Any Way the Wind Blows

by Seanan McGuire

Maybe “your world is a tasty snack, good luck sleeping tonight” isn’t a good way to start a conversation,

If one world opens a window on another, they view themselves as peaceful explorers. If a world has a window opened on it, they view the people on the other side as hostile invaders. Aren’t humans fun?

Better to just work with what I have and hope they never cause a cross-parallel war. Or that if they do, it’s a good one.

We try to minimize interaction with the people native to the various parallels, for reasons ranging from “everyone has a different local flu” to “we find them vaguely unsettling.”