Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble suspects that the recent spate of suicides and violent crime is somehow connected to the discovery that the many worlds interpretation of quantum physics is real and each of those worlds can be traveled to.
—Michael Main
There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? Trimble didn’t understand the theory, though God knows he’d tried. The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision every made could go both ways. Every choice ever made by every man, woman and child on Earth was reversed in the universe next door.

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Variants

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  1. “All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven, in Galaxy, October 1968.
  2. “All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven (Blackstone Audio, Inc., September 2017).
  3. Al het mogelijke [Everything possible] by Larry Niven, in De stranden van Sirius vier by Larry Niven (Meulenhoff, 1975).
  4. “Selbstmord en gros” [Wholesale suicide] by Larry Niven, in Galaxy 14, edited by Walter Ernsting and Thomas Schlück (Heyne, February 1970).
  5. “Tausend Wege des Alls” [A thousand paths of universes] by Larry Niven, in Myriaden by Larry Niven (Bastei Lübbe, 1973).

Translations

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  1. “All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven, in Galaxy, October 1968.
  2. “All the Myriad Ways” by Larry Niven (Blackstone Audio, Inc., September 2017).
  3. Dutch.
    Al het mogelijke [Everything possible] by Larry Niven, in De stranden van Sirius vier by Larry Niven (Meulenhoff, 1975).
  4. German.
    “Selbstmord en gros” [Wholesale suicide] by Larry Niven, in Galaxy 14, edited by Walter Ernsting and Thomas Schlück (Heyne, February 1970).
  5. German.
    “Tausend Wege des Alls” [A thousand paths of universes] by Larry Niven, in Myriaden by Larry Niven (Bastei Lübbe, 1973).

Indexer Notes

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  1. Translation—We don’t know which of the two listed translators (Walter Ernsting or Thomas Schlück) translated “Selbstmord en gros.”