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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Spinoff / Alternate Universe of DC Comics involving mother earth rising up?
I'm looking for a spinoff/alternate universe version of DC comics. I don't remember all the details but I do remember that the big Justice League members (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) are all dead. ...
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Isekai manga about a boy and other people being teleported to a wired world
Its about a boy in his teens that lives up on a mountain in Japan. His dad is a scientist and can't go anywhere near the city unless it's necessary. He has a strange ability where if he goes near ...
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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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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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Short story where a man enters a cave and emerges into a parallel world
Read this short story maybe twenty-plus years ago, the story itself may be older. A man wanders into a cave, maybe in Mexico, and when he emerges he's in a parallel world. He's not staying at the ...
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Movie about two kids who find an astronaut in the desert
The setting is an Earth-like desert. A brother and sister find an astronaut they believe to be an alien, although he's entirely human in appearance (as are they). I don't remember much about the plot, ...
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Alternate universe story with intelligent animals and a dog that was computer upgraded to sentience
Many years ago I read a story - it may have been a novel, or a short story in a compilation - that included travel of the principal characters to an alternate universe, where many species of animals ...
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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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Alternative history story from late 70's-early 80s relating to British victory in the American Revolution
Does anyone know the title and author of an alternative history from the late 70s-80s with a plot based on a scenario of British victory in the Revolutionary War? I recall a scene which took place in ...
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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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Novel about girl growing up in a mirror universe, searching for surface world
I read this book on my Amazon Kindle.
There was a girl whose father disappeared and she went on to later volunteer/work for some sort of research company. She had a dream where she saw a man shoot ...
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Do Borg have different collectives depending on which reality they exist in, or are all Borg across all realities part of the same collective?
Similar, but not what I'm after.
In TNG Parallels, one of the alternate Enterprises consists of a Riker who claims that:
The Borg are everywhere!
So there's Borg in at least two universes, probably ...
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Story: Ship repeatedly blasted into parallel universes
I read this short story about 10 years ago.
A young female starship officer wakes up after an attack by the dreaded mysterious alien enemies. She finds only part of her ship still in existence, and ...
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A collection of short stories involving dimension travel
I read a collection of short stories in high school for a class in 2012 where humans had discovered how to travel to different dimensions by visiting airports and meditating. I have only a memory of ...
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Short story about friends talking about parallel universes and probability
Trying to find a short story where two people talk about how the "many worlds" theories (or possibly the idea that if the universe is infinite everything will eventually happen) with the example of a ...
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