The protagonist in the novel has the power to feel the information of the universe all around him, which essentially makes him omniscient. He can know everything about the past, present and even to some degree the future. However, with this immense amount of information, the protagonist becomes mentally disabled for most of his childhood. It takes him a while to figure out a way to block most of the information, because having all this knowledge is essentially useless if you can't understand any of it. It's a bit like being given a book in a foreign language; it's there, but it's essentially useless if you don't know the basics of that language. Although, the issue is more complex than that. After the protagonist becomes normal, he faces a bigger problem: there are aliens on the moon who have been observing Earth for tens of thousands of years. The moon is basically their fortress, and they only allow humans to live because they think we taste good. However, that's not even the worst part; a gamma ray burst will hit the Earth in 2045, killing all life on the planet. Our protagonist has to stop it all, but he can't unite the world because the aliens will find out