![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is useful because she has died in most of the nearly 400 worlds that the corporation can access. Minor spoilers in this book because it is rather difficult to discuss the story without them, but I won’t spoil anything major.Ĭara is one of a small number of people who are useful to the Eldridge corporation as traversers, world-walkers. This is a postcolonial novel about not belonging, about belonging only when you are useful, and how you calibrate your life when that is all you know how to do. The fact it has a queer protagonist of colour? Even better! Indeed, Micaiah Johnson isn’t just telling a multiverse thriller here. I do so love parallel-universe fiction and other, similar, world-hopping stories, so I was excited for The Space Between Worlds. The idea of the multiverse is captivating, no? The thought that there are infinitely-many yous out there, that at any moment the choice you make diverges you from them a little more. ![]()
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