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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Super Town, USA, Superman Comic
Once upon a time I read a comic from the 1990s, I think, that had Superman waking up in a little town and having a look around. He'd been chasing Lex Luthor's thugs into another dimension. In this ...
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Teenage girl falls through portal into an alternate reality with only her backpack
Looking for a book I read as a kid, from the 80s/early 90s. Young teenage girl falls through portal of scientist she works for while cleaning up. Finds herself in alternate reality with only her ...
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Old movie where a portal suddenly opens in a street in front of a girl and she trades places with her parallel self
The movie has a girl who is walking down the street, suddenly some portal/door to parallel earth is opened. She chases her hat (or some paper) which goes into the door.
She finds her parallel self ...
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Alt-reality film. Being hetero is taboo. People forced to be gay
This was a really bizarre film. I'm not sure if it was a movie, a mockumentary, or a "what if" alternate reality think piece. The premise was that straight people are shunned from society, while being ...
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YA Sci Fi Alternate universe/reality where all cars are black
I read this book between 2007-2012. I believe that the protagonist travels to an alternate universe where there are small differences between the two worlds. In particular, I remember that all of the ...
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Was the "Reverse Universe" ever returned to?
In the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Counter-Clock Incident", the Enterprise discovers and travels to a parallel dimension in which time flows in reverse. Supernovas represent ...
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Is the study of alternate universes important to Starfleet?
During the TNG/DS9 and VOY time, was the study of alternate universes important to Starfleet?
Consider the TNG episode Parallels. Worf comes across an anomaly that sends him to different parallel ...
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The most intelligent individual in our universe joins a society with a crowd of his correspondents in many alternate universes
This trope has been well known recently in the animated series Rick & Morty which depicts a mega-space habitat populated by millions of Ricks ruled by a Council.
I don't know of many precedents ...
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Fantasy book where two boys swap places from different worlds
I am looking for a book I read when I was younger. It involves 2 boys from different world swapping places and pretending to be each other. They are identical except that one is white and the other is ...
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In Stross' Merchant Princes series, how does ARMBAND know where to go?
In Stross's Merchant Princes series, the US Government uses bits of a world-walker's brain in vitro to power ARMBAND, which lets their planes cross to Gruinmarkt (World 1).
How does ARMBAND "know&...
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How many comic book continuities are there in the Power Rangers universe, or is it one "Shared" continuity for all?
The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have had a few comic adaptations, those most notably from Boom Studios.
The story essentially takes the original premise nd even characters from the 1993 show, and ...
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Looking for YA short story about boy who finds family living in cave from alternate world
I’m looking for the name of a YA short story that I read in middle school back in the late 70’s. I believe it was part of a Science Fiction short story collection. My recollection is that it had “Key” ...
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Sci-Fi book about traveling to another dimension where people (at a certain age) get put into a room and never come out
There was a 1950 sci-fi story in which a man travels to another dimension where, at a certain age, people get put into a room with a video screen and never come out. He has a love affair with a girl ...
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Cartoon about 3, maybe 4 kids that use a portal to travel to another world and fight evil with these weird animals
I remember watching a show during my childhood, maybe when I was 12-13. There were 3-4 kids who were the main characters. I think the main boys name was hiro/hero. He found a portal or some sort of ...
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