Beijing, 2007. A series of inexplicable suicides by prominent physicists has sent police officials into confusion and the public into a swirl of rumors and panic. When nanotech engineer Wang Miao is tasked by the military to infiltrate a secretive or...
Wang Miao delves deeper into the Frontiers of Science, seeking understanding of their goals and the nature of the mysterious countdown flashing before his eyes. But he receives nothing but a cryptic command—“Stop your nanomaterial researc...
“The entire universe will flicker for you.” This grand promise, or perhaps threat, leads Wang Miao to his next destination—an observation center where he can tune in to the cosmic microwave background. Along the way, he meets Ye Wen...