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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Sci fi TV series about a parallel universe where belts let them stay there and give them power [duplicate]
I'm looking for a TV show that I watched when I was a kid (2000s). It's not Sliders, Parallax, Spellbinder, or Stormworld.
It's about a boy who travels in a group with a girl and an old man (maybe a ...
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A universe not quite like ours
Okay this is a story someone else was telling me about. I wanted to read it but he didn't remember the title. This was in the mid-eighties; the story itself must be at least that old.
The protagonist ...
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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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Is there such a being as 'Dark Multiverse' Darkseid?
I've recently been reading DC Comic's Dark Multiverse and I have been wondering just how the Dark Universe interacts with the Fourth World.
In Dark Knights Metal
We know that version differs from ...
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Is there any evidence that Whiterose's machine was real?
In Mr. Robot, Chinese Minister Zhang, aka Whiterose, has at great expense and effort over the course of decades constructed some sort of machine in New Jersey. The interior looks science-fiction-y the ...
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A sci-fi movie from 80's or eary 90's about a drug named "blue"
I don't remember much, mostly the ending, but the movie has to do with an alternate place or reality from earth.
There is a drug of some sort called "blue" that is used recreational and also when ...
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Did Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie take place in an alternate timeline?
The 1995 film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie plays out like an extended special episode, giving the Rangers new "Ninjetti" powers and Zords based not around the Dinosaurs, but modern day ...
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Book involving children traveling between alternate worlds via switches
I know I read this after 2012, I think as an ebook. The cover depicted a knife switch by itself, I think closed with the handle up. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist, a boy, is told by ...
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Parallel universe where an engineered bacterium consumes all petroleum
I kinda of remember a sci fi tv show where the group traveled between parallel earths. The one episode I remember is where they ended up on an Earth where a scientist created a bacterium that consumed ...
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Parallel universe horror story where apparently normal people are ravenous monsters
I am looking for a short story. The plot is as follows: Scientists or mathematicians find a way to peer into an alternate dimension. In the alternate dimension the inhabitants appear to be living a ...
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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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Was there an original and definitive use of alternate dimensions/realities in fiction?
The fictional device or premise of alternate dimensions or realities seems so common today that it requires almost no explanation when used in stories. But despite how common this is now, it must have ...
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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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Recent Sci-Fi anthology. One story is about a detective tracking down people who use a drug to hop dimensions. Another is about social scores
Around two years ago I purchased a relatively new Sci-Fi anthology (it would have been published in 2016 or 2017,) and then lost the copy. I forgot the title, but I remember a couple of the stories ...
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YA SF novel with a remote control for parallel universe jumping
When I was a kid I read a sci-fi novel for children, the full name of which is unfortunately not coming back to me. Here's what (I think) I remember:
the story features a handheld device that allows ...
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Parallel universe 80s movie
All I remember is a woman in a convertible coming through a portal to a parallel universe. Lots of sand/desert. Running into a Conan/Beastmaster mostly loincloth outfitted guy.
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Book where a group of teenagers travel to a fantasy world
15 to 20 years ago I read a book (a trilogy I think) about a group on teenagers from a world similar to ours, who traveled to a fantasy world.
I don't remember much about these books, just some ...
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A man sent to a parallel Earth to save someone important
This is not a novel, but "longish" short fiction, novelette or novella. I read it around 1984, in an already used book containing half a dozen or so stories, in a cheap hotel in the US. There were ...
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SF book about people trapped in a series of worlds they imagine
I read this story a while ago, before 1990, probably quite a bit eartlier, and I suspect it is rather older than that (60s or 70s?). I think it was a short story, but I am not sure.
It is set in the ...
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90's TV series where a boy goes to another dimension through portal near power lines
I am desperately trying to remember a name of a TV series probably from 90's. I remember these points:
A boy goes to another dimension through a portal near a power lines.
This dimension has a sort ...
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Man transported from Alternate World into ours by a Neutrino Detector
Probably read 15-20 years ago. English Paperback.
Scientists running a deep underground Neutrino Detector [might have been cosmic rays]. It was a VERY Large tank of water with detectors built into ...
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Film, friends transferred to a parallel universe where being fat is forbidden, one of them meets his "alternate world" wife
The movie starts with a man in a basement with his dog, and then he transfers his dog to a parallel universe, and then the dog comes back. Then two friends come to visit him in the basement, and then ...
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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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Late 70s/80s book about our Earth and a parallel Earth
I vaguely remember a book about parallel worlds, which only animals can see, however, as the story progresses children can see this world as well.
I seem to remember people being able to cross over to ...
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Sci-Fi book revolving about a male character who traveled between dimensions and recorded his travels in logs he sent to his friends
I've been searching for this series for a while, the story revolved about a group of guardians of sort that travelled between parallel dimensions, through specifically hidden gateways in each ...
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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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60's/70's Trio of books about being attacked by giant bats that take away your ability to think
I read the book trilogy in paperback and perhaps they only were available in “bulk” paperback. They were from the 60's or 70's. I remember one book cover - an older man dressed as a typical wizard - ...
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Children's fiction book about the multiverse
The book contains a multiverse which is explained as follows:
The multiverse is infinite parallel realities almost in the shape of a sphere with layers closer to the center being better (more ...
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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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Is there a depiction of Superman where he is an African American?
Is there a comic book, animation, or any other media where Superman is depicted as being an African American?
I know that there are alternate universes where he is, for example, a Soviet, but I'm ...
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