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Four Kats. Four worlds. One multiverse worth saving.
Across parallel Earths pushed to the edge by climate disasters, political collapse, and runaway technology, four versions of Kat Garcia fight to change the futures they've inherited.
In one world, grad student Kathy Garcia uncovers a breakthrough in fusion research--then risks her life to send a neutrino warning back through time, hoping to alter the course of climate catastrophe.
In three others, Kats step through mysterious portals seeking what their worlds desperately lack: weapons to defend vulnerable communities, climate mitigation strategies powerful enough to halt escalating storms, and the promise of nuclear fusion to overthrow an oppressive regime. But each bold choice sends ripples across the multiverse, threatening to unravel the very realities they're trying to save.
To stop the collapse, the four Kats must confront their own assumptions, join forces across universes, and face the consequences of their intertwined destinies.
Their journeys continue in ten sharp, surprising short stories that explore the aftermath--new alliances, new threats, and the final reckoning that brings the entire saga to a close.
This omnibus collects the complete Kat Cubed universe: a multiverse spanning tale of science, survival, and four extraordinary women determined to rewrite their worlds.
The Kat Cubed Series
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This prelude can be enjoyed as more or less a stand-alone even if readers don't know a Tokamak from an autoclave. The author is a scientist in real life and a prolific author of largely whimsical romps incorporating concepts of physics and probability. Smith delivers a nicely casual voice ... and highly advanced science in doses manageable and nonpedantic enough for general readers.
In Smith's sci-fi tale, an experiment opens portals to alternate universes and three variations of the same young woman struggle in environments warped by climate change.
...Smith, a physicist, effectively invests the tangled yarn with brio, imagination, and doses of real-life science.
What would you do to save your whole world?
In grad student Kathy Garcia's world, the United States suffers droughts, floods, avalanches, pandemics and other hazards.
When disaster hits the university's fusion research group, she steps up to save the project.
After an amazing discovery, she risks her life to combine her old neutrino expertise with her new fusion skills to send a neutrino warning about climate change into the past.
Will her message reach the scientists of yesteryear in time to stop it?
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In Kat Garcia's twenty-second century world only the Rocky Mountains are above sealevel, and the sun is hot enough to kill anyone who ventures outdoors. Kat goes through a portal seeking bullets to arm herself and keep her friends safe from the decayed remnants of the government. In Kaitlin Garcia's world, the Unified States is constantly bombarded by severe storms. Kaitlin goes through a portal in order to implement her climate mitigation strategy before her world is rendered uninhabitable. In Katherine Garcia's world, only draconian government control over the citizens has kept the droughts, floods, and diseases from killing them. Katherine goes through a portal seeking nuclear fusion, the key to throwing off the oppressive governmental yoke. When the actions of the three Kats start to unravel their universes, can they join forces and save them all? Read Chapter One for Free!
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