Plural. There are eight, back home. That we know of, at least! Or, rather, that are currently accessible. Who knows? Maybe millenias from now, humankind will have advanced to find a ninth or a tenth. I'm from the Eighth, myself.

But the universes part, yes, that's new here. Alternate universes and dimensions that exist parallel to my own - with entirely different contexts and rules and realities. It's exciting! Like something out of a science fiction novel.

[ says lu bixing, protagonist of award winning science fiction novel the defectives ]