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In the Stephen King short story "Ur" a character finds a Kindle that has access to 10.4 million different parallel universes so he could search them for his favorite authors to see what books they'd written in those universes. There's a universe where Shakespeare lived longer and wrote more plays for instance. Or maybe an author lived the same amount of time but wrote different stuff or in a different genre (in one Hemingway wrote detective novels). Maybe there's a universe where George Martin has already finished the Game of Thrones series.

 

Its a great story, read it.

 

But here's my question. If you found this device ... Which author would you search first?

 

I'd search Jack L Chalker first. Not only for more books but to see if there was a universe where he wrote conventional fiction with his unique voice.

 

What about Jim Butcher writing westerns?

 

I'd search Anne Rice to see if there was a universe where she didn't go insane.

 

What about you?

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an actually published Last Dangerous Visions

 

a Thomas Harris who didn't fumble everything from Hannibal's ending onward

 

a Dickens who didn't get paid by the word and consequently had no reason to pad everything he wrote

 

an Artists Alley at a convention where I could find at least five readable comics by complete unknowns

 

William Gibson's Neuromancer series, currently up to novel #17

 

Dave Barry's novelizations of the Star Wars prequels

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