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The following is a list of fiction employing parallel universes or alternate realities ==Books== * Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter wrote ''The Long Earth'' (2012), the first of a series of novels about a (possibly infinite) series of parallel worlds that are similar to Earth. * Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, wrote ''The Blazing World'' (1666), a book far ahead of its time, in which the heroine passes through a portal near the North Pole to a world with different stars in the sky and talking animals. * Edwin Abott Abbott, mathematician and theologian, wrote ''Flatland'' (1884), also known as ''Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions''. It recounts the story of a two-dimensional world inhabited by living geometric figures: triangles, squares, circles, etc., and explores concepts of other dimensions (or universes) including Pointland, Lineland, and Spaceland. A feature film adaptation of this novella was made in 2007, called ''Flatland''. * Murray Leinster's story "Sidewise in Time" (1934), showing different parts of the Earth somehow occupied by different parallel universes, was influential in science fiction. * Piers Anthony wrote the "Of Man and Manta" series (''Omnivore'', ''Orn'', and ''Ox'') in which a group of three scientists explores worlds in parallel universes. * Andre Norton's The Crossroads of Time is a science-fiction novel written by Andre Norton and first published in 1956 by Ace Books. The story takes its protagonist through several versions of Earth as it might have been if history had gone a little differently. The book has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and German. In an odd twist on the theme of time travel, Norton has her characters traveling across time, rather than forward or backward. The dates do not change as the men travel from one timeline to another, but the histories of those worlds differ from each other. Tacitly postulating a kind of two-dimensional time, Norton anticipated Hugh Everett III's many-worlds interpretation of the quantum theory by one year. She called it the "possibility worlds" theory of history. * Philip K. Dick's ''The Man in the High Castle'' (1962) is an alternate history novel. * H. Beam Piper, the author of the ''Paratime'' series, wrote several stories dealing with alternate realities based on points of divergence far in the past. The stories are usually written from the perspective of a law-enforcement outfit from a parallel reality which is charged to protect the secret of temporal transposition. * "Convolutions", a novella by Vashti Daise, gradually reveals that the two main teenage characters exist in overlapping universes, and when they discover a paradise-like third universe, they can't help but be tempted to escape the struggles of their worlds. * Fredric Brown's ''What Mad Universe'' recounts the adventures of a science-fiction editor of the late 1940s who is thrown into a parallel universe that reflects the fantasies of his most annoying letter-to-the-editor writer (an adolescent male, naturally * Isaac Asimov's novel ''The Gods Themselves'' depicts scientists in our universe who find a way to "import" small amounts of matter from a universe having different physical laws, with unforeseen consequences. "The End of Eternity," also by Asimov, likewise deals with the existence of and interactions between multiple timelines, though these multiple interacting universes are depicted as the result of meddling in a single timeline by outside entities (the "eternals"), and therefore do not exist simultaneously, as do those in "The Gods Themselves." * K. A. Applegate's series, ''Everworld'' (1999–2001): Several teenagers travel into a parallel world occupied by the mythological beings of Earth. * Brandon Mull's series, ''Beyonders'' (2011-2013): Depicts the multiverse as being divided into an enormous set of "normal" universes, including ours (the beyond), and one intelligently created universe set apart from all others (Lyrian). It's strongly implied in the novels that it's only possible to travel from the "beyond" to Lyrian, or from Lyrian to the beyond. * Stephen King's series ''The Dark Tower'' has doors that send travelers to different parallel Earths, or, as termed in the story, different levels of the Tower. King also frequently utilizes this idea in other stories, such as ''The Mist'', ''From A Buick 8'', ''The Talisman'', ''Black House'' and ''Insomnia''. * Robert A. Heinlein's novel ''The Number of the Beast'' is focused around a 'time machine' that also proves to be able to travel sideways and other directions in time, allowing for crossing into other realities, even ones previously considered fictional by the protagonists. * S. M. Stirling's novel ''Conquistador'' is based on travel between parallel universes, with a group of 20th century Americans having found a means to secretly colonize a world where civilization never advanced past the classical era. *''Globus Cassus'' is a book describing a utopian project for a universe contrary to ours, it describes an antipode to the 'real' world. * ''Captain Brock: Space Badger'' by Des Monceaux and Kingdom Brock is set in an alternate reality where the 'Urth' is under attack from evil slugs. *''The Wheel of Time'' by Robert Jordan series the world of dreams, and the Mirror Worlds which represent what could have been had various events in history happened in different ways. * Diana Wynne Jones' ''Chrestomanci'' series revolves around the duty of the Chrestomanci to regulate magic in the twelve related worlds. These worlds have alternate histories, in which some people may exist only in a few worlds. Other works of Jones' that include parallel universes: The ''Magid'' series; ''Deep