Some books you read. Others, you fall into. And then there are those rare ones that feel like a ripple through your very existence, as though the pages themselves alter the path of your life. World Lines: From Space-Time to Apocalypse by EB Diamond is a book that keeps you glued to your seat. This isn't just a novel. It is an experience that shakes your understanding of time, fate, and the fragile border between sense and nonsense.
Time, as we're taught, is linear, right? One life, one direction, point A to point B. But what if that's a lie? What if your path isn't fixed but twisted, curved, and intersecting? This is the heart of Diamond's world, where most people march steadily through their allotted existence. But a few outliers, called Alternates, have the ability to slip the leash. Their world lines loop, repeat, skip ahead, and collide in ways that defy physics, leaving them forever out of step with "normal" time.
At the center of the story is the Professor, whose obsession with immortality is as tragic as it is compelling. He theorizes that the ancients escaped death not through miracles, but by stepping sideways into another point in their world line. In his mind, "Rather than being saved by a time machine, you merely follow a different fork." This single, haunting idea becomes the gravitational core of the novel: immortality not as a dream of endless life, but as an escape hatch through time itself.
Yet World Lines is not weighed down by theory alone. Diamond weaves the cosmic with the absurd, creating a narrative that is equal parts satire, fairy tale, and scientific exploration. A Scottish fisherman struggles to anchor himself in a world unraveling under earthquakes, military crackdowns, and breaches in the space-time continuum. A female pilot, kidnapped during her mission, finds her fate entwined with eccentric "Alternates" who transport her through a portal to the Canadian mountain known as Point B, where a neutrino mine is being built, and possibly destiny itself.
The book is remarkable because of its tonal daring, which challenges us to consider carefully what fate is and whether or not disasters can be predicted. These questions—do science negate faith, or do they secretly dance together?—are posed in dialogues that sometimes stray from incisive reasoning to amusing absurdity. Humor runs through the narrative like an underground current, bubbling up in puns, playful reasoning, and surreal fairy-tale logic that somehow makes the impossible feel natural.
And yet, beneath the wit, there is awe. You can feel the weight of apocalypse pressing down on every page. There is a constant sense that something vast and unstoppable is coming. The characters, each in their strange way, are trying to make sense of it. Some rely on science, some on faith, and some simply muddle through, caught between disbelief and wonder. And just when you think you've figured out the riddle, a fresh twist drastically changes the story. And the plot once more becomes a thrilling chase.
Reading World Lines is like standing on the edge of a cliff, staring into a fog where shapes shift and shimmer. You're not sure what's real, what's imagined, or what lies ahead. But you must look. And when the ending comes, bittersweet, devastating, and inevitable, you're left with the dizzying feeling that perhaps you, too, are an Alternate, replaying these moments, haunted by the thought that... what if you just took the opposite fork?
Can you realize the reality before it becomes too late? Only reading this book will lead you to a conclusion.
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About the book:
World Lines: From Space-Time to Apocalypse by EB Diamond is a genre-bending novel that blends science, philosophy, humor, and fairy-tale absurdity into a thrilling tale of fate and time. Set in the present day, it follows a cast of eccentric and ordinary characters, an obsessed Professor, a captured pilot, a bewildered fisherman, and others, whose lives intersect on a mountain called Point B, a sacred site and the location of a mysterious neutrino mine. Some of these characters are "Alternates," people who don't experience time in a straight line but in loops, skips, and forks. Through their stories, the novel explores immortality, destiny, and the fragile border between science and faith. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, it's a work of speculative fiction that asks, What if time itself is the ultimate trickster?
About the Author:
EB Diamond holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the National Institutes of Health/American University and has spent many years writing research papers, review articles, grant submissions, and peer review summaries—primarily at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Turning to fiction offered Diamond the freedom to step away from strict facts, to create imaginative characters, and to speculate on questions that offer no simple answers.
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Book Name: World Lines: From space-time to apocalypse
Author Name: EB Diamond
ISBN Number: 979-8335198837
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