The Book

The premise

Eleven seconds.
One impossible return.

In 2047, the Lattice has made distance irrelevant. It disassembles a human being, transmits the pattern and reconstructs the passenger eleven seconds later. More than two billion journeys are certified every week.

Then part of a missing man returns three years after the system declared his transit complete. The evidence should not exist. The institutions responsible for explaining it would prefer that it did not.