Infinity Gate |
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6 April 2025 - Bratislava
Over the years I've repeatedly been pleasantly surprised by the sci-fi fiction recommendations of Outland in Bergen. This past week's vist to the store I picked up a real page turner, M. R. Carey's Infinity Gate. I had some trepidation reading a story about the multiverse, since Disney's made such a terrible mess of that plot element. The story picks up with scientist on a world not unlike our own Earth, but further down the path to environmental destruction. She discovers multidimensional travel and eventually gets on the radar of a multidimensional empire, the Pandominion. Carey wastes some pages trying to make multidimensional travel scientifically possible, but they are cringe-worthy and fortunately short. The story evolves inmostly predictable ways, but the details of what other versions of Earth might look like are where Carey really shines. The story climaxes with a chase by surgically enhanced Pandominion troops after a sentient rabbit species child and a robot from the Machine Hegemony, another multidimensional empire at war with the Pandominion. I've already ordered the sequel.
