The universe is a projection. And the truth will not set you free.
Dr. Chuck Bowker is a physicist in exile, haunted by an equation that describes a "Theory of Everything" and proves reality is a sophisticated illusion. Kael Reznik is a cynical deep-space pilot who trusts her ship more than people—until she flies it through a glitch in space that proves Bowker right.
Together, they witness the Luminous Wake: the breathtaking, terrifying source code of the cosmos, where all of existence is written on a two-dimensional boundary at the edge of space. This discovery is the Rosetta Stone for the universe, but this ultimate truth doesn't unite humanity—it shatters it. New cults rise to worship the data, factions wage war for control of the code, and a powerful authority emerges from the chaos, determined to bury the revelation at any cost.
Framed for a reality-bending catastrophe and hunted across the solar system, Bowker and Reznik become the unwilling keepers of a truth too dangerous to know and too vital to lose. They must learn to navigate a world where the laws of physics are negotiable and the foundations of existence are unraveling.