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Cascade Failure
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Francis IP Holdings
Published: Jan 23 2026
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Cascade Failure, the system begins to collapse-not all at once, but everywhere at the same time.
Small errors no longer remain isolated. A missed signal triggers another. A tolerated deviation compounds into instability. What once appeared manageable spreads across interconnected layers, overwhelming safeguards designed to prevent exactly this outcome.
As the fourth entry in The Listening Site series, Cascade Failure explores how complex systems break when dependencies are ignored and assumptions replace oversight. No single decision causes the collapse. Instead, failure emerges through accumulation-each tolerated flaw amplifying the next.
This is not a story of sudden catastrophe. It is a study of inevitability: how tightly coupled systems fail quietly, predictably, and too late to reverse.
Atmospheric and psychologically driven, Cascade Failure is speculative fiction for readers drawn to surveillance culture, institutional fragility, and the unseen mechanics of systemic breakdown.
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