A six-minute quantum experiment opens a bridge seven hundred years into humanity's future, and cryogenic engineer Art Lawson is the only man keeping it alive.
On the other side, humanity has spread among the stars and learned that its suns are dying. The descendants who built the receiver cannot save their own timeline, but they can send knowledge, technology, and a limited number of people into Lawson's century. There is one brutal constraint: every kilogram that crosses permanently damages the bridge.
As scientists stream centuries of discoveries into the past, children, engineers, and irreplaceable machines compete for the same vanishing margin. Lawson knows better than most what happens when an engineer calls a risk acceptable. Now every pressure reading, safety override, and crossing forces the same impossible calculation: how much uncertainty can a human life bear?
The bridge is degrading. The waiting list is growing. And keeping the future alive may require Lawson to drive his own system past the point where he can promise it will hold.
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