There’s the frisson of discovering the subtle differences between universes. This is a promising concept, and there is much here to enjoy. Hel is convinced that she should turn his house into a museum of memories, a tribute to all the people and things that existed in her world but don’t in the world in which she is stranded. Hel’s lover, Vikram-another UDP-was doing graduate work on Sleight’s science-fiction masterpiece, The Pyronauts, before the end came, but, in our world, Sleight died as a child, long before he ever wrote a word. Now she’s a refugee with too much time on her hands and a growing obsession with an author named Ezra Sleight. The story's protagonist, Hel, is one of a handful of UDPs-Universally Displaced Persons-who left a parallel world to escape nuclear holocaust. An ambitious debut set in New York, but not the New York we know.
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