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When Rebecca "Bee" Davies finds a misdelivered tirade in her e-mail inbox, she replies in good humour. The sender, Nicolas "Nick" Belcher, responds to apologise, striking up a conversation that brightens each one's day. Bit by bit their relationship progresses beyond anonymous banter, and when Nick's marriage collapses and [[BadDate Bee's most recent Tinder match turns out to be a boring jerk]] they provide emotional support to each other. But then Nick comes to London to meet Bee in person -- and even though she's waiting where and when he arrives, they never bothered to check that they lived in the same reality.
Separation by an interdimensional mesh (as the only people Nick finds with insight into the situation call it) is a challenge for any relationship, but it's also an opportunity to check on how the lives of the people they care about could have gone. Even if they can't be with each other, they've got a good lead on who's both possible to reach and personally compatible. And maybe they can make the world -- both worlds -- a better place.
Separation by an interdimensional mesh (as the only people Nick finds with insight into the situation call it) is a challenge for any relationship, but it's also an opportunity to check on how the lives of the people they care about could have gone. Even if they can't be with each other, they've got a good lead on who's both possible to reach and personally compatible. And maybe they can make the world -- both worlds -- a better place.
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When Rebecca "Bee" Davies finds a misdelivered tirade in her e-mail inbox, she replies in good humour. humor. The sender, Nicolas "Nick" Belcher, responds to apologise, apologize, striking up a conversation that brightens each one's day. Bit by bit their relationship progresses beyond anonymous banter, and when Nick's marriage collapses and [[BadDate Bee's most recent Tinder match turns out to be a boring jerk]] they provide emotional support to each other. But then Nick comes to London to meet Bee in person -- and even though she's waiting where and when he arrives, they never bothered to check that they lived in the same reality.
Separation by an interdimensional mesh (as the only people Nick finds with insight into the situation call it) is a challenge for any relationship, but it's also an opportunity to check on how the lives of the people they care about could have gone. Even if they can't be with each other, they've got [[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment a goodlead lead]] on who's both possible to reach and personally compatible. And maybe they can make the world -- both worlds -- a better place.
Separation by an interdimensional mesh (as the only people Nick finds with insight into the situation call it) is a challenge for any relationship, but it's also an opportunity to check on how the lives of the people they care about could have gone. Even if they can't be with each other, they've got [[DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment a good
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* AlternateHistory: Nick's world has gone all in on environmental protection: population control, decarbonisation, and criminal standards for ecocide in both the UK and the US.
* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Conveniently, the two leads both go by nicknames, so their full names (Rebecca and Nicolas) are available to identify their counterparts in each other's world. Once they track the Rebecca in Nick's world, they switch over to calling her by her usual sobriquet, Becca. Other characters (most relevantly Leila) aren't so lucky, with whichever alternate is less familiar to the main characters getting the suffix 2.
* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Conveniently, the two leads both go by nicknames, so their full names (Rebecca and Nicolas) are available to identify their counterparts in each other's world. Once they track the Rebecca in Nick's world, they switch over to calling her by her usual sobriquet, Becca. Other characters (most relevantly Leila) aren't so lucky, with whichever alternate is less familiar to the main characters getting the suffix 2.
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* AlternateHistory: Nick's world has gone all in on environmental protection: population control, decarbonisation, decarbonization, and criminal standards for ecocide in both the UK and the US.
* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Conveniently, the two leads both go by nicknames, so their full names (Rebecca and Nicolas) are available to identify their counterparts in each other's world. Once they track the Rebecca in Nick'sworld, world down, they switch over to calling her by her usual sobriquet, Becca. Other characters (most relevantly Leila) aren't so lucky, with whichever alternate is less familiar to the main characters getting the suffix 2.
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* MarketBasedTitle: In-universe. Nick's world has a book called ''Crossed Lines'', which resembles ''Literature/StrangersOnATrain'' closely enough that he rationalises it as the American title.
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Ah, the irony of not recognizing a market-based title when that was a plot point
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getting rid of gas pumps
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* MostWritersAreWriters: We meet Nick as his career evolves from freelance editor to novelist ([[CreatorKiller one published novel]] in his past notwithstanding), including a brief scene meeting his agent. [[spoiler:Nicolas didn't give up after that first attempt, developing into a prolific, popular author.]]
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* MostWritersAreWriters: We meet Nick as his career evolves from freelance editor to novelist ([[CreatorKiller ([[invoked]][[CreatorKiller one published novel]] in his past notwithstanding), including a brief scene meeting his agent. [[spoiler:Nicolas didn't give up after that first attempt, developing into a prolific, popular author.]]
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''The Impossible Us'' is a 2022 FantasticRomance novel by Sarah Lotz.
