Walkers don’t have echoes of themselves in the multiverses they only exist in the primary world though the people who know them in the primary world also know them in the other multiverses. The Walker gene is rare and not common or even esoteric knowledge, that is, very people know about the multiverses and that Walkers exist. Del, the protagonist of the novel, is a Walker which means she has the hereditary ability to move through different universes. As you can expect, multiverses are universal but the primary universe (of which all others are mere echoes) is just one. Every time a person chooses choice a instead of choice b, a different universe is created where the person chose choice b. Dissonance explains multiverses as the result of choices. Multiverse novels are those concerned with the multiverse theory and usually find different creation stories for them. Usually, multiverse novels (I will elaborate on this term in a little bit) feel like a lot of hot air: there is exponential buildup to the multiverse without any payoff in the end. However, since I had requested it, I felt that I ought to give it a try and I am so glad I did because I ended up enjoying the novel quite a bit. Published July 22nd 2014 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersĪ small confession: Dissonance has been languishing on my to-read pile for a long while simply because I read a rather unflattering review of it and lost all interest in it.
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