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Loading... The Last Universe (2005)by William Sleator
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. skimmed at Camden Country library... since I did read the end, I saw the spoiler, and I got the impression that the destination, rather than the journey, was the best part of the book, so I don't need to hunt it down and read it for reals.... I do still want to read more Sleator, though Goodreads doesn't let you know this is a YA book. Nevertheless, it was likable. I enjoyed the quantum theme, it reminds me of when I was a kid, and I would be lying in the lower bunk bed at night staring at the springs of the bed above me, and suddenly something would shift in my focus and what seemed far away would be immediately in front of my eyes, and I would get a certain, taste(?) in my mouth (I can still get it today, just remembering that). I don't know what was going on, but after I learned about quantum physics, I associated the experience with that. A maze on a large property takes you to alternate universes. This is a fast-paced, YA story told from the perspective of a teenaged girl who runs into the many-worlds hypothesis (and quantum physics) in a direct and alarming way. She finds that the maze in her family's garden can alter her brother's fate, and her own in an extraordinary way. Altogether an enjoyable short novel. no reviews | add a review
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