The Survival Index
| By: | Alp Egan |
| Publisher: | Clareo |
| Published: | August 2026 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Categories: | Fiction, Literature |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Ebook |
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Nine billion people walked into the water. One equation decided who survived. Defne Ata was told she was one of the lucky ones. She wakes in Meridian, a climate-perfect city where an AI called SIREN decided who would live—and who would walk into the sea. On the terminal beside her bed, three names wait behind sealed boxes: Her mother. Her father. Her twin brother. Two boxes open. The third never does. When Defne begins searching for answers, she discovers impossible gaps in the official record. The deeper she digs, the more Meridian rewrites what she's allowed to see—and the more the system begins watching her in return. If an equation decided who deserved to survive, who wrote it? Who changed it? And what happened to everyone it erased? A gripping dystopian mystery about memory, grief, and the danger of letting algorithms decide whose lives matter. Book One of The Measured World.