A Light-Year of Strolling

In an age when the expansion of the universe is about to stop and the speed of light is steadily slowing, humanity splits into two factions in a bid to save itself: the Evolutionists and the Coilists. The Coilists control the speed of thought by restricting biological magnetic fields, keeping it synchronized with the speed of light. The Evolutionists rise up in rebellion, and the key to their victory against the odds turns out to be a cosmic redshift model left behind by a Chilean astronomer centuries ago. Generations of scholars have tried and failed to decipher its secrets, until a blind fortune-teller and a deranged poet discover a clue. In the walking light-year, where the speed of light is less than one-billionth of its standard value, the truth of the universe is about to be revealed.