Welcome to Litsy!

It is the year 2055, and the battle of the sexes has seven combatants instead of two. Journalist Andrew Worth is burned out after completing a documentary on controversial developments in biotechnology and turns down a chance to report on a baffling new mental disorder known as Distress. Instead, he takes what he believes will be a cushy job covering a scientific conference on the artificial island of Stateless, where a brilliand young South African physicist, Violet Mosala, is expected to present a Theory of Everything. But the assignment is not the tropical respite Worth was expecting, and on Stateless he discovers a seething maelstrom of plotting, assassination attempts, and rebellion. The world's only hope for survival lies in Mosala's research, but whether it will lead to the total destruction of life as we know it or the complete remaking of the universe may be a risk too dangerous to take. As the Distress outbreak continues to mysteriously grow, Worth must race to find the truth behind The Theory of Everything, and what the implications of Mosala's work could mean for humanity.