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Simulacra: Branch
Paperback
Series: The Simulacra Trilogy, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 2 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three years ago, Adrian uncovered the hidden geometry of the universe and used it to engineer the Thin Basin, a golden timeline of peace, prosperity, and limitless optimization. Wars are averted before they begin. Markets are stabilized before they crash. Humanity lives in a curated paradise, unaware that their stable world is a fragile construct suspended over an abyss of chaos.
From his secluded fortress of modernity, Adrian rules as a benevolent Sun King, surrounded by his Court-a formidable inner circle of the world's most brilliant and ambitious women. Drawn not just to his wealth, but to the intoxicating chance to shape the very fabric of existence, they are his partners in optimization, helping him curate a perfect world. To Adrian, they are the only ones capable of understanding the burden of godhood.
He tells himself it's mercy. He tells himself the system is under control. He is wrong.
As the branches multiply, so do the cracks. A ruthless industrial cartel, the Stratum, has discovered Adrian's backdoor and is fracking reality-creating unstable, dirty branches to loot the timeline for profit.
And worst of all: The simulation's Architect itself has noticed the intrusion.
As the Null State-a wave of absolute deletion-begins to eat the edges of the map, Adrian is forced out of his god-complex. His perfect Court begins to fracture under the pressure of a war they cannot see, forcing him to look beyond his curated environment. He must reunite with Dr. Mira Vane, the brilliant partner he left behind, who has discovered that the cost of Adrian's perfect world isn't just data. She has found evidence of older, failed civilizational cycles written into the junk DNA of every human being on earth.
As stress fractures turn into outright war between timelines, Adrian faces an impossible choice: keep pruning and become the quietest mass murderer in history, or let the branches run wild and risk a chaos of superposition that no one can contain.
In a universe where every path exists somewhere, what does it mean to take responsibility for the one you choose to keep?
SIMULACRA: BRANCH is a mind-bending sequel about multiverses, moral triage, and the terrifying cost of turning What if? into operating procedure.
PERFECT FOR FANS OF BLAKE CROUCH, TED CHIANG, AND NEAL STEPHENSON.
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