Bryan Derksen opined
>Ash Wyllie wrote:
>> Jack Chalker's /Well World/ and /Soul Rider/ series involve artificial
>> universes.
>Soul Rider wasn't really about an artificial universe, just a planet
>that had been subjected to an unusual terraforming approach. Humans
>learned how to manipulate the unformed "chaos" that permeates the void
>between universes, allowing them to reshape reality on a local scale, so
>they punched a bunch of holes and let the chaos-stuff permeate the
>environment of an uninhabitable planet so that they could change it into
>breathable air and other useful stuff. Then aliens from another
>dimension attacked, the holes had to be sealed to keep them from
>invading, and civilization collapsed for a long period in which the true
>nature of the "magic" they were using was lost.
In the 5th book, /Children of Flux and Anchor,/ the computers state that
there
is something outside "our" universe that is studying what happens in "our"
universe.
True, it is not particularly germane to the story, but it is there.
-ash
Cthulhu in 2008!
Vote the greater evil.
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