Cabodian asked Elan Mastai:

Elan, your novel was just absolutely fabulous and I enjoyed every second of it. I actually made the last few chapters last almost a week because I didn't want it to ever end. I've often ruminated on the idea of parallel worlds and if our alter-egos in these worlds have any affects on who we are in our own space. Do you believe that parallel worlds exist or is this purely speculative fiction?

Elan Mastai Thanks Caitie. This is kind of a big question and hard to answer in a concise manner! Briefly, I believe parallel worlds are eminently possible and even probable but the limits of human perception mean it's highly unlikely we'll have any conscious interaction with them in our lifetime. What future technology might hold, I don't know, any more than my great-grandmother, born in 1899, could've predicted the smartphone I'm typing this on. But more to the point, our ability to imagine parallel worlds and alter egos, whether or not they're pure invention, allows fiction to influence reality in profound and powerful ways—for better and for worse. I guess I'm basically saying: I don't know, but it's wonderful to think about it.

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