Cyberpunk thriller · Takionverse
The Loop: cyberpunk thriller about temporal anomalies
Every morning the world starts over. Nobody remembers when it stopped moving forward.
Every twenty-four hours the world resets and everyone remembers. Nobody knows when it started or who decided it. Óliver J. Lándom, the man who watches over the machine, is the first to find out what happens when it stops working.
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Why read The Loop
The Loop is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by Jose M. Aldasoro, a police officer.
If you are drawn to credible technological dystopias, artificial intelligence as a form of government and thrillers that never let up, this is your next read: short chapters, real police procedure and an ending that forces you to reread the opening pages. Available in paperback and as an ebook.
Unstoppable pace
Short chapters, real cliffhangers. Impossible to put down halfway.
Believable science
A dystopia built with logic, not fireworks.
Raw realism
Written by a police officer. You can tell in every scene.
A devastating ending
An ending that forces you to reread the first pages.
The story
A perfect day, repeated forever, is a curse.
Óliver J. Lándom is the most predictable man in the solar system. His job is to make sure the colossal machine orbiting Earth resets reality every twenty-four hours. For the elite living aboard the Olympus space station, it is the perfect paradise: excess without hangovers or consequences. For the billions trapped in the slums of Takion City, it is a sentence to forced labour that starts all over again every dawn.
No one remembers why the loop began or who built it. Until an unprecedented event achieves the impossible: freezing the system for two minutes. In that brief instant of chaos, the crimson veil that isolates them vanishes for the first time in centuries. What Óliver discovers in that fraction of time is an enigma so disturbing that it threatens to destroy everything humanity thought it knew about its existence.
With the machine destabilized and time running linearly, Óliver is thrown into a race against the clock where there are no second chances. Caught in the crossfire between a dictatorial government willing to do anything to hold on to power and extremist factions determined to break the system at any cost, he must unravel the greatest conspiracy in history.
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ORBITING EARTH, on the space city station Olympus—technological sanctuary of the planet's privileged elite—the inhabitants prepare to perform the ritual that has dictated their lives for the past five hundred years. It is a ritual so intrinsic to their existence that they perceive it as a natural function of their being.
Today, as every day for half a millennium, an imperturbable calm reigns in this place, the same calm that precedes each scheduled restart. Beyond the polymer domes that protect the station, surveillance ships move with an almost feral stealth, like specters in search of souls lost in the blackness. It is a meticulously rehearsed ballet, a liturgy of movements calculated to the millimeter in the solitude of sidereal space.
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WHAT ZEUS DELETED FROM THE CASE FILE
A police report written the way an officer would write it, with the details of a key scene from The Loop that never made it into the novel. Sent by email, and only to those who ask for it.
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Frequently asked questions
What formats is The Loop available in?
You can read it in paperback or as a multi-store ebook.
Is it right for me if I don't usually read science fiction?
Yes. It is written like a thriller: fast pace, a clear plot and human characters. Science fiction is the setting, not the barrier.
Does it have a sequel, or is it a standalone novel?
The Loop is a self-contained novel, but it is part of the author's narrative universe. The next piece of that universe is The Aurora Solution, the prequel. Zero Frequency is a standalone novel.
Already read it?
If you own «The Loop», in paperback or digital, I will sign an ex-libris and dedicate it to you by hand. A matte DIN A7 sticker, with its own case-file number. Free postage within Spain: it is a gift from the author, not a sale, and it comes from a limited print run.
If you liked it, go this way
If you liked Edge of Tomorrow, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077 or Silo, The Loop plays on their turf: a day that repeats, an AI that rules and a city that never sees the sky.
The Aurora Solution is the Takionverse prequel and is in the works. Zero Frequency is a standalone archaeological techno-thriller.
Two novels, one test
Which of the two worlds is yours?
Six questions to find out whether your next read should be The Loop or Zero Frequency.
The Loop: book details
Ebook
ISBN-13: 979-8-231-93932-9
Publisher: Jose M. Aldasoro
Publication: 3 February 2026
Format: EPUB 3, DRM-free
File size: 2 MB
Paperback
ISBN-13: 979-8-233-71602-7
Publisher: Jose M. Aldasoro
Printing: print on demand
Author: Jose M. Aldasoro. Language: English. Genre: science fiction, cyberpunk thriller. Universe: Takionverse. With the paperback ISBN any bookshop can order the book even if it is not in stock.
The police officer who writes the thrillers of the future.
© 2026 Jose M. Aldasoro