Empress of the Sun – Everness #3 – Ian McDonald
Release date: January, 2014 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 389 Format: Hardcover Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. World-hopping, high-action adventure starring a smart boy with computer skills and a tough girl who pilots a blimp The airship Everness makes a Heisenberg Jump to an alternate Earth unlike any her crew has ever seen. Everett, Sen, and the crew find themselves above a plain that goes on forever in every direction without any horizon. There they find an Alderson Disc, an astronomical megastructure of incredibly strong material reaching from the orbit of Mercury to the orbit of Jupiter. Then they meet the Jiju, the dominant species on…
Be My Enemy – Everness #2 – Ian McDonald
Release date: August 1st, 2013 Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Source: Received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Everett Singh has escaped from his enemies with the Infundibulum – the key to all the parallel worlds. But his freedom has come at a price: the loss of his father to one of the billions of parallel universes in the Panopoly. E1 was the first Earth to create the Heisenberg Gate, the means to jump between worlds, but it was quarantined long ago. No one goes in… and nothing comes out. But E1 has something that Everett needs: the means to find his father. It’s lucky that…