Questions tagged [parallel-universe]
For questions about a parallel universe or alternative reality, a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality.
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Trying to find an older book where the main character gets pulled into a parallel universe where people fight with powered armor and energy swords
From what I remember it was a book series and I picked it up from a 2nd hand store in the 1990s. Not sure when it was published.
In the first book a cop? gets pulled into a parallel universe where ...
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Book about a boy who travels to a parallel universe to get a book
I can't remember the gender of the main character.
I remember bits and pieces from different books, but I think they're all part of the same series. The pieces may not be in order or from multiple ...
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Are all worlds at the same point in time?
In His Dark Materials, Lyra comes from a world where Catholicism and Protestantism apparently merged into one mega church that continues to exert great control over all aspects of life even into the ...
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Complicated story identification from book cover
I really want to find this book again. I had it back in the seventies, the story was complex, surreal, competing realities type.
The cover showed one figure (I think), anyway, their neck was a ...
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An old book series about stones, teenagers, and parallel worlds
There was this book series I used to read at Waldenbooks back when I was a kid. I have been looking for this series FOREVER and I am yet to find it. The only thing I remember about the book cover ...
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90s book, may have "Sleeping Dragon" in title
The book is about random people being transported to an alternate world. In the instance of the book its a neighborhood that is transported.
When the people come outside after they realize they been ...
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90s fantasy book: man can access a parallel medieval world while 'dreaming'
I read a book in my high school library back in the late 90s and pretty sure it was written in the mid 90s. I can't remember the author or title.
The setting is current to the 90s mid-west. But it ...
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Girl that can take shortcut through space by taking a 1/2 turn as she steps up
This was a pre-1970s YA book.
I cannot recall much about the plot, but I was impressed by her entering an alternate universe where three parallel lines intersected to form a right angle. I think her ...
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What book has a man in a world on the brink of an ice age with a wizard mentor?
I'm trying to find the title of an old fantasy book I read at least 20 years ago, but I have very little to help identify it.
Obviously I don't remember the author name, I think it was written in the ...
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Looking for a book about a drug that causes habitual users to cross to another world that has an extra color
I've been trying to find a book that I read in the early 90's, but that judging from the cover was published in the late 60's/early 70's about a drug epidemic that was actually backed by the UN ...
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Help Identify Youth novel about higher dimensions [duplicate]
I read this book about 10 years ago I think. It was probably published in the 90s but quite possibly the 80s. The main plot as I remember involved a high school girl who falls for the new student. He ...
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What is the first instance of a portal to another world?
In ancient Greece, the gods lived up on a mountain, and Hades seems to have been a place that you could sail to.
Personally, I think in modern times the concept of a portal or wormhole is so familiar,...
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Looking for a book featuring a soldier/marine travelling to a different time/universe
I picked up a book a year ago and read the summary at the back(part of a series maybe?) at a airport bookshop but had to stop because of my flight was about to depart. I can't remember the author or ...
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What story features the day electricity vanished?
I think this short story was written in 50's or 60's. The premise is that all of a sudden, all forms of electricity stopped working, and people had to revert to a simpler way of life.
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Which 52 universes from the DC Multiverse survived Crisis on Infinite Earths?
In the comic Crisis on Infinite Earths, the DC multiverse is destroyed. But, in Infinite Crisis and subsequent comics, it was revealed that the multiverse had been restored/recreated/preserved into ...
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