#micaiah johnson

[sarahreesbrennan]

My UK Tour

Hope to see some of you in Bath, London or Glasgow! I’m so excited to be appearing with so many cool people.

[haveyoureadthisqueerbook]

[aroaessidhe]

Oh my god has everyone seen the cover + blurb reveal for Micaiah Johnson's new book Those Beyond the Wall, set in The Space Between Worlds universe!!

Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds. Scales is the best at what she does: She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town. But that fragile peace is fractured when a woman is mangled and killed within Ash’s borders, right in front of Scales’s eyes. Even more incomprehensible is that there was seemingly no murderer. When more mutilated bodies start to turn up, both in Ashtown and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales is tasked with finding the cause—and putting an end to it. She teams up with a frustratingly by-the-books partner and a brusque-but-brilliant scientist in order to uncover the truth, delving into both worlds to track down the invisible killer. But what they find points to something bigger and more corrupt than they could’ve ever foreseen—and it could spell doom for the entire world.

[gideonthe9]

finally started the space between worlds thinking it was a fun scifi book but the dedication hit me like a truck

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[bauliya]

I don’t think I’ve ever been called out by a book harder than when the crime gang ruling the lawless ghetto outside the sci-if utopic fascist city wore all spiked black leather and I thought wow their fits go so hard and in the later chapters it was shown that dressing like the gangs that run the lawless ghetto is in fact a major fashion aesthetic amongst the rich in the said city 💀

[unicorntgoughts]

“…he’s done letting me hide which is fine because I’m done hiding too. I won the war against the other world so I’m happy to lose the battle against wanting to touch him. Against letting myself be loved by someone who dares to talk to god.”

“Those Beyond the Wall”

-Micaiah Johnson

[jaygabler]

If there’s such a thing as a utopian dystopia, it’s the universe of Micaiah Johnson’s new novel, which imagines what it would take to bring about a more equitable society — as seen through the lens of a bleak world inspired by our own.

Thank you @penguinrandomhouse for the free book.

[amidstthemists]

Rage is dirty fuel,

but it burns hotter

than grief ever could.

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

[deanncastiel]

2024 Book #149

Title: The Space Between Worlds Author: Micaiah Johnson Genre: Scifi, Dystopian, LGBTQIA+ Series: The Space Between Worlds, Book 1

Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there's just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying--from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn't outrun. Cara's life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total.  On this dystopian Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now what once made her marginalized has finally become an unexpected source of power. She has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works--and shamelessly flirts--with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security.  But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelg ngers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined--and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world but the entire multiverse. 

Rating: 4.75 ⭐

Quick thoughts: loved this, excellent complex and nuanced characters, critiques on classism☑️ racism☑️ capitalism☑️, engaging plot, and of course sapphics my beloved ❤️🧡🤍🩷

[prosy-days]

May 7, 2024 - Day 322

I was finally able to pick this book up!

[bi4bihankking]

The Space Between Worlds Summary:

Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. She works—and shamelessly flirts—with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. So long as she can keep her head down and avoid trouble, Cara is on a sure path to citizenship and security. But trouble finds Cara when one of her eight remaining doppelgängers dies under mysterious circumstances, plunging her into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and her future in ways she could have never imagined—and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.

Camp Damascus Summary:

Camp Damascus is the world’s most effective gay conversion camp. Nestled in the Montana wilderness, parents send their children from around the world to experience the program’s 100% success rate.

But, this story isn’t about that. This story is about Rose Darling, a God-fearing young lady who can’t stop puking up flies. It’s about her parents who ignore her visions of an eerie woman with sagging, pale skin who watches from the woods. It’s about the desires deep inside Rose that don’t seem to make any sense, and her waking nightmares that are beginning to feel more like memories. And maybe, just maybe, it’s a little bit about Camp Damascus after all.

[bauliya]

lmao

[augustinajosefina]

The Space Between Worlds makes me angry - I should've liked this book. I wanted to like this book.

I mean, the premise is great, worldbuilding shows promise, themes it tries to tackle are worth tackling, characters could be interesting... Then it all falls apart because of poor pacing. The protagonist says she shouldn't do something, then immediately does it for no apparent reason. Subplots are started and minor characters get introduced, never to be returned to. You get to the halfway point and feel like you've reached the end, and are starting a completely different (and slightly better) book. A romance is tacked on. The ending fails to resolve some pretty major points but makes sure to reassure you the protagonist will get her happy ending anyway. Just, aaaaagh.

[edinsfbookgroup]

Book for June 2023

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Chosen by Beth!

When: Tuesday June 27th, 7pm

Where: The Cumberland Bar, 1-3 Cumberland Street

If you would like to join us to discuss the book, send an email to the address on the home page, or send us an ask!

[j0die101]

*Spoilers* for The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Just finished this book which overcame all expectations I had for it! I bought it in a bundle with a few other sci-fi books and the text it's advertised with doesn't tell you shit!

It's about a lesbian, former sex-worker, interdimensional space traveler of colour from the ghetto who takes over the life of one of her (dead) selfs in another universe and eventually takes down the cartel-like mega-corporation she works for.

This book has it all, there are issues of pay gap, skin colour, work exploitation, political decisions (and the lack thereof), religious groups (not the fanatic kind) and atheists, (somewhat) found family

Also there are non-binary people. They don't explain this as a concept though, they just are. (Personally I love this. No big explanations on anything. People exist, get over it.)

The story also deals with various traumatic experiences including drug abuse, (violent) death of loved ones, domestic and emotional abuse (in the characters past). If you are sensitive to those topics this book might not be for you.

Addition I wanted to share: I read the translation. In my first language all nouns which describe a person can be male or female (as in actor/actress but for like everything) and for groups containing at least one male the masculine plural will be used. But in this book they use the feminine plural for all groups that don't include males only. Way to go!