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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parmandur" data-source="post: 9268420" data-attributes="member: 6780330">Looking into it a bit more, seems that Michael Moorcock, one of Gygax's favorite writers, is credited as just about the first person to use multiverse as a word in the current pop culture sense:"One example of an epic and far-ranging fantasy "multiverse" is that of Michael Moorcock, who actually named the concept in a 1963 science fiction novel The Sundered Worlds. Like many authors after him, Moorcock was inspired by the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, saying, 'It was an idea in the air, as most of these are, and I would have come across a reference to it in New Scientist (one of my best friends was then editor) ... [or] physicist friends would have been talking about it. ... Sometimes what happens is that you are imagining these things in the context of fiction while the physicists and mathematicians are imagining them in terms of science. I suspect it is the romantic imagination working, as it often does, perfectly efficiently in both the arts and the sciences.'"[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction[/URL]</blockquote>