Secret'' and ''The Merlin Conspiracy'' in which the multiverse is shaped like an infinity sign and contains Ayewards and Naywards. The ''Derkholm'' series: ''Dark Lord of Derkholm'' and its sequel ''Year of the Griffin'' in which Pilgrims come from a parallel world for Mr. Chesney's offworld tours. In ''Howl's Moving Castle'', though it does not play a major part in the plot, the wizard Howl is actually from our world. In ''A Tale of Time City'', the main character, Vivian, is kidnapped and taken to Time City, a city out of time and space. Along with her new friends and past kidnappers Jonathan and Sam, she hunts through time and space for the polarites that are gradually being stolen. In ''A Sudden Wild Magic'' a group of benevolent witches set out to stop the magicians of Arth who steal ideas, technology, and innovations from Earth. In ''Hexwood'', the machine Bannus sucks potential Reigners from all over the universe into the Wood. In ''The Homeward Bounders'' Jamie is made into a Homeward Bounder by "Them" which means he must constantly travel from world to world until he finds his home again. * John DeChancie's ''Castle Perilous'' series tells of a huge magical castle containing portals to 144,000 worlds, including Earth. * Stephen R. Donaldson's ''Mordant's Need'' series, which includes ''The Mirror of Her Dreams'' and ''A Man Rides Through'', follows a heroine who can pass into another world through mirrors. *In ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'' series, also by Stephen R. Donaldson, main character Thomas Covenant is transported to another world called The Land. Each time he travels to The Land corresponds to an injury in the real world that leaves him unconscious. * H. G. Wells wrote what is apparently the first explicit paratime novel, ''Men Like Gods'' (1923), complete with a multiverse theory and a paratime machine. *In C. S. Lewis' classic ''Chronicles of Narnia'' series (1950–1956) children come and go between our world and Narnia, a land populated by talking animals. In ''The Magician's Nephew'' the Wood between the Worlds gives access to several worlds. In ''The Last Battle'' it transpires that all the worlds are joined together by a form of heaven. * Philip Pullman's ''His Dark Materials'' series (1995–2000) deals with two children who wander through multiple worlds, opening and closing windows between them. The final book elaborates the same idea (as C.S. Lewis') that all the worlds share a common heaven, and in this case, underworld. * Jasper Fforde's ''Thursday Next'' series is set in a parallel universe which is very similar to ours but has (amusingly) different history. For example, Britain and Russia are still fighting the Crimean War in 1985. As the story develops, the world of fiction also emerges as another parallel universe and the characters learn how to move between them. *The German series ''Perry Rhodan'' sometimes deals with parallel universes and "pararealities." Each universe has a "strangeness" value that indicates to what extent its physical laws differ from those of our universe. Travel to another universe results in a "strangeness shock" that can disable electronics and leave intelligent beings unconscious for some time. *In L. Neil Smith's ''The Probability Broach'' series of novels' characters from several different universes end up in one universe where American history took a different turn in the aftermath of the Revolution, with Albert Gallatin assisting the western Pennsylvania farmers of the Whiskey Rebellion, which culminates in George Washington's execution and the rise of a libertarian republic under a revised Articles of Confederation. *In James P. Hogan's ''Paths to Otherwhere'' (1996), scientists at the Los Alamos Laboratory create a machine QUADAR which allow them to swap conscious with people in parallel universes. They explore various parallel universes. *In Kia Asamiya's manga novel ''Space Battleship Nadesico'', written alongside the series ''Martian Successor Nadesico'' but altering severely as the course of the story runs, the Jupiterians that are attacking Earth come from a parallel universe, the portal of which is in the red storm visible on Jupiter as a red spot. In their world, Japan won World War II, and because of their strong religious Shinto beliefs, their Gods did not die out, and they were able to use this magic to help strengthen their technology. However, their sun died out prematurely, and so they have come to our world to steal the energy from our sun to save their world. * Neil Gaiman's novella Coraline deals with a parallel universe called the "Other World" in which Coraline's surroundings are the same but the people who are supposed to be her parents are actually evil impostors. The novella spawned a film of the same name that deals with the same plot and use of parallel universes. * Sergey Lukyanenko's novel ''Rough Draft'' (2005) takes place across the multiverse of at least 22 worlds (it was implied that there were actually more worlds that haven't been discovered yet) linked together by a series of tower-like transfer points. *''I, Q'' is a 2000 Star Trek novel by Peter David and John de Lancie in which God attempts to destroy the multiverse in a large multi-universe maelstrom which the protagonists attempt to stop from within a newly created universe caused by the maelstrom. *In D. J. MacHale's ''The Pendragon Adventure'' series there are ten different parallel universes (including our own), called territories, that are part of Halla, which is described as being every time and place that ever existed. Certain people, called Travelers, are able to go between the territories through portals known as Flumes. It is claimed that by traveling through a Flume, Travelers land on their destination territory exactly when they