The Wizard's Code

What if the universe runs on code—and you're the one who accidentally compiled it? Edgar Winfield is very good at systems. Code systems. Game systems. Systems that behave, eventually, if you stare at them long enough. When he finishes building the Great Dial—a breathtaking piece of clockwork logic meant for a fantasy game—he expects bugs, balance issues, maybe a crash or two. He does not expect to wake up inside the world the Dial governs. In Mirrorgone, the Dial is not art. It is infrastructure. It regulates magic, time, and the fragile equilibrium of reality itself—and it is beginning to fail. As fractures spread through the deep mechanics of the world, Edgar is pulled into a conflict between scholars, enforcers, and powers that believe control is the same thing as stability. Armed with nothing but an engineer's mindset and a dangerous talent for understanding how things actually work, Edgar must learn a new kind of programming—one where mistakes don't crash games, they break worlds. The Wizard's Code is a cerebral fantasy about systems and responsibility, creation and consequence, and what happens when someone who just wanted things to work is forced to decide what kind of world should exist at all.