Interworld
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3.8 • 13 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
New York Times bestseller by award-winning writers Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.
Joey Harker isn’t a hero…
Joey Harker is the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.
This walk between worlds makes Joey prey to armies of magic and science, both determined to harness Joey’s power to travel between dimensions. The only thing standing in their way is Joey – or to be more precise an army of Joeys, all from different dimensions…
Now Joey must make a choice: return to the life he knows or join the battle.
Reviews
“A fast-paced compulsively readable tale” ALA Booklist
“A mind-stretching ride” VOYA (starred review)
About the author
NEIL GAIMAN was awarded the Newbery and Carnegie Medals for The Graveyard Book. His other books for younger readers include Coraline (which was made into an Academy-Award-nominated film) and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (which wasn’t). Born in England, he has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. You can learn more at www.mousecircus.com.
MICHAEL REAVES is an Emmy-Award-winning television writer, screen-writer and novelist who has published many books, including the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Darth-Maul – Shadow Hunter. He’s won a Howie Award and been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in California.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This parallel universe adventure would surely have been more exciting when its authors first conceived it in 1995; today it feels somewhat like a gee-whiz amalgam of The Matrix, comic book multiverses and Ender's Game. High-schooler Joey Harker has a terrible sense of direction; during a field trip he gets lost and ends up in a world where the McDonald's arches are green plaid, his mother doesn't recognize him and everything has been altered to varying degrees. He is rescued by a mysterious man named Jay (who looks like an older version of Joey) and learns that he has "Walked" between two of millions of coexisting worlds, landing in one where he drowned a year earlier. Joey finds himself the target of two warring peoples one technology-driven, the other possessing mystical abilities who capture Walkers like himself to harness their power. The action takes Joey to an academy at InterWorld, where hundreds of other kids who resemble him (and who all have the initials J.H.) train to "defend and protect the Altiverse from those who would harm it or bend it to their will." Gaiman devotees, used to headier stuff, may be disappointed. Ages 10-up.
