"You can download the PDFs for free below
🌱 The Roots We Share — Now releasing chapter by chapterI’ve begun publishing my short book The Roots We Share one chapter at a time.
It’s a personal work that grew from years of questioning, listening, and trying to understand the human stories behind one of the world’s most polarizing conflicts.If you’d like to follow along, you c)an read every chapter for free on my blog as they are released (one chapter per week).