The world of Worlds Apart spans fractured realities, manipulated institutions, underground resistance networks, lunar colonies, and splintered timelines. This page breaks down the deeper mythology behind the novel, how the world functions, who controls it, and why everything feels just a little too unstable.
Worlds Apart exists across two main planes of reality, stitched together by secrets, surveillance, and rebellion:
A medicated society where:
mandatory drugs suppress perception
hallucinations may be messages
mental illness is weaponized as control
rain can kill
truth is buried by authority
Peter’s struggle inside this world is not just psychological, it’s systemic.
A futuristic society split between:
Earth, fractured by corruption and political decay
the Moon colonies, controlled by criminal networks and shadow agendas
Marsh’s journey exposes the political machinery driving both.
Before Worlds Apart begins, Peter’s story unfolds in Radio Rain.
But in Worlds Apart, the radio rain still lingers in the background, deadly precipitation that wipes out unprotected populations and justifies strict medication laws:
It symbolizes oppression disguised as protection
It reinforces the forced medication social model
It connects to deeper conspiracies about population control
Nothing in this world is accidental.
Robbins isn’t just a criminal.
He is a fulcrum between worlds.
running operations across Toronto and lunar colonies
abducting, trafficking, and manipulating people for power
exploiting the divide between Earth and the Moon
quietly influencing political outcomes
Every discovery Marsh makes tightens the net around Robbins’ hidden empire.
Sylvie emerges as:
a crucial informant
a survivor of Robbins’ manipulation
a guide through the lunar underworld
Her involvement reframes Marsh’s mission and exposes what his wife’s disappearance truly means.
Unlike the sterile sci-fi version of moon cities, the lunar colonies in Worlds Apart are:
dirty
dangerous
political
criminally controlled
full of hidden tunnels and sewer systems
They reflect humanity’s tendency to rebuild its same flaws, even in new worlds.
Marsh’s missing wife becomes the emotional anchor of the entire narrative.
Her disappearance ties together:
Robbins
the underground crime networks
the lunar colonies
the institutional corruption
Peter’s separate story line
What happens to Ellen ripples across every world in the novel.
Two narratives, Peter’s and Marsh’s, build a layered universe:
Marsh’s chase through cities and colonies
Peter’s struggle with medication, memory, and truth
Their ultimate collision in a system bigger than both
Their intersection reveals how reality fractures, and how easily lives become entangled in forces beyond their control.
