Bizarro Episode: This is by far the weirdest novel. You've got a Star TrekParody Episode, a hallucinating human-Doctor Alternate Universe, and... some ladies of a certain age going shopping? The plotlines are more or less independent of each othernote Well... the human Doctor segments are in first person and contain a lot of the Doctor fussing and worrying about various personal and philosophical quandaries, and then in one chapter the usual Doctor's storyline goes into first person and he starts fussing about existential angst, but still, the stories seem to be sealed away into little Alternate Universes relative to each other... but actually they're implied to be connected. It's complicated. and it all gets rather metafictional.