This was the first “between” place and Johnson does an incredible job with describing Cara’s emotions as she travels. As a person who only has 8 surviving dopplegangers in the 382 worlds that exist in this story, she’s the one who can travel to most worlds without the concerns of Nyame and the space/time continuum destroying her. First, there’s Cara’s journeys through the multiverses. I felt like there were multiple dichotomies happening at the same time here. The Space Between Worlds was definitely right up my alley. Everything from time travel to multiverse existence always excites me. While I’m a huge fan of space operas and traveling to other planets and exploring the worlds there within, I love keeping it on planet Earth and diving into the fiction of science fiction. I love science fiction stories like this one. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined-and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.

So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.īut trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. She works-and shamelessly flirts-with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.

Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive.

The space between worlds summary