![]() ![]() ![]() Thec crushes dissent, is perennially at war, and forever expanding. It’s the far future, and an evil empire has the galaxy in its grip. Johnson excels at contrasting lives of privilege and poverty, and at drip-feeding information that gradually reveals Cara’s complex character.īilled as a feminist space opera, Seven Devils (Gollancz, £18.99) is the first collaboration between Elizabeth May and Laura Lam. Having lived a hand-to-mouth existence fighting poverty and abuse, Cara relishes the freedom of interworld travel, but what she discovers on Earth 175 threatens to uncover not only her own terrible secret but that of the enigmatic Institute. Enter strong-willed but vulnerable Cara, a young black woman plucked from the hostile wastelands to work for the Institute: her doppelgangers are dead on all but eight parallel Earths, allowing her almost unlimited movement. Only “traversers”, individuals whose doppelgangers are dead on another Earth, can make a crossing to collect scientific data for the benefit of the Institute. ![]() In Micaiah Johnson’s entertaining first novel, The Space Between Worlds (Hodder & Stoughton, £14.99), the Eldridge Institute has not only discovered the multiverse, with 380-plus planet Earths alongside Earth Zero, but the means to travel between worlds. ![]()
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