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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