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Hauchdünn und kostbar sind die Sonnensegel der japanischen Solarstation NIPPON. Von ihnen aus wird die Erde mit Energie versorgt. Als die Energieübertragung versagt, denken Leonard Carr und die Mannschaft der Station zuerst an eine technische Panne. Doch dann geschieht ein Mord, und ein fremdes Raumschiff dockt widerrechtlich an. Entsetzt erkennt die Besatzung, dass sie Spielball in einem Plan ist, der die Station zu einer nie dagewesenen Bedrohung für die Erde werden lässt. Leonard hat nur eine Chance gegen die kalte Präzision, mit der seine Widersacher vorgehen.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to reinvigorate his career and possibly save humankind from the growing threat of global warming.

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having the affair, and he is still in love with her.

It's February 29, 2020, and Nova Negrahnu cannot wait to start playing Solarversia, a year-long game based in a virtual world that's modeled on the real-world solar system. Given three lives, three vehicles, and told to master the Science of Solarversia to stand a chance of winning, players compete against 100 million people for the £10m grand prize and a place in the history books.

After encouraging his savant daughter to build a theoretical time machine, Eduardo Solmar scrambles to complete the project after Elishia mysteriously vanishes. His tampering with time reveals more about his future and the dangers of ripping the fabric of the space-time continuum.