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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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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50's story: space travelers reach speed of light, universe implodes
It was probably a short story by one of the popular sci-fi writers of the 50s. As I remember it, the story unfolded in a space vehicle where two travelers had embarked on a mission to exceed the speed ...
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Book with parallel universes being taken over by an evil presence
It would have been published around 2012.
It's about a guy taking a girl with him to parallel universes. The universes are empty/dangerous because there is an evil presence there; something like big ...
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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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Story about a hungry alien who eats the universe and accidentally creates multiple universes when he poops
Time: Early 2000's or maybe earlier
Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy/Dark
Narrative work: A novelette or a story book
Language: Might be in another language than English. Possibly French
Plot: There is a ...
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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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Looking for the name of the book where a character enters another world in where he is part of a prophecy
I read this book in elementary school but don't remember the title, author or anything aside from a few vivid points.
The story starts in the real world (I believe it's around WW2) where a boy ...
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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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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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What was this (novel or short) story about travel between parallel/multiple universes by tuning into them like a radio?
Many years ago I read a story about multiple universes splitting apart, and the possibility to trade between them using a radio like scanner to find where you left from.
It may be a short story or a ...
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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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Comic book story from 1960s: Man repairs door and is transported to another dimension?
Cliched henpecked husband bugged by wife to fix door in basement (iirc, maybe not basement) and he finds, no kidding, that the door leads to another world where, with the hammer, he defends a princess ...
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Short story involving parallel universes and a war between humanity and some dark version of humanity
In this story, as humans travel through closely linked universes, they eventually become distorted and changed. The twist at the end, I believe, was that humans were fighting vastly distorted versions ...
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Late '80s / early '90s urban sci-fi book where the protagonists discover other universes
I'm trying to remember the name of a sci/fi book from the late 80's/early 90's where the protagonists lived in a modern setting. They discover a way to travel to different universes but are left in a ...
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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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