The Sliders land is a barren, desolate world and are stuck there for nearly a month. There they encounter a writer named Isaac Clark, whose stories have a striking similarity to their fight against the Kromaggs, and they realize he may have come from Quinn and Colin's home world.

original airdate--April 23,1999

Trivia--"Flow My Blood, the Soldier Said" the title of the novel by Isaac Clarke is a tribute to the 1974 Philip K. Dick novel "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said".

• The science fiction author's name, Isaac Clarke, is a tribute to real-world science fiction authors Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, who enjoyed an acerbic but friendly rivalry throughout their careers.

"What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds — where it's the same year, and you're the same person, but everything else is different? And what if you can't find your way home?"