XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 12:03:57 -0700, Dimensional Traveler   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 9/22/2023 8:29 AM, Paul S Person wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:45:31 -0500, Lynn McGuire   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>    
   >>> On 9/20/2023 2:08 AM, Default User wrote:   
   >>>> WolfFan wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Any more candidates?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A modern example is the Innkeeper Chronicles series from "Ilona   
   >>>> Andrews" (a husband/wife duo). It starts out seeming like an urban   
   >>>> fantasy. Dina is the keeper of a magic Inn, where she travels through   
   >>>> portals the marketplace with many strange creatures. A group of   
   >>>> Vampires is expected for stay. And she detects that a Werewolf has   
   >>>> moved into the neighborhood.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> But it turns out it's all supposed to be science fiction. The Inn is a   
   >>>> living being that's psychially linked with Dina. The Vampires are   
   >>>> humanoid warrious with fangs, from distant worlds, not undead   
   >>>> bloodsuckers. The Werewolf is the descendent of bioengineered soldiers   
   >>>> from yet another world.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Now, the science is pretty soft, especially the biology (her sister has   
   >>>> baby with a Vampire) and this would I think fall in the "science   
   >>>> fantasy" category.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Brian   
   >>>   
   >>> No more softer than the Liadens having babies with Terrans.  Liadens are   
   >>>from another Universe, not just another planet.  Of course, there is the    
   >>> Jurassic Park argument, biology will find a way.   
   >>    
   >> I don't see that being from another Universe, as such, matters.   
   >>    
   >> Those who believe that the Universe is fully-determined or entirely   
   >> mechanistic, for example, would, it seems to me, have to agree that,   
   >> if two Universes had the exact same physics and the exact same   
   >> starting conditions, then they would progress /identically/ in every   
   >> way, simply because no alternatives exist. So, if the Liadans came   
   >> from the Earth of the alternate Universe, then they and Terrans would   
   >> be -- the same species. With the same history, the same languages, the   
   >> same cultures.   
   >   
   >And both developing and using the ability to travel to the other    
   >universe at the same time....   
      
   Doing everything in lock-step.   
      
   Imagine an entire multiverse of individual universes in lock-step.   
      
   Rather boring, wouldn't you say? Not to mention superfluous.   
      
   Universes that have choices, that are at best /mostly/ deterministic   
   or mechanical, which might indeed differentiate, would be much more   
   interesting.   
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   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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