Many Worlds, or The Simulacra
By Multiple Authors
“A choral achievement—paranoid, touching, profound.”
“Time and place refuse to stand still in this beautiful collection of tales that examine the nature of reality from multiple levels and viewpoints. I was enthralled from start to finish and hope to read more stories set among and between these many worlds.”
“Many Worlds brings the kind of brilliant, surreal, and deeply thought-provoking speculative fiction that will creep into your brain and under your skin and make you see and think differently about the world and the nature of reality. Together, this collection of stories forms an intricate and compelling kaleidoscopic vision of the fundamentally strange universe(s) we find ourselves in.”
Many Worlds, or The Simulacra is an anthology of reality-bending stories from a one-of-a-kind collective of authors building a shared multiverse. The stories in this anthology range from quietly strange to ambitiously speculative. Humans transform into cosmic energy or sentient algae. A man wakes up in a new body in a world with continents cut out, months absent from the calendar year, and souls misplaced. Students at a high school regularly vanish without a trace. A woman descends into the depths of the ocean and encounters all-knowing creatures who may have the answers to her deepest questions. Mech-suits and parallel selves, conspiracy forums and interstellar telepaths, and a mysterious cosmic force connecting it all; the stories in this collection are revelatory and offer a breathtaking portal into worlds far more mysterious than our own. Subversive, transgressive, and utterly original, this collection compels the reader to believe in the fantastical.
To dive into the universe of Many Worlds, read the opening story, “Notes on the Forum of the Simulacra” by editor Cadwell Turnbull.
Here’s a bonus story from the anthology, “The Other Me” by Rebekah Bergman.