Set in an unspecified time in the future, this medical thriller takes the readers through a wondrous journey of time. The narrative is suffused with science, myth, nihilism, philosophy and superstition. The book is based on the life of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Sir Ronald Ross, who did a breakthrough research on malaria in 1989. It is an attempt to rewrite the story of Ronald Ross's discovery of the malarial parasite. Apart from the fact that Ross discovered the malarial parasite on 20th August, 1897; all the other events promulgated in the narrative are fabricated by the author himself. It is his own creation. The book bagged the Arthur C Clarke Award in 1997.