The Null Variable: Calibration

By Logan Wilshire

The world is a cage of steel and ash. For Jaxen, life in Sector 4 is a brutal cycle of scavenging, hiding, and running from the Enforcers-the robotic overlords that cull the weak and harvest the strong.

In a society built on oppression, hope is a dangerous variable. But when Jaxen is swept up in the latest "Calibration"-a deadly selection process designed to test human endurance-he realizes this is no ordinary tyranny.

There are glitches in the sky. Memories of lives he never lived bleed into his waking mind. And when he bleeds, the world around him seems to... stutter.

Hunted by machines that know his every move and haunted by a feeling that reality itself is thin as paper, Jaxen must survive the arena. But his goal isn't just to win. It's to find the crack in the wall. Because if the world is a lie, then the exit must be real.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGGHSQQ3
• ISBN13: 9798243292511
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"