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The First Sci-Fi to use the Idea of Parallel Worlds and Alternate Time
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1 author picked The Heads of Cerberus as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved the gorgeous tight prose and meticulously consistent details and plot points. This book is one of the earliest examples of alternate timeline science fiction and that in itself had me hooked! In fact, it came out as an early serial in the Thrill Book magazine in 1919 and its author was a woman (Gertrude Barrows Bennett) writing under a male pseudonym (Francis Stevens).
While there are some early elements of what could be confused for fantasy in it, it reads more like experiences of psychedelia once one considers the scientific causes revealed fully in the last chapter. I…
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