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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Looking for a short story about a parallel world with apparently ordinary humans but savage and carnivorous [duplicate]
I read this a long time ago, and thought it was Larry Niven but maybe not.
A bunch of scientists build a gate to a parallel world and initially observe the inhabitants on the other side. They seem to ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
I can't find the name of this book! I believe it's YA. I read it at least 5 years ago, probably more.
The main character was born in between time on some sort of timeship. His mother had gotten ...
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Short story, stunt double confronts actor who is his alternate self
The new "Fall Guy" movie reminds me of a short story I read within the last three years or so, probably online, about a stunt double who confronts the actor he has been working with, in the ...
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Book about a young man in high school who is approached by a warrior woman and travels to alternate dimensions
I need to figure what early 2000s book this is!!
This book details a young man in high school who seemed to have a talent for everything, especially basketball. One day, he's approached by some ...
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Young adult book about a boy who becomes a part of a dimension-hopping secret organization
I read this in the late 2000s or early 2010s (2009-2013).
It was a young adult novel about a boy who who receives a mysterious letter from a secret organization and if he burns the letter they will ...
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Guy trapped in a multi-dimensional world with his best friend can't get home, friend becomes a villain
I'm looking for a book I read as a young adult. My Dad loved it and he recently passed away. It was kind of comedic/irreverent (Terry Pratchett-like).
It was told in first person about this guy ...
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Movie from 2005-2014 about a girl student who travels to alternate universes for a relationship
I'm looking for а film, watched in 2016, where a boy dumps his girlfriend and she -- in a university with a spinning top (spinning, twisting and falling asleep or faiting) and a dark-skinned professor ...
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1980s or 90s story about inadvertent travel to alternate universes - and ritual urination
I read this story in a digest magazine (Asimov's, F&SF or Amazing) in the 80s or 90s. The protagonist somehow starts to drift into increasingly unfamiliar alternative universes, where people act ...
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Book where Earth is invaded by a future, parallel-universe Earth
I read this young-adult science-fiction book about 10 years ago, I believe I may have picked it up through an advance reader copy program. If it was an ARC, details may have been changed before ...
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Trying to find a series I read in the 90s about a boy who finds other world and overhears plot
He’s visiting a house, I think his uncle's, for the summer. He finds a way to another world in a chest? He finds himself in a room. While there he finds other world creatures and overhears them ...
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Alternate Worlds Fantasy with Kendo in Ours and Feudal World in Other
I read this many years ago (probably in the 1980s or 1990s and I’m trying to find it again:
A woman is in a mental institution in California (?) for killing a man with a samurai sword except she was ...
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Movie from the '90s about a girl who wishes for her life to be perfect and wakes up in a parallel world
I remember growing up I watched a movie about a girl tired of being poor, her life and her boyfriend; she fantasized about a football star. One December 25th, she wished her life was perfect and she ...
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Sci-fi story (or novel?) written in the '60s-'70s about man who wakes up in a parallel reality where WWII never happened
A male protagonist wakes up in a parallel reality where he is married. His alternate self is not a very nice person. WWII never happened and the society is behind in technological progress compared to ...
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Comic book story from 1960s: Man repairs door and is transported to another dimension?
Cliched henpecked husband bugged by wife to fix door in basement (iirc, maybe not basement) and he finds, no kidding, that the door leads to another world where, with the hammer, he defends a princess ...
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Can Motherboxes Open Boomtubes to Different Universes?
Someone recently made the assertion to me that Motherboxes in the DC Universe can open Boomtubes into different universes.
This was the first time that I had heard this claim. I had always thought ...
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