In Universes
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In Universes is a 2024 science fiction novel by Emet North.
The novel was North's debut novel.[1]
Themes and analysis
Roseanna Pendlebury of Strange Horizons compared the novel to the works of Julia Armfield, saying that "the intimate personal portrait is the driving force behind the power of their fiction," while also arguing that "this isn’t a science fiction book interested in science. I am not certain how much I would call it a science fiction book at all, even, because it doesn’t feel in conversation with the genre. There are no visible threads leading back to older works of fiction, no obvious debts. Instead, it seems to have been inspired by real science, and more so philosophy, but owing its literary debts far more to the tone of mimetic fiction."[1]
In an interview with Publishers Weekly, North stated that "one of the things I was most interested in is this question of how we differentiate our deepest desires from the desires that we absorb passively from society... I wanted to capture some of that messiness—not knowing which of your desires are actually your own, not knowing what’s authentic and what’s not, and the work you have to do if you don’t understand that early on."[2]