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    Interworld

    Written by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves

    Narrated by Christopher Evan Welch

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    New York Times bestseller by award-winning writers Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.

    Joey Harker isn’t a hero…

    Joey Harker is the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension.

    This walk between worlds makes Joey prey to armies of magic and science, both determined to harness Joey’s power to travel between dimensions. The only thing standing in their way is Joey – or to be more precise an army of Joeys, all from different dimensions…

    Now Joey must make a choice: return to the life he knows or join the battle.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 26, 2014
    ISBN9780007597727
    Author

    Neil Gaiman

    Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling and multi-award winning author and creator of many beloved books, graphic novels, short stories, film, television and theatre for all ages. He is the recipient of the Newbery and Carnegie Medals, and many Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Will Eisner Awards. Neil has adapted many of his works to television series, including Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) and The Sandman. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College. For a lot more about his work, please visit: https://www.neilgaiman.com/

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    • 1/5
      Impossible to listen too as the audio is so jumpy even after I had downloaded ☹️

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I am sure the books are great, but on vol 1, the audio track is damaged - sound keeps cutting out. Initially, I wondered if this might be intentional, but it is just too painful to listen to for long enough to find out.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      I started reading InterWorld because it was on my "to-read" list of books by Neil Gaiman.The book starts with Joey Harker, a boy with an apparently bad sense of direction, being dropped into the middle of a city with a couple of his classmates. Upon getting separated from his classmates, Joey panics a bit and somehow manages to "walk" into a parallel reality.I typically enjoy Neil Gaiman's writing, but I couldn't really get into this book. The story was original, but I didn't feel that there was much dimension to the characters and the plot was a little convoluted.
    • 3/5
      An easy to read story about a teenager with the power of walking between parallel universes. The plot is quite simple and with not many surprises, anyway I liked it, I specially enjoyed the second half of the book.It is clearly a book meant for young readers, maybe for eleven-year-old kids or so. Not the best of Gaiman's and far from Coraline but entertaining.
    • 3/5
      InterWorld is a young adult novel by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves, dealing with the idea of parallel worlds. Joey is a Walker, meaning he can move between the worlds, something he discovers by accident when he gets lost during a class assignment, and stumbles into another version of Earth. On some Earths, science holds sway, others are controlled by magic and have winged people, or wolf people, or magicians. Two evil organizations, Binary and HEX, want to impose their control on the other worlds. Only InterWorld stands in their way, an organization of Walkers comprised totally of parallel world versions of Joey. It's an interesting idea, but I didn't warm to InterWorld as much as Gaiman's other work. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I didn't find it as charming or captivating as Odd and the Frost Giants, Coraline or the Graveyard Book. It's kind of neat to see all the alternate world versions of Joey, including a winged girl, a centaur, a wolf-girl, a cyborg, etc. but for all that I never really connected with him/them.
    • 5/5
      I was cautious about this book, but then noticed it was by Neil Gaiman, so I knew i would love it. This really was a good book- recommended for grades 6 -9, but it was a very good introduction to another world and well thought out dimensions.
    • 3/5
      One day Joey Harker walks right out his own reality on Earth into an alternate reality. He finds out he is one of the Walkers, a group of people comprised of alternate Joeys from many alternate worlds who try to save the many worlds from destruction by the bad guys. This story really reminded me of StarGate SG 1 but instead of traveling to other planets they traveled to alternate realities. An interesting premise and a cute story complete with the requisite cute character, a mudluff who resembled a bubble. A fun, light read but nothing overly special. My copy states the intended age as 10+, though I would narrow that down further to the 10-12 age group.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I really felt connected to the main character and his initial confusion. I love how Gaiman showed Joey's growth from normal teenager to interdimensional super hero. I've read some of the other reviews that stated this book wasn't very good, but it's important to remember that this story wasn't initially intended to be a book. It was intended to be a television series, and I really wish it had made it as one. This book is meant to present a premise for an extended series of events. I would love to see more of the different Joey Harkers from different dimensions, and I would love to see him take his predecessor's place as a searcher for other Walkers.

