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Nature 407, 137 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025159

Madame Bovary, c'est moi

Dan Simmons1

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Once upon a time, fiction required the suspension of disbelief.

2052 ad: the current migration of millions of people to novel universes by quantum teleportation (QT) was a shock even to the system's inventor, Jian-Wei Martini. "I don't know why it took me by surprise," said Dr Martini in a 2043 interview.