I submit that there is a simple test to determine whether this plot can work.
Science fiction movie sliding doors.
Sliding doors uses parallel time lines to explore the different paths that a woman s life might take after she does and doesn t find her lover in bed with another woman.
June 5 2002 with a pleasing balance of romance comedy and drama sliding doors is an exceedingly original story that appeals to both the heart and mind.
The books on this list should only be very lightly sci fi except for the parallel dimensions they should be mostly realistic fiction.
Sliding doors this list is for fiction where a random act of chance or a choice creates two alternate dimensions for one character.
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Wells door slid upwards into the ceiling.
Joseph gordon levitt bruce willis emily blunt paul dano.
Arriving at work one morning helen found herself unjustifiably sacked from her pr job.
In 2074 when the mob wants to get rid of someone the target is sent into the past where a hired gun awaits someone like joe who one day learns the mob wants to close the loop by sending back joe s future self for assassination.
It is named after the movie sliding doors.
Fate is yuan fen in chinese.
Hardly the most glamorous of inventions the automatic sliding door was still once the stuff of science fiction.
When she headed back down to the tube life was spit into two realities helen was about to live both of them.
On her way to tell her partner gerry helen misses the tube watching as the sliding doors close off a potential outcome of her story.
What was invented by horton automatics co founders dee horton and lew hewitt in 1954 and has been widely used ever since were two sliding doors either side of the opening.
Helen is a successful pr executive who fired from work returns home earlier than usual.
More than half a century before its invention the automatic door appeared in hg wells 1899 serialised story when the sleeper wakes.
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This trope refers to a particular sci fi convention of connoting a futuristic setting with doors and hatches that open in unusual hi tech ways doors that dilate like an iris doors that slide up into the ceiling doors that dissolve and rematerialize.
Sliding doors is a film about fate in a woman s love life.
Is either time line interesting in itself.