There were timelines branching and branching, a mega-universe of universes, millions more every minute. Billions? Trillions? The universe split every time someone made a decision. Split, so that every decision ever made could go both ways. Every choice made by every man, woman, and child was reversed in the universe next door.
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Larry Niven was a contemporary American science fiction writer. Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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