I have to agree with Mal here...
Putting what he said into different words, what I'm seeing here is a pair of unicorns. (For those tuning in late and/or not addicted to surfing TVTropes, "the unicorn in the garden" is the one fantastic element that kicks off the story. It's named after a short story by James Thurber.) For original Fenspace, the existence of handwavium is the unicorn. You have two unicorns: the coming-into-existence-complete-with-history of Counter-Earth, and the wishes that resulted in (amongst other things) the instant terraforming of Mars. It splits the focus of the story.
If you want to concentrate on one world, I can have fun with the other... but I usually treat all the Alternates as side-projects and concentrate on the main Fenspace, so that fun would appear less often than folks might prefer.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Putting what he said into different words, what I'm seeing here is a pair of unicorns. (For those tuning in late and/or not addicted to surfing TVTropes, "the unicorn in the garden" is the one fantastic element that kicks off the story. It's named after a short story by James Thurber.) For original Fenspace, the existence of handwavium is the unicorn. You have two unicorns: the coming-into-existence-complete-with-history of Counter-Earth, and the wishes that resulted in (amongst other things) the instant terraforming of Mars. It splits the focus of the story.
If you want to concentrate on one world, I can have fun with the other... but I usually treat all the Alternates as side-projects and concentrate on the main Fenspace, so that fun would appear less often than folks might prefer.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012