March to Other Worlds Day 3: The Heisenberg Corollary by C.H. Duryea

Day 3 The Heisenberg Corollary by C. H. Duryea

For Day 3 of the March to Other Worlds, I’m going to take you on a light-hearted romp through the multiverse with author C.H. Duryea. The book is packed with action and plenty of movie and roleplaying game references and feels like hard sf without actually having to get bogged down in the math and incomprehensible theories. In short, The Heisenberg Corollary is an amazingly fun sf adventure which finds a simple solution to permitting the cast of heroes to discover just about anything you can imagine in the multiverse.

 

The plot revolves around Zeke Travers and his fellow scientists who accidentally trigger an interdimensional chase when they test out Zeke’s life’s work—a device that permits travel to other universes. The problem—something follows the device back to earth and begins ripping through the multiverse in its efforts to catch Zeke and his device. Most of the rest of the novel is built around Zeke and his friends’ attempts to first escape and then stop the aliens who are pursuing them. The plot gets rather fanciful as it proceeds, but the fun never lets up and the pace never slackens.

 

Narrator Will Hahn pulled out all the stops with this one. In addition to rip-roaring, highly distinctive voices for the entire cast, he threw in enough sound effects to make this nearly a fully dramatized experience. Not enough narrators are able to bring that higher level of stagecraft to a novel, and not many authors have created an experience that lends itself so well to such dramatic audio creations.