Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess
Hel is a UDP, or Universally Displaced Person, she is one of the few who escaped her universe - one similar to our own - saving her life, but at the cost of leaving everyone she ever loved, everyone she even knew, behind. Her quest to make a place of remembrance for a vanished universe becomes a quest for a right to existence.
'Famous Men Who Never Lived' is alternate history and parallel universe sf with the perspective of a refugee. Hel is an ordinary person, but surrounded by a world that has little interest in her past she clings to a paperback novel, the sole surviving work of a popular author in her universe. When that symbol is stolen from her, she is driven to extremes.
This was a nicely plotted and totally engrossing story that will share a unique perspective with its audience. I couldn't put it down.
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