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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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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When and why did the Marvel Universe start to have alternative Universes?
The Original universe of each character could stand on their own as good/great stories, so why make alternate universes with different stories that couldn't cross (in most cases) with the same ...
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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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What is the fate of the USS Franklin in the Prime timeline?
During the events of Star Trek Beyond (2016), an Abramsverse/Kelvin Timeline film, the crashed USS Franklin is found and salvaged.
Looking at the actual timeline of events, the USS Franklin is ...
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Which dimensions from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse exist in other works?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse features versions of Spider-Man from various parallel dimensions. Are all of these "new" dimensions, or are they intended to be existing-dimensions within the Marvel ...
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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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Identify Children's parallel universe story from mid 2000s?
I keep thinking about this book that I read in the early to mid 2000s. It was a children's book about a couple of kids- boy and girl? Sister and brother maybe?- who somehow get into a parallel fantasy ...
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Looking for a book with parallel universes like pages, possibly with "maze" in title, and a black Jewish female character
Looking for a book. A series, actually. The main characters were a Jewish man and a black woman who was his wife. There was a running gag when she would tell people her last name and they thought it ...
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Movies Where Reality Changes at Night and People Wake Up to a Different World Every Day [duplicate]
I am looking to identify a movie where the world is changed every night and people wake up in a different world. The only scene I can remember is of a City (vaguely 'Gotham' in muted colors) being ...
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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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Short story involving preventing disaster by keeping one key man from doing/not doing something
Read this story 20-30 years ago but it was probably old then.
A team of operatives (from the future?) tries to influence the actions of one key man to prevent devastation of earth. In one world this ...
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Does Doc Notice His Past/Future Self?
In Back To The Future Part 2, when Doc Brown is riding a bike and ends up coming upon himself (in the past) working on his "weather experiment" to get the old Marty back to 1985, is there any proof ...
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Short story where mathematics is used like magic to travel between universes
I read this in the period between 2005 and the early 2010s.
Title and Author: I cannot remember this information.
Media: Online, stand-alone short story (or the first story in a series). Perhaps ...
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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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