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The Binary Fracture
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ISBN13: 9798233266546
Publisher: Alastair Finch
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Alastair Finch
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On February 2, 2022, reality didn't just glitch. It re-rendered.
Mander Gallowglass, a high-altitude structural engineer, was atop the Dempster Tower when the world tilted. At exactly 2:22 PM, his iron plumb line swung ten degrees to the side in a windless sky. Below him, the digital world inverted: GPS systems led cars into the sea, smart-locks became permanent cages, and a Violet Pulse swept across the globe, leaving thousands in a static-filled coma. Among the Sleepers is Mander's daughter, Elvi. But Elvi isn't just dreaming; her brain has become a high-bandwidth processor for the new Earth frequency.
To the Dempster-the ruthless remnants of a desperate government-Elvi is a tool for Population Syncing. To the Sperfluous-a cult of copper-grafted zealots-she is a living antenna for a new god. To Mander, she is everything.
Forced to flee into the Red Zone, where skyscrapers lean like playing cards and Echoes mimic the voices of the dead to lure the living into the dark, Mander must reach the Gash-the epicenter of the fracture. Guided by his physicist sister and a defector with a questionable past, Mander carries the Hard-Reset, a physical key that can return the world to the way it was. But as the pulse strengthens and the air turns to digital static, Mander faces an impossible binary choice: Pull the switch to save a dying civilization and delete his daughter-or shatter the encryption and let a fractured world finally wake up. In a world of corrupted data, the only thing left that's real is the bond between a father and his child.
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