Post-parallel shock syndrome
Mar. 5th, 2010 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylImogen Russell Williams' post on parallel-worlds fantasy over on Guardian books has reminded me of Randall Munroe's wonderfully accurate and deeply subversive take on the problem:
Because what else can you do, once you've experienced a parallel world? To my mind, there aren't enough novels that feature post-parallel-world protagonists. With the admirable exception of Neil Gaiman's short story, The Problem of Susan, I can't think of a single one.
Because what else can you do, once you've experienced a parallel world? To my mind, there aren't enough novels that feature post-parallel-world protagonists. With the admirable exception of Neil Gaiman's short story, The Problem of Susan, I can't think of a single one.
