One review on 16 Sep 2023

First Published: 2020

Fiction

The Anomaly

Author: Hervé Le Tellier 

Summary: Multiple universes - or just a simulation?

Original Language:
French
Date first read: Sat 16th Sep 2023

Format:   Kindle

Catalogued: 26th Sep 2023

Synopsis

A plane from Paris to New York flies through a storm and has an extremely rough ride, but manages to land with minor damage from giant hailstorms and a bunch of terrified passengers.

Three months later the exact same plane with the same passengers appears out of the blue and is escorted by fighter jets to a miltary base. The passengers and crew are genetically identical to the originals and are apparently convinced that they entered a terrible storm, but then emerged safely into bright sunlight and clear skies.

Explain that.

The story follows the now parallel lives of several of the passengers and their eventual interactions with the doubles.

Reviews

Doppelgangers Unleashed

by rogerco on Sat 16th Sep 2023.

Using the simulation hypothesis as a hook (see also Emily St.John Michael's Sea of Tranquility) this keeps away from the sci-fi future stuff to explain what's going one but plays around with the consequences in our own time-line.

The question remains though as to whether it really would be that bad to discover we are in a simulation - would people really react that badly. The ending is arbitary - why would destroying the replication that was created by the anaomaly cause the simulation to shut down (if that is what happened?).

Overall a good read and engrossing with the multiple story lines for dopplganger characters.