But with the help of some kind strangers, Darwin begins to make friends and form a plan. Wild dogs roam the streets, food and water are scarce, and no one can be trusted.

On the outside, life is harsh and dangerous. Rebecca is fascinated to find out that Darwin can not only See (yes, that’s “See” with a capital S) the threads, but that he’s actually from another world, and she’s determined to learn his secret.īut Darwin refuses to remain a prisoner, and so he escapes as soon as he can.

Although threads are invisible to most people, some have the ability to see and manipulate them. Despite his fear and confusion, Darwin discovers something amazing: he can suddenly see “threads,” weird quantum strings that surround every living thing. Even worse, he’s still inside Quantum Labs, but in this world his father is dead. He wakes up in a dystopian nightmare, a prisoner of a group of people called the Qabal who are led by a woman named Rebecca. But during the final test of the machine, something goes terribly wrong, and Darwin finds himself thrown into another world. This inconsistency resulted in a lower rating than I had hoped, although the author certainly has lots of good ideas.ĭarwin Lloyd is a physics student at Princeton and has been working with his father on a big project over summer break at Quantum Labs: the QPS machine, or Quantum Power Source. What started strong quickly became tedious, at least until the last few chapters when things picked up again.

Threader Origins has a great hook: a machine called the Quantum Power Source, designed as a solution to the world’s energy needs, misfires and pushes a young undergrad into a dystopian parallel world where everyone seems to be after him due to his abilities to see and manipulate “threads.” The story gets off to a great start, and I was immediately pulled into Darwin’s story, but unfortunately the middle section of the book had a lot of pacing problems. The nitty-gritty: Threader Origins had a lot of potential, but a sluggish middle section made this an uneven read for me. Published by Daw Books on January 12 2021 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Threader Origins by Gerald Brandt