The Last Universe

10 best books like The Last Universe (William Sleator): A Crack in the Line, Saga, The Walls of the Universe, Guinevere, The Hidden World, The Dead Gentleman, Merlin's Mirror, Any Which Wall, Heart of Briar, The Wreck of Heaven

AuthorMichael Lawrence
What if someone else was living your life?You are sixteen. You live with your father in a big Victorian house on the outskirts of London. Your mother is dead, killed in a train crash two years ago. It is snowing. The snow is falling on the house and the wide yard and the gnarled old tree that everyone calls...
Saga
AuthorConor Kostick
ISBN0670062804
The breathtaking sequel to the multistarred Epic! Ghost is part of a street hacker airboard gang who lives to break rules. When they realize that their world—Saga—is being periodically invaded by strange human beings, they don’t know what to do. That is, until they learn the complicated...
AuthorPaul Melko
ISBN0765319977
John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return...
AuthorSharan Newman
ISBN0312862334
Sharan Newman tells the story of the golden child whose dearest friend is a saint who hears spirits singing; of the gentle-hearted woman who begins to dream of love, glory, and the fierce, proud king who will become her husband; of the passionate beauty whose name will be remembered and hated for centuries.

Sharan...
AuthorAlison Baird
ISBN0670882216
Maeve is disgruntled and depressed when she is sent for the summer to her aunt's house in Newfoundland while her parents try to work out problems in their marriage and careers. But she does enjoy Newfoundland's rustic charms and the closeness she feels there to her favourite grandmother, now dead. Maeve's...
AuthorMatthew Cody
ISBN0375855963
A many-worlds adventure novel from the acclaimed author of Powerless!
 
The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams—1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely protégé of the Explorers, a secret group dedicated...
Merlin's Mirror
AuthorAndre Norton
ISBN0886770521
In this great science fiction novel, Andre Norton brings to new life the legendary King Arthur and the wizard Merlin in the light of modern knowledge of a lost period of history and today’s understanding of science and interplanetary communication. Yet, as in all Norton’s wonder novels, this is...
AuthorLaurel Snyder
ISBN0375855602
Four kids, a mysterious wall, and a good helping of common magic!

If you had a magic wall that could take you to any place and any time, where would you go? Would you want to visit castles and desert islands? Would you want to meet famous wizards, terrible pirates, beautiful queens, and dastardly...
AuthorLaura Anne Gilman
ISBN0373803559
"He has been taken. And you are his only chance."

That wasn't something Jan expected to hear--especially from strangers who'd just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn't expected her rescuers to be shape-shifters....

Now it turns out her...
The Wreck of Heaven
AuthorHolly Lisle
ISBN0380818388
There are doors into other worlds -- and those who cross over are changed forever ...

Two women have discovered the way into a new reality -- one so close to Earth that events there have shattering repercussions here. On Oria -- a wondrous paradise and nightmare both -- Molly McColl has powers...
AuthorLouise Cusack
ISBN0731810597
DESTINY OF THE LIGHT is the first novel of my “Shadow Through Time” fantasy trilogy published by Simon & Schuster Australia. It contains elements of romance, magic and horror, taking a woman from our world into the earthworld of Ennae; a sepia world joined to ours by the Sacred Pool. Talis, her...
AuthorBruce Coville
Did you ever have a vampire scratching at your window, see or hear what other people couldn't, suffer a curse or get what you wished for? Did you ever feel that shiver go up your spine that lets you know everything is not all right?

What makes your skin crawl?

For me, it's a faceless being,...
AuthorMargo Lanagan
ISBN0375843205
Margo Lanagan's electrifying stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are stories of yearning for more, and learning to live with what you have. Stories that show the imprint love leaves on us all.

If you think you don't like short...
Into the Parallel
AuthorRobin Brande
(Book 1 of 4) NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE ME.
But I know I did it. I was there. If she's real--and I know she is--I just have to prove it. Go there again and this time bring something back. Like a strand of her hair or a piece of her fingernail.
SOMETHING WITH HER DNA ON IT. TO PROVE THAT SHE IS ME.

High...
Empty World
AuthorJohn Christopher
ISBN0435122452
I read this book when I was a teenager and I have thought of it often since. It has haunted me, but I couldn't remember the name of the book or the author. I spent a lot of time researching before tracking the book down and finding out that it was out of print. I finally obtained a copy from ebay and was excited...
Pilgrim of the Sky
AuthorNatania Barron
ISBN1936460092
Maddie's voice pulled me into this one right away. She's an ordinary ex-grad student in mourning for a missing lover, with far too many mundane responsibilities, but Barron gives her a thoughtful perspective on the world I found instantly engaging. She starts in our world, quickly tumbles into another...
A Life Less Ordinary
AuthorChristopher G. Nuttall
There is magic in the world, hiding in plain sight. If you search for it, you will find it, or it will find you. Welcome to the magical world.

Having lived all her life in Edinburgh, the last thing 25-year old Dizzy expected was to see a man with a real (if tiny) dragon on his shoulder. Following him,...
Schrödinger's Gun
AuthorRay Wood
ISBN1466886277
In every crime scene every one of me was looking at, he lay face-down on the floor with two bullets in his back.

this is a neat little futuristic sci-fi noir story in which crimes can be solved by accessing any number of possible timelines by a detective with a heisen implant stuck in their brain....
Nightmare
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440237734
For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Nightmare from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.
 
        Emily has never fit in with her overachieving family. Instead of getting straight As, she sits in the back row and hides...
Underworld
AuthorCathy MacPhail
ISBN1582349975
A school trip goes disastrously wrong when five troubled high school students find themselves trapped in an underground cave. Their best chance of escape is to stay together. But when a member of the group disappears, their hope of finding a way out starts to fade. Does one of the remaining four know more...
Doorways
AuthorTim O'Rourke
ISBN1480027235
When Zachary Black discovers a door set between two giant cliffs, he realises he has never seen anything so peculiar. Unable to resist the doorway, Zach opens it to find that he is looking into Endra.

Have you ever had someone say to you that they have seen your double? Well, that is your 'reflection'...
Leaving Poppy
AuthorKate Cann
ISBN0439968712
I found this to be a good book - (view spoiler)[ something which scared me without killing anyone, which is saying something. (hide spoiler)].
Glory
AuthorDevin O'Branagan
ISBN1461084873
Seventeen-year-old Glory Templeton's blood holds the cure for a deadly pandemic-plague, and she embarks on a quest to save humanity. When evil forces conspire to stop her, three supernatural beings are assigned to be her guardians. Forbidden love, ancient secret societies, mysterious astronomical...
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