![]() ![]() Hel’s and our world diverged around 1910. It doesn’t help that most people in our timeline eye UDPs with mistrust. Not only has she lost friends and family-including her son, who she can never see again-but she faces a new world of unfamiliar laws, customs, and culture. Like many refugees, she’s having a hard time adjusting. She is a refugee from a nuclear war, one of 156,000 Universally Displaced Persons who escape through an experimental gate from her timeline to ours. Helen (Hel) Nash, the main character in K Chess’s debut novel, comes from the other Brooklyn-the one with trams and innocuous swastikas. In one, science fiction is literature in the other, it’s considered mere genre. In one, the swastika is a symbol of luck in the other, it signifies hate. ![]() In one, people ride in trams in the other, they take subways. Famous Men Who Never Lived(Tin House, 2019) is set in two Brooklyns. ![]()
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