After building a neural-mapper to help his quadriplegic professor, Stu Bigley discovers that the device has much bigger applications. As the government tries to shut down an alien site on the moon, Proximans face a choice, fight or flight. Before the space station can make a decades-long crawl to another solar system, residents need a roadmap, and a strong kick from Earth. THE TRANSUB Two hundred thousand years ago, the Milky Way was seeded with metal spheres filled with entangled quantum bits. The devices allowed digitized intelligence to live inside created worlds. As technological civilizations on other worlds learned how to encode intelligence, they entered these quantum portals, joining a multi-species society that lived inside. The portal makers disappeared a long time ago, and just when humankind needs it most, the system is in crisis.

The cluttered streets of London, England are where we set our scene. Young university Nathaniel Black, working as a waiter for a small restaurant, runs into an unexpected patron. The flirtatious Tristan Hart, a bartender at the nearby Bar, a block away. One night turns to two, then three, then countless more, as the boys grow closer, and their affections grow stronger. Until one day, their world is turned horribly upside down.