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Source ISBN: 9780008179243
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Version: 2017-06-21
For my daughter Mikeala, who taught Ryn how to be brave
Contents
'məltēˌvərs/
noun
an infinite realm of being or potential being of which the universe is regarded as a part or instance.
| 2005 | A highly classified experiment in Livermore, California, attempting to understand the properties of dark matter results in a doorway to the Multiverse that scientists name The Rift. Within hours, thirteen more Rifts open, each one getting sequentially smaller as they move east around the world in Battle Ground, Washington; Brazil; France; Algeria; Zimbabwe; Poland; Saudi Arabia; Russia; Siberia; Myanmar; China; Australia; and New Zealand. The Rifts are portals not to other planets, but to an infinite number of other Earths. |
| 2005 | Out of fear that the Rifts would cause mass hysteria, a global effort is launched to keep them a secret. World leaders meet and form ARC: the Allied Rift Coalition. |
| 2005 | ARC is tested almost immediately when all manner of dangerous creatures spill out of the Rifts. These creatures are a panacea of evolutionary biology, as humanity learns that Homo sapiens are only one of many sentient beings that could have evolved on Earth. |
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