The spaceship of 17-year-old Toby McGonigal has an accident, and while waiting for help, the young man goes into suspended animation, and wakes up on a prosperous, rich planet, finding out that he spent several millennia in cryosleep. Toby finds himself in the Synchroworld empire, a state of many planets. Here people live for millennia, spending many years in cryosleep, and travel between the stars. Toby soon finds out that the empire is run by his own family, and his younger brother has become a real tyrant and wants to kill Toby, not wanting to share power. Now, with the help of a girl named Korva, Toby needs to escape the forces of the empire, outwit his relatives and save human civilization. Synchroworld is a wildly original space opera and one of the smartest, most conceptual, and most entertaining books in the teen science fiction genre.