If You Could Have One Chance... or Hundreds (The Space Between Worlds sci-fi REVIEW)
Imagine you, but on a different Earth… one perhaps not so very much changed, just not quite the same. Now, imagine you in a dozen such worlds. In a hundred. Or, in The Space Between Worlds (Micaiah Johnson’s dazzling debut), 382 different versions of you, on 382 different Earths. _______________ In a not-so-distant, dystopian future, traveling within the multiverse is possible—not for the average Joe, mind you, being crazy-expensive—but doable . [Let’s back up for a sec, though, to break down “multiverse”: consider our universe, then assume that—since space is literally infinite —multiple universes essentially identical to ours probably exist within that vast expanse, including multiple earths populated by our doppelgängers… who may— or may not —behave as we do, given the vagaries of human decision-making, behavior, and whatnot. Yeah?] Anyway, back to traversing the multiverse. For the few people allowed to do so, it’s a job: go to whatever Earth the assignment calls for, ...