When Rebecca "Bee" Davies finds a misdelivered tirade in her e-mail inbox, she replies in good humour. The sender, Nicolas "Nick" Belcher, responds to apologise, striking up a conversation that brightens each one's day. Bit by bit their relationship progresses beyond anonymous banter, and when Nick's marriage collapses and [[BadDate Bee's most recent Tinder match turns out to be a boring jerk]] they provide emotional support to each other. But then Nick comes to London to meet Bee in person -- and even though she's waiting where and when he arrives, they never bothered to check that they lived in the same reality.
Separation by an interdimensional mesh (as the only people Nick finds with insight into the situation call it) is a challenge for any relationship, but it's also an opportunity to check on how the lives of the people they care about could have gone. Even if they can't be with each other, they've got a good lead on who's both possible to reach and personally compatible. And maybe they can make the world -- both worlds -- a better place.
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!! ''The Impossible Us'' contains examples of:
* FiveFiveFive: Nick's phone number obviously violates the UK's real-life numbering conventions, while even Bee's is outside the allocated range.
* AlternateHistory: Nick's world has gone all in on environmental protection: population control, decarbonisation, and criminal standards for ecocide in both the UK and the US.
* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Conveniently, the two leads both go by nicknames, so their full names (Rebecca and Nicolas) are available to identify their counterparts in each other's world. Once they track the Rebecca in Nick's world, they switch over to calling her by her usual sobriquet, Becca. Other characters (most relevantly Leila) aren't so lucky, with whichever alternate is less familiar to the main characters getting the suffix 2.
* AuthorAvatar: In-universe. There are striking similarities between Tweedy and the protagonist he created for ''A Shot in the Dark'', and [[spoiler:the former really enjoys reading the latter's triumphs in the sequel]].
* ClusterBleepBomb: In Kelvin's transcription of Iain O'Sullivan's tale, Iain judges his counterpart's relationship with his mother to be "[expletive expletive expletive]".
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Geoffrey has one, from whom he inherited memories. Other examples include [[spoiler:Dylan and, from the other direction, Jonas]], but the survivors don't show any effect in those cases.
* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: "Operation Doppelgänger" is Bee and Nick's deliberate effort to find and court each other's counterpart in their own worlds. Success is mixed.
* EmbarrassingLastName: Nick considers "Belcher" to have enured him to bullying. Nicolas uses a pen name for most of his work, but Nick and Bee agree it's not much of an improvement.
* EmbarrassingNickname: In school, Leila and Rebecca got called Acne Face and Fatty Boom-Boom, respectively.
* InSeriesNickname: Bernard Eldridge, Esq. is known exclusively as "Tweedy" in Nick and Bee's conversations. Well, he started as "Tweedy Twat", but Nick soon realised the insult was uncalled for.
* InSpiteOfANail: The two worlds have differences as early as 1950 (with the title ''Literature/StrangersOnATrain'' completely unknown to Nick), but on the whole they "seem... to diverge around the mid-eighties and early nineties". Dylan (born 1994 or 1995) has an identifiable counterpart in Bee's world.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Nick calls his memoir ''Impossible to Explain: A Fucked-Up Love Story''.
* ItsForABook: Nick uses the justification legitimately to get Petrus to put him in a chokehold, and as an excuse for [[spoiler:both moving into Becca's part of the country and trying out Tweedy's shotgun]].
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Bee's world has the same laws, brands, politicians, and pop culture as our own. Nick's world, in contrast, [[AlternateHistory doesn't]].
* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: One explanation floated for how Bee and Nick are able to communicate.
* MarketBasedTitle: In-universe. Nick's world has a book called ''Crossed Lines'', which resembles ''Literature/StrangersOnATrain'' closely enough that he rationalises it as the American title.
* MostWritersAreWriters: We meet Nick as his career evolves from freelance editor to novelist ([[CreatorKiller one published novel]] in his past notwithstanding), including a brief scene meeting his agent. [[spoiler:Nicolas didn't give up after that first attempt, developing into a prolific, popular author.]]
* MysteriousPast: We know Henrietta is the chair of the Berenstain Society. We also know she has the connections and/or computer skills to expose a journalist as a plagiarist, [[spoiler:to get the authorities to arrest one of the world's richest men and investigate him for a potpourri of crimes, and to illegally clone a zone account while appearing only to read its i-mail]]. We can only guess which intelligence agency, if any, is backing her.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: A very short example, as Bee interprets "Don't wait" as encouragement to pursue love but Magda later reveals that, if she said it at all, it was advice on taking out the recycling.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Geoffrey manages this with the aid of Nick's contextualisation of his "displaced" memories.
* SpottingTheThread:
** The Berenstain Society is united by its members' [[MandelaEffect recollection]] of ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' in place of ''The Berenstein Bears'', in whose timeline they actually live.
** Nick and Bee notably ''fail'' to do this during their initial correspondence. Once Nick finally gets suspicious, he determines he's overlooked fifty-four discrepancies between Bee's i-mails and reality.
* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: A variation, as Bee tries romancing Nicolas while still carrying on with Nick.
