Light Years

The universe is expanding. Dark energy is the force which expedites distance. Light years is an obsolescent descriptor. The nomenclature is disconcerting if I’m traveling to a Kepler planet 1200 light years from earth. In the course of the voyage the vessel is likely to lose traction—with the ensuing Sisyphean  effect of sliding backwards in the attempt to approach the distant object. The event horizon of the black hole is a different matter cosmologically (since the net effect is of gravity shrinking mass) but the net effect, of growing darkness, is the same. People enter sensory deprivation chambers and either emerge cleansed or rendered temporarily insane. The human needs the presence of other heavenly bodies to survive. 

read the review of The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy in Kirkus. 

and also read the review of The Wormhole Society (graphic novel) in Booklife.