这是一部关于帕尔默 · 马歇尔(Palmer Marshall)的现代科幻小说，他是一个努力学习工程学的学生，在个人生活、课堂和职业生涯中一直苦苦挣扎。帕尔默正处于一个潜在的巨大发现的尖端，他把每一个清醒的时刻都投入到具有挑战性的，而且往往是徒劳的，对创造一些可能改变世界的东西的追求中。但帕默很快就意识到，通往成功的道路是漫长而充满失败的。尽管存在严重的焦虑和人格障碍，帕默坚持不懈地创造了这个梦想机器，他将因此而被铭记。

A modern day sci-fi about Palmer Marshall, a struggling engineering student that’s flailing through his personal life, classes, and career. Palmer is on the cusp of a potentially huge discovery and he devotes every waking moment to the challenging, and often fruitless, pursuit of creating something that might change the world. But Palmer soon learns that the road to success is long and fraught with failure. Despite crippling anxiety and personality disorders, Palmer perseveres and creates the one – the dream machine that he’ll be remembered for.