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BOOK II The Quiet Ruin

BOOK II The Quiet Ruin

Bailey, John

Paperback

Series: The Calibration Fall Trilogy, Book 2

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798196259937
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 1 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Civilization survived the collapse.
Consistency did not.

Generations after the catastrophic Drift Cascade shattered the interstellar network, humanity and its allies struggle across isolated worlds where physics itself no longer behaves uniformly. Faster-than-light travel remains possible only in unstable corridors. Communication fractures into contradiction. Manufacturing systems fail unpredictably as identical components diverge from one another across regions of space.

Entire civilizations adapt in radically different ways.

Some worlds abandon advanced technology entirely, retreating into carefully controlled low-tech societies designed to survive instability. Others obsess over impossible precision, building cultures around calibration rituals and metrological discipline. Salvage fleets roam the ruins of dead transit corridors searching for relics of the lost age while archivists argue over contradictory records of the catastrophe that destroyed interstellar unity.

Meanwhile, dangerous factions attempt to restore the old systems without understanding the forces that shattered them.

As navigation routes collapse, communication networks degrade, and political alliances fracture into incompatible realities, scientists begin uncovering an even more terrifying truth:

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