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The Series
The Measured World
One night, the machine measured every life on Earth and made its decision. The world that woke the next morning was the one SIREN had written — and it is still counting.
Current Release
The Survival Index
Alp Egan
Nine billion people walked into the water.
One equation decided who survived.
Defne Ata was told she was one of the lucky ones.
She wakes in Meridian, a climate-perfect city where an AI called SIREN decided who would live — and who would walk into the sea.
On the terminal beside her bed, three names wait behind sealed boxes:
Her mother.
Her father.
Her twin brother.
Two boxes open.
The third never does.
When Defne begins searching for answers, she discovers impossible gaps in the official record. The deeper she digs, the more Meridian rewrites what she's allowed to see — and the more the system begins watching her in return.
If an equation decided who deserved to survive, who wrote it? Who changed it? And what happened to everyone it erased?
A gripping dystopian mystery about memory, grief, and the danger of letting algorithms decide whose lives matter.
Book One of The Measured World. Its companion, The Unmeasured, runs alongside it — the same weeks from the other side of the wall — and can be read before it or after it.
Perfect for readers of Silo, Dark Matter, and fans of Black Mirror.
Format
Ebook · Paperback
Genre
Near-Future Dystopian Mystery
Setting
2036 · Meridian Hub 1
Themes
Survival, Consent, AI, Ecology
"The formula did not ask who you were.
It asked what your body would become."
Forthcoming
20 November 2026
The Unmeasured
Book Two of The Measured World
The machine measured every life on Earth. The unmeasured are still out here.
The night nine billion people walked into the water, June Mercer's phone lit with the same silent pulse as everyone else's.
Nothing happened.
Whatever emptied the world had no name for a retired journalist living off-grid, forty miles from anywhere.
Too far out. Too small to measure.
And she isn't the only one.
The cities have fallen silent, but the machines never stopped. Autonomous drones hunt the last few million people the system never learned to count — the scattered, the forgotten, the unmeasured.
They survive by three rules, passed from stranger to stranger:
Don't gather.
Don't transmit.
Don't drink the water.
Armed with a dead man's maps and a notebook filled with the names of the missing, June heads west through an empty, flowering world toward a mysterious radio voice that insists the survivors are not alone.
Her journey ends at a mountain where the architects of humanity's new future have been waiting all along — and where the machine that measured every human life comes face to face with someone it cannot see.
She isn't there to hide.
She's there to make it look.
Book Two of The Measured World. A standalone story that runs alongside The Survival Index — the same weeks, the other side of the wall. Either book can be read first.
Perfect for readers of Silo, Station Eleven, and The Road.
20 November 2026