![]() ![]() Johnson layers in several neat twists in this book that lean nicely into the rules of this particular universe. It’s this background that drives the emotional core of the novel: Cara’s a disposable person: literally. People who’d already thought this was a paradise. ![]() People bought for labor, or come for refuge, or who were here before the first neoliberal surveyed this land and thought to build a paradise. People somehow on the ‘wrong side’ of the wall, even though they were the ones who built it. Cara is a special traveler in particular, because she’s dead in 373 of them, meaning that she’s someone who can travel far and wide without too many problems.Ĭara isn’t a scientist or someone with a specialized degree in this type of work: she’s from Ashtown, a slum out in the desert where life is extremely difficult, and which means that in other worlds, she’s a person who’s been profoundly unlucky in life: dying in all manner of ways. ![]() People who have tried end up mangled and dead. The people that Bosch sends out to study are special, for a key reason: in order to travel to another world and survive, you can’t exist in it. His company, the Eldridge Institute, sends out travelers to the ones that they can reach (380 of them) to gather data to study them: understanding the differences between different worlds, figure out what conditions make for meaningful changes, and whatnot. The novel is set in a world - Earth 179 - where a genius named Adam Bosch figured out the secret to traveling between worlds. Those differences are at the heart of Micaiah Johnson’s debut novel, The Space Between Worlds, and she weaves together an extraordinary story about the possibilities that unlocking travel between those worlds could mean for people. What would happen if the sequence of events in your life was slightly different? Minute variations in that domino effect of events leads to radically different possibilities for your alternate selves. The idea that there might be other worlds out there is a pretty compelling one for science fiction readers and writers. ![]()
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