While I was browsing through the "free" Kindle list a while ago, I came across this science fiction novel entitled "The Reality Matrix Effect" (2013) - the title alone intrigues me. So, I downloaded it and began reading it over time. It turned out to be quite a fascinating reading.
The story begins in 1971, with a newspaper copy editor, Al Frederick, who was totally unprepared for a famous congressman being killed and of course, he was upset about it - so, he made some corrections on the paper, as per his job, and moved on with the headline of the event, and he then thought, "if only the man hadn't died." The next moment, he saw the changed headline of the congressman only been wounded, not killed. Little did Al knew that he has just changed the entire course of history. Then, we moved to the next period of time to the year 2021 when we see Rayna Kingman recently dealing with Al's death and per his will, a box of old cassette tapes and newspaper clippings has been sent to her in a hope to explain what has happened in the last fifty years - in these old tapes, we would learn much about Al and his "abilities" to change reality. She'd soon discover the truth about Al and about herself as she and her lawyer boyfriend, Keith, deals with a emerging threat of war between Earth and mining colonies.
As I said before, it was a fascinating read and I found it to be quite enjoyable. The author has a great style with believable engaging characters. The author has brought a few realistic aspects from her own life into this book, as she was a former newspaper copy editor herself and she has brought much of what she knew about the job into the character of Al and she herself lived with multiple sclerosis to which she infused that into the character Althea Milgrom. Additionally, she acknowledged the book,
Dancing Wu Li Masters
, and its author, Gary Zukav, for the understanding of quantum physics and the nature of reality.
It is the idea of reality changing that also intrigues me about this book. I have read so many books about quantum physics, especially on the Many Worlds theory, including
Other Worlds
(Davies) and
Hyperspace
. Not only that, I have seen a television show called
Sliders
where characters were sliding from one parallel world to another and each world is different because of that one changed or unchanged event in the past. It's truly an exciting concept.
Personally, I have never heard of Nitinol metal before and it actually exists (which prompts me to research further on this alloy). Very interesting, indeed.
For those who enjoys reading science fiction novels or novels about changes of one's own reality or timeline, this ebook makes a great read.
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