>curiously little of that type of thing in SF film.  There are also

Filmed SF is in general quite limited compared to written SF and not just
due to the film medium but that's a subject for another time.


>"multiple universe" stories in which the protagonist meets other
>versions of him/herself, from at least the time of James' story "The

The reductio ad absurdum is David Gerrold's novel "The Man Who Folded
Himself" which runs through an increasingly outrageous series of
permutations of the theme.  There's a lot of critical work about the theme
of the double in literature.



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