While the idea of parallel dimensions isn’t new — just ask any guy who’s grown a goatee — writer K Chess is taking a different approach to them in her new sci-fi novel Famous Men Who Never Lived (hardcover, Kindle) by showing us what it would be someone who has to live in a reality slightly different from their own. In the following email interview, Chess discusses what instigated and influenced this novel, as well as why she set it in alt-NYC as opposed to alt-West Orange, New Jersey.
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