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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Children's book with "square triangles" in parallel universe?
In the 1960s I read book--an older children's book, I think--which I loved, and still remember, roughly. I have no idea what the title is or who the author is, and I'm wondering if anyone knows this ...
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Story about machines generating energy with parallel universes, endangering ours
I suppose I read this story in a book in the nineties but I have no memory of actually reading it or the cover, I just remember a lot of the plot.
Scientists find out they are being contacted by the ...
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What "time travel" story required the traveller to mentally reconstruct his world in order to return to it?
Here's what I remember about it:
The protagonist is sent a relatively short distance into the future
(maybe a year? I've forgotten).
When he arrives in this "future" he finds himself in a completely ...
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What book has a man in a world on the brink of an ice age with a wizard mentor?
I'm trying to find the title of an old fantasy book I read at least 20 years ago, but I have very little to help identify it.
Obviously I don't remember the author name, I think it was written in the ...
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Short story about a hole to another universe that pulls in metal
This question reminded me of a story I read in the 90s.
A woman is caught shoplifting a bunch of metal items by throwing them into her purse. She has no memory, and the purse is empty. Anything metal ...
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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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Book about a boy who travels to a parallel universe to get a book
I can't remember the gender of the main character.
I remember bits and pieces from different books, but I think they're all part of the same series. The pieces may not be in order or from multiple ...
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Fantasy novel, magic sword and different worlds
I am looking for some help remembering this book series I listened to on audiobook many years ago. It was a good story I just for the life of me can't remember the name, author or any of the character ...
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A gateway to a new world/future where things can be improved with use
This book is about an explorer (with robot companion) who walks through a "gateway" into the future/parallel world. In this world, things that are created do not fall into disrepair, instead things ...
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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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Novel in which the protagonist fades out is forgotten by, and can't interact with, the rest of the world
Trying to identify a novel I read years ago (probably in the '80s) in which the protagonist (late teens, early 20s?) is gradually forgotten by and ceases to be able to interact with the rest of the ...
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Why would Quinn wait to Slide to a new reality?
In Sliders, the first trip they make they slide away from earth before their timer counts down. This means they can't get back to Earth-1 directly.
Later in the series they're faced with many, many ...
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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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Looking for a novel I read about twenty years ago about a man who can change reality with his mind
This will probably be a long shot, but I read a novel about twenty years ago that I'm sure is from the late sixties.
I can only really remember the main plot point: There's a man in it who can ...
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Series where the planet’s air is really polluted and there is a portal to take you to a world where the air is clean
The movie was released in the last 15 years, probably between 2008-2018.
"Pre-movie" (like what happens before the main part of the movie begins):
The movie was in the future.
The people ...
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