The novel “The Jonah Kit” by Ian Watson was published for the first time in 1975. It won the BSFA award for best novel of the year.

The Soviets conduct a series of experiments to imprint a mind on human beings but also on whales. Those are top-secret experiments but a child disappears from the lab and pops up in Tokyo stating that his mind is that of a dead cosmonaut revealing what happened to him.

Paul Hammond has already won a Nobel Prize but believes he has evidence of a theory that would totally upset human beings’s concept of the cosmos. The scientist thinks he can prove that the universe we perceive is actually just a kind of shadow of the real one and that God has forsaken it after creating it.