Many Worlds, Rebekah Bergman
Many Worlds, Rebekah Bergman
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Synopsis

Many Worlds, or The Simulacra is an anthology of reality-bending stories from a one-of-a-kind collective of authors building a shared multiverse.The stories in this anthology range from quietly strange to ambitiously speculative. Humans transform into cosmic energy or sentient algae. A man wakes up in a new body in a world with continents cut out, months absent from the calendar year, and souls misplaced. Students at a high school regularly vanish without a trace. A woman descends into the depths of the ocean and encounters all-knowing creatures who may have the answers to her deepest questions.Mech-suits and parallel selves, conspiracy forums and interstellar telepaths, and a mysterious cosmic force connecting it all; the stories in this collection are revelatory and offer a breathtaking portal into worlds far more mysterious than our own.Subversive, transgressive, and utterly original, this collection compels the reader to believe in the fantastical.Many Worlds features stories by Rebekah Bergman, M. Darusha Wehm, Craig Lincoln, alongside other fascinating voices in speculative fiction. This collection is edited by Cadwell Turnbull, author of The Lesson and No Gods, No Monsters, and Josh Eure, winner of Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Award,

About Rebekah Bergman

Rebekah Bergman is an author whose fiction has been published in Joyland, Tin House, The Masters Review anthology, and other journals.

About Justin C. Key

Justin C. Key is a practicing psychiatrist and speculative fiction writer whose stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Tor (online), Escape Pod, and Lightspeed. He received a BA in Biology from Stanford University, and recently completed his residency in psychiatry at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. 

About Darkly Lem

Darkly Lem is five authors in an impeccably tailored trench coat, namely Josh Eure, Craig Lincoln, Ben Murphy, Cadwell Turnbull, and M. Darusha Wehm. They live in an Earth-type locality in the Central Cluster with their five kids, several spouses, and a modest menagerie.

About M. Darusha Wehm

M Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, several SF and YA novels, and the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series. Originally from Canada, Darusha now lives in New Zealand after spending several years sailing the Pacific.

About James Anderson Foster

James Anderson Foster, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has narrated audiobooks for a variety of publishers, across nearly all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. In 2015, he was a finalist in three categories for the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Voice Arts Awards—mystery, science fiction, and fantasy.

About Cadwell Turnbull

Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson and the Convergence Saga. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror. He has won both the Neukom Institute Literary Award and a Lambda Award, and been shortlisted for the VCU Cabell Award and the Shirley Jackson Award.

About Josh Eure

Josh Eure is an author whose stories have won Asimov’s Dell Award and the Brenda L. Smart Prize and reached the finalist list in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. He has also won Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Award and has appeared in Oxford American, James Gunn’s Ad Astra, Surreal South, Southern Cultures, Raleigh Review, and Not One of Us, among others. He was a finalist for the Piedmont Laureate.

About Roger Clark

Roger Clark is a professional actor and voiceover artist who lives in New York City. He is best known for his award-winning portrayal of Arthur Morgan in the 2018 blockbuster game Red Dead Redemption 2. He has performed in over forty-five countries.

About Neil Hellegers

Neil Hellegers grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a BA in theater arts and a minor in psychology before getting an MFA in acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2003 and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theater education, and audiobook narration. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.

About Amy Landon

Amy Landon, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a voice artist and classically trained actress with numerous film, television, and off-Broadway stage credits. Her voice can also be heard on many television and radio commercials. She has an easy facility with dialects, which she also coaches and teaches, and she is happy to find her lifelong obsession with books pairing up with her acting and vocal work. Her narration of Texts from Jane Eyre placed as a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Humor Narration in 2016.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Becky on August 10, 2023

An immediate favorite collection, I loved the concept and was floored by the execution. Some stories that made my brain soar, some that utterly crushed my heart, some that did both. I cannot wait to read more from this group. Phew!......more

Goodreads review by Megan on January 22, 2024

This is such a fascinating experiment and a really solid short story collection! Many Worlds is an anthology that exists as part of the Simulacrum, a shared multiverse with stories by a collective of authors. I came to this from loving Cadwell Turnbull’s work and was not disappointed. I really enjoye......more

Goodreads review by Elias on June 13, 2023

A masterful anthology and experiment in cooperative storytelling. The stories of MANY WORLDS and their shared multiverse are often melancholy, both lovely and sad, shadowed by unexpected loss and also unforeseen gains. The nebulous present and the unknown future, and the moments outside of time. Thi......more

Goodreads review by Cait Aviv on September 17, 2023

A thought provoking and deeply satisfying collection......more

Goodreads review by Karrel on February 29, 2024

3.5 stars. 4 out of 10 of the stories were gems: To The Bottom by Josh Eure On the Spectrum by Justin C. Key Life at Sea by Craig Lincoln Remember, Words, Remember by Ben Murphy......more


Quotes

“A choral achievement—paranoid, touching, profound.” Max Gladstone, Hugo Award winner and author of Dead Country

“This excellent anthology…exhibits the best of shared-world writing: diverse settings and distinctive voices grounded in a core worldbuilding concept that, in this case, provokes both paranoia and wonder. Readers will be wowed.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“An intriguing, well-executed collection of SF and paranormal short stories, as varied as the multiverse they inhabit.” Kirkus Reviews