AtD: Bilocations in popular culture

Tue Nov 13 06:47:33 CST 2007

Earlier this year I was zapping through the channels and came to stay with an American TV-movie 
on the Bermuda triangle for about half an hour. It had some good animations with huge waves 
swallowing ships and all. Then there was this one scene where the physicist explained to the 
perplexed special-unit-agents (plus a member of the government) that the vanished airplanes and
ships have an identical counterpart on the opposite side of the earth and that they might can be 
brought back by finding these counterparts ... Of course I had to think of AtD. My question: Are 
there other representations of the idea of bilocations in popular culture? Is it perhaps by now even
a mainstream idea in Science Fiction? An early example that could have influenced Pynchon is R.A.
Wilson's "The Universe Next Door" [1979]. Anyone for more?

Kai   

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