One of the nice things about reading a multiple universe novel by an actual scientist is that you know the science will be right, but I often worry that the story will be less of the focus than the science. Happily that’s not the case in Neve Maslakovic’s book Regarding Ducks and Universes. The novel is a fun (and often funny) look at what happens if we get linked together with an alternate universe that is split off from ours. Not only do we see how the different worlds evolved differently after the split, but also how the people who were split off are different than their alternate people. So, why are we regarding Ducks?

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