Elsewhen
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Elsewhen (1941) is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, concerning time travel and parallel universes. It is collected in the 1953 book Assignment in Eternity but was first published in 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction.[1]
In this story five diverse students attend a philosophy seminar. The professor explains that he learned how to use his mind to go back in time and correct a bad mistake in his life. By hypnosis he lets them travel to alternate worlds of their choice. The religious person goes to her version of heaven. One couple eventually moves to a world at war with space invaders. They are helped in their conflict by the other couple and the professor who have settled on a Flash Gordon-like planet and share its technology with them.
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