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Time and Parallel Worlds
How Short Fiction develops Time and Parallel Worlds.
The concept of time is explored not as a linear path but as a dimension with parallel 'conditional' worlds, as in van Manderpootz's subjunctivisor, allowing characters to contemplate alternate histories and the nature of choice and consequence.
Where it surfaces
- The Worlds of If
Central theme: van Manderpootz's subjunctivisor reveals 'conditional worlds'—parallel realities representing what might have been, neither past nor future but contemporary and extemporal.