Cognitive Dissonance
Jul. 7th, 2009 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herewiss13I'm reading the latest novel in Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series, the only series I know of endorsed by a Nobel prize-winning economist (Paul Krugman). At the most basic level, it involves a group of people who can jump between two parallel universes, and how they try use this skill to their advantange (it's a really, _really_ basic level).
One of the two universes is our own...except that it's not. This fact becomes more apparent as the series progresses, but never really calls too much attention to itself. However, the fact that one character just referenced 'Chief Justice Bork' sort of drags your brain around to the fact that we're no longer in Kansas, Toto.
One of the two universes is our own...except that it's not. This fact becomes more apparent as the series progresses, but never really calls too much attention to itself. However, the fact that one character just referenced 'Chief Justice Bork' sort of drags your brain around to the fact that we're no longer in Kansas, Toto.
