Vangie’s Ghosts
Vangie’s Ghosts by Paul Di Filippo is an unabridged science fiction novel published by Blackstone Publishing in 2024, featuring 317 pages in English. The story follows three-year-old Vangie, who appears mute and unresponsive to her adoptive parents, yet is deeply engaged in observing countless versions of herself across parallel universes. After a tornado alters her life, Vangie discovers her extraordinary ability to navigate these alternate timelines, leading her to a series of foster homes where she learns to harness her powers while evading those who wish to exploit her.
Readers will find a thrilling and thought-provoking adventure as Vangie confronts the complexities of her existence and the multiverse. The narrative unfolds with her encounters with a group known as the “Council,” who alert her to a looming threat from a figure called the Massive. This sets the stage for an epic conflict that spans multiple timelines and worlds, exploring themes of survival and the consequences of power. Vangie’s Ghosts presents a rich tapestry of action and adventure, inviting readers into a unique exploration of alternative history and the challenges of navigating a fractured reality.
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Paul Di Filippo delivers a thrilling and thought-provoking adventure through the multiverse in Vangie’s Ghosts, a compelling science fiction novel about one girl with extraordinary powers.
Three-year-old Vangie is mute and unresponsive. She shows no interest in the people or world around her, much to the frustration of her callous adoptive parents. Little do they know, Vangie is otherwise occupied observing “ghosts”–an infinite number of versions of herself, in an infinite number of parallel universes.
When a tornado hits their trailer and Vangie is severely injured, she makes a desperate leap into another timeline where she survives the tornado, but her adoptive parents do not. So begins a life of shuttling through various foster homes, cultivating her abilities to seek out alternate timelines, and making jumps calculated to better her circumstances in order to avoid the exploitation of adults who seek to harness her powers for their own means.
Vangie never communicates with her avatars, until one day the “Council”–a group of Vangies–appear to her and warn her of an ominous, growing threat in the multiverse: a man they call the Massive. And thus begins an epic conflict, spanning millennia and worlds, in a brutal effort to control the fate of the multiverse.
Vangie’s Ghosts is Paul Di Filippo at the height of his imagination and versatility, filled with compelling characters who play captivating roles in a story where the stakes are nothing less than existence itself.
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