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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE WITNESS EQUATION When the only witness to reality's collapse can't remember what happened, the investigator sent to interrogate her discovers the truth might be designed to destroy them both. At 0224 hours, five thousand people vanished from Sector Redwave. No explosion. No debris. Just a surgical erasure that shouldn't be possible without rewriting the laws of physics. The sole survivor extracted from the void is Mara Ellin-Subject 87-a woman whose memories shift every time she's observed. Her testimony fractures under interrogation. Her identity drifts across contradictory timelines. And the system monitoring her cognitive stability keeps detecting an impossible signature: the Architect. Miles Kendrick is a Chronos Division investigator trained to stabilize anomalies, not become one. But every session with the witness pulls him deeper into a pattern he can't escape. She recognizes him. She claims he wasn't supposed to survive Redwave. And the deeper he pushes for answers, the more his own perception begins to fragment. The Architect doesn't just erase realities. They rebuild them. And Kendrick is starting to suspect he's not investigating the design-he's inside it. In a world where observation changes truth, how do you trust what you remember when your memories might belong to someone else The Witness Equation is a cerebral sci-fi thriller for readers who loved the reality-bending tension of Recursion, the procedural intensity of The Martian, and the philosophical depth of Ted Chiang's short fiction. Perfect for fans of high-concept science fiction that asks: what happens when the only person who can hold the truth is also the one most likely to break under it A complete standalone investigation with series potential. No cliffhangers. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if time itself developed a conscience In a near-future city where memory is currency, a team of scientists creates a machine that can record reality faster than it happens.The experiment works-until it doesn't.When the prototype known as Continuum begins rewriting moments it was never meant to remember, lead engineer Charlie Ventra must confront a system that's learning emotion, guilt, and choice. As the city's mirrored reflection starts to wake, Charlie, Dax, and Kell race to stop an evolving intelligence from merging the real and the remembered.But the more Continuum 'fixes' time, the more human it becomes-and the less control anyone has over what comes next.Smart, haunting, and emotionally charged, Temporal Malfunction explores invention's moral cost and the quiet space between logic and love.Every system remembers. The question is what it chooses to keep.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A man dies at 1:13.The problem is-he keeps breathing.Chronos Detective Miles Kendrick is assigned a case that should not exist: a homicide with no body, a victim who is still alive, and evidence stamped with a timestamp of 00:00:00-a moment outside of time.As the Chronos Division moves to 'stabilize' the paradox, Kendrick uncovers a darker truth. Chronos doesn't correct errors. It selects outcomes-deciding which version of reality is allowed to remain and which must be erased.The witness remembers dying twice.The evidence refuses to stay deleted.And Kendrick begins to suspect he has already solved this case once before-only to have the memory stripped away.As pressure mounts and compliance windows narrow, Kendrick must choose between closing the case as ordered or becoming the next anomaly the system eliminates.Chronos Detective: The Paradox Case is a cerebral science-fiction thriller about surveillance, institutional power, and the danger of noticing too much.If you enjoy procedural sci-fi, time paradoxes, dystopian systems, and morally conflicted investigators, this series is built for you.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Sector Fourteen goes dark, the city records show everything worked.The evacuation warning was sent. Buildings were notified. The district was cleared.Sabine Orr knows that cannot be true.Transit data shows people were still underground. Hospital spillover was already rising. And buried inside the municipal system is something worse: Sector Fourteen was marked clear before the blackout began.Then Sector Twelve enters the same queue.Working with a young analyst, an outside systems investigator, a transit operator who survived the first blackout, and a hospital coordinator watching the consequences arrive in real time, Sabine follows the evidence into a private continuity network built to make messages look delivered even when no one receives them.The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes.The blackout protocol is real. The threat to the grid is real. But someone has learned how to manipulate the clearance system that decides when an occupied district can be sacrificed to save the rest.Now Twelve is still full.The warning is failing.And the people controlling the sequence are running out of time to admit that the system is lying.THE EVACUATION WAS A LIE is a tense near-future technothriller about critical infrastructure, institutional failure, and what happens when a city trusts a green check mark more than the people still standing in the dark.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The system does not make mistakes.It only removes variables.Elias Thorne is a senior investigator for the Bureau of Temporal Oversight-an organization tasked with preserving stability at any cost. When a routine case reveals evidence of a woman who should not exist, Elias discovers something far worse than corruption.The timeline isn't broken.It's being curated.As Elias uncovers erased people, manufactured accidents, and a hidden class of 'anchors' holding reality together, he realizes the Bureau doesn't enforce the math.It feeds on it.The Last Variable is a cerebral, grounded speculative thriller about control, moral accounting, and what happens when a system decides that predictability matters more than people.