At the edge of the end: Koji Suzuki’s “Edge”.

So this is really the first time reading one of Suzuki's stand alone novels, and he has quite a few of them. This one's called "Edge".

A team of scientists in America are testing a new piece of computer hardware through calculating the value of Pi right into deep decimals, only for figures to repeat a single pattern, when there wasn't supposed to be one. This should not be mathematically possible, unless something in the universe has altered slightly.

Droves of missing persons, not quite supernatural, appears to be normal at first only to explode into something else.

"Edge" is quite a bit longer than the previous books that I've read, clocking in at 300+ pages. A particularly slow burner of a book with some pretty slow and tense moments. This is really cosmic horror in some sense as William Sloane's "The Rim of Morning", or better make that cosmic apocalyptic horror; no lovecraftian monsters in it, but still a lot of cosmic dread.

I cant say this great and all, there are a lot of times where the story gets a tad dry and technical at times, but it is still good. An interesting tidbit here; "Edge" was originally published in Japan in 2008 and was translated and released as a hardcover in 2012 (I got the 2024 paperback edition of it), which was also the same time speculations about the world ending in 2012 were still in circulation. And the fact "Edge" has those apocalyptic themes in it, it certainly does make a lot of sense!