Summa Totalis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798999695420)

If we knew every detail of past events, could we predict all future events? Could we change the future to our advantage? The oldest race in the cosmos has gone all in on the bet that the answer to those questions is 'yes'.
They built an interactive model of global events and turned their best and boldest loose in the representation to calculate a solution. Millennia passed without success.
Laplace is one of the elite participants in the present effort, and he suspects that the whole enterprise has gone awry.
He sets out to prove it, heedless of the consequences that follow from the answers he seeks and the means he uses to obtain them.