Paying It Forward (novel)
Paying It Forward is a Jenny Everywhere webnovel currently being serialised. The work of by Scott Sanford, its first chapter was released for Jenny Everywhere Day in 2021.
Contents
Plot
Part 1
Shortly after her defeat of Professor Awesome, Jenny Everywhere leaves her apartment to shift to the Temple of the Oracle Cha Ni. After exchanging a few wise words with the elderly visionary, Cha-Ni guesses that Jenny is here because she wants to help other versions of her whose lives are not as easy as hers. Cha-Ni agrees and gives her a list.
Part 2
Arriving in another universe, Jenny meets up with a Jenny who is a stunt aeroplane pilot flying an Everywhere Explorer biplane — or, rather, who had been flying it until a malfunction downed her in the middle of a deserted steppe. Thanks to Cha Ni's list, the second Jenny brought the pilot Jenny precisely the part she needed to repair her aeroplane. With it back in order, the pilot Jenny offers to fly her counterpart to her next destination.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
- The story's main Jenny is the version previously seen in Parallax and Camera Shy.
- It is suggested that the oracle Cha Ni is also a version of the Shifter. She described as “about [Jenny's] height, with long silver hair”, wearing “a layered white robe and, of course, a long stole and a blindfold over her eyes”.
Universes
- The story's main Jenny lives in one universe. She visits another one which is home to the Temple of the Oracle.
Other
- Jenny once saved “her world's computer inter-network” in something to which she refers as “the Eye of Tripoli thing” and got banned from Shangri-La for “putting the ram in the Rama Llama’s ding-dong”. She insists that she only had good intentions.
Continuity
- Cha Ni reminds Jenny of how she “fought [her] mirror self to her death”, referring this Jenny's first encounter with a Jenny Nowhere, in PROSE: Parallax.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story is available on the author's website.
