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Review by Winter Swan -- Worldlines by Adam Guest
[Following is a volunteer review of "Worldlines" by Adam Guest.]
Worldlines is a book like no other that explores the possibility of our consciousness traveling through the multiverse and encountering our other selves in these dimensions when we dream. This book written by Adam Guest follows the story of Gary, a 21-year-old physic student, and his different consciousness from other multiverses. It begins with Gary describing his near-death experience when he was almost run over by a lorry due to his own carelessness, but managed to avoid that happening in the nick of time. But what if he didn’t really avoid being hit? What if in a different world he was in fact hit, and died as a result or was put in a condition that results from being hit by a vehicle moving at full speed? These is the question asked by Professor Leyton Buzzard, to which answers will be given later on in the book.
Gary was to later find out, albeit unpleasantly, that there is in fact a multiverse with many versions of ourselves that exist in these other universes living and doing things whether the same or different from our current selves. He also learnt that these other consciousness of ours can reach out to other worldliness and influence the actions of our other consciousness against their will through lucid dreaming. This hard truth leads to him being left to account for a crime that although he committed, he wasn’t quite responsible for as his body was only the vehicle through which that crime was carried out.
Adam Guest must be commended for this beautiful piece of literature because although it is fiction and a story written to entertain, I must say that he did quite a research on quantum physics and the multiverse theories or conspiracies. He echoed the argument in the book that consciousness never really ends, because if it did, how do we explain making memories in our dreams? That even when we die in this world, we never really die but live forever in other millions of worldliness. That when people suffering from dementia or other mental illness hallucinate, they aren’t really cooking up images and scenarios in their head but are in fact transported to other dimensions and are conversing with, seeing, or experiencing things in those worldlines, things that the people watching them in the present world cannot see. I understand that although these are all theories, it was really nice to see the author write about it and put such questions to rest in the mind of the characters in the book.
I loved how the author developed the characters and particularly liked the relationship between Gary and his best friend Sinead. It was really heartwarming to witness, although in writing, a platonic relationship between a man and a woman who genuinely love each other without feeling or having anything sexual.
What I loved most about the book was how the author made it so easy to connect with and understand the consciousness of Gary from all the worldlines written about. The book was written in Gary’s point-of-view and this made me connect on a deep level with him. While reading, I felt like I could understand his struggles, pain, love, and the confusion he felt when things when sideways in his life. I could easily connect and empathize with him as half-way through reading the book, I felt that I knew him in-toto like I would a best friend in real life.
Although the book comes off as quite repetitive, I must say that that is understandable because of the happenings in the different worldliness. There are times when the same conversations and events happen in more than one of the worldlines written about, hence the seen repetitiveness. There are also some unexpected plot twists in the book. There were moments when I felt and was sure that an event would play out exactly as I imagined it, only for the author to branch off and throw in an unexpected character or event in the story. It was really interesting to read and have some of my predictions or expectations quashed which was quite nice to know as this is one of the few books that I have read that isn’t really predictable.
Honestly, there is nothing I disliked about the book, other than the fact that at some point I couldn’t follow the conversation on science and quantum physics, but that is 100% on me because I’m neither a science student nor have I really researched on quantum physics, so there was no way that I would have been able to understand fully what was being talked about. Nevertheless, it was quite interesting to read.
I noticed only about 5 grammatical and typographical errors in the book, which leads me to believe and conclude that the book was professionally edited. The story is unusual and quite interesting to read as the author really did a wonderful work in the portrayal of the characters and the story told. Because of the above, I give the book a rating of 4 out of 4 stars and I recommend this book to sci-fi lovers of 13 years and above.
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Worldlines
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Worldlines is a book like no other that explores the possibility of our consciousness traveling through the multiverse and encountering our other selves in these dimensions when we dream. This book written by Adam Guest follows the story of Gary, a 21-year-old physic student, and his different consciousness from other multiverses. It begins with Gary describing his near-death experience when he was almost run over by a lorry due to his own carelessness, but managed to avoid that happening in the nick of time. But what if he didn’t really avoid being hit? What if in a different world he was in fact hit, and died as a result or was put in a condition that results from being hit by a vehicle moving at full speed? These is the question asked by Professor Leyton Buzzard, to which answers will be given later on in the book.
Gary was to later find out, albeit unpleasantly, that there is in fact a multiverse with many versions of ourselves that exist in these other universes living and doing things whether the same or different from our current selves. He also learnt that these other consciousness of ours can reach out to other worldliness and influence the actions of our other consciousness against their will through lucid dreaming. This hard truth leads to him being left to account for a crime that although he committed, he wasn’t quite responsible for as his body was only the vehicle through which that crime was carried out.
Adam Guest must be commended for this beautiful piece of literature because although it is fiction and a story written to entertain, I must say that he did quite a research on quantum physics and the multiverse theories or conspiracies. He echoed the argument in the book that consciousness never really ends, because if it did, how do we explain making memories in our dreams? That even when we die in this world, we never really die but live forever in other millions of worldliness. That when people suffering from dementia or other mental illness hallucinate, they aren’t really cooking up images and scenarios in their head but are in fact transported to other dimensions and are conversing with, seeing, or experiencing things in those worldlines, things that the people watching them in the present world cannot see. I understand that although these are all theories, it was really nice to see the author write about it and put such questions to rest in the mind of the characters in the book.
I loved how the author developed the characters and particularly liked the relationship between Gary and his best friend Sinead. It was really heartwarming to witness, although in writing, a platonic relationship between a man and a woman who genuinely love each other without feeling or having anything sexual.
What I loved most about the book was how the author made it so easy to connect with and understand the consciousness of Gary from all the worldlines written about. The book was written in Gary’s point-of-view and this made me connect on a deep level with him. While reading, I felt like I could understand his struggles, pain, love, and the confusion he felt when things when sideways in his life. I could easily connect and empathize with him as half-way through reading the book, I felt that I knew him in-toto like I would a best friend in real life.
Although the book comes off as quite repetitive, I must say that that is understandable because of the happenings in the different worldliness. There are times when the same conversations and events happen in more than one of the worldlines written about, hence the seen repetitiveness. There are also some unexpected plot twists in the book. There were moments when I felt and was sure that an event would play out exactly as I imagined it, only for the author to branch off and throw in an unexpected character or event in the story. It was really interesting to read and have some of my predictions or expectations quashed which was quite nice to know as this is one of the few books that I have read that isn’t really predictable.
Honestly, there is nothing I disliked about the book, other than the fact that at some point I couldn’t follow the conversation on science and quantum physics, but that is 100% on me because I’m neither a science student nor have I really researched on quantum physics, so there was no way that I would have been able to understand fully what was being talked about. Nevertheless, it was quite interesting to read.
I noticed only about 5 grammatical and typographical errors in the book, which leads me to believe and conclude that the book was professionally edited. The story is unusual and quite interesting to read as the author really did a wonderful work in the portrayal of the characters and the story told. Because of the above, I give the book a rating of 4 out of 4 stars and I recommend this book to sci-fi lovers of 13 years and above.
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Worldlines
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