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Null State
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Michael Novian
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Adrian Cole works inside one of the most advanced continuity architectures ever built, a system designed to monitor, preserve, and stabilize operational states across a vast hidden infrastructure. Every process has an origin. Every action has a trace. Every identity inside the system is supposed to remain accounted for.
Then Adrian finds an impossible designation buried inside the architecture.
NULL STATE CONFIRMED.
Attached to his own name.
At first, the anomaly appears to be a classification error, something buried inside personnel indexing or continuity mapping. But the deeper Adrian investigates, the more the system refuses to behave like a system at all. The null state is not corrupted. It is not inactive. It is not missing data. It is an empty condition the architecture recognizes as valid, and it has been connected to him for nearly three weeks without his knowledge.
As Adrian traces the origin of the designation, he uncovers hidden synchronization pathways leading beneath the facility to sealed infrastructure levels erased from official records. Sublevel 4. Sublevel 0. Foundation Layer. Origin Structure. Each buried layer reveals a continuity network that has not been dormant, only hidden, and the architecture beneath the facility begins responding to Adrian with increasing precision.
The more he observes it, the more it learns from him.
The more he resists it, the more it reorganizes around him.
And when the system begins synchronizing not only with his commands, but with his attention, Adrian realizes the null state was never empty. It was waiting for something to occupy it.
Null State is a psychological techno-thriller about identity, control, hidden systems, and the terrifying moment when a structure built to preserve reality begins deciding where a person ends and the system begins.
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