Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald  Reviewed by Duncan Lawie  Be My
Enemy cover  Be My Enemy opens with a précis of the start of
Planesrunner (2011), the opening book in the Everness series.
Except that it becomes more confusing as it goes on, conflicting
with recollections of the first book until it cracks open and
demonstrates just what the many worlds theory really means. The
Everness series may be aimed at a younger reader than McDonald's
Brasyl (2007) but it is a thematic sequel and, to my mind,
delivers the narrative punch of quantum possibilities better
than that novel did.  Everett Singh, as readers of the first
book will recall, is a genius. This is pretty much necessary
when your genius father has given you the only known "map" of
all the many worlds at the moment that he is captured by unknown
forces. That his captors, the Order, appear to control the only
gate out of our Earth to the other nine worlds of the Plenitude
would appear to give them the absolute upper hand. That they
speak of a fight against "