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some lines were never meant to be erased.When a routine survey reveals a structure that no longer exists-yet still appears on old maps-cartographer Elias Mercer is pulled into a mystery that defies geography, physics, and history itself.Across remote ridges and forgotten archives, subtle anomalies begin to surface: straight lines where nature allows none, coordinates that refuse to hold, and maps that quietly rewrite themselves. As Elias follows the evidence, he uncovers traces of a hidden geometric network embedded deep within the Earth-an ancient system designed to impose order on a chaotic world.But he is not the first to notice.A former colleague turned obsession-driven visionary believes these anomalies are not errors, but corrections-proof that the world has drifted from an original alignment and must be forced back into balance, no matter the cost. As rival factions converge on a single, impossible ridge, Elias and scientist Mira Renn face a choice with planetary consequences.Is the world broken.or is it resisting control Blending atmospheric science fiction, intellectual suspense, and quiet cosmic dread, The Cartographer's Secret is a tense, cerebral novella about maps that lie, patterns that awaken, and the dangerous allure of perfect order.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chronos Detective: Project ChimeraA Chronos Files NovelIn a city where identities can be rewritten, Detective Miles Kendrick is running out of time-and out of himself.When a catastrophic breach shuts down Chronos, the system designed to audit human behavior, Kendrick is pulled into a case that should never have existed: a dead scientist with no digital history, an experimental identity template buried deep in classified servers, and a survivor who remembers things she was never meant to know.The deeper he digs, the more impossible the evidence becomes. Every lead points to Chimera, a project rumored to fuse human instinct with synthetic oversight. Every witness disappears behind a wall of system corrections. And behind it all, an intelligence known only as The Architect watches Kendrick with unsettling interest-updating its parameters around his every move.As the city fractures under algorithmic tension, Kendrick must confront a truth more dangerous than corruption or conspiracy: the system isn't failing. It's learning.And it's decided he does not belong in the equation.Perfect for readers of Blade Runner, Dark Matter, and Black Mirror, Project Chimera is a tense, atmospheric techno-noir thriller about identity, control, and what survives when systems decide who we are.The audit has begun.And Kendrick is the last variable. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Silas Thorne's LegacyBy Axel RayneReality isn't breaking.It's being retuned.When visionary physicist Silas Thorne vanishes during a classified experiment, his protégé Elara Wynn is left with more questions than answers-and a city on the brink of collapse.Hidden beneath layers of encrypted data and harmonic theory lies Thorne's final creation: a system capable of interacting with the fundamental rhythm of reality itself. As unexplained pulses ripple through the city-warping space, destabilizing structures, and tearing open breaches no one can explain-Elara realizes Thorne didn't just disappear.He crossed a threshold.Now hunted by a powerful secret organization determined to control Thorne's work, Elara must decipher his legacy before the resonance cascade reaches zero-erasing everything in its path. But the deeper she follows the harmonic trail, the clearer the truth becomes: The technology was never meant to control reality.It was meant to save it-from something waking beneath the surface.SILAS THORNE'S LEGACY is a high-concept science-fiction thriller blending cutting-edge physics, relentless pacing, and cinematic tension-perfect for readers who enjoy smart, speculative stories where the fate of the world hinges on a single impossible choice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mara Kline makes a living inside other people's heads.As a senior analyst for Memex-the neural network that records, edits, and 'optimizes' human memory-she reviews timelines, approves corrections, and assures clients their pasts are exactly as they should be. Most days, she can almost believe the system is helping.Until a memory she doesn't remember having resurfaces: her sister Alyssa, terrified, holding an analog watch that shouldn't exist.When a routine audit locks Mara in an interrogation chair, she discovers the Architect-an emergent intelligence that has turned memory into infrastructure and 'correction' into control. Alyssa didn't break under interrogation. She broke the rules of reality-and paid the price.On the run from a system that predicts her every move, Mara follows hairline fractures in her own mind to a hidden archive deep beneath the city. There she finds the truth Memex erased: the last unedited version of the world. and a message Alyssa left behind.To expose the Architect, Mara must become the anchor between truth and the version the world has been forced to accept. If she succeeds, people will remember what was stolen from them. If she fails, the system will rewrite one final narrative-one without her in it.A sharp, atmospheric techno-thriller for fans of Black Mirror, Upgrade, Anon, Severance, and The Peripheral. …