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 involving a boy who was playing Dungeons & Dragons style game and a parallel universe
I can't remember the title of this book or the author. I know it was a young adult book.
The main character was a boy who was playing a Dungeons & Dragons style game (I'll make it clear that it ...
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In the Star Trek Episode "The Alternative Factor", why did Lazarus have to be locked in the corridor between universes?
Wikipedia article on the episode. It is clear to me that the Lazarus from the normal universe wanted to meet the Lazarus from the anti-matter universe, and if that would happen both universes would be ...
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Boy meets female version of self from alternate dimension after his mother dies
When I was young I read a book about a teenage boy whose life was very miserable because his mother had died. He then finds a girl in his house and she thinks she is in her house. They share about ...
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What was the short story about a woman stealing aluminum items and putting in a seemingly bottomless shopping bag?
This story came from an anthology, I'm pretty sure. I read it about 30 years ago. A lady ... in somewhat of a trance ... gets caught shoplifting and all she is stealing is aluminum items. The stuff ...
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Movie about a man with 2 alternate lives (reality and in dreams)
I barely remember a movie about a man (or maybe woman) who had 2 lives: when he goes to sleep he wakes up in his dream, and when he falls asleep in his dream he wakes up in his real life.
But he ...
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Sci-fi book about man recruited to alt universe to work for secret employer, travels to alt universes, learns another version of himself was murdered
The book starts out with the man in his home universe, the last man alive. A group of people kidnap him to another universe; I think he sees the Moon is different and knows that what they're saying is ...
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2000s YA sci-fi book, male protagonist, only one in each world who can travel between dimensions through the 4th one, everyone is him but different
I'm trying to remember a YA Sci-Fi book, probably from the 2000s, about a boy who is randomly attacked by what looks like wizards and robots. He is then saved by someone who appears to be an older ...
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TV show - prisoners get lethal injection but end up elsewhere afterwards
All I remember is in the show prisoners were given a lethal injection, then find themselves in a strange world, hell or an alien planet. Possibly part of an experiment?
Further detail: It was on tv ...
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Does LOTR have a shattered glass type alternate reality [closed]
Shattered glass is basically where the good and the bad team (morally speaking) switch, both within the general sides and individuals as a whole. It is primarily seen in The Transformers, but perhaps ...
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Sci Fi book about a man travelling through portals from one dimension to another through who ends up in a place where mind control is prevalent
I read a book in the late 80s about a man travelling from one dimension to another through portals that are "right around the corner". He ends up in a place where mind control is prevalent ...
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2000s(?) book series about girl with purple eyes and fantasy world
This book would be kinda old, 20 years ish. On the cover, there was girl with her eyes closed, light brown hair shoulder-length.
I don't remember the plot much, but the girl lived in modern world and ...
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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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Book about a glass world behind a mirror
There was this book that I read when I was young, maybe like 11 years old. A girl went into the mirror in her bedroom and found this world made entirely of glass. There were glass butterflies and ...
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Sci-fi book (all-knowing cow, almost grey goo beginning, different universe/dimension)
Someone created self-replicating nanobots that replicated enough only to replace every other few nano particles. The consequence is that privacy is impossible as every nanobot has a camera and you can ...
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Short story, stunt double confronts actor who is his alternate self
The new "Fall Guy" movie reminds me of a short story I read within the last three years or so, probably online, about a stunt double who confronts the actor he has been working with, in the ...
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Book series involving a boy and a girl who use a ring or rings to travel to other universes and time periods to stop a bad guy
I need help identifying a book series (four books or more) which I read in middle/high school (2013-2019).
In the beginning, there was a kid who played a sport (I think basketball) and people were ...
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Trilogy of books that feature a scientist thrown into a medieval world due to an experiment gone wrong
I'm looking for what I believe is a trilogy of comic fantasy about a scientist being thrown into another, medieval world. I can't remember the author, the approximate date of publication or even the ...
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Book: Gen-manipulated intelligent squids explore space/planet
I'm looking for the author and title of a book. I believe it's (supposed to be) the first in a trilogy, all using the same characters, but taking place in different universes - with only humans, with ...
