In Other Worlds

By A.A. Attanasio

Book Overview

130 BILLION YEARS INTO THE FUTURE....One star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer spontaneously transforms into light....Then, 130 billion years later, when all of spacetime is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553255665
• ISBN13: 9780553255669
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Attanasio is an unparalleled writer of intricate science fiction

This is one of the four books of his 'Radix tetrad'. Though short and fast-paced it is most excellent and highly recommended. Probably my 3rd-favorite of the tetrad, which makes it pretty close to my 3rd-favorite SF book of all time.

An esential book to the Zolt/Rimstalker universe

While this book was much more limited in its scope than the other book in the series (The Last Legend Of Earth), it managed a successful charm of its own. By showing one human's treck into the Werld (the time/space bubble at the rim of the universal blackhole) and the Zolt and Rimstalkers in their own domain it manages to help flesh out the much larger story, Last Legends of Earth. I will admit, this is a short one and might not be to as many people's liking. HOWEVER, this book adds so much to the later struggle through its little details, while its story is still very good, that it is instantly a must have to fans of Attanasio's sci-fi work. The 5 space minds (the eld skyles) also help to show that no matter how powerful the beings, there is always something else more powerful (a very nice counter balance to the Zolt and the Rimstalkers in Last Legends of Earth).This book lacks some of the literary flow of the later books, and some of the details are less fleshed out, making this more a testing of ideas for the later books, versus an actual first book in itslef. But don't be deceived, even it you NEVER read and of the author's great books, this is a book unto itself. The light lanced armor is a nice peace of technological creation. Very much a imaginative work in its own right. When the combat takes place with Space/time weapons, and gravity waves, with everything being protected by a different artificial space time distortion the size of a quarter, well just read the book and appreciate the more simplistic tale that still has all of the great elements of his later much more complex works.A nice book to build you up to his grand masterpiece, the Last Legends of Earth.Enjoy!