After a hundred pages of "crash scene", the action is taking place and the system gradually evolves to move gradually towards a point of no return. It is this evolution that we will follow, with the permanent challenge of all pins previously acquired.
It stands there a beautiful universe where space and time are mostly very subjective, but it turns wacky. We will at the end of the novel the explanation of these phenomena, and this in a very abrupt and very plausible, which makes it even more real and believable novel he already was.