All the Ways We See

We See Long airplane rides are good for reading, and among the good reads I've had lately is the newest book by Dean Koontz, called From the Corner of His Eye.

The book appealed to me on several levels. One of the primary characters in the book is blind; actually becomes blind at the age of three. There is an incredible friendliness toward, and insight about, religious faith in this book. But most curious and interesting to me was the way the author plays with some of the theory surrounding quantum physics.

Now if this is being read by a physicist, I think I'm about to embarrass myself! I understand that one of the notions behind quantum physics is that there might well be several parallel universes or simultaneously occurring universes. And the fact that we don't know how to cross the barriers between them doesn't necessarily suggest that they don't exist.

In this book, Koontz gives to a few of his characters the ability to cross these dimensional barriers, to move from one universe, or dimension, into another, to go to a place where "my life is different", where "my father didn't die", where "it isn't raining now". My obsession with science fiction found this aspect of the read quite exciting indeed.

But even if the quantum physics weren't there at all, the book would be a sheer delight. It captivated me from beginning to end, and I would recommend it to you with no reservations.