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Threshold
1557 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 19, 2026
About the author
Fabio Mariani
1 book1 followerMy name is Fabio Mariani. I was born in Giussano in 1984, but Seregno is my center: the place that shaped me and the lens through which I read the world. Here I learned the value of work, discretion, and a presence that doesn’t need to be announced.
From that provincial heart in the Nothern Italy between Milan and Como my path took shape: a desire to go further without severing my roots. In 2008, I graduated in Environmental and Territorial Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. Como, with its mountains and the changing voice of the wind across the lake, became my first complex map.
I chose geomatics: understanding how we observe, measure, and narrate reality. There I discovered that every truth depends on perspective, on data, on the tools we use, and that every map is a choice. In that classroom, faces from Asia, Africa, and across Europe taught me to question overly comfortable certainties.
My professional life began in energy and renewables: concrete technology, immediate responsibility, numbers turning into decisions. Then I stopped focusing only on my instrument and began to conduct the orchestra, people with different cultures, languages, and sensibilities. That’s where I understood that facts are never neutral, but constructed narratives.
My curiosity has never stopped: technology, computing, geopolitics, history, cinema. Paths that seem different, yet are united by the same drive: to understand the systems and invisible forces that shape what we see, believe, and fear.
This is why I write. To bring complexity and storytelling together. To show a world where geopolitics, technology, and power are not a backdrop, but a constant pressure. A world where truths compete, overlap, and change form. I’m not looking for simple answers: I’m looking for tension, ambiguity, the exact point where a story forces us to think.
Because today, the question is no longer “what happened,” but “who decides how it is told.”
From that provincial heart in the Nothern Italy between Milan and Como my path took shape: a desire to go further without severing my roots. In 2008, I graduated in Environmental and Territorial Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. Como, with its mountains and the changing voice of the wind across the lake, became my first complex map.
I chose geomatics: understanding how we observe, measure, and narrate reality. There I discovered that every truth depends on perspective, on data, on the tools we use, and that every map is a choice. In that classroom, faces from Asia, Africa, and across Europe taught me to question overly comfortable certainties.
My professional life began in energy and renewables: concrete technology, immediate responsibility, numbers turning into decisions. Then I stopped focusing only on my instrument and began to conduct the orchestra, people with different cultures, languages, and sensibilities. That’s where I understood that facts are never neutral, but constructed narratives.
My curiosity has never stopped: technology, computing, geopolitics, history, cinema. Paths that seem different, yet are united by the same drive: to understand the systems and invisible forces that shape what we see, believe, and fear.
This is why I write. To bring complexity and storytelling together. To show a world where geopolitics, technology, and power are not a backdrop, but a constant pressure. A world where truths compete, overlap, and change form. I’m not looking for simple answers: I’m looking for tension, ambiguity, the exact point where a story forces us to think.
Because today, the question is no longer “what happened,” but “who decides how it is told.”
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June 18, 2026
Reading Threshold felt like stepping into a storm that slowly tightens around you. I did not expect the emotional weight of this story. I thought I was opening a thriller. Instead I found myself inside a world that felt painfully real and frighteningly close to our own. Every chapter pulled me deeper until I realized I was no longer reading only with my mind but with my chest tight and my pulse rising.
What moved me most was the sense of humanity that runs through the entire book. The characters are not just pieces on a geopolitical chessboard. They are people who carry fear, hope, guilt and courage in ways that feel intimate and raw. Their choices hurt. Their doubts echo. Their victories feel fragile. I found myself caring for them in a way I rarely experience in this genre.
The idea at the heart of the story is brilliant and unsettling. It grows slowly and then suddenly it becomes enormous. It forces you to question what it means to trust, what it means to lead and what it means to survive in a world shaped by forces far beyond human control. The emotional impact of this evolution is immense. It is not only suspense. It is a sense of awe and dread that builds page after page.
The twists are not just surprises. They feel like emotional punches. They reshape everything you thought you understood and they do it with elegance and purpose. More than once I had to stop reading for a moment because the weight of what had just happened was too strong to rush past.
When I reached the end I felt shaken and strangely grateful. Threshold is not only a gripping thriller. It is a story that touches something deep and personal. It leaves you with questions that linger in the quiet moments of your day. It stays with you in a way that only the most powerful books can.
If you want a story that thrills you, challenges you and moves you at the same time, Threshold is a remarkable experience. I will be thinking about it for a long time.
I did not know the writer, I saw a post on Instagram and I chose to read, and I have to admit, was one of best choices I did in 2026! I was looking for other books by him, but I see it was the first. I wait for the next I hope will come soon! There is a lot to explore in the world of Threshold for other books!
What moved me most was the sense of humanity that runs through the entire book. The characters are not just pieces on a geopolitical chessboard. They are people who carry fear, hope, guilt and courage in ways that feel intimate and raw. Their choices hurt. Their doubts echo. Their victories feel fragile. I found myself caring for them in a way I rarely experience in this genre.
The idea at the heart of the story is brilliant and unsettling. It grows slowly and then suddenly it becomes enormous. It forces you to question what it means to trust, what it means to lead and what it means to survive in a world shaped by forces far beyond human control. The emotional impact of this evolution is immense. It is not only suspense. It is a sense of awe and dread that builds page after page.
The twists are not just surprises. They feel like emotional punches. They reshape everything you thought you understood and they do it with elegance and purpose. More than once I had to stop reading for a moment because the weight of what had just happened was too strong to rush past.
When I reached the end I felt shaken and strangely grateful. Threshold is not only a gripping thriller. It is a story that touches something deep and personal. It leaves you with questions that linger in the quiet moments of your day. It stays with you in a way that only the most powerful books can.
If you want a story that thrills you, challenges you and moves you at the same time, Threshold is a remarkable experience. I will be thinking about it for a long time.
I did not know the writer, I saw a post on Instagram and I chose to read, and I have to admit, was one of best choices I did in 2026! I was looking for other books by him, but I see it was the first. I wait for the next I hope will come soon! There is a lot to explore in the world of Threshold for other books!
June 19, 2026
It turned out to be exactly the kind of book I was looking for. It is smart, tense and very easy to get into. The story feels close to our world and this makes every chapter more engaging. I liked how the plot grows step by step. The twists are well placed and they make the story even more interesting without ever confusing the reader. The characters are interesting and sometimes funny in a good way. I found myself wanting to know how the story evolve and how they would deal with the pressure around them. I found some chapters moved me something inside. In the one of the sinking Polish boat I felt myself inside the story... it seems crazy also to me but it was like that! I felt like Bastian with Nevereneding story. That passage of the book and the feelings generated it is something I cannot forget! Sometimes it is so realistic that is almost scary... It is fiction but if it is a possible future we have really to be worried about, and the most important is that we have to be more scared about human reaction than machine! I was already interested in AI before reading this book but now I want to know more!
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