So Many Worlds Away...

The year is 1953, and Doctor Raymond Horning has reached the end of his rope. His marriage to Myrtle has become a prison of small disappointments and quieter cruelties. So when his research into the space-time continuum offers an escape hatch not into divorce but into entirely different versions of reality itself, he takes it. What begins as an experiment becomes an odyssey through parallel worlds, each one offering a different answer to the question: what if his life had taken another path? Swain, better known for his legendary writing craft books, delivers a surprisingly poignant meditation on the nature of choice, regret, and whether anyone can truly outrun themselves. This is science fiction as existential inquiry: a man trying to find a version of his life that doesn't feel like a cage.