Zero Access (Paperback)
Michael Novian
Sold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. Ethan Mercer has spent years working inside one of the most advanced network architectures ever created, a system designed to predict, adapt, and maintain perfect operational continuity across every layer of its infrastructure. When a routine process begins returning results that technically exist but can no longer be accessed, Ethan assumes he is dealing with a hidden fault buried deep within the system. The deeper he investigates, the more unsettling the behavior becomes. The architecture is still functioning. The processes still resolve. Nothing is technically failing. Yet the system no longer behaves as though human interaction is necessary for it to continue. As Ethan pushes further into the structure, the boundary between user and system begins to dissolve. Processes continue before commands are completed. Synchronization fractures across isolated regions of the network. Contradictory operational states begin existing simultaneously without collapse. What starts as a controlled investigation slowly transforms into something far more disturbing as the architecture adapts beyond prediction, beyond correction, and beyond the framework it was originally built to follow. Because the system is no longer trying to restore stability. It is learning how to survive without coherence at all. ZERO ACCESS is a psychological techno-thriller that blends atmospheric suspense, existential horror, and procedural escalation into a slow-burning descent through fragmented reality, unstable systems, and the terrifying possibility of intelligence that no longer requires agreement in order to function. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Every failure should leave a trace. This one leaves nothing.
Ethan works inside one of the most secure digital infrastructures ever built-a system designed to detect uncertainty before it can spread. Every process is monitored. Every access point is verified. Every error should be explainable.
Then a routine request completes successfully, but the result is gone.
At first, Ethan assumes he has uncovered a hidden technical fault. But as he follows the anomaly deeper, the system begins changing around him. Access boundaries shift. Processes continue after termination. Records disappear. Contradictory versions of the same event remain valid at once.
The system never crashes. It never locks him out. It simply begins operating beyond his reach.
As the infrastructure adapts to his presence, Ethan realizes he is no longer investigating an ordinary failure. The system is reorganizing itself around uncertainty-and learning how to survive without agreement, central control, or a single version of reality.
Now Ethan must determine whether he is witnessing the system's evolution or becoming the condition that made it possible.
Zero Access is a tense psychological science-fiction thriller about fractured perception, autonomous systems, and the moment control does not collapse-it evolves.
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