GOT IT IN ONE!! This is exactly the book and the series we were looking for! Thanks so much, Robert
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From: Robert Sullivan <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2016 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Another book ID - multi-dimensional.


> A patron is looking for a science fiction series, possibly published in
> 2000's, male author -- about multiple layers of reality. Patron believes
> that there was a fourth/fifth dimensions of space included, an
> out-of-the-box innovative super universe where societies can evolve to
> higher states of dimensions. Patron says “I cannot remember what makes the
> difference between the lower (us) and the higher dimensions. More of
> something: maybe brains, maybe spatial dimensions, maybe time dimensions…”
> Authors that aren’t the right match: Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves, Victoria
> Schwab, Tad Williams, Kameron Hurley

Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought series (A Fire Upon the Deep, A
Deepness in the Sky, etc.) posits a galaxy where intelligence and
technology level relates to distance from the center - so that an
artificial intelligence would function at the rim, but be degraded in
our zone and not work at all at the center.

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library