Review

Dean Koontz returns to the parallel universe zeitgeist with his latest novel Elsewhere

By David Ferrell
February 13 2021 - 12:00am
  • Elsewhere, by Dean Koontz. HarperCollins, $32.99.

Parallel universes have been a darling of science-fiction since they first received serious scientific attention in the 1950s. Although devices like alternate history have occupied the minds of creatives back to ancient Greece and India, the veneer of dimensional portals, ill-fated doppelgangers, and mad scientists is a distinctly modern preoccupation: one that has seemed to have hit its apex, slowed down, and now threatens to become overdone.

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