Available in Zima Blue and Other Stories.

Alastair wrote a love story: awwwwwww.

And . . .       . . . it's rather good.

Although . . .       . . . i'm not really a fan of all this parallel universe nonsense, because it is nonsense, just like flat earth nonsense.

But . . .       . . . done right, like Alastair can, you can find some good stories in a parallel universe as long as you ignore all the nonsense bits.

All that aside . . .       . . . next up in Alastair's bibliographic timeline is The Six Directions of Space, which i'll be eagerly devouring in the next week or so. ( )

Curiously flat tale about love and alternate realities in an improbable near future. Mick loses his estranged wife Andrea in a road accident but, since connections with other realities are possible via a quantum device, as well as the ability to borrow bodies in those realities, he gets to reminisce with an alternate version of Andrea. ( )

People are able to temporarily switch into the bodies of their doubles in very similar parallel timelines. A man uses this to visit his wife, who just died in his own timeline. Good ideas about identity. ( )