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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9588647" data-attributes="member: 6906155">You are probably thinking of The Cat Who Walks through Walls by Heinlen. Published in 1985, that would be too late.It was Moorcock who actually used the word &quot;Multiverse&quot;. He and Zelazny are both mentioned in the original appendix N, and were both dealing with similar themes (Law vs. Chaos as well as many worlds) at around the same time. It is likely they were familiar with each others work and kind of bounced ideas between each other. Did they meet? It's not impossible.CS Lewis is the most interesting, in that he is conspicuously absent from Appendix N, but got there earlier (The Magicians Nephew 1955), and introduced the idea of the a &quot;transitive&quot; plane that connected many worlds. The Wood Between Worlds looks like a prototype of the D&amp;D Astral Plane. The novel also visits a dying world with a &quot;Dark Sun&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 9588647, member: 6906155"] You are probably thinking of [I]The Cat Who Walks through Walls[/I] by Heinlen. Published in 1985, that would be too late. It was Moorcock who actually used the word "Multiverse". He and Zelazny are both mentioned in the original appendix N, and were both dealing with similar themes (Law vs. Chaos as well as many worlds) at around the same time. It is likely they were familiar with each others work and kind of bounced ideas between each other. Did they meet? It's not impossible. CS Lewis is the most interesting, in that he is conspicuously absent from Appendix N, but got there earlier (The Magicians Nephew 1955), and introduced the idea of the a "transitive" plane that connected many worlds. The Wood Between Worlds looks like a prototype of the D&D Astral Plane. The novel also visits a dying world with a "Dark Sun". [/QUOTE]

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