Alternate Universe

Alternate Universe (often abbreviated as "AU") is a descriptor used to characterize fanworks which change one or more elements of the source work's canon. Also may be known as multiverse. The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes" or "alternate universes."

Often used in Fantasy, Science-Fiction, and Comic genres.

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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Apparitions are, so to speak, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the first beginnings of them. There is, of course, no reason why a healthy man should see them, because a healthy man is mainly a being of this earth, and therefore for completeness and order he must live only this earthly life. But as soon as he falls ill, as soon as the normal earthly state of the organism is disturbed, the possibility of another world begins to appear, and as the illness increases, so do the contacts with the ...more
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Stephanie Osborn
I am looking forward to fully understanding what is occurring. Other than the fact that we are well over a century in my future—if it is MY future; in America, in an underground government facility of some sort near the Colorado Rocky Mountains, specifically Pikes Peak, so I assume the nearest city of any import to be Colorado Springs…I am afraid I have little grasp of your project.” ~Sherlock Holmes
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