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it is first person

Greg Egan, through chapter 6, involves Nick in investigating a woman named Laura who escaped a psychiatric institute, only to be captured by a group called the Ensemble. The Ensemble reveals that their project involves a neural mod called the Eigenstate Mod or Eigenmod, which allows a person to consciously control the wave function collapse, a feature they studied from Laura.

in the book, the setting is set in the future in 2034

Greg Egan doesn't like it when people call him at night, for example, in the text, it says nobody wants a sensitive call electronically decoded and flashed up on the screen