In my last post I said I wasn’t sure when the next Caledonia book was going to come out … but that doesn’t mean I can’t have some fun with research, anyway.
I never did physics in college, so most of what I put into From the Shadows was very much seat-of-my-pants, desperately looking stuff up as I thought of it, hoping to technobabble my way through. That only goes so far, though, and so I am hoping to equip myself better for future books.
Besides, the more I know, the further my imagination can roam … who knows how many creative possibilities are out there that I haven’t been able to grasp simply because I don’t know about them?
So when I found Physics of the Impossible and Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku, I knew they were just what I was looking for. Especially since the entire premise of From the Shadows is based on the idea of parallel worlds, and they are traveling through space at faster-than-light speeds, with alien planets capable of sustaining life along their way … yeah, those are definitely some impossible physics right there. Like I said, these books are just what I need for future sci-fi stories.
I have a couple of books I was already reading when these arrived, so I’m hurrying to get through them, and then … it’s physics time!
Have you finished reading these? How were they? I am wondering if I should look them up, too.
I have not begun! I was trying to finish up some other non-fiction before diving in, and then somehow or other I found myself on a mystery jag so I wasn’t reading anything but Wentworth, Sayers, or Christie. I’m hoping to get to them this month; I’ll let you know my impressions!