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Actually, it probably wouldn't hurt to bring to folks' attention to earlier multiverse stories written under the old-fashioned concept of the parallel world, such as Murray Leinster's rather cool "Sidewise In Time" from the 30s. I believe it was reprinted in Asimov's Before the Golden Age anthology. Then there's Hall and Flint's The Blind Spot, from 1921, Hodgson's House on the Borderland, Kuttner (and Moore's) The Dark World, and Simak's extremely cool Ring Around The Sun. There are even precursors to those, according to my ancient Nicholls SF Encyclopedia.
I don't think it's merely theorectical that Michael Moorcock's fiction is one big multiverse. He told me once it started out as coincidence, with characters having similarities between fates and names etc. as befits writers who are obsessive with certain themes, but then once friends pointed out the patterns, he elaborated on them, just for fun. Now he has a gigantic deck of cards which he can shuffle about however he chooses.
I do believe the multiverse tag was first used to describe Michael's use of parallel worlds.
One of my favorite parallel world stories (I insist on being old-fashioned) is Bob Shaw's The Two-Timers. It was made into a bad movie with Joan Collins but you shouldn't hold that against the book. It's been awhile since I read it (and a lot of my sf collection is in boxes at the moment, thus hindering my research), but as I remember, our hero's marriage is hell, but when through a migraine he travels to a parallel world, that version of the woman is his perfect mate. Men always complain their women don't understand them, though the truth is, maybe they do and that's the problem. I'm not sure which scenario applied to the perfect mate in this case.
Then of course, there's the door that was opened by "Flash of Two Worlds". Reply
I don't think it's merely theorectical that Michael Moorcock's fiction is one big multiverse. He told me once it started out as coincidence, with characters having similarities between fates and names etc. as befits writers who are obsessive with certain themes, but then once friends pointed out the patterns, he elaborated on them, just for fun. Now he has a gigantic deck of cards which he can shuffle about however he chooses.
I do believe the multiverse tag was first used to describe Michael's use of parallel worlds.
One of my favorite parallel world stories (I insist on being old-fashioned) is Bob Shaw's The Two-Timers. It was made into a bad movie with Joan Collins but you shouldn't hold that against the book. It's been awhile since I read it (and a lot of my sf collection is in boxes at the moment, thus hindering my research), but as I remember, our hero's marriage is hell, but when through a migraine he travels to a parallel world, that version of the woman is his perfect mate. Men always complain their women don't understand them, though the truth is, maybe they do and that's the problem. I'm not sure which scenario applied to the perfect mate in this case.
Then of course, there's the door that was opened by "Flash of Two Worlds". Reply
@ArthurByronCover: Thanks for the input! There's Fritz Leiber's Big Time as well but I have no recollection of that at all. Too much of Leiber's work needs to be reprinted.
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