About Worlds Apart
This blog post is about my first ever book on Goodreads, Worlds Apart, which was released on 30 December 2018!
There is so much I could say about this, about why this was so important, and such a relief, but I will perhaps start with the book itself.
The book is an anthology, which, for people not familiar with the term, is a group of short stories on a particular topic or theme. In this case, the topic was that they were space science fiction stories, which had to end on cliffhangers. The rule stated that you could start on Earth but you had to end in space.
My story for this, "The Brooklyn Experiment", is based on something called a World Bridge, which was the earlier name for what we now call Wormholes. Set in 1937, it begins with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen discussing applications of their Einstein/Rosen bridge theory, which sought to man-make World Bridges, which in turn was created based on the proof that natural World Bridges really do exist on Earth, especially in the Bermuda Triangle region.
The story is essentially about an expeditionary group who are sent through a World Bridge while it is located in the South Pacific (as it moves with respect to Earth), setting off from USA's closest base, Pearl Harbour in Hawai'i. With the tensions that would lead to World War II brewing, this was seen as one last effort to bring peace to the world and to prevent a war that could destroy all of humanity.
This is science fiction, in its purest form, not because it is set in space, but because it might be true. The definition of science fiction is not that it is futuristic nor that it is set in space - rather, it is something that might be true or might end up being true. In this case, I am dealing with some mysteries that have never been revealed. This could be entirely true, or at least mostly true.
I wish that I could tell you about the other stories, but I honestly can't because I haven't read them. Other people told me that my story was the best in the book, but they might have just said that because they were talking to me. It doesn't have any kind of a review, good or bad, honest or fake. It's been out for more than 3 months now, but for whatever reason nobody who has bought it has bothered to write a review.
As for my story, I have considered writing a longer version of it, that didn't end in space, at the very least continuing beyond the ending I have in Worlds Apart, but perhaps a lot more. I am yet to decide how big I want it to be or even for sure if I will do it. The copyright for Worlds Apart lasts for a year, and after that I can re-release The Brooklyn Experiment either on its own or as part of something more, perhaps in a collection of my own work.
So that's Worlds Apart. I hope that you like it, and, if you do read it, please leave a review, good or bad, and please be honest about whether you liked it. Thank you.
Adrian Meredith
There is so much I could say about this, about why this was so important, and such a relief, but I will perhaps start with the book itself.
The book is an anthology, which, for people not familiar with the term, is a group of short stories on a particular topic or theme. In this case, the topic was that they were space science fiction stories, which had to end on cliffhangers. The rule stated that you could start on Earth but you had to end in space.
My story for this, "The Brooklyn Experiment", is based on something called a World Bridge, which was the earlier name for what we now call Wormholes. Set in 1937, it begins with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen discussing applications of their Einstein/Rosen bridge theory, which sought to man-make World Bridges, which in turn was created based on the proof that natural World Bridges really do exist on Earth, especially in the Bermuda Triangle region.
The story is essentially about an expeditionary group who are sent through a World Bridge while it is located in the South Pacific (as it moves with respect to Earth), setting off from USA's closest base, Pearl Harbour in Hawai'i. With the tensions that would lead to World War II brewing, this was seen as one last effort to bring peace to the world and to prevent a war that could destroy all of humanity.
This is science fiction, in its purest form, not because it is set in space, but because it might be true. The definition of science fiction is not that it is futuristic nor that it is set in space - rather, it is something that might be true or might end up being true. In this case, I am dealing with some mysteries that have never been revealed. This could be entirely true, or at least mostly true.
I wish that I could tell you about the other stories, but I honestly can't because I haven't read them. Other people told me that my story was the best in the book, but they might have just said that because they were talking to me. It doesn't have any kind of a review, good or bad, honest or fake. It's been out for more than 3 months now, but for whatever reason nobody who has bought it has bothered to write a review.
As for my story, I have considered writing a longer version of it, that didn't end in space, at the very least continuing beyond the ending I have in Worlds Apart, but perhaps a lot more. I am yet to decide how big I want it to be or even for sure if I will do it. The copyright for Worlds Apart lasts for a year, and after that I can re-release The Brooklyn Experiment either on its own or as part of something more, perhaps in a collection of my own work.
So that's Worlds Apart. I hope that you like it, and, if you do read it, please leave a review, good or bad, and please be honest about whether you liked it. Thank you.
Adrian Meredith
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