A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of " fast ones," shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution. And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a SchrOdinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not. Jean de Flambeur is back. And he' s running out of time. In Hannu Rajaniemi' s sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universeand we discover what the future held for Earth.