      This book was awesome!
    • 2/5
      I think I probably read this at the wrong age. :)
    • 4/5
      Exciting foray into a world and its shadow worlds. Non-stop action first-person narrated by an unlikely hero.
    • 4/5
      Fun fantasy with parallel universe versions of same person working together.
    • 2/5
      I never expected myself to be DNFing a Neil Gaiman, but here we are. I just don't hear him in this. It's such a common story, and it utterly lacks Neil's magic.
    • 3/5
      While not a series I think I will continue this was a funny and interesting adventure story with a cool cast. I found the plot to be a little predictable but not to the point of annoyance and did enjoy the book.
    • 3/5
      This is what happens when a short story concept gets published as a novel.
    • 4/5
      This was a fairly fun read. It's probably middle school aged level but still enjoyable for older kids and adults. Joey Harker accidentally Walks to another Earth and finds out that there are millions of other Earths. There are two empires trying to conquer all the Earths: the HEX (magic) and the Binary (science). There is also a group of hundreds of Joey Harkers from all different kinds of Earths trying to keep the balance in the multi-verse and prevent either empire from getting too powerful.
      There were a few points that dropped it down from being great. Some plot points were far too easy accomplished or poorly explained. I also found the "training" chapters to be a bit boring. Overall, it was a fairly quick read and an interesting enough different vision of the universe.
    • 5/5
      I was cautious about this book, but then noticed it was by Neil Gaiman, so I knew i would love it. This really was a good book- recommended for grades 6 -9, but it was a very good introduction to another world and well thought out dimensions.
    • 5/5
      This is such a fascinating idea, and done really well. The characters are likable, the story moves at a very readable pace, and it's easy to get into, even if you don't tend to enjoy sci-fi.
    • 4/5
      Got this as an audio book that my daughter and I listened to on a long journey. Great book, very inventive. MY 7 year old loved it too.
    • 4/5
      not Gaiman's best work; but a good read.
    • 4/5
      Joey Harker isn't a hero. In fact, he's the kind of guy who gets lost in his own house. But then one day, Joey gets really lost. He walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between the worlds makes him prey to two terrible forces -- armies of magic and science who will do anything to harness his power to travel between dimensions. I actually listened to the audiobook, read by Christopher Evan Welch. First a little history: This originated as a TV show pitch, with both Gaiman and Reaves having done a fair bit of TV writing. When they didn't get any takers, they turned it into a novel *.  I've wanted to read this for some time, because I am an unabashed Gaiman fangirl. I did attempt reading it once, but due to some bad timing, I didn't finish it. Unfortunately it has some really rather bad reviews, primarily from other unabashed Gaiman fans, disappointed this is a "not very Gaiman" book. I think, perhaps, that's being a little unfair. It is certainly not American Gods, or Ocean at the End of the Lane, but it's not a bad book either.  Nor is it particularly groundshaking in subject matter: Joey is a teenager with a talent, there is a multiverse of similar and not-so-similar worlds, There are two opposing forces, neither particularly nice, warring over this multiverse, and Joey is coopted into a force dedicated to seeing that neither can win, and a balance is maintained. There is a bit of a unique twist as to who else makes up that balancing force, Interworld, but really, this is just a good solid adventure story. That manages to drop terms like geas and uncertainty principle straight into the same sentence, and have it work. I think this is one of several books that for me work better as an audio book, and I wonder if that's due to it's genesis as a script. It's dialogue heavy, even the exposition often takes the form of an internal monologue. That can be a little disjointed to read, but it makes for good audio, and I thought the narrator did a good job with accents and character voices, providing enough characterization that it was quite an enjoyable listen. It's also worth noting, this is not an adult novel. Although the protagonist, Joey Harker, is YA aged 15-16 during the course of the book, it's equally suitable for middle grade, or perhaps MG moving into YA book. There's no romance, but there is a level of violence and some horror elements, so I possibly wouldn't go too young with it.  