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 universe not quite like ours
Okay this is a story someone else was telling me about. I wanted to read it but he didn't remember the title. This was in the mid-eighties; the story itself must be at least that old.
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What is the first instance of a portal to another world?
In ancient Greece, the gods lived up on a mountain, and Hades seems to have been a place that you could sail to.
Personally, I think in modern times the concept of a portal or wormhole is so familiar,...
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What's the most recent specific historical element that is common between Star Trek and the real world?
It is well known that there appears to be some divergence between the events of the Star Trek universe and ours (in particular, the Augments and Khan Singh, etc.)
Related: Has Star Trek ever ...
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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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Story Identification: Fantasy world that is "the one true world"
Sometime in the early 90's, I borrowed an audio book from a local library. I would be interested in reading it in full, but I don't remember the author or title. Given that it was an audio book in a ...
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Movie with two parallel universes, each of which is a television show in the other's universe
I didn't expect this to be so difficult to find since it was relatively recent, but my Google searches are turning up nothing but listicles.
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Most likely made sometime between 2005 and 2015
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Is there a depiction of Superman where he is an African American?
Is there a comic book, animation, or any other media where Superman is depicted as being an African American?
I know that there are alternate universes where he is, for example, a Soviet, but I'm ...
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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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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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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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Was there an original and definitive use of alternate dimensions/realities in fiction?
The fictional device or premise of alternate dimensions or realities seems so common today that it requires almost no explanation when used in stories. But despite how common this is now, it must have ...
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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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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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SF book about people trapped in a series of worlds they imagine
I read this story a while ago, before 1990, probably quite a bit eartlier, and I suspect it is rather older than that (60s or 70s?). I think it was a short story, but I am not sure.
It is set in the ...
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Complicated story identification from book cover
I really want to find this book again. I had it back in the seventies, the story was complex, surreal, competing realities type.
The cover showed one figure (I think), anyway, their neck was a ...
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