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  2. The Planiverse - Wikipedia

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    Dave Langford reviewed The Planiverse for White Dwarf #55, and stated that "This delightful book will be inspiring 2D game scenarios any second now." [2]Kirkus Reviews considered it "an ingenious intellectual exercise—amusing, edifying, sometimes tedious" [3] At Tor.com, Jason Shiga found it to be a "tour de force followup" to Flatland, and found the appendix to be the "most impressive ...

  3. List of fictional shared universes in film and television

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    Law & Order debuted in 1990, but its inclusion of John Munch connected it to Homicide: Life on the Street, which in turn connected it to the earlier show, St. Elsewhere, and thus the Tommy Westphall Universe. Munch also connects it to the X-Files universe, The Beat, Arrested Development, and The Wire. The Cosby Show and A Different World: The ...

  4. Alternative universe (fan fiction) - Wikipedia

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    An alternative universe (also known as AU, alternate universe, alternative timeline, alternate timeline, alternative reality, alternate reality, parallel universe, or multiverse) 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.

  5. Multiverse - Wikipedia

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    There are models of two related universes that e.g. attempt to explain the baryon asymmetry – why there was more matter than antimatter at the beginning – with a mirror anti-universe. [78] [79] [80] One two-universe cosmological model could explain the Hubble constant (H 0) tension via interactions between the two worlds. The "mirror world ...

  6. Shared universe - Wikipedia

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    A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where one or more writers (or other artists) independently contribute works that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project.

  7. List of fictional universes in literature - Wikipedia

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    The fictional universe of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels, starting with Shadow and Bone trilogy, which includes Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. It is also the universe which includes the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. Named for the magical Grisha, a central group in the books. Islands of Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Travels: 1726

  8. Parallel universes in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Time travel can result in multiple universes if a time traveller can change the past. In one interpretation, alternative histories as a result of time travel are not parallel universes: while multiple parallel universes can co-exist simultaneously, only one history or alternative history can exist at any one moment, as alternative history usually involves, in essence, overriding the original ...

  9. Isekai - Wikipedia

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    Isekai (Japanese: 異世界 transl. 'different world', 'another world', or 'other world') is a sub-genre of fiction.It includes novels, light novels, films, manga, webtoons, anime, and video games that revolve around a displaced person or people who are transported to and have to survive in another world such as a fantasy world, game world, or parallel universe with or without the possibility ...