Next Door, Next World

"Next Door, Next World" by Robert Donald Locke is a science fiction adventure that follows Major Lance Cooper, a space pilot whose first hyperspace mission on the Cosmos XII takes a bewildering turn. Eager yet nervous, Lance leaves behind his fiancée, Carolyn Sagen, only to encounter mind-bending visions of alternate realities during his flight. The story intensifies when he returns to find his world altered, with Carolyn erased from everyone's memory and his ship declared lost with all hands. Now in a reality where he is believed to be dead, Lance sets out on a journey to unravel the mysteries of hyperspace, reclaim the love he's lost, and confront the strange new reality.