We’re drawn into this incredibly detailed world, and Johnson has done such an epic job of the worldbuilding. I was hooked completely from the very first page. It’s difficult to put into words how much I loved this book. But when one of the parallel Cara’s is killed in mysterious circumstances, Cara is drawn into a plot that endangers the entire multiverse. Traversers, those who have died on other worlds, are hired to travel across the multiverse to get information. But there’s a catch: you can only visit a parallel universe if the parallel you is already dead. The Space Between Worlds is set on an Earth which has discovered multiverse travel. From the plot twists 9% in that continued all the way through, to the deep social commentary on issues from gun violence to class to climate change, the exploration of trauma and survival, The Space Between Worlds managed to bring together so many different issues into one perfect sapphic scifi that’ll I’ll be thinking about for pretty much the next five years. What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined–and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse. Now she can pretend she’s always lived in the city she grew up staring at from the outside, even if she feels like a fraud on either side of its walls.īut when one of her eight remaining doppelgangers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret.

Now she’s got a new job collecting offworld data, a path to citizenship, and a near-perfect Wiley City accent. And she’s reaping the benefits, thanks to the well-heeled Wiley City scientists who ID’d her as an outlier and plucked her from the dirt. The multiverse business is booming, but there’s just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive.Įnter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying–from diseases, from turf wars, from vendettas they couldn’t outrun.īut on this earth, Cara’s survived.

Goodreads blurb: A multiverse-hopping outsider discovers a secret that threatens her home world and her fragile place in it–a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.ĬARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS. Genre: Adult | Science fiction | Multiverse Title: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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