SWEET CHARLOTTE IN THE HIGGS FIELD

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Sweet Charlotte in the Higgs Field is the story of a suddenly eternal love stepping lightly through a hard science fiction universe. In the mid-twenty-first century an unexpected explosion of quantum gravity technology opens the gates of multiple universes. Interdimensional travel, politics and spirituality completely change society, its obsessions and expectations over 100 years of astonishing discoveries.

From a particle collider built around the Earth’s orbit to the lawless jungle of the Debris Ring the story unfolds. It continues in the pilgrimage of devotees of a new Bodhisattva through a tachyon anomaly to infinite dimensions and timelines. This is the path taken by our heroine, Charlotte, from her human death and return through a fractal singularity to a new world and timeline where she can start life over again with the one man she will cross this multiverse to capture.

James Blish’s classic Cities in Flight inspired Charlotte in that the first part of four deals with the inventions that make the rest of the story possible. As in the works of C. J. Cherryh, the realistic mechanics of the future form a stage for exploration of what it means to be a sentient being for humans and aliens alike. Like Gravity’s Rainbow, ordinary people are thrust into the steam rolling path of history becoming reluctant heroes and bodhisattvas while still struggling with their petty emotions and loves now writ large. 

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