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InterWorld

Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves · 239 pages

Joey Harker isn't a hero.In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces—armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.When he sees the evil those forces are capa

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Planesrunner

Ian McDonald

When fourteen-year-old Everett Singh's scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves a mysterious app on Everett's computer giving him access to the Infundibulum--a map of parallel earths--which is being sought by technologically advanced dark powers that Everett must somehow elude while he tries to rescue his father. There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not

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Fair Coin

E.C. Myers

When evil versions of himself and best friend Nate appear one day, teenaged Ephraim embarks on a dangerous odyssey through parallel worlds to make things right.

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The Long Earth

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter · 400 pages

Terry Pratchett, other than lending his name to this book, wasn't a part of it. No humor and dark reading. Mr. Baxter should have published it under his own name, he can write, just not to my liking. gmb 3/15/20

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Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer · 448 pages

From back cover Tor paperback February 2003: *Hominids* examines two unique species of people. *We* are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where *they* became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy. Ponter Boddi

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Adventures of Luther Arkwright

Bryan Talbot · 216 pages

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Now That You're Here

Amy K. Nichols · 284 pages

"When street smart graffiti artist, Danny, is jolted into a parallel world, only Eevee, an alluring science geek has the know-how to get him home, but as he falls for her, his motives grow foggy"--

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RASL, Vol. 1: The Drift

Jeff Smith · 111 pages

RASL, a dimension jumping art thief with a tattoo of a woman's name (Maya) on his left arm, is wandering in a desert battered and bloody. He recollects his memories on a job where he steals a Picasso painting (The Old Guitarist) from a tall house during a thunderstorm. After tagging the location of the painting, RASL escapes from the police by using an immersion suit to enter the Drift, a place wh

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Spectre

William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens · 372 pages

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Zero World

Jason M. Hough · 578 pages

How long must I wait for the sequel!?"--Raymond Benson, former James Bond novelist and author of the Black Stiletto series Praise for Jason M. Hough's The Darwin Elevator "A hell of a fun book."--James S.A. Corey, New York Times bestselling author of Abaddon's Gate "Hough's first novel combines the rapid-fire action and memorable characters associated with Joss Whedon's short-lived Firefly TV seri

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Black Science, Vol. 3: Vanishing Point

Rick Remender

"Stranded on a world ravaged by plague, Grant McCoy realizes that every dimension they've passed through has been devastated by Pillar technology. Even as Grant tries to reclaim the Dimensionaut credo 'Leave every world better than how we found it,' his team threatens to tear itself apart from within. With the timer to the Pillar's final jump ticking down, Grant risks losing everything he's fought

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Infinity Gate

M.R. Carey · 499 pages

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Extinction Game

Gary Gibson · 400 pages

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Eon

Greg Bear · 512 pages

"Perhaps it wasn't from our time, perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but perhaps the arrival of the 300 km long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown: the remnants of a human society, versed in English, Russian and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused

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Empire State

Adam Christopher · 445 pages

"It's a parallel-universe, Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple. It's a city where sinister characters lurk around every corner while the great superheroes who once kept the streets safe have fallen into deadly rivalries and feuds. Not that its colourful residents know anything about the real New York ... until detective Rad Bradley

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Split Infinity

Piers Anthony · 362 pages

On the technological, decadent world of Proton,someone is trying to destroy Stile,serf and master Gamesmen.His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot. Beyond the curtain lay Phaze-a world totally rulled by magis. Stile soon realizes that Phaze is no escape. Someone has already killed his alternate self, and he was due to be the next victim.

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Into the Storm

Taylor Anderson · 386 pages

Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker -- a Great-War vintage "four-stacker destroyer" finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover -- and emerges somewh

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Conquistador

S.M. Stirling · 608 pages

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A Thousand Pieces of You

Claudia Gray · 368 pages

Marguerite's physicist parents' most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes. When her father is murdered, the killer (her parents' handsome, enigmatic assistant, Paul) escapes into another dimension. Marguerite refuses to let him go free, so she races after him through different universes. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt as well as

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The Lost City of Faar

D.J. MacHale · 400 pages

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Transition

Iain M. Banks · 442 pages

A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse, such a world requires a firm hand and a guiding light. But does it need the Concern: an all-powerful organisation with a malevolent presiding genius, pervasive influence and numberless invisible o

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Dissonance

Erica O'Rourke · 484 pages

"Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world is spun off the existing one and Del's job is to keep the dimensions in harmony"--

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Manxome Foe

John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor · 341 pages

The crew of the Alliance space ship Vorpal Blade goes back into action when news arrives that a gate colony has fallen to an unidentified alien invasion, heading out to find out what happened to the colony, rescue survivors, and uncover the attackers' identity.

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