«Nothing could be "superluminal", not so much as a single neutrino, and suddenly a safety valve was activated, which stopped him from reading any further. "Stuff and nonsense!" he said, wiping the message from the screen in irritation and focusing his attention elsewhere.» The story of a man blinded by unbridled scientific ambition, a girl who finds the courage to think for herself, and the devil who can’t resist putting his oar in.