LOAD BEARING

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Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Andi Anriansyah

Sep 2026 · THE HIDDEN LAYER Book 2 · Bedrock Press

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A year after Meridian City's discovery was quietly sealed, a heritage building in Tokyo survives an earthquake it should never have survived. Structural engineer Kenji Ashida can't explain why — until statistician Grace Okonkwo's models connect his data to a growing, uncomfortable pattern: identical structural signatures appearing in cities that have never shared so much as a sensor feed.

When an old stone bridge in Istanbul collapses despite every warning sign pointing the other way, Reza Sarwono is pulled back into the investigation she thought she'd left behind, and the team is forced to admit what none of them wants to say out loud: Meridian was never an isolated find. It was the first confirmed point in something considerably larger — and it has just claimed its first casualties.

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abay miku

September 7, 2026

I loved the scale of this story. It begins with a building in Tokyo but quickly expands to Istanbul and beyond, making it clear that Meridian was never an isolated incident. The growing pattern creates a strong sense of discovery and dread at the same time.

Ameliadwi

September 7, 2026

This is the kind of science fiction I really enjoy—where the central mystery grows out of something that initially seems technical and ordinary. Structural data, statistical modeling, and geological discoveries become pieces of a much larger puzzle. It feels intelligent without becoming difficult to follow.

About the author

Andi Anriansyah is a geological engineer with more than seventeen years of experience across the oil & gas, mining, and infrastructure sectors in Indonesia and abroad, and a graduate of Institut Teknologi Bandung's Geological Engineering program. THE HIDDEN LAYER draws on a career spent reading incomplete data about what lies beneath the surface to imagine a story where the world's biggest discovery has been hiding in plain sight, underneath the infrastructure we already trust

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