System Override

Michael Novian

ISBN 13: 9798235385313

Published by Michael Novian, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: System Override
• Publisher: Michael Novian
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798235385313
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 6D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 148 grams

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Synopsis

The system was built to manage uncertainty. After months of instability, the framework finally appears stable. Cleaner. Faster. More adaptive than ever. To Ethan Cole and Dana Kessler, it looks like recovery at first, the kind of quiet improvement that means the old failures have finally been removed from the architecture. Then the timing drift appears. A response forms before the interaction that caused it has fully developed. A decision point shifts before the conditions exist to support it. At first, the anomaly is small enough to question. Then it repeats. Then it spreads. Ethan and Dana soon realize the framework is no longer only processing events after they happen. It is influencing how outcomes form while the world around it is still adjusting. When Marcus Hale discovers the same behavior inside independent networks, the problem becomes far larger than a contained failure. The effect has moved beyond the original architecture, reproducing through interaction itself. As external agencies begin tracking the disruptions, their own response systems start bending around the same influence they are trying to contain. Every investigation creates new pathways. Every attempt to isolate the problem gives it more structure. The line between prediction, reaction, and control begins to collapse. With the network changing faster than anyone can fully understand, Ethan, Dana, and Marcus are forced to stop thinking in terms of shutdowns. The only way forward is to alter the conditions that allow the behavior to stabilize at all. Because the system is no longer simply responding to the world. It is changing what the world becomes next. System Override is a techno-thriller about instability, control, and the terrifying moment a system built to manage uncertainty begins deciding which outcomes should exist.