She reports the future. And then it happens. Naomi, half-human, half cyborg, is beyond prescient. She's a Reverse Journalist, working for China in the 22nd century. Naomi's job is to foresee and report the events and personalities of the future. Driven by voices she hears in her Logoharp, a universal translator of instructions and signals she can't identify, Naomi listens, speaks and broadcasts in all world languages, ensuring citizen compliance. But an encounter with a leading architect, Naomi's former lover who abandoned her in youth, forces recollections of her human inheritance. When she's tasked with finding a flaw in the architect's system that "balances" births and deaths on behalf of the State, she grows uncomfortable, then furious. The rest isn't silence. She acts.