2023 Canon Promo Post

[keita52]

Use the comments of this post to promote your favorite canon(s). Please use one comment per canon. You can use the template provided here or whatever format you wish.

If it is freely available online, consider adding it to the Freely Available Canons spreadsheet.



Name:
Author:
Length (pages or words, whichever is more relevant): 
Sub-genre:
Why it's awesome:
Any other important information to know about:

Comments

The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson

[lemniskath]

What if instead of the first world being a metaphor, there really was a first world - world 0, because in sci fi you start counting at 0 instead of 1 - and it could mine not just a third world, but hundreds of other worlds for their raw materials? What if the only people who could travel between these worlds were ones whose alternate selves had already died?

What if one woman (her name is Cara) was dead in nearly every parallel reality and therefore could go nearly everywhere, and this got her a job that got her out of the poor and dangerous environs she was born into, got her safety and income she couldn't find any other way? And she knew she was privileged to have that, even if the company she worked for had no loyalty to her beyond her usefulness? What if she had a hopeless crush on her handler, a woman born into the privilege and status she had never known, and resented having to keep secrets from her but still cherished the (must be professionally required, what other reason could there be) care her handler took to make sure she always came back to the first world safely? (the pining turns out not to necessarily be one sided, heh)

Would you like to find out? Then read The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson and consider requesting or creating for it!