Magic or Science?

If I had to pick one over the other I might have to pick magic, but that's just because I've become more of a fantasy reader! Luckily for me, I won't ever have to make that choice because everything works better when it is balanced. That's what I learned reading Interworld by Neil Gaiman. I LOVED this novel. And really, how surprising is that? Neil Gaiman wrote it, with Michael Reaves.

According to Interworld there needs to be a balance between science and magic in order for the whole Multiverse, and the Altiverse to function. The Altiverse is a part of the Multiverse that contains all the infinite variations of Earth. This book was fast paced with plenty of action and adventure! I thought this was an incredibly smart piece of science fiction for the younger scale of the young adult market.

I really loved the information at the end of the book about how it came to be written and published because the pitch for TV wasn't working. I can't imagine why this story wasn't snatched up for television because I loved it! I think this would have made an interesting and exciting series to watch. At least I got to read the story even if I didn't get to watch it on TV.

"This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible universes is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe it’s not as fictional as we think." ~ Neil Gaiman