Lauren Beukes's new science fiction novel, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, demonstrates the one crucial flaw in the entire multiverse fantasy: human nature
BridgeWHICH decision was it for you? We all have that self we still hold in our mind as the one we could or should have become, its shining splendour casting a pall on the reality of how we actually turned out due to the series of haphazard choices we made before we understood their ramifications. It all started with that one decision that put us on the divergent path.
It wouldn’t be much of a 500-page sci-fi novel if there weren’t a door to another universe, so it is no spoiler to say there is. The question is why, and will Bridge followYou will have noticed that sci-fi is currently at peak. Every other book – not to mention movie – seems to engage with this trope, now so ubiquitous that even the Marvel Cinematic Universe has inflicted it on us.
But what happens when you get everything you want? In her obsessive search for the universe where she has made all the correct decisions, Jo trails a vast wake of damage. This is whyis an essential entrant into the multiverse genre. It demonstrates the one crucial flaw in the entire multiverse fantasy: human nature.
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