The Last Universe

Sleator is at his sci-fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperback In this gothic, sci-fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isolated home. Planted by a scientist uncle who disappeared long ago, the maze offers seemingly endless routes and choices. The teenagers discover that each turn they take alters their world in some way. Sickly Gary sees a chance to change his fate; Susan sees that they may both be lost forever. Sleator keeps readers guessing right up to the shocking ending. The Last Universe By: William Sleator ISBN 10: 0810958589 ISBN 13: 9780810958586 ISSN: ISFDB Publication Record # 73870 ASIN: British National Bibliography System Number: Canadian National Catalogue (AMICUS) Number: Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication: National Library of Australia Bib ID: OCLC Number: 703935438 (OCoLC): eISBN 10: eISBN 13: Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 2004023813 Publisher: Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc/La Martiniere (2006) ____________________________________________________ Uploader's Notes: Scan > PDF > Epub with ABBYY Transformer/Sigil Spellchecked, Proofed, Formatted Validated with ADE, Sumatra & Browser ____________________________________________________ Quantum theory, Space and time, Sleator's most diabolical science-fiction novel in a decade William Sleator, of such classics as House of Stairs, Strange Attractors, Interstellar Pig, and Singularity, explores the strange, fascinating quantum world in this gothic sci-fi thriller. From their isolated house, fourteen-year-old Susan and her wheelchair-bound brother, Gary, venture daily into the tangled, sprawling garden planted by their late uncle and tended by a mysterious gardener. Overgrown with impossibly large plants and exotic flowers, the garden holds at its heart a hedge maze that hides a quantum secret, outside the laws of the macro world. And Susan and Gary may not return from the labyrinth unchanged. . When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.