A.A. Attanasio's first novel, RADIX, was one of the most impressive science fiction debuts of the decade. IN OTHER WORLDS, his astonishing second novel, is the story of an ordinary man marked for an extraordinary destiny by cosmic forces beyond his understanding. Reborn with strange powers in an edenic world billions of years in the future, he undertakes a dazzling odyssey down the twisted pathways of time to save his newfound world from cosmic devastation.