Book summary

In 2005, U.C. Irvine physics prof Alicia Butterworth is attending a Long Island conference on particle collision when an experiment explodes. Alicia locates a large ball-shaped object amid the wreckage, which she promptly brings back to California for further study. Alicia discovers, with the help of her assistants, that the ball is a wormhole to the rapidly developing alternate universe she unwittingly created.

Media reviews

"Dead accurate, of course, on science, scientists, blackness and science, and the public and media reaction to scientific discoveries. But Benford makes little attempt to grapple with the philosophical issues raised, and his leading lady could use a personality transplant."