RE: Random Encounters
03-04-2020, 07:52 PM (This post was last modified: 03-05-2020, 10:26 AM by DHBirr.)
03-04-2020, 07:52 PM (This post was last modified: 03-05-2020, 10:26 AM by DHBirr.)
Reviewing the ATT entry for Jenny Everywhere, I was reminded that Christopher Stasheff wrote something similar about his character Rodney d'Armand a.k.a. Rod Gallowglass of The Warlock in Spite of Himself: he seems to be a very high-probability person, and the version of him in the interstellar future that's the series' main setting is more-or-less identical to the one in a completely magical universe where "science never had a chance to grow." Another character assesses that there probably isn't a variant of Rod in any world that never developed humans "—but I wouldn't want to guarantee it."
Incidentally, Rod's alternate in that far-away universe had still scored a wife who was just as almost-identical to Rod's Gwendylon (no; I didn't misspell her name).
Edit: Another possibility is L. Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea, possibly accompanied by his wife and/or by some of his fellow psychologists, inserting into lots of fantasy tales. Why shouldn't there be one in which Shea meets a strange fellow riding a weird motorcycle?
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Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!
Incidentally, Rod's alternate in that far-away universe had still scored a wife who was just as almost-identical to Rod's Gwendylon (no; I didn't misspell her name).
Edit: Another possibility is L. Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea, possibly accompanied by his wife and/or by some of his fellow psychologists, inserting into lots of fantasy tales. Why shouldn't there be one in which Shea meets a strange fellow riding a weird motorcycle?
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Up, lad, up! We've villages to pillage, maidens to slay, and dragons to rescue!