need to be there, suggesting time travel. *In Robert J Sawyer's ''Neanderthal Parallax'' series (2003) a parallel historical universe exists in which it was Neanderthals not Homo sapiens who survived to become the dominant species. In a quantum physics experiment gone wrong a Neanderthal scientist is accidentally transported into the universe of Homo sapiens. * Michael Lawrence's ''The Aldous Lexicon'' (2005–2007), comprising ''A Crack in the Line'', ''Small Eternities'' and ''The Underwood See'', concerns comings and goings between initially two, later many parallel realities. *In ''The Man Who Folded Himself'' (1973) by David Gerrold, paradoxes caused by time travel result in the creation of multiple universes. *In ''Mirror Dreams'' (2002) and ''Mirror Wakes'' (2003) by Catherine Webb, there are mirror universes, one a magical universe where technology barely works, the other a scientific universe where magic barely works. The inhabitants can physically visit each other's worlds in dreams. *In the ''Stravaganza'' series by Mary Hoffman various people travel between present-day England and an alternative, somewhat magical Renaissance Italy called Talia. *In the Alastair Reynolds novel ''Absolution Gap'', (2003) a race called the "Shadows" drives the action. They claim to be from a parallel universe which has been overrun by a rogue terraforming system that has destroyed their entire universe. They have sent instructions to our world on how to build machinery to let them across. *In ''The Divide trilogy'' by Elizabeth Kay (2002–2006), Felix Sanders crosses into a parallel universe where magic and magical beings exist while science and human beings are considered mythical. * Andrew Crumey's novel ''Mobius Dick'' (2004) features a parallel world in which Nazi Germany invaded Britain and Erwin Schrödinger failed to find the quantum theory equation that bears his name. The parallel worlds become connected due to experiments with quantum computers. The same alternate world (in which post-war Britain falls under Communist rule) also appears in his novels ''Music, in a Foreign Language'' (1994) and ''Sputnik Caledonia'' (2008). *In Darren Shan's ''Demonata'' series (2005–) a boy can open windows to parallel worlds with his hands. A part of the story also plays in one of these parallel worlds, the Demonata. * Harry Turtledove's ''Crosstime Traffic'' series of books (2003–2008) by Harry Turtledove centers on an Earth that has discovered access to alternate universes where history went differently. "Crosstime Traffic" is the name of the company with a global monopoly on the technology. *''Pet Force'', a series of children's books by Jim Davis and a spinoff of Garfield, one of his comic strips. The series contains five novels and takes place in a parallel universe and features alternate versions of the comic strip's main characters. * Michael Crichton's ''Timeline'' (1999) tells the story of historians who travel to the Middle Ages to save a friend of theirs who already traveled back in time before them. The book follows in Crichton's long history of combining technical details and action in his books, addressing quantum physics and time travel. The time travel mechanism incorporates the concept of the multiverse. * Tonke Dragt's novel "The Towers of February" (De torens van februari) is a coming-of-age novel in diary form for young adults, about a boy who slowly discovers that his memory loss is due to having passed into a parallel universe. The difficulty to travel between both worlds can be seen as symbolic for reaching adulthood and can be taken literal at the same time. * Greg Egan's ''Diaspora'' is a novel about sentient software intelligences living inside computer "polises" who undertake expeditions throughout the multiverse. * Alan Dean Foster's ''Spellsinger'' series concerns a 20th-century college student who finds himself transported to a world populated by sentient animals and featuring magic, which he learns how to perform himself through a guitar-like instrument. * Alan Dean Foster's ''Parallelities'' is a novel about a tabloid reporter whose interview subject inadvertently infects him with a condition making him shift between alternate versions of Los Angeles seemingly at random. * Richard Bach's ''One'' (2001) is a novel where Bach and his wife Leslie are catapulted into an alternate world, one in which they exist simultaneously in many different incarnations. * Michael Coney ''Charisma'' 1975 A murder mystery which involves the main character John Maine traveling to different parallel worlds, but the only worlds he can travel to are the ones in which his 'other self' is dead. *The protagonist of Roger Zelazny's ''Chronicles of Amber'' belongs to a royal family of magician-types who can alter details of the world around them at will. These alterations are known as "walking in Shadow". The farther the desired Shadow-world lies from one's present reality, the more details need to be changed and the longer the walk. * Stephen Lawhead's ''Song of Albion'' trilogy (published in 1991) tells the tale of a pair of university students who stumble into an alternate world (Albion). *The conceit of Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series is that the ability to travel between worlds is a recessive trait possessed by a clan of narcotics runners from a medieval world. They travel to an alternate present where the northeast coast of North America has been settled by Norsemen. * Olaf Stapledon's ''Star Maker'' describes God (called the Star Maker) evolving by creating many cosmoses, each more complex than the previous. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of fiction employing parallel universes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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