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[Tarana]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

Goodnight Stars was on the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies nomination slates, and the author has withdrawn her story from nomination.

Yes, but reading the article you linked to, she would have been nominated ANYWAY and did, in fact, win an Alfie.

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Yes, but reading the article you linked to, she would have been nominated ANYWAY

Curious. The Wired article sources a deleted post on Buckell's blog, which doesn't list it, and also doesn't present itself as authoritative. Wired says it's official data from Worldcon.

Anyway...

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson is $1.99 on Amazon.com and B&N and $2.51 on "rest-of-world" Kobo

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.

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 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.