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The Reality Alternatives Series
A celebration of family, love, and the strange beauty of the multiverse
A heartwarming, humorous sci-fi collection about family, physics, and the unpredictable consequences of a dark-matter accident.
After a lab mishap leaves physicist Chloe Phillipson and her sons with anti-gravity abilities, life gets...complicated. Now Chloe is juggling university life, parenting, romance, and the occasional emergency flight across town -- all while trying to keep her family's powers under wraps.
But in a parallel universe, another Chloe -- the version who never married and never had children -- is discovering her own path. Over the course of twelve holiday-themed adventures, the two Chloes navigate diverging lives that echo, overlap, and sometimes collide: one balancing family chaos and superpowered kids, the other stumbling into love, commitment, and a future she never expected. From Valentine's Day to Easter, each story blends humor, heart, and scientific wonder as both Chloes confront the joys, challenges, and surprises of lives shaped by dark matter, choice, and chance.
The Reality Alternatives Series
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Praise for Reality Alternatives:
"A college physicist uses computer technology to enter a parallel world in which she has a great family and an improved personal life--but also telekinetic superpowers that put all their lives at risk.
What would you do if you found your perfect life?
When lonely physicist Chloe Carsen discovers a parallel world she becomes addicted to her life there with a perfect family and a perfect career. She doesn't even care that her physical body in the real world is wasting away. But, then, in the alternative world her ideal life begins to fall apart. Her anti-gravity experiment unleashes a government manhunt for her and her family; they'll do anything to get their hands on her tech. The lives of Chloe's alternative-world husband and sons are endangered.
Chloe is torn away from them as her real-world brother finds her on the verge of death and destroys her equipment. Heartbroken and torn between two worlds, Chloe pushes her scientific expertise to the limit to find a way to reconcile her two lives. Can the husband and sons be saved? Can she build a life for herself in the real world?
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About the Author:
Lesley L. Smith is a physicist and science fiction author who enjoys exploring the strange places where science and everyday life collide. The Reality Alternatives series follows two versions of physicist Chloe Carsen as they navigate parallel worlds, unexpected choices, and the joys and chaos of family life, sometimes with superpowered sons in tow. Lesley's short fiction has appeared in Analog, Daily Science Fiction, Nature Futures, and other venues that appreciate smart and heartfelt storytelling. She is also an editor at Electric Spec and lives in Colorado with possibly too many books and diplomas.
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