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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What novel has advanced alternate Earth humans trying to escape through portals from horrific inter-dimensional creatures?
I read this book while on vacation in Canada around 1985. The book seemed to be a recent release and consist of about 50/50 narrative and character action and was short, about 250 pages or so. The ...
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Why are the two universes in Fringe not more divergent?
related: Why are there only 2 universes that are visitable?
It seems that there are differences in the universes dating back to the 1930s
Zeppelin flight was effectively finished in the USA by the ...
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Do Events in one parallel universe affect other parallel universe [closed]
Do Events happening in one parallel universe might have some effects in other parallel universe? In parallel universe, there is a possibility of energy flowing from one parallel universe to another. ...
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Identifying a story about a boy who travels to a mirrored universe with ketchup that makes you intoxicated [duplicate]
There was a novel I read back in the day about a boy who travels back and forth between a mirror-image of our universe.
I am afraid I cannot recall much about the plot, except that mirrored food is ...
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Female protagonist that is sick in one reality and well in another
I read a few books in a series of novels with a female protagonist. She was either severely injured or very ill in 'our world', but she was able to travel to another dimension. They referred to the ...
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Book about a teenager who steps though a painting on to a ship
I don't have too much information but I'm looking to identify a series of books that I read back in the late 80's early 90s. The main character is a teenager who steps through a painting onto a ship, ...
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Have we seen all of those Hanks?
In Endangered Species Hank McCoy goes on a quest to discover a scientific 'cure' for the events of the House of M. He asks every hero and villain he thinks might help. He nearly loses himself to this ...
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Is there a difference between a parallel universe and an alternate universe?
This was prompted by a previous question I had here, but I decided it was a good stand-alone question.
This is a general science fiction question and not specific to any particular world.
Is there a ...
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How many parallel universes exist in Futurama?
In the first season, Fry is taken to and shown the edge of the universe, which looks onto a parallel universe. Fry turns to the Professor and asks, "Is there an infinite number of universes?," and the ...
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Looking for title of TV series about boy and an alternative world [duplicate]
In the middle of 2000 - 2010 I saw a TV series about a boy, who after school went to work for an old man at a shop. I don't remember clearly but shop sells old artifacts, books, suchlike.
This boy ...
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Is there a concept of "parallel/alternate" universes/realities in Star Wars canon?
Star Trek franchise has concepts of parallel (or alternate) universes/realities. So does StarGate (in some SG1 episodes).
Is there any mention of such a concept as parallel universes in Star Wars ...
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Do parallel realities take precedence over time travel in the Star Trek Universe?
The 2009 Star Trek movie and its pending sequels are based on the concept of parallel realities introduced in the season 7 Next Generation episode "Parallels," laying out that anything that could ...
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Short story about alternate world seen through a crack in a wall
Here is a vague description of a story I'm trying to identify:
In the story, there is some sort of a support group for people who have glimpsed, through doors or cracks in walls, other worlds and/or ...
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Please help identify parallel universe novel
Years ago (late 70's/early 80's) I read a science fiction story which I think was a novel, though I'm not sure. In the story, there was a secret group that had developed technology for travelling ...
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A audio book about two children and an apprentice wizard?
I remember back when I was a child (late nineties), I listened to some audiotapes. One of them was story about two children, and a wizard who accidentally teleports into them when he is trying to pass ...
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How many "universes" are there in Star Trek canon?
I just finished watching Star Trek:TOS. There were at least two episodes dealing with other dimensions, the mirror universe and the anti-matter universe.
How many "universes" are there in Star Trek ...
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The Towers of February: What's the word?
In the book The Towers of February (by Tonke Dragt) the main character is able to go between alternate universes by speaking a word. The word is never "written down" in the author's "diary" (the book) ...
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Shared world where our earth is invaded by a parallel universe
I have never read these. I remember being told about them a few years ago. These are a series of shared world stories where our earth is invaded by a parallel universe. The parallel universe has ...
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Where is the room that bridges the two universes located?
In the third season finale of Fringe, Peter uses the machine to create a bridge between the universes. I thought this room was located in the base of the Statue of Liberty, as that's where the ...
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Short story where a character moves through dimensions via mental exercises
It's been about 25 years since I read a story in an anthology. The only details I remember from it are that a guy is told that if, while walking down a road (or something similar), he mentally forces ...
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Was the Enterprise-D the first Galaxy class starship? Why?
According to the script of Yesterday's Enterprise, the Enterprise-D was, "the first Galaxy Class warship built by the Federation".
How can that be? I thought the first would be the Galaxy, hence the ...
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What is the title of a story about a elevator through time and the smallest possible change [duplicate]
Many years ago I read a story about a guy working for an organisation that would influence time-lines by traveling through time using a sort of elevator. The objective of the operators was to ...
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A web comic where a woman in a hoodie asks what universe she is in?
Some years back I read a beautifully illustrated fantasy web comic, rather surreal.
All I remember is a woman in a hoodie stumbling into some alternate world. She zipped up her hoodie to obscure her ...
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A (G-rated) graphic novel with a picture of purple tentacles coming out of a door on the cover
I'm trying to find a graphic novel about two kids, a boy and a girl, who moved to an old family house because they couldn't afford where they were living anymore. In the house, they discovered a ...
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Is there any evidence that using alternate universe/timeline in a franchise hurts/helps it?
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There is a widespread approach in sci-fi/fantasy franchises to use alternate timelines/parallel universes as a technique/device to continue/extend/expand the franchise. Notable examples I ...
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What exactly are the 'voids' in the Fringe parallel universe?
From what I can tell the primary reason that the other parallel universe is seeking to destroy our universe is because they presume that the voids that appear there are being caused by this universe.
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