The Loop Between Us: Everything That Follows

Quinn Lin arrives at the Whitmore Summit with one assignment: expose theoretical physicist Dr. Cal Navarro as the latest in a long line of quantum frauds. She has her recorder, her backup recorder, her annotated copy of his paper, and eleven years of professional skepticism sharpened to a point.

What she doesn't have, at five-fifty in the morning, is coffee.

The machine is down the hall, past the staircase, left. This is what the man in the lab tells her without looking up - the man who turns...