Top Results for Parallel Worlds

Anathem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson set on Arbre, a world where scholars live in secluded communities called concents and have limited contact with secular society. Its plot follows Fraa Erasmas as an astronomical discovery draws him beyond his cloistered intellectual life. Th...

The Wheels of If is a science fiction novella by L. Sprague de Camp, first published in the October 1940 issue of Unknown magazine. The story follows New Yorker Charles Park who finds himself involuntarily shifting between parallel timelines, including one where the Vikings established lasting settl...

"GURPS Alternate Earths" is a 1996 role-playing game supplement published by Steve Jackson Games for the "GURPS" (Generic Universal RolePlaying System) framework. The book provides players and game masters with detailed settings based on parallel universes with significantly divergent historical tim...

The Female Man is a 1975 feminist science fiction novel by Joanna Russ that explores alternate realities through the perspectives of four different versions of the same woman. These variations include a contemporary feminist from the 1970s, a woman from an alternate timeline where the Great Depressi...

The Treasure (Der Schatz) is a 1923 German silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, his directorial debut. The film tells an atmospheric story involving a goldsmith and a hidden fortune. It is among Pabst's earliest works, preceding the more famous films such as Pandora's Box (1929) and Diary of...

"The Space Between Worlds" is a 2019 science fiction novel by Micaiah Johnson, published by Del Rey Books. It is set in a near-future multiverse where Earths can be visited only by individuals whose alternate-world counterparts have died. The protagonist, Cara, who has survived the deaths of many of...

GURPS Alternate Earths 2 is a supplement published in 1999 by Steve Jackson Games for their Generic Universal RolePlaying System (GURPS). The book presents six detailed alternate history settings, each exploring a world where history diverged from our own timeline at a significant turning point. Set...

Transition is a 2009 science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks that explores the concept of parallel universes and alternate histories. The narrative centers on a shadowy organization known as the Concern, which uses a drug called septus to transition between different realities and man...

The Long Earth is a 2012 science fiction novel written collaboratively by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, and the first book in their Long Earth series. Its central idea is a potentially unlimited chain of parallel Earths that can be reached through a simple device and explored by people able to...

The Kaiju Preservation Society is a 2022 science fiction novel by John Scalzi. It follows Jamie Gray, a food-delivery worker during the COVID-19 pandemic, who is recruited to a hidden research operation studying giant creatures in a parallel world. The novel treats kaiju as animals within an ecosyst...