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Short story about a guy who travels to an alternative Earth where he pirates music from bands that are still together or still alive
This a long shot, so here we go. In the late 90's or early 2000's, I read a book with short stories.
The one story I remember is about a guy who travels to an alternative Earth where he pirates music ...
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Children’s story about siblings who travel to an alternate universe where time runs slower
Ok so I remember reading this story in the early 2000’s, but it probably came out before then. Basically what I can recall is that it focuses on a brother and sister who found the entrance to another ...
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Book about a girl searching for her father in a world Roma came from
My friend read this book and can’t remember the name and I’ve been trying to find it too with no luck and I was hoping you lovely people might be able to help. Here’s what I know:
It was clearly ...
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A book about a boy who traveled to a D&D-style planet
There’s a book I read as a middle-schooler about a boy who used to play this game with his friends. It turned out the avatars they created from the game all exist in a different universe or planet. It ...
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Sci-fi novel involving parallel universes and possible time travel
I'm trying to identify a science fiction novel I read many years ago but whose title and author escape me.
I think it was borrowed because I went through all my books, but I couldn't find that one.
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Movie about a woman in an alternate universe who gets to have the life she thought she wanted, but she still isn't happy with it
I saw this movie almost 20 years ago. There was a woman who thinks her life might be better if she were with someone else. She has a boyfriend or husband already, but she thinks she would be happy if ...
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Movie from 2005-2014 about a girl student who travels to alternate universes for a relationship
I'm looking for а film, watched in 2016, where a boy dumps his girlfriend and she -- in a university with a spinning top (spinning, twisting and falling asleep or faiting) and a dark-skinned professor ...
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Sci Fi short story about characters exploring an alternate pocket universe [duplicate]
Sci Fi short story I found in an anthology.
I think the story dates back to at least the 1990's.
I believe the characters are exploring an alternate pocket universe.
They require special suits to ...
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First instance of a universe being "close enough"
My favorite Simpsons episode is the 1994 Halloween episode in which Homer Simpson repeatedly travels back in time and makes changes in the past, resulting in bizarre alterations to the present. ...
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Looking for a book featuring a soldier/marine travelling to a different time/universe
I picked up a book a year ago and read the summary at the back(part of a series maybe?) at a airport bookshop but had to stop because of my flight was about to depart. I can't remember the author or ...
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Looking for a short story about a parallel world with apparently ordinary humans but savage and carnivorous [duplicate]
I read this a long time ago, and thought it was Larry Niven but maybe not.
A bunch of scientists build a gate to a parallel world and initially observe the inhabitants on the other side. They seem to ...
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Book about a character born in-between time on some sort of timeship
I can't find the name of this book! I believe it's YA. I read it at least 5 years ago, probably more.
The main character was born in between time on some sort of timeship. His mother had gotten ...
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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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Movie from the '90s about a girl who wishes for her life to be perfect and wakes up in a parallel world
I remember growing up I watched a movie about a girl tired of being poor, her life and her boyfriend; she fantasized about a football star. One December 25th, she wished her life was perfect and she ...
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Alternate Worlds Fantasy with Kendo in Ours and Feudal World in Other
I read this many years ago (probably in the 1980s or 1990s and I’m trying to find it again:
A woman is in a mental institution in California (?) for killing a man with a samurai sword except she was ...
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90s fantasy book: man can access a parallel medieval world while 'dreaming'
I read a book in my high school library back in the late 90s and pretty sure it was written in the mid 90s. I can't remember the author or title.
The setting is current to the 90s mid-west. But it ...
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Can Marty McFly ever truly return home?
In the Back to the Future trilogy, the character Marty McFly travels back in time, and meets his own parents. In doing this, he directly changes the outcome of many things including the relationship ...
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Children's book from the 90s early 00s about kids discovering a parallel town. Green book cover
I read a book in the late 90s or very early 00s, and I know it had a green cover, crazy green colour with a lot of activity on it too. It was about some kids who discovered this other parallel town or ...
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