Have you read 'The Number of the Beast' by Heinlein? As far as I know, this is about the earliest exploration of parallel universes in science-ficton. I read it a long time ago, but I remember it being very interesting.
I find multiverses so much fun when done well. It can really stretch the creativity and imagination, while still drawing interesting connections between different universes (like how Aunt May says the famous Uncle Ben quote from the first Spiderman movie). Another favourite is how the multiverse was portrayed in the Loki series, and how creative they were with all the different Loki variants from each universe.
Yes, so far Marvel have done interesting things with it in the movies (and Loki). I do worry that it will all unravel and become too chaotic...but then again, I suspect that's the point and what will become the Big Problem, with the Phase 4 finale being them somehow closing the multiverse and putting everything back in its box.
I'm kind of wrestling with a multiverse story set in my Martiniere Legacy world. Book Seven, and the main protagonist who always seems to give me more stories (Gabriel, darn you!) was at the graves of his family--died in a plane crash when he was twelve. He started speculating with his wife about how things would be different if his family were still alive, and how they would meet under those circumstances....
Well, that world has taken off (working on Book Two of that world, hoo boy has it taken a dark turn). Gabe Prime is dreaming about it...and a third world as well.
I dunno. I'm doing them as little Vella breaks, in part because I'm editing and reissuing another series, plus finishing some unfinished short works at novella and novel length. Doing a Martiniere multiverse is kinda fun, but at some point I need to come up with a single, overarching *reason*--which I think ties back to the ending of the main sequence Martiniere series, which I'm also working on (the Substack serial, which is going slowly).
I think it ends up being tied to something that happens to Gabe during the last days of his life, when he starts realizing that the cyberworm affecting the residuals of his mind control programming is the beginning of a digital thought clone cyberwar--and he has to do something with those other forms of himself. Or something.
(now damn it, *remember* this, Joyce!)
But I also have a alternate universe story cooking away, with a weird west setting. True alternate universes, where some are very different from others.....
Have you read 'The Number of the Beast' by Heinlein? As far as I know, this is about the earliest exploration of parallel universes in science-ficton. I read it a long time ago, but I remember it being very interesting.
I have not! Thanks, will make a point of hunting it down.
I find multiverses so much fun when done well. It can really stretch the creativity and imagination, while still drawing interesting connections between different universes (like how Aunt May says the famous Uncle Ben quote from the first Spiderman movie). Another favourite is how the multiverse was portrayed in the Loki series, and how creative they were with all the different Loki variants from each universe.
Yes, so far Marvel have done interesting things with it in the movies (and Loki). I do worry that it will all unravel and become too chaotic...but then again, I suspect that's the point and what will become the Big Problem, with the Phase 4 finale being them somehow closing the multiverse and putting everything back in its box.
I'm kind of wrestling with a multiverse story set in my Martiniere Legacy world. Book Seven, and the main protagonist who always seems to give me more stories (Gabriel, darn you!) was at the graves of his family--died in a plane crash when he was twelve. He started speculating with his wife about how things would be different if his family were still alive, and how they would meet under those circumstances....
Well, that world has taken off (working on Book Two of that world, hoo boy has it taken a dark turn). Gabe Prime is dreaming about it...and a third world as well.
I dunno. I'm doing them as little Vella breaks, in part because I'm editing and reissuing another series, plus finishing some unfinished short works at novella and novel length. Doing a Martiniere multiverse is kinda fun, but at some point I need to come up with a single, overarching *reason*--which I think ties back to the ending of the main sequence Martiniere series, which I'm also working on (the Substack serial, which is going slowly).
I think it ends up being tied to something that happens to Gabe during the last days of his life, when he starts realizing that the cyberworm affecting the residuals of his mind control programming is the beginning of a digital thought clone cyberwar--and he has to do something with those other forms of himself. Or something.
(now damn it, *remember* this, Joyce!)
But I also have a alternate universe story cooking away, with a weird west setting. True alternate universes, where some are very different from others.....
Fringe TV series. But really, OG Narnia opened the portal all those years ago.
I commend to you the multiverse of D.N. Leo.