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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Cyberpunk alternative worlds through television
What i remember of the book shows a cover with a young man wearing a visor and a metal mohawk.
The story describes the main character as someone who watches TV for the government and he's able to ...
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Kids' book about a boy in parallel universes
Media: Children's book.
Cover: It had a 2D drawing of the kid and maybe some planets on the cover.
Year read: 2009-2012 (as a kid in kindergarten to second grade). Written sometime between 2000 and ...
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Short story with travel between alternative realities through the London Underground
I think it's a story from the 60s or 70s, set in its present. A British SS from an alternative reality in which Nazi Germany has won the war arrives inadvertently to our reality's London. I remember ...
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Sci-fi/Fantasy movie which identifies the Cow as the ugliest creature in the universe
I am looking for a fantasy/science fiction movie which has galaxy cops coming to Earth. The scene that I remember is one of the characters identifying a cow as the ugliest creature in the universe.
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Need the name and author of a Sci-fi novel involving luminescent creatures that live in another dimension
I remember reading this novel in late 80s or early 90s. So, it's gotta be written before this time-frame.
In this novel, humans were travelling in a space cruise liner to visit a unique planet so as ...
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Sci-fi book (all-knowing cow, almost grey goo beginning, different universe/dimension)
Someone created self-replicating nanobots that replicated enough only to replace every other few nano particles. The consequence is that privacy is impossible as every nanobot has a camera and you can ...
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Sci-fi novella about a group of people and a giant pendulum that swung, slowly coming to a halt
I am trying to figure out a sci-fi novella I read maybe 30 years ago. It was about a group of people and a giant pendulum that swung from side to side, but slowly coming to a halt. For every swing, it ...
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Trying to find fantasy book about teen girl who is taking care of a little boy from an alternate/overlapping world. May have been a YA novel
I am trying to find the name of a fantasy novel I read as a teenager. It was about a little boy, around 4 or 5, from another dimension who is hidden in the main character's dimension to protect him. ...
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Novel about an alternate dimension where human perception is warped
I'm looking for a novel series, probably for teens, published in 80's-90's, which has a spaceship traveling to an alternate dimension.
One distinguishing feature is that human senses stop behaving ...
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Story about imposter son from another dimension visiting scientist father and mother; needing women to save his species
I'm trying to find the original source story from which an episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater was adapted. The episode is entitled "The Intruder," written by James Agate, Jr., and was ...
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Trying to find a movie about a dad who goes to a fantasy universe to find kids
Hey so I tried to find this movie but I couldn't. I only remember vague details but it was about a white family with a dad who I think was estranged to his kids (a son and a younger daughter) and he ...
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ID: kids' novel, alternate universes, suits designed by disappeared father
I'm trying to identify a English-language kids' SF novel, I would have read this as a library hardcover some time before 1980. To the best of my recollection:
Protagonists were subadult brother and ...
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How many dimensions are there in the 1980's TMNT cartoon?
A common plot device in the 1980's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon is the Dimensional Portal, which operates in a similar manner to a Stargate, except for the fact that it links parallel ...
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Parallel world where everyone is selfish and mean to each other
I read a book about a parallel world. I remember a young, humanoid man who lived in a world where no one showed any warmth to anyone else, life was extremely cutthroat, and meanness was universally ...
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radio play about crosstime-traveling bidet advertiser
Thirty-odd years ago I heard a radio play about someone finding himself in a parallel world, very similar to his own, except that no one has ever heard of his fabulously successful advertising ...
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