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The Multiverse February 2023
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Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
Kidnapped and drugged at gunpoint for inexplicable reasons, physics professor Jason Dessen awakens in a lab and is informed that his entire life has been an illusion and that he is being hunted by a deadly adversary.
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Infinite
by Brian Freeman
After a tragic accident, Dylan Moran is haunted by glimpses of himself and discovers that he has a doppelganger who has staked a claim to his world and must find a way to get a second chance at the life that was stolen from him.
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Last Exit
by Max Gladstone
After being able to travel between alternate realities, wizard Zelda Quiang gathers her friends from the past to help defend the world against her ex-lover, Sal, who threatens a deadly attack with Dark Things in tow.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
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The City We Became
by N. K. Jemisin
This first book of an exciting new series by a Hugo Award-winning author takes readers into the dark underbelly of New York City, where a roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars.
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The Space Between Worlds
by Micaiah Johnson
The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying. But on this earth, Cara's survived. And she's reaping the benefits, thanks to the well-heeled Wiley City scientists who ID'd her as an outlier and plucked her from the dirt. Now she can pretend she's always lived in the city she grew up staring at from the outside, even if she feels like a fraud on either side of its walls. But when one of her eight remaining doppelgangers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret.
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Again Again
by E. Lockhart
An unexpected romantic upheaval and a near-fatal family catastrophe catapult a teen into a summer of wild possibilities that finds her falling in and out of love a thousand times before finally confronting the secrets she keeps and her perceptions about love.
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Self-Portrait with Nothing
by Aimee Pokwatka
After discovering her birth mother is Ula Frost, a reclusive artist who claims her portraits summon their subjects' doppelgangers from parallel universes, Pepper Rafferty wonders if there is a universe, in which she is better able to accept love - and in which Ula decided she was worth keeping.
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The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
Living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Lyra hears rumors of a magical dust that supposedly possesses powers that can unite whole universes, and begins a difficult and dangerous journey to find it.
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Come with Me
by Helen Schulman
A part-time employee of a tech company owned by her friend's 19-year-old son acts as his guinea pig to test an algorithm that allows people to access their "multiverses" and see their alternative life choices and paths.
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A Darker Shade of Magic
by V. E.Schwab
Serving as an ambassador of his own world while carrying messages to parallel-universe Londons with respective magical abilities and conflicts, Kell hides his secret smuggling activities only to be set up with a forbidden object from a dark dimension.
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time travel
by Michio Kaku
The distinguished physicist looks at the scientific principles behind the technology of the future, examining the theoretical basis, as well as limitations, of the laws of physics to discuss how seemingly impossible devices could become commonplace in the future in such areas as teleportation, force fields, telepathy, invisibility, time travel, and more.
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