This is the first in a new prequal series to the Quantum Evolution trilogy.

Going back to the beginning, on Venus with it's struggling population, barely eking out a living in the planet's extremely hostile environment, a new discovery could change their fortune.

This is a slower book, exploring the adaptations to life in the Venusian atmosphere and the tensions between the banks, government and family homesteads.

There is a very well told transition story for one of the characters.

Disaffected youth form a proto religion, trying to come to terms with the world they were born into.

ah, and don't worry it does all eventually lead up to a heist.