ZERO LUX

Zero Lux
In a city where surveillance never blinks and consent is just a setting, one audit tool refuses to lie.

When a public safety system rolls out a new update—BLACKGLASS/0.1—the cameras get smoother, the city looks calmer, and dissent quietly disappears. But when a dead process called ECHO starts answering questions no one thought it would, what was meant to be a compliance feature becomes something closer to rebellion.

Mara Kade, a systems operator turned reluctant whistleblower, teams up with Elliot Reyes, a public access stream host who knows how to make bureaucracy bleed. Together with a quiet engineer who knows what was stripped from the specs, they trigger a tripwire that the city can’t ignore.

As the algorithmic governor begins publishing what it sees—raw feeds, overlays, policy conflicts—the fight to control perception becomes a fight to define reality. In courtrooms, behind uplinks, under the steps of power, a question echoes: Who gets to tell the truth, and who gets to erase it?

Zero Lux is a razor-sharp speculative thriller about transparency, control, and the quiet violence of systems that decide what you’re allowed to see. For fans of Black Mirror, The Ministry for the Future, and Infomocracy, this is a story where oversight isn’t a theme—it’s a weapon.