Greg Mitchell, who is, like me, an Avenir Eclectia author and who also like me, has Splashdown Books as his publisher, has just come out with a new book I'm happy to promote because of its boldly original take on a story multiverse. I'll let him tell you about it:
It begins with Choice.
You are the culmination of Choice. If you think back to your
life, to the lives of your parents, your grandparents, and all the way back to
the Garden of Eden, choices beyond your control have shaped your path. If any
number of those things had been different—if your ancestors located on a
different continent, how different might your world look to you today?
What if the cure for cancer was found in 1756? What if
electricity wasn’t discovered until 3018? What if Earth was devastated by
atomic wars? What if Earth didn’t exist at all?
Yet, where does that leave the spiritual realm? Are there
multiple incarnations of God? Is the Devil a good guy in some realities? What
happens when we die? Are there millions of you floating around in heaven? Or
will you see your doubles in hell?
I partially answer this by creating the concept of the True
Universe. There is only one me. All the other Greg Mitchells on all the other
planes of reality are reflections of me. Or…am I the reflection? Maybe the “True Greg Mitchell” is killing
vampires right now in this souped-up monster truck, with Elvis Presley riding
shotgun. That wouldn’t be too bad.
But what about God? Another key component to Rift Jump’s multiverse concept is the
“In Between.” I describe it like this in the book: Imagine a brick wall. Each
brick represents a parallel reality, making up the multiverse. But that mortar
that holds the bricks together is the In Between. And there, in the In Between,
is where heaven and hell exist. Where God, the devil, and their angels reside.
So there is only one God. One set of heaven and hell. Rather than being a
separate place—though I do believe it’s a literal place—it’s a reality that’s
on a different frequency. The
multiverse still exists in the physical realm, while the In Between is a spirit
realm. God exists outside of the multiverse and interacts with it at His
choosing.
I believe God exists outside of Time. We only know our lives
as past, present, and future, but God exists everywhere at all times. He is
here with me now, and He is also speaking the world into existence, and He is
also at the End of All Things. I believe John, in a sense, “slipped the mortal
coil and into the In Between,” to get a glimpse of the future in the
Revelation.
Or, if you’re like Michael Morrison in the pages of Rift Jump, you can crack one of these
dimensional walls and slip beyond the planes of existence into the In Between
yourself. But I wouldn’t advise it. There are terrible things lurking in the
dark spaces between realities.
Namely, Chaos.
My fictional multiverse (or is fiction only a reflection of
the True Universe?) is built as a sort of cage to Chaos. It is Order. The
multiverse is the ultimate expression of Choice. Who do you marry? Where will
you live? What will you do with your life? Will you believe in God? Or reject
Him?
Again, a multiverse of infinite possibility. But the point
is that there is possibility.
The Bible says that God gave us freewill, and, in my story,
the multiverse is an extension of that. You may make terrible decisions in this
reality, but in some other reality, you’ve perhaps chosen differently. But the
Choice remains. There are alternatives.
But the Dark in the In Between would seek to remove those
possibilities. To take away your choice. There would be no alternatives then.
There is only one possibility—one outcome. So the Dark tears through the
multiverse, sowing destruction and discord, looking to rend the very fabric of
time and space.
Michael Morrison begins Rift
Jump as a boy who has made many terrible decisions. And, when these actions
lead him to a terrible death, he breaks the bonds of the multiverse and finds
himself in the In Between. God is waiting there for him as a kindly man in a
long coat and Stetson, and gives Michael the Choice. Who will he serve? What
will he do with his second chance at life?
Gifted with incredible powers, Michael battles across the
multiverse, trying to stop the Chaos from breaking through the realities. The
war is not only external, but internal as the Darkness In Between the worlds
speaks to him, playing on his own rage-filled impulses, tempting him to join
the Chaos...
If Greg's tale catches your attention as much as it does mine, here's the Rift Jump link to purchase it in several different formats off the Splashdown site. If you want to hear more about him and his story, please check out the following links to some blogs of friends who are talking to Greg about his tale:
Grace Bridges http://grace.splashdownbooks.com
Fred Warren http://frederation.wordpress.com/
Caprice Hokstad http://caprice.splashdownbooks.com/
Paul Baines http://www.pabaines.com/
R. L. Copple http://blog.rlcopple.com
Keven Newsome http://www.kevennewsome.com
Kat Heckenbach http://www.katheckenbach.com/
Ryan Grabow http://www.egrabow.com/rm.php?e=Prime
Diane M. Graham http://dianemgraham.com/blog/
Robynn Tolbert http://ranunculusturtle.blogspot.com/
Frank Creed http://blog.frankcreed.com/
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