Worlds Apart (novel)

{{Short description|1983 novel by Joe Haldeman}} {{Italic title}} '''''Worlds Apart''''' is a novel written by Joe Haldeman published in 1983.

==Plot summary== ''Worlds Apart'' is a novel in which Marianne O'Hara and others survive in New New York after a virus has killed many millions, anyone over the age of twenty, causing the human race to go nearly extinct.<ref name="Imagine21"/> New New York and other space colonies are located above the Earth, which has been devastated by the virus, while O'Hara and the other survivors struggle with the aftermath. A parallel plotline deals with the adventures of her nominal husband on Earth who is immune to the virus because of his acromegaly.

==Reception== Colin Greenland reviewed ''Worlds Apart'' for ''Imagine'' magazine, and stated that "It feels perverse to say that a series about the near extinction of the human race seems uneventful, but somehow it does. The futuristic detail is fascinating, but Haldeman relates it in a casual, rambling way that dilutes much of its drama."<ref name="Imagine21">{{cite journal | last = Greenland|first = Colin |author-link=Colin Greenland| title =Fantasy Media | type = review | journal = Imagine | issue = 21| pages =55 | publisher = TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. |date=December 1984| issn = }}</ref>

==Reviews== *Review by Dan Chow (1983) in ''Locus'', #272 September 1983 *Review by Algis Budrys (1984) in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', March 1984 *Review by Tom Easton (1984) in ''Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact'', March 1984 *Review by Patrick McGuire (1984) in ''Fantasy Review'', May 1984 *Review by Frank Catalano (1984) in ''Amazing Stories'', July 1984 *Review by C. J. Henderson (1984) in ''Whispers'' #21-22, December 1984 *Review by Don D'Ammassa (1984) in ''Science Fiction Chronicle'', #63 December 1984 *Review by Doug Fratz (1984) in ''Thrust'', #21, Fall 1984/Winter 1985

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Category:1983 novels