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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.

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William Andy Hainline currently lives in New Albany, Indiana with a big old lazy tomcat named Beau, where in his spare time he practices being a supervillain and an English major, and he dabbles in computer science and general science, philosophy, comics, and filmjmaking. He is constantly coming up with new and exciting ways to butcher the English language, but his favorite way to do so is writing novels. He enjoys science-fiction, fantasy, and horror, and is a sucker for grand, romantic musicals. When he isn't plotting to take over the world, he spends most of his free time reading, writing, hanging out with friends, and tinkering with his copy of Unreal Engine. (Which is totally not a euphemism for something else.) Some of his favorite toys include Adobe Photoshop, various I clients, and the best writing program in the world, Scrivener. He is a big fan of Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fringe, and Doctor Who, and he is active on Facebook.

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