{"id":4906,"date":"2011-03-25T06:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T10:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2011-03-25T02:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T06:00:40","slug":"walls-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/25\/walls-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"READING: The Walls of the Universe by Paul Melko"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently reading and enjoying the novel The Walls of the Universe<\/em> by Paul Melko. It’s a fast-paced read that jumps between alternate universe adventure, suspense thriller, and coming-of-age story.<\/p>\n

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I stumbled across this book in a Science Fiction Book Club mailer and decided to give it a try.\u00a0 Here is the description from the Science Fiction Book Club:<\/p>\n

Ohio farm boy John Rayburn is in trouble after beating up the high-school bully. But his petty problems fade when his doppelg\u00e4nger, Prime, appears with a device that lets him travel across worlds. For John, the lure of seeing another universe is too strong: he tries it out\u2026and learns to his horror that the device only works one way\u2014forward\u2014and that Prime stole his life from him! Unable to return home, he settles in a new universe to try and fix the device.<\/p>\n

As Prime sets out to cash in on inventions he\u2019s stolen from other Earths\u2014including the Rubik\u2019s Cube\u2014John\u2019s attempts to lie low backfire spectacularly when he inadvertently introduces pinball to his new universe. Unfortunately, both actions draw the notice of other travelers, dangerous people who are exploiting worlds for their own nefarious purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 2009 novel was expanded from a novella that appeared in the April\/May 2006 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction<\/em>.\u00a0 The novella was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Novella, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and won the Asimov’s Readers Poll Award.<\/p>\n

The book is a real page-turner.\u00a0 Give it a try!<\/p>\n

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