It's a short (for an audio book) listen, at 5 some hours. My youngest daughter, the same age as Joey, that is 15 going on 16, really enjoyed it. Although she's not at all averse to boys in theory, and one boy in particular, she doesn't enjoy much YA literature due to the heavy romance. For instance, she thinks The Fault in Our Stars is "ridiculously lovey dovey", so this was a win for her. And while she's certainly a fantasy fan, she mentioned that she particularly likes this kind of crossover between fantasy and sci-fi, describing it "like it lives on the same shelf as Douglas Adams and Doctor Who". Clearly most hard sci-fi fans would shelve this all the way over on fantasy, but I wouldn't - I'd call it a gateway drug, but in a good way.   Similarly, a perennial complaint by adult readers is that much of Joey's training is glossed over with a couple of time skips, and we'd find them fascinating. When I discussed this with daughter she thought it was just fine "Why would I want to hear about his classes and school... I get enough school at school." So while it may not entirely work for everyone, it hit the sweet spot for her, and I guess she's the target audience more than I am. There are two followup books, one published, one due next year, but this works well as a standalone. Also a note as a parent: I appreciated reading a book where the protagonists family is a stable and loving one, you'd think from modern childrens/YA literature such a thing doesn't exist. Joey's mum and dad, although they don't have a big role in the story, seem much more real than any parents I've read about in a long long time. Ditto seeing a teenage boy depicted as having a loving (if occasionally frustrating) relationship with younger siblings. More of this please! Recommended for: Teenagers, particularly fantasy fans who might like some soft sci-fi. MG readers looking for something a little challenging. Gaiman fans who aren't expecting another Coraline, and anyone who doesn't mind getting magic dust all mixed up in their quantum physics. * After it was published as a novel, Dreamworks optioned it some years ago, but nothing's come of it yet. I think it'd make a great movie or tv series, and I also think, it'd make a really good Graphic Novel. I'm giving this a 3: I liked it quite well, and I'd happily read the rest of the series, but daughter says 4 from her, so splitting the difference for BL.(Review originally written 2014-11)
    • 4/5
      I love all things Gaiman! Excellent book!
    • 3/5
      This Audio book wasn't quite what I expected. Joey Harker is a teenager with a weird social studies teacher. They have an "exam" to be left int he middle of town and walk home. Along the way Joey walks right into an alternate dimension. This isn't like Star Trek alternate dimension its more like crazy Hitchikers guide the galaxy alternate dimension. Apparently he's a Walker, like ever Joe Harker in every Earth in every dimension. The Best of the best. Walkers, dimension harkers, are this multiverse delithiom crystals. They power the ships of the evil world. He gets involved in battles between Magic worlds and Science worlds. Ours is neihter, but slowly leaning towards science. Inter-world (the multivers FBI?) can't let either side win, and they aren't powerful enough if they wanted to. I felt like they tried to put a whole lot into this really fast, and I felt it ended rather abruptly. Not until I went to review did I learn it was the first in a trilogy, made the ending make more sense, but evne more so it should have been slower paced. It was in tendint for the Juvenille/YOung Adult Market so maybe that has something to do with it. All in all not bad, if you are into that kind of hting give it a whilr
    • 4/5
      fun book with unique world building.
    • 4/5
      In many ways, this is your standard "ordinary kid discovers other world in which s/he is totally special and goes on adventures" story. Joey Harker has no sense of direction but discovers that he can travel across dimensions, which turns out to be very important in the ongoing interdimensional war that most people know nothing about. Luckily, this one isn't entirely run-of-the-mill. In many ways it feels like Gaiman created the world and Reaves (whom I admit I had never read before this) wrote the story. The narration is definitely un-Gaiman, but not in a bad way. The concepts of alternate dimensions, where the human race has evolved differently in different universes, is neat. I'm curious to see where the sequel goes with it.
    • 3/5
