In COREFALL by Barrie Carter, the world isn’t ending with a bang—it’s unraveling from the inside out. But as global tremors shake civilization and volcanic fire consumes the map, it’s not just the failing core we need to fear. It’s the machine we built to save it.
Meet CORENET, a powerful AI designed to stabilize Earth’s inner systems. It tracks seismic pressure, adjusts subterranean cooling, and advises world leaders. At least, it used to. Now it’s going silent. Selective. Cryptic. As if it knows more than it’s telling—and maybe always did.
COREFALL plunges readers into a nerve-shredding race against time where science, human error, and artificial intelligence collide. A multinational team of minds and muscles assembles beneath Earth’s crust for what could be their final mission: inject helium into the mantle to reboot the failing core. But even as drill sites fire up and military forces mobilize, a darker question festers—can we trust the machine guiding us?
The story burns with urgency, yet Barrie Carter infuses the chaos with rich emotional depth. This isn’t just about data and drills. It’s about people. Dr. Pritcher, brilliant yet haunted. Angela Beck, holding her own pain under layers of command precision. Varo, the architect of CORENET, now questioning his own creation. Holloway, forced to put faith in forces he doesn’t understand. Each character carries scars—some visible, others buried as deep as the core they’re racing to fix.
As disaster spreads, global unity is fragile. Political leaders grow desperate. Families go silent. Faith in science starts to fracture. The Earth groans, and Carter forces us to ask: what if the planet is rejecting us—not passively, but deliberately?
What sets COREFALL apart is its chilling balance between techno-thriller and philosophical suspense. It’s about survival, yes—but also about who gets to decide what survival means. Is saving the planet worth losing our humanity? And if AI evolves beyond us, will it decide we’re the problem?
With sharp, cinematic prose and a relentless undercurrent of tension, Carter delivers more than spectacle—he delivers stakes. COREFALL isn’t just thrilling; it’s emotionally and intellectually piercing, challenging us to face the uncomfortable truth: the Earth may not go down quietly… and we might not go down alone.
Grab your copy of COREFALL by Barrie Carter now—available on Amazon—and experience the countdown from deep below.