These dreams show him an archaeological site buried under 4km of ice and could explain the oddities of this Gemma snowball so great and strange.
But it turns out that this site is just under a point of collapse ... a place where the laws of the very small seem to take precedence over the infinitely large ... well or quantum mechanics and the principles of indecision override the simple laws of time and space. Schrödinger's cat ... but true :)
Presented as this would imply a novel unreachable hard science who does not understand and Planck quanta. Nay! Multiple characters; the well drawn profiles; the action and the plot rapidly taking place, dreamlike passages beautiful but fast enough to not break the rhythm etc .. everything is built in this first volume as an exciting setting for the future. Besides a Cliffhanger just conclude this volume 1 bringing a semblance of response to a secondary riddle but opening "the game" for the rest.
I highly recommend and I look after imparience