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An alternative universe (also known as AU, alternate universe, alternative timeline, alternate timeline, alternative reality, or alternate reality) is a setting for a work of fan fiction that departs from the canon of the fictional universe that the fan work is based on. For example, an AU fan fiction might imagine what would have taken place ...
Fiction has long borrowed an idea of "another world" from myth, legend and religion. Heaven, Hell, Olympus, and Valhalla are all "alternative universes" different from the familiar material realm. Plato reflected deeply on parallel realities, resulting in the worlds of Platonism, in which the upper reality is perfect while the lower (earthly ...
Alternate reality (or Alternative reality, UK English) often refers to parallel universes in fiction, a self-contained separate world, universe or reality coexisting with the real world, which is used as a recurring plot point or setting used in fantasy and science fiction. Alternate reality may also refer to:
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.
The Mirror Universe is the setting of several narratives in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, a parallel universe existing alongside, but separate from, the fictional universe that is the main setting of Star Trek. It resembles the main Star Trek universe, but is populated by more violent and opportunistic doubles of its people.
The multiverse is the hypothetical set of all universes. [1][a] Together, these universes are presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "flat ...
An alternate reality within Canon. "AU", alternate universe, is where parts of Canon were picked up and planted somewhere completely different. Such as, using HP again, if Potter had been born a Squib in California and never went to Hogwarts, or if Snape were a nobleman in Regency England.
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...