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That calmed my nerves. Jason had put a human face on rape. He’d shown compassion toward the bystanders. I remember thinking that even if only a few people read it, I’d still feel proud. At around midnight, I turned off the computer, forwarded my calls to voicemail, took a sleeping pill and went to bed. I woke up in a parallel universe.
A parallel universe, also known as an alternate universe, parallel world, parallel dimension, alternate reality, or alternative dimension, is a hypothetical universe co-existing with one's own, typically distinct in some way. [1] The sum of all potential parallel universes that constitute reality is often called the "multiverse".
The series deals with an advanced civilization that is able to travel between parallel universes with alternate histories, and uses that ability to trade for goods and services that its own, exhausted Earth cannot provide. The protagonists of the stories are the Paratime Police, the organization that protects the secret of paratime travel.
Short stories about parallel universes (1 C, 9 P) Video games about parallel universes (15 C, 192 P) C. The Chronicles of Amber (2 C, 4 P) The Chronicles of Narnia (5 ...
The multiverse is a series of parallel universes in many of the science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories written by Michael Moorcock [1] [2] [3] [4] (many ...
A common feature of all four multiverse levels is that the simplest and arguably most elegant theory involves parallel universes by default. To deny the existence of those universes, one needs to complicate the theory by adding experimentally unsupported processes and ad hoc postulates: finite space, wave function collapse and ontological ...
Parallel universes in fiction, a hypothetical self-contained plane of existence, co-existing with one's own Alternate history , a genre of fiction in which historical events differ from reality Alternative universe (fan fiction) , fiction by fan authors that departs from the fictional universe of the source work
This type of alternative universe places two fictional universes in a situation where they interact, similar to reality swaps (which mix a fictional universe with the real world). [citation needed] Such stories sometimes involve "comparisons or conflict" between the combat prowess of the two universes, often involving the various strengths and ...