Books like 'Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos'
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Quantum Void by Douglas Phillips
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEight months after the astounding discoveries made at Fermilab… Particle physics was always an unlikely path to the stars, but with the discovery that space could be compressed, the entire galaxy had come within reach. The technology was astonishing, yet nothing compared to what humans encountered four thousand light-years from home... -
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Iron Gray Sea by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Now, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, the crew of USS Walker, and their allies battle an ever-growing host of enemies across the globe in a desperate battle for freedom …War has engulfed the—other earth... -
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Deadly Shores by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNational bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s explosive WWII alternate-history series continues as a do-or-die battle is waged that risks far more than anyone bargained for. The long-planned raid on the heart of the Grik Empire has grown more ambitious—and dangerously ill defined. Only Matthew Reddy, commander of the old destroyer USS Walker, seems focused on its original intent... -
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Invisible Sun by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun--the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State--as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines.A inter-timline coup d'état gone awry.A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin...Categorized as:
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Dark State by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, following Empire Games.In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent...Categorized as:
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![The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge]()
The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFun science meets humor and heart in this adventure about a boy who is searching for his mother . . . in a parallel universe.Stephen Albie Bright leads a happy, normal life. Well, as normal as it gets with two astrophysicist parents who named their son after their favorite scientists, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. But then Albie's mother dies of cancer, and his world is shattered...Categorized as:
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Ring by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMichael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise... -
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Empire Games by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world...Categorized as:
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![The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter]()
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the journey has a terrible cost. It alters not only the future but the "present" in which we live.A century after the publication of H. G...Categorized as:
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![Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson]()
Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPressed 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... -
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The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsA 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. CARA IS DEAD ON THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR WORLDS...Categorized as:
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![The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch]()
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.. -
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Forgotten Suns by Judith Tarr
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor five thousand Earthyears, the planet called Nevermore has been empty. Its cities are deserted, with every trace of their inhabitants erased. Only a handful of nomadic tribes remain, none of whom remember the ones who went before.An expedition from Earth has been excavating one of the planet's many ruins, and attempting without success to find the cause of its people's disappearance... -
![Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain]()
Theatre of the Gods by M. Suddain
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA space-opera, a philosophical quest, a steampunk adventure of epic proportions.This is the story of M... -
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![Conquistador by S.M. Stirling]()
Conquistador by S.M. Stirling
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA new alternate history of America from the author of The Peshawar Lancers, the bestselling novel the Chicago Sun-Times called "a pleasure to read" and Harry Turtledove hailed as "first-rate adventure all the way."1945: An ex-marine has discovered a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows-and a virgin America untouched by European influence...Categorized as:
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Transition by Iain M. Banks
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThere is 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...Categorized as:
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![World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter]()
World Engines: Creator by Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel universes where small changes in history led to different realities, and the tensions between the groups are rising...Categorized as:
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Invictus by Ryan Graudin, Райан Гродин
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTime flies when you're plundering history.Farway Gaius McCarthy was born outside of time. The son of a time-traveling Recorder from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in Rome in 95 AD, Far's birth defies the laws of nature...Categorized as:
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![Red Tide: The Chinese Invasion of Seattle by Chris Kennedy]()
Red Tide: The Chinese Invasion of Seattle by Chris Kennedy
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnalysts have long predicted that China would go to war to reintegrate the province of Taiwan. It isn't a matter of "if;" it's a matter of "when." For decades, the only thing that has kept China from invading Taiwan is the American promise to defend it, even if that means World War III. To date, China has not been ready to go that far...Categorized as:
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![The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for?When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate... -
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Eon by Greg Bear
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad... -
![Thunder of Time by James F. David]()
Thunder of Time by James F. David
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen years ago, the prehistoric past collided with the present as time itself underwent a tremendous disruption, transporting huge swaths of the Cretaceous Period into the world of the twentieth century. Entire neighborhoods and cities were replaced by dense primeval jungles and modern humanity suddenly found itself sharing the earth with fierce dinosaurs... -
![Zero World by Jason M. Hough]()
Zero World by Jason M. Hough
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTechnologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell has been dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike any he’s ever faced. A spaceship that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew—save one. Peter’s mission is to find the missing crew member, who fled through what appears to be a tear in the fabric of space...Categorized as:
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![The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsNORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE.The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was? The roar of air conditioners and computer fans, the susurration of many voices heard but not decipherable... -
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![The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez]()
The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez
Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMars is supposed to be dead.…Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason...Categorized as:
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![The Trade of Queens by Charles Stross]()
The Trade of Queens by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States...Categorized as:
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![The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions, where a plot to rescue a sentient computer could alter human history.. -
![The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter]()
The Long War by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind..Categorized as:
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![The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein]()
The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
Rated: 3.59 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDr. Zebadiah John Carter, Dr. Dejah Thoris Burroughs (Deety to her friends), Deety's brainiac father, Jake, and her "Aunt" Hilda are running off to Reno for a quickie double wedding when a car bomb narrowly misses killing them all. But, what makes this bantering bunch so special isn't money or politics or jealous exes but the one-of-a-kind machine Jake has built in his basement...Categorized as:
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![The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene]()
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date—a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe?There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything...Categorized as:
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