The first part takes place on Earth, almost a century after the "Great Crisis", where ecological and economic collapse reduced the world's population from six billion to two billion. ( July 2021)įirst part: Against Stupidity.
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See Wikipedia:Summary style for information on how to properly incorporate it into this article's main text. This section should include only a brief summary of another article. There is hope among those in the para-Universe that the energy explosion does happen in our universe. However, the exchange will likely result in the collapse of the Earth's Sun into a supernova, and possibly even turning a large part of the Milky Way into a quasar. The exchange of matter provides an alternative source of energy to maintain their universe. By exchanging matter from their universe-para-Universe-with our universe, they seek to exploit the differences in physical laws. The main plot-line is a project by those who inhabit a parallel universe (the para-Universe) with different physical laws from this one. The colony is stated to be the last leftover of pre-Crisis humanity, making it the leader in many sciences. Part III of the novel takes place on a lunar colony with about 20,000 people, half of which were "native Lunarites". It caused significant ecological damage, with all apes except for gibbons extinct outside of zoos, and technological progress being viewed with suspicion – for example, genetic engineering research is banned outright. In Part III, the novel states that the Earth's population has been reduced to two billion people following a "Great Crisis". Accordingly, the bulk of the novel is set sometime around the year 2093.
Later in Part I, in chapter two, the book states that the character Peter Lamont had been two years old when Hallam performed the work set in 2070, and Lamont was 25 years old when he began working at the Pump Station. In terms of the setting in the future, in Part I, the novel specifically refers to the date October 3, 2070, as a date when the character Hallam entered the laboratory to work. Following chapter three to five, chapter six then concludes, and the story proceeds with chapter seven.
Next, is Chapter six overview of Chapter two, then Chapter two. Thus, the flow is Chapter six overview of Chapter one, then Chapter one. In terms of structure, the book opens at chapter six to give context to the other chapters.