Alone with You in the Ether

An intimate and modern examination of time, space, and the nature of love comes from Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six novel. Alone with You in the Ether examines what it means to be sick as well as how to accept your flaws and continue to love yourself while being damaged.

Chicago, Occasionally—

By coincidence, two persons meet at the Art Institute. She is a bipolar counterfeit artist receiving court-ordered treatment; he is a PhD student who controls his destructive ideas with obsessive calculations about time travel. These will still be true at the conclusion of the tale. However, this is not an ending-focused narrative.

People—including herself, maybe especially—are boring and predictable to Regan. She lives impulsively, believing that every snap action creates a new, parallel history, as a way to deal with the gloom of life.

Aldo perceives the world as unsettlingly disorganized. He builds a wall of regularity to get through his days; a backbone of guidelines and procedures that sustain him. The whole structure of his life would crumble in their absence.

Up until they met, Regan and Aldo had to accept their place in the patterns of inevitable events. Is it possible that six talks with an unknown person will be the factor that causes the simulation to collapse?