The Space Between Worlds

Micaiah Johnson

Having read it

★★★☆☆

An intriguing idea and approach to the multiverse but the book lacked a decent plot to help propel it beyond just its key characters and all their possibilities, angst and intentions; lost in its own worlds without much cause and effect was my impression, plus I didn’t read it all anyway as it was becoming quite a slog to get through!

A good passage

I’ve always believed, like all rational people, that my selves are separate. That they – we – exist independently. But sometimes when life is too still, when I lie in bed in the quiet, I can feel it all happening. Not just my selves collapsing, but time collapsing, because past and future are other selves just as surely as those in different worlds. My mother is dying right now, and I feel it. But she also recovered, woke up, got clean, and I feel that too. I feel that somewhere I am not alone. And I feel that sometime, soon or not long ago, I will accomplish something great.