Future Perfect

Every 248 years the dwarf planet Pluto slides inside Neptune's orbit and spends 20 years closer to the sun than the blue ice giant. Since the birth of Christ, these 'interior' periods have preceded eras of great turbulence and revolution. The most recent interior just ended.

James Smith is an ambitious government contractor working on a top-secret national surveillance project. When a conspiracy-minded blogger sends him a cryptic email ("Tell me about Pluto"), James and his friend & co-worke...