Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. 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.
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.
On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.
But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. 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.
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The Space Between Worlds
The Space Between Worlds
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Multiverse science fiction explores social inequality, trauma, and identity through high-concept parallel world travel where individuals can only visit dimensions where their alternate selves have already died. Author Micaiah Johnson introduced this premise in her debut novel The Space Between Worlds, establishing a setting where marginalized individuals with high mortality rates across parallel Earths become uniquely capable as multiverse travelers.
Her speculative fiction combines rigorous worldbuilding with critical examinations of class, power, and systemic exploitation. Johnson continued this narrative universe in her follow-up novel Those Beyond the Wall, expanding the scope of her setting to examine political and cultural dynamics outside the privileged city center.
Micaiah Johnson was raised in California's Mojave Desert within a Jehovah's Witness community. On her mother's side, she is a first-generation high school graduate, earning her diploma at the age of thirteen. She went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside, and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Rutgers-Camden. She later pursued doctoral research in American literature at Vanderbilt University, focusing on critical race theory, technology, death, and automatons.
Johnson's speculative fiction utilizes high-concept science fiction frameworks—such as multiverse traversal and artificial constructs—to analyze privilege, survival, and social stratification. In her work, parallel dimensions serve as structural allegories for colonization and power imbalances. Her writing features distinctive, resilient protagonists operating on the margins of society, whose lived experiences in harsh conditions inform their navigation of rigid political systems.
2 books in catalog
Multiverse science fiction explores social inequality, trauma, and identity through high-concept parallel world travel where individuals can only visit dimensions where their alternate selves have already died. Author Micaiah Johnson introduced this premise in her debut novel The Space Between Worlds, establishing a setting where marginalized individuals with high mortality rates across parallel Earths become uniquely capable as multiverse travelers.
Her speculative fiction combines rigorous worldbuilding with critical examinations of class, power, and systemic exploitation. Johnson continued this narrative universe in her follow-up novel Those Beyond the Wall, expanding the scope of her setting to examine political and cultural dynamics outside the privileged city center.
Micaiah Johnson was raised in California's Mojave Desert within a Jehovah's Witness community. On her mother's side, she is a first-generation high school graduate, earning her diploma at the age of thirteen. She went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from the University of California, Riverside, and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Rutgers-Camden. She later pursued doctoral research in American literature at Vanderbilt University, focusing on critical race theory, technology, death, and automatons.
Johnson's speculative fiction utilizes high-concept science fiction frameworks—such as multiverse traversal and artificial constructs—to analyze privilege, survival, and social stratification. In her work, parallel dimensions serve as structural allegories for colonization and power imbalances. Her writing features distinctive, resilient protagonists operating on the margins of society, whose lived experiences in harsh conditions inform their navigation of rigid political systems.
