Cleavant Derricks
Author
Series
Description
Journey to parallel Earths with the iconic sci-fi series that thrilled fans for five gripping seasons. An unlikely group of travelers who encounter alternate versions of everything and everyone they once knew and loved as they attempt to take the one slide that will take them home.
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1995-©1997
Description
Brilliant grad student Quinn Mallory has created a device that opens a wormhole to an infinite number of parallel universes where history has taken different paths, some subtly changed and other radically different. Quinn's test trip goes awry, stranding his physics professor, Arturo, his friend, Wade, and bystander Rembrandt in parallel San Francisco's, "sliding" from one alternate reality to another, unable to return home.
Pub. Date
c1987
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff defects from his touring troupe in Bloomingdale's. Fleeing the KGB, Vladimir wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Soon he has found both a voluptuous Italian lover and a shrewd Cuban lawyer. Though Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and painful, he grows to love his new land.