Short Story
Other Worlds and This One
- by Cadwell Turnbull
- in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2017
In his universe, where the narrator lives with his difficult brother and mother, he had no ability to travel to other times and places, but he can visit pretty much any time or place (especially places with Hugh Everett) in any of the other myriad universes from the vast multiverse which are all fixed in stone.
What I can’t do is change anything. I can’t change the course of history. I can’t make it so that things work out. Every universe exists complete from the start. It’s all already happened.
