Orbit UK lands Carey’s ‘thrill-ride through the multiverse’ in new sci-fi duology 

Orbit UK has signed a new science fiction duology set in the multiverse from M R Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts (Orbit). 

Publisher Anna Jackson bought world rights to Infinity Gate and one more novel from Meg Davis at the Ki Agency, and senior editor Priyanka Krishnan has acquired North American rights for Orbit US.

The publisher says Infinity Gate will be a major global release in March 2023, with the second book in the duology scheduled for release in spring 2024. 

Infinity Gate is described as “a thrilling tale about an empire of a million worlds – except that they’re really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities”.

The synopsis goes on: “When a scientist from our world stumbles across the edge of this empire, she triggers a whole chain of events that could save or doom every world there is.”

Jackson said: “I already knew that Mike Carey was an unbelievably talented, versatile writer with a passionate fanbase, but this new duology really blew me away. It’s full to the brim with brilliant ideas and buzzing energy, with characters who grab hold of you and refuse to let go. It’s a total thrill-ride through the multiverse on an epic scale, and readers of space opera and high-concept SF are going to be hooked.”

Carey commented that while most of the stories he is known for are “genre fusions of one sort or another”, Infinity Gate and its sequel are “pure SF”.

“It’s also the biggest story – in terms of the sheer scale of the canvas – I’ve ever told. It’s been really exhilarating to work in that genre space and to plot an epic story across multiple worlds with a huge cast of characters. I really can’t wait to have readers discover them,” he said. 

Meg Davis also commented: “Mike’s stories just get bigger and more fascinating, and readers are in for a journey like they’ve never experienced before. You never know where you’re going to end up in this story, but you know you’ll have an amazing time once you’re there. Mike and I also salute the incredible Anna Jackson and her colleagues at Orbit, who have been both launch pad and elite engineering team for Mike’s soaring imagination.”