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    Image of Leif Hassell Leif Hassell
    06/