Author Tim Pratt is not the first to cite Ian M. Banks’ Culture series as an influence on his science fiction space opera stories, and he won’t be the last.
Pratt’s also not the first to incorporate elements of multiversal theory into his work, and, again, he won’t be the last.
But he may be the first (as far as I know) to explain how he’s combining by paraphrasing a candy commercial from the 1970s.
Which is what he does in the following email interview about his new multiversal sci-fi space opera adventure, The Knife And The Serpent (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).