I’m listening to Slate’s spoiler Podcast for The Prestige, which is quite useful for confirming all the intricate twists I suspected about the movie, and I realized how incredibly similar the movie is to Orson Scott Card’s bizarrely wonderful (if fairly disturbing) 1978 short story “A Thousand Deaths,” which can be found in Flux, a rather excellent collection of Card’s stories about humanity’s future.

Addendum: Card’s new book, Empire, means another title to add to the to-read stack. I want to take two year’s leave of absence from life and just read books. I suppose that's called "graduate school," but who has time for that?