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Bewilderness

by Jonathan Maberry

A gateway between worlds becomes a cosmic threat

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A gateway between worlds becomes a cosmic threat

Dr. Abby Corman’s plan to connect Earth with a parallel world begins as a way to address scarcity and overcrowding. When the Gateway experiment destabilizes, realities start colliding, and New York becomes a point of entry for creatures from other worlds and distant pasts. Abby is left with the knowledge needed to shut the breach, while an alien Hunter pursues her for reasons rooted in the very different histories of parallel Earths. The setup links cosmic horror to the consequences of a project framed around human need, with the danger extending beyond one world’s survival.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy cosmic and eldritch horror mixed with science-fiction premises.
  • Readers interested in parallel worlds, alien threats, and reality-bending disasters.
  • Readers drawn to stories about ambitious technology and unintended consequences.

Themes

Parallel worlds and unstable realitiesScientific ambition and unintended consequencesScarcity and human survivalConflicting versions of heroism

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Book overview

Bewilderness is a gripping tale of science fiction horror as two women-one human, one alien-battle each other to save infinity.

Dr. Abby Corman has a bold idea: open a stable doorway between our world and an uninhabited parallel Earth. A new world we can use to mine resources to end poverty, grow enough food to end all hunger, and allow for population growth to end overcrowding. What could be a more noble aspiration for a brilliant young scientist?

But the path to hell is paved with good intentions...

The Gateway is in a secure lab in a huge office building in New York. Ultra-modern, totally secure, impenetrable by industrial spies or foreign agents. Once it goes into lockdown for the Gateway test firing, it becomes the world's largest and most unbreakable vault.

Locked doors, though, can do more than keep bad things out. They can trap bad things in.

The Gateway spins completely out of control, sending infinite Earths onto a collision course with ours. Now, our reality is cracking apart, allowing creatures from Earth's distant past and monsters from parallel worlds to emerge, turning New York into a hellscape.

Abby Corman did not open the Gateway, but she is the only one who knows how to close it. But an alien Hunter and her pack of deadly hellcats have stepped into our world, and they will stop at nothing to kill Abby. Because in a universe of parallel worlds, one Earth's savior can be the worst criminal other Earths have ever known.

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