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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Infinite multiverse stuff bores me. I know there are theories on it, but it's basically a cheat code for lazy writing. Nothing interesting ever comes out of it because anything, nay, everything is possible at all times. If it wasn't, then it isn't an infinite multiverse. And if everything is possible, nothing is unexpected.
I'm not sure who came up with this type of story first(wake up in a different strange world, slightly different than your own) but Philip K Dick probably wrote my favourite version of this with "Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said".
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Asimov had a few short stories from the 1950s.
He had one that was about a page long; two scientists were discussing how there was a chance that anything could happen in a universe, then a giant pit appeared out of nowhere under them, and they died.