THIS COULD BE IT
by MARK BERTRAND
Book 1 from Nirvanaing
To recover those taken, they must confront the exiled.
THIS COULD BE IT
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This is a complete story that is book one of a five-novel series.
ISBN: 9798988923466
They live inside domes. Rules inside rules. Systems that keep everyone calm—obedient—alive. Then the countdown appears: Time Remaining until the Gamma Field collapses.
And two people are gone.
Not dead.
Taken.
A council wants them retrieved before the window closes.
But retrieval isn’t the real problem.
The real problem is what the Field does to a mind once it touches it—
and what it reveals about the self… when the self is no longer in charge.
This is for readers who want:
- a thriller where psychology is the weapon
- dialogue that cuts clean
- dread that builds through precision, not noise
- characters who don’t “snap” they choose, and then justify it brilliantly
- a story that keeps tightening until you realize the room has no door
DOSSIER // BOOK PROFILE STATUS: ACTIVE TITLE: THIS COULD BE IT ISBN: 9798988923466 SERIES: NIRVANAING // BOOK 01 GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER / TECHNO-THRILLER / SPECULATIVE THRILLER THREAT MODEL: ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS / HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE / SYSTEMIC CONTROL PAGE COUNT: 222 READ TIME: 7 - 9 HOURS PRIMARY THEMES: CONSCIOUSNESS · SUFFERING · EXISTENCE · SURVEILLANCE · POWER · IDENTITY COMPARATIVE AUTHORS: BLAKE CROUCH · JEFF VANDERMEER · RICHARD K. MORGAN PACING MODEL: FICHTEAN ESCALATION / CONTINUOUS EXISTENTIAL PRESSURE SETTING: NEAR-FUTURE TECHNOLOGICAL AND CORPORATE POWER STRUCTURES TONE: INTELLIGENT · DARK · PHILOSOPHICAL · UNSETTLING · MORALLY VOLATILE PUBLISHER: NOT A REAL PUBLISHER LLC LANGUAGE: ENGLISH AVAILABILITY: WORLDWIDE
Interesting start! My favorite part was the chief telling the story like he has no stress at all going on. Great way to distract the guy! LOL
Jennifer Rarden
https://pageturnerawards.com/fiction-book-award-2026-2026/this-could-be-it
It’s not just in the movies that we must ‘suspend our disbelief’ but in fiction of all kinds. The best writing does the job for us. Nowhere is this more so than in the creation of fantastic worlds like this one. In fact, it comes across as so well constructed and established that it feels totally real, totally plausible. With one caveat: be careful that the story that underpins everything doesn’t become ‘lost in translation’; that it doesn’t become too ‘technically’ difficult to access.
Stewart Carry
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Not the typical AI take over. This is better.
This is my favorite genre. Thrillers and especially AI. This one was not at all typical. The AI doesn’t destroy humanity it moves past them.
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