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THRESHOLD
Reality has a resolution limit. And Dr. Elias Kade just found it.
Kade discovers something fundamental constants of physics drift when measured with extreme precision—as if the universe is economizing. Cutting corners. Optimizing for limited resources.
When Kade tries to publish, six journals reject his work. No explanations. No technical critiques. Just polite refusals that feel less like peer review and more like suppression.
Then reclusive billionaire Boyd Hudkins contacts him with seventeen years of evidence that should be the universe economizes. Reality renders at lower resolution when no one is looking. Physical law behaves like a video game engine managing limited resources. Humanity has been deleted before. And it's about to happen again.
We're living in a simulation. And it's running out of memory.
As physicists independently prove we're simulated, reality destabilizes. Equipment fails globally. Déjà vu becomes epidemic. And they have days before observation demand exceeds resources—before the system decides humanity costs too much to maintain.
For readers who loved Dark Matter, Recursion, and Project Hail Mary—a mind-bending thriller about the most dangerous discovery in human that we're not alone in the simulation. And something is watching to see if we're worth keeping.
"Part scientific thriller, part philosophical horror, THRESHOLD asks the question every physicist what if understanding reality is what destroys it?"
Kade discovers something fundamental constants of physics drift when measured with extreme precision—as if the universe is economizing. Cutting corners. Optimizing for limited resources.
When Kade tries to publish, six journals reject his work. No explanations. No technical critiques. Just polite refusals that feel less like peer review and more like suppression.
Then reclusive billionaire Boyd Hudkins contacts him with seventeen years of evidence that should be the universe economizes. Reality renders at lower resolution when no one is looking. Physical law behaves like a video game engine managing limited resources. Humanity has been deleted before. And it's about to happen again.
We're living in a simulation. And it's running out of memory.
As physicists independently prove we're simulated, reality destabilizes. Equipment fails globally. Déjà vu becomes epidemic. And they have days before observation demand exceeds resources—before the system decides humanity costs too much to maintain.
For readers who loved Dark Matter, Recursion, and Project Hail Mary—a mind-bending thriller about the most dangerous discovery in human that we're not alone in the simulation. And something is watching to see if we're worth keeping.
"Part scientific thriller, part philosophical horror, THRESHOLD asks the question every physicist what if understanding reality is what destroys it?"
257 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2026
About the author
Raspal Chima
27 books2 followersRaspal Chima was born in West Bromwich, England and graduated from Coventry University with a degree in physics.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
Raspal has been writing for most of his adult life, mostly in his professional capacity as a magazine editor and feature writer for a number of publications. He now works on AI integration projects for a software development company - which further provides a fertile ground for his techno-thriller novels.
Raspal is at his best writing techno-thrillers in an authoritative, yet informal narrative style. His stories are told with plausible panache and a hard edge of undeniable science, yet move along with the irrevocable inertia of a fairground roller-coaster ride.
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