"The Worlds of If" by Stanley G. Weinbaum is a science fiction story that uses time travel to ponder alternate realities. The story centers around Dixon Wells, who is tormented by guilt after missing the launch of the rocket "Baikal," which then crashed. Driven by the machine "subjunctivisor," invented by his old mentor, Dixon explores different realities to see what might have happened if he had caught the rocket. He remembers meeting Joanna Caldwell, a woman who was on the rocket, and finds out she lived through the crash but married the man who rescued her. The story explores the effect our choices have on reality as Dixon has to face the results of his tardiness.
The Worlds of If
By Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum
A man uses a machine to look into alternate realities, hoping to change the past after a missed rocket launch ends in tragedy, learning that even in other worlds, happiness can be just out of reach.
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About the AuthorStanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W. Campbell's challenge: "Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man." Weinbaum wrote more short stories and a few novels, but died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later.
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum was an American science fiction writer. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W. Campbell's challenge: "Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man." Weinbaum wrote more short stories and a few novels, but died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later.
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