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It's particularly noteworthy, I think, that the evil alternate-universe versions of characters such as Willow in Buffy and Major Kira in DS9 are shown as bisexual leather doms.
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Or, more pertinent, I've been telling myself self, this is not an alternate-universe first chapter of the book.
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Now her partner, Charlie, dies but doesn't, having been body-snatched by an alternate-universe assassin.
For the networks, early returns for returning shows look solid 2009
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All your favorite shows end in the next few weeks, with plenty of showdowns: alien moms, alternate-universe doppelgangers, deadbeat dads, evil geniuses, and Lucifer.
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I think I was channeling alternate-universe me for a moment there.
"This is the lowest we will ever get. It never gets darker." greygirlbeast 2010
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As you would expect, they are all good: the standouts for me are David Langford's "Different Kinds of Darkness", from his series of BLIT stories, this one set in a boarding school for specially talented children; Greg Egan's "Oracle", which has an alternate-universe take on the possible interactions between C.S. Lewis and Alan Turing; and Teg Chiang's "Seventy-Two Letters", which combines steampunk and qabalah.
Gibbon VII nwhyte 2009
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* Also in alternate-universe news: South Korean scientists claim to have cloned glowing dogs.
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* Also in alternate-universe news: South Korean scientists claim to have cloned glowing dogs.
Wednesday Is the Day I Historically Post Links « Gerry Canavan 2009
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Big Bang, I think, is the weirder of the two, like an alternate-universe version of the show, rather than just a re-cast, re-tooled version of what we now know.
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All your favorite shows end in the next few weeks, with plenty of showdowns: alien moms, alternate-universe doppelgangers, deadbeat dads, evil geniuses, and Lucifer.
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