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)
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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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If there are "Infinite Dimensions" then there would be infinite alternate realities, and if there are infinite alternate realities we would exist in almost all of them that would make all of us omnipresent. And if anyone of those beings was connected with all knowledge in all the realities they would fall under what most call a God.. ...more
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You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance th ...more
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