Feeling caught between a rock and an alternative reality? Don't we all?! As a blustery noreaster barrels down on the east coast, so is a confusing combo of alterantive reality, scifi, historical fic, and history literature exploring heavy topics of immigration, ancestry, war, first contact, dual timeline mysteries, and death, including … a potential mixup of a couple going to Cloud 6 instead of 9? This episode has books for everyone and anyone who is willing to strap on hiker boots and wage into this cosmic alterantive reality mess! Will we resolve the dual timelines? WIll first contact go off without a hitch? Will afterlife schenanigans prove to be reality or mythology? Stay tuned for 1 debut author and 9 books to review cover to cover in this week's Reader's Forecast!

Publishing Week: 22 Sep 2026

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