What if things could turn out differently? How the multiverse got into our heads and didn't let go

Alternate universes are everywhere these days, from “The Flash” to “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”

"Fictions have implicitly done what alternate universes seem to be doing more lately: letting us explore some reality that's not actual, for the purpose of learning about the actual world," says, an assistant professor of philosophy at Macalester College who has researched why the multiverse resonates.

"It narratively lets you have your cake and eat it, too — you can kill off the character, have an emotional death scene and then bring the character back from another universe," says, whose 9/11 novel,"The Mirage," posits an alternate universe that flips aggressors, victims and prejudices. In its reality, it was Christian extremists who attacked the Twin Towers of the"United Arab States" in Baghdad.

Technology has enabled people to obtain most anything — customized, to boot — from the world’s bounty within 48 hours.

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