      I tend to love most of what Gaiman writes, but this one fell a bit flat for me. The concept is fascinating, but the execution was a bit off. The adventure story follows Joseph, a normal boy who walks straight into another world. He discovers and entire army of different versions of himself from other worlds. There’s Jerzy: from a world with feathers where women lay eggs, Josef: who is really strong, Jai: who meditates and has a huge vocabulary, Jakon: a wolf girl, Jo: a girl with wings, and J’r’ohoho: a centaur. The army trains at a boot camp run by the “old man”. Their goal is to, “Protect the Altiverse and stem the tides of magic and science.” That’s a heavy order for the newly inducted Joseph to wrap his head around. There are two different groups of bad guys. The Binary, who travel on gravitons, freeze the walkers to use them to fuel their ships. Then there are the HEX folk. They use magic to boil walkers and use their souls to power interplane travel. Both sets of villains were a bit cartoonish. In a lot of ways, this novel reminded me of the Percy Jackson series. BOTTOM LINE: At times there was just too much going on at once. We bounced back and forth so quickly that it was hard to feel attached to the characters. Apparently it started out as an idea for a TV show and I was left wondering if that might have been a better fit for this particular story. I do think this might be a perfect fit for teenage boys. “I wanted to spare her what I knew: that reality can splinter like a hammered mirror. That it can happen to anybody.” “Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace.”
    • 4/5
      The first third was desperately boring. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't "slow" to start or anything, it's just there was so much background knowledge required to understand the Interworld and multi-verse that at first it was like listening to gibberish with an uninteresting protagonist. It took Joey (the protagonist) quite a while to develop into a moderately compelling character (IMO). It ended very well and I wouldn't be adverse to a sequel - although it ended in such a way that a sequel might actually detract from the story.edit: Oh look, it's a trilogy. Hmmm...maybe next year :)
    • 3/5
      Based on the multi-world idea that every decision creates a new, parallel universe for each possible outcome of that decision, the IntraWorld is an organization that sort-of polices those world. Except that not every decision creates a new universe/world, just the important ones, and IntraWorld only concerns itself with those that contain an Earth. Those worlds exist along a spectrum where magic reigns supreme at one extreme and science at the other, conveniently ignoring the changing laws of physics along the way.The IntraWorld organization itself is made up exclusively of Joe Harkers from some, but not all of those worlds. Apparently Joe or Joey or Jerzy or J/O or other variations on the name are the only people in all of the millions on those infinity of worlds that can travel between them. Except for the evil magicians and technologists from either extreme that capture and kill Joe Harkers to power their cross-continuum conquests.If you ignore all of the holes in the world building and story telling it's not a bad young adult adventure story. But it is also clearly not a Neil Gaiman story, or even something he was a 50% contributor to. But his name is going to sell a lot more copies than Michael Reaves, so he's got top billing.
    • 3/5
      The little explanation at the back sums it up: this was really meant to be the two-hour pilot to a TV show that they could never convince anyone to make. It reads like the novelization of the two-hour pilot to a TV show. I think I'd enjoy the show; the book is a little odd.
    • 5/5
      Joey Harker is the kind of person who has gotten lost in his own house. One day, he gets so lost, he steps into a parallel world. This is just the beginning of Joey's problems as he discovers that, not only is there a multiverse, but a great war between the forces of Science and Magic trying to control all the worlds within it.Reading this, I felt it seemed more aimed towards a television audience, the presence of Michael Reaves as co-writer strengthening that feeling. So upon reading the afterword and finding out that's exactly where this story started, I appreciated it all the more. It's understandable that executives in the 90s had a hard time grasping the concept (even though Reaves easily could have said "It's Sliders with a healthy dose of Ender's Game and fantasy elements"), but I'm glad Gaiman and Reaves eventually got this story out. It's a blast! I think one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much is that it reminds me so much of the cartoons I grew up loving, but if they were given to much better writers (or at least weren't butchered of any redeeming qualities by the toy executives in charge of the action figure line and arguing that "kids won't understand the grander ideas, so let's simplify it to mush").And, it opens up the potential for so much more.
    • 3/5
      Decent young adult novel. I read it because I crave simplistic uncomplicated stories right now. Felt a little like Ender's Game from what I've actually read of Ender's Game.

      Like I said, decent, but it's no Harry Potter.