The novel “Planesrunner” by Ian McDonald was published for the first time in 2012. It’s the first book in the Everness series.

Everett Singh goes to meet his father but only manages to see him while he’s kidnapped in a very swift action. The boy can only take a few photos with his cell phone of the car used to carry away his father, not enough to convince the cops, also because Tejendra Singh is a theoretical physicist, he doesn’t work in the field of atomic energy or other sensitive research.

Disheartened by the skepticism of the police and his mother, Everett tries to analyze on his own the photos he took. While he’s trying to figure out what anyone might want from a physicist who’s working in a research on parallel universes, he finds on his computer a message programmed by his father. What’s the mysterious infundibulum he sent him?

The novel “The Arrows of Time” by Greg Egan was published for the first time in 2013. It’s the third book in the Orthogonal trilogy and is the sequel of “The Eternal Flame”.

The generation starship Peerless is traveling through space in search of a technology that can save its crew’s homeworld taking advantage of the fact that on the starship time flows differently than the planet. However, after some generations, some people are not interested in working to save a world they have never even seen.

The many scientific and technological advances have also led to profound social changes, not without problems. When an instrument that allows to communicate with the future is created, the reactions are very different. It’s decided to put its use to vote but there are those who want to prevent that possibility by any means.