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When Rebecca "Bee" Davies finds a misdelivered tirade in her e-mail inbox, she replies in good humour. The sender, Nicolas "Nick" Belcher, responds to apologise, striking up a conversation that brightens each one's day. Bit by bit their relationship progresses beyond anonymous banter, and when Nick's marriage collapses and [[BadDate Bee's most recent Tinder match turns out to be a boring jerk]] they provide emotional support to each other. But then Nick comes to London to meet Bee in person -- and even though she's waiting where and when he arrives, they never bothered to check that they lived in the same reality.
Separation by an interdimensional mesh (as the only people Nick finds with insight into the situation call it) is a challenge for any relationship, but it's also an opportunity to check on how the lives of the people they care about could have gone. Even if they can't be with each other, they've got a good lead on who's both possible to reach and personally compatible. And maybe they can make the world -- both worlds -- a better place.
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!! ''The Impossible Us'' contains examples of:
* FiveFiveFive: Nick's phone number obviously violates the UK's real-life numbering conventions, while even Bee's is outside the allocated range.
* AlternateHistory: Nick's world has gone all in on environmental protection: population control, decarbonisation, and criminal standards for ecocide in both the UK and the US.
* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Conveniently, the two leads both go by nicknames, so their full names (Rebecca and Nicolas) are available to identify their counterparts in each other's world. Once they track the Rebecca in Nick's world, they switch over to calling her by her usual sobriquet, Becca. Other characters (most relevantly Leila) aren't so lucky, with whichever alternate is less familiar to the main characters getting the suffix 2.
* AuthorAvatar: In-universe. There are striking similarities between Tweedy and the protagonist he created for ''A Shot in the Dark'', and [[spoiler:the former really enjoys reading the latter's triumphs in the sequel]].
* ClusterBleepBomb: In Kelvin's transcription of Iain O'Sullivan's tale, Iain judges his counterpart's relationship with his mother to be "[expletive expletive expletive]".
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: Geoffrey has one, from whom he inherited memories. Other examples include [[spoiler:Dylan and, from the other direction, Jonas]], but the survivors don't show any effect in those cases.
* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: "Operation Doppelgänger" is Bee and Nick's deliberate effort to find and court each other's counterpart in their own worlds. Success is mixed.
* EmbarrassingLastName: Nick considers "Belcher" to have enured him to bullying. Nicolas uses a pen name for most of his work, but Nick and Bee agree it's not much of an improvement.
* EmbarrassingNickname: In school, Leila and Rebecca got called Acne Face and Fatty Boom-Boom, respectively.
* InSeriesNickname: Bernard Eldridge, Esq. is known exclusively as "Tweedy" in Nick and Bee's conversations. Well, he started as "Tweedy Twat", but Nick soon realised the insult was uncalled for.
* InSpiteOfANail: The two worlds have differences as early as 1950 (with the title ''Literature/StrangersOnATrain'' completely unknown to Nick), but on the whole they "seem... to diverge around the mid-eighties and early nineties". Dylan (born 1994 or 1995) has an identifiable counterpart in Bee's world.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Nick calls his memoir ''Impossible to Explain: A Fucked-Up Love Story''.
* ItsForABook: Nick uses the justification legitimately to get Petrus to put him in a chokehold, and as an excuse for [[spoiler:both moving into Becca's part of the country and trying out Tweedy's shotgun]].
* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Bee's world has the same laws, brands, politicians, and pop culture as our own. Nick's world, in contrast, [[AlternateHistory doesn't]].
* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: One explanation floated for how Bee and Nick are able to communicate.
* MarketBasedTitle: In-universe. Nick's world has a book called ''Crossed Lines'', which resembles ''Literature/StrangersOnATrain'' closely enough that he rationalises it as the American title.
* MostWritersAreWriters: We meet Nick as his career evolves from freelance editor to novelist ([[CreatorKiller one published novel]] in his past notwithstanding), including a brief scene meeting his agent. [[spoiler:Nicolas didn't give up after that first attempt, developing into a prolific, popular author.]]
* MysteriousPast: We know Henrietta is the chair of the Berenstain Society. We also know she has the connections and/or computer skills to expose a journalist as a plagiarist, [[spoiler:to get the authorities to arrest one of the world's richest men and investigate him for a potpourri of crimes, and to illegally clone a zone account while appearing only to read its i-mail]]. We can only guess which intelligence agency, if any, is backing her.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: A very short example, as Bee interprets "Don't wait" as encouragement to pursue love but Magda later reveals that, if she said it at all, it was advice on taking out the recycling.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Geoffrey manages this with the aid of Nick's contextualisation of his "displaced" memories.
* SpottingTheThread:
** The Berenstain Society is united by its members' [[MandelaEffect recollection]] of ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' in place of ''The Berenstein Bears'', in whose timeline they actually live.
** Nick and Bee notably ''fail'' to do this during their initial correspondence. Once Nick finally gets suspicious, he determines he's overlooked fifty-four discrepancies between Bee's i-mails and reality.
* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: A variation, as Bee tries romancing Nicolas while still carrying on with Nick.
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