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Finity

by John Barnes

303 pages

Published Dec. 1, 1999 by Tom Doherty Assoc Llc.

ISBN:: 978-0-8125-7145-5

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Professor Lyle Peripart's world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s

Professor Lyle Peripart's world makes perfect sense, until he is recruited by an odd industrialist and begins to see evidence of alternative universes all around him, including one in which the United States surrendered to the USSR back in the 1970s

David Hughes reviewed Finity by John Barnes

The Mandela Effect explained (kind of)

3 stars

Yeah, it's a silly premise but it still gets pass marks. Takes a while to get going, is a little confusing at times and the end fizzles out somewhat, but Lyle, Helen and the other characters are reasonably well delineated and there's the Mandela effect thing too. Not the worst multiverse caper, though you will read better.

Yeah, it's a silly premise but it still gets pass marks. Takes a while to get going, is a little confusing at times and the end fizzles out somewhat, but Lyle, Helen and the other characters are reasonably well delineated and there's the Mandela effect thing too. Not the worst multiverse caper, though you will read better.

Anonymole reviewed Finity by John Barnes

Review of 'Finity' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Silly premise

DaveCline reviewed Finity by John Barnes

Review of 'Finity' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Silly premise

Chris reviewed Finity by John Barnes

None

4 stars

This was an enjoyable SF adventure, never intended (the author says) to be more than that. The world has been split into simultaneous alternative worlds which means that exclusive alternates can be true. Murray Leinster did this with ''Sidewise in Time'' in 1934, but Barnes's characters swap with their alternate-world counterparts too, so protagonist Lyle Peripart's demure fiancée Helen suddenly turns into a guntoting cop. It's also a 'Nazi-Germany-won' story but as the Nazi-dominated USA is inaccessible, it doesn't turn into a Man in the High Castle future.

This was an enjoyable SF adventure, never intended (the author says) to be more than that. The world has been split into simultaneous alternative worlds which means that exclusive alternates can be true. Murray Leinster did this with ''Sidewise in Time'' in 1934, but Barnes's characters swap with their alternate-world counterparts too, so protagonist Lyle Peripart's demure fiancée Helen suddenly turns into a guntoting cop. It's also a 'Nazi-Germany-won' story but as the Nazi-dominated USA is inaccessible, it doesn't turn into a Man in the High Castle future.

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