The Celestial Plot Explained

The Celestial Plot
Author:Adolfo Bioy Casares
Title Orig:La trama celeste
Orig Lang Code:es
Country:Argentina
Genre:Collection of short stories

The Celestial Plot (Spanish; Castilian: La trama celeste) is a book by Adolfo Bioy Casares. It is a collection of short stories and includes a work with the same name.

Contents

Plot

A soldier must pilot a new plane. He suffers an accident and is injured. He is interrogated and the army does not believe he is from Argentina. They mistake him for a spy. He calls his friends and nobody recognizes him. He cannot explain the situation, but a friend of his, the author, helps him. The author discovers the truth: the soldier has travelled to a parallel universe, a little different from this one.