Michael Coney. Charisma. 1975. Published in the Author's collection “Hello, Summer... and Farewell.” The novel “A Special Gift” tells how, as a result of secret research at an experimental station in Cornwall, a system of parallel worlds was discovered, differing from ours only in details. A feature of contacts between worlds is that a person can move freely in another world only if his double has already died there. This is exactly what happens to John Maine, and his task is not only to avoid death in his world, but also to find his beloved in a parallel world. At a research station not far from Falcombe, experiments are being carried out to study parallel worlds. The girl Suzanne, along with part of the territory surrounding her, is transferred to other worlds. In one of them, she met John Main, a resident of this world, and love flared up between them.