The Broken Universe

Paul Melko

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Possessing technology that allows him to travel across alternate worlds, John Rayburn begins building a transdimensional commercial empire, led by him, his closest friends, and their doppelgängers from several different parallel universes. But not every version of every person is the same, and their agendas do not always coincide.
 
Despite their benign intentions, the group’s activities draw unwanted attention from other dimensional travelers who covet their technology and will kill anyone to control it, a threat that culminates in a nuclear standoff for dominance throughout the multiverse.

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CHAPTER 1
 

John’s ears popped as he and Grace transferred from Universe 7651 to Universe 7650.
Grace tossed the duffel bag of weapons and gold onto the scraped stone ground. She scanned the horizon and then slid the pistol in her hand into its holster. Grace’s normally frizzy red hair was tied tightly in a ponytail. In her army fatigues, she looked nothing like the gawky woman John had first met in freshman physics lab nearly two years ago.
“I’ll go back for Henry,” John said.
She looked at him flatly.

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”Make[s] other writers wish they could pop into a close by universe, steal his book, and then come back and claim it for their own.” —John Scalzi, bestselling and award-winning author of Old Man’s War on The Walls of the Universe
 
“ Melko is wonderfully adept at creating well-nuanced characters living in skewed but familiar-feeling settings.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
 
“ Melko knows how to build suspense and drive a narrative forward.” —Locus

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Hugo-nominated PAUL MELKO lives in Ohio. www.paulmelko.com  

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The Broken Universe
Paul Melko

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Tom Doherty Associates
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June 2012
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ISBN: 9780765329141
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