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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Eos
Manufacturer: Eos
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2007-07-01
Publisher: Eos
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 2007-06-26
Studio: Eos

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Editorial Reviews:

Joey Harker isn't a hero.

In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house.

But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.

Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces—armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions.

When he sees the evil those forces are capable of, Joey makes the only possible choice: to join an army of his own, an army of versions of himself from different dimensions who all share his amazing power and who are all determined to fight to save the worlds.

Master storyteller Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award-winning science-fiction writer Michael Reaves team up to create a dazzling tale of magic, science, honor, and the destiny of one very special boy—and all the others like him.

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Summary: A compelling and imaginative tale
Comment: I've been a fan of Gaiman for some time now, and Interworld was a title that intrigued me from the start. The story was well constructed and completed a wonderful introduction to a strange multiverse of characters and struggles.

If I had one complaint, it would be that the story was too short. We received only the briefest of introductions to a vast and somewhat timeless struggle between this group caught between two powerful organizations. I'd easily recommend this book to friends looking for a quick read, or to teens getting into fantasy reading.

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Summary: Interesting concept, nothing special
Comment: Although the basic idea was interesting (multiple versions of one character across the multi-verse banding together into an organization to fight evil), the book itself was only so-so - definitely not up to Mr. Gaiman's usual standards.

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Summary: For the love of mudlufs...
Comment: This review is for the audiobook version of the story.

Yes, the story was a little campy and played mightily amongst the clichés of both science fiction and fantasy, but generally I thought this was delightful. Never a book that I would have had the patience to sit down and read, but having the audiobook version read to me was very enjoyable (despite the annoying bleeps of the home coordinates) and the reader was quite talented. I wouldn't mind listening to more stories read by Christopher Evan Welch!

In this science fictionany tale we meet Joey Harker, a teen with no sense of direction, either in life or in finding his way, until a field trip gone wrong causes him to "walk" through to a new dimension. Unfortunately his new found ability also alerts the conflicting factions of Hex and Binary to his existence and they waste no time coming to get him. To his rescue is...himself. In fact, there are a lot more of himself scattered through the dimensions than he could have ever imagined and in this book we get to see Joey in a thousand different ways go on a quest to save the universe.

I thought the combining of the clichés to be quite clever. Personally I find the idea of having to interact with multiple versions of myself probably the most horrifying thing about the whole concept. I really loved Hue and thought he was a very unique and adorable creature.

I certainly wouldn't hesitate to recommend this book to boys (or girls I suppose, I'm female myself albeit one with strange tastes) probably fifth grade and up who enjoy science fiction, adventure, a bit of violence and a lot of action.

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Summary: Debt of gratitude
Comment: Don't the authors owe an large debt of gratitude to Diane Wynne Jones for this particular multiverse concept? Readers might prefer her Chrestomanci books.The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1: Charmed Life / The Lives of Christopher Chant

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Summary: delightful sci-fi for children
Comment: The story is like the beginning of something great. I wanted more. Apparently, it was meant to become an animation or film project but it never took off. That's a shame. I could read more stories about the Joes... It'd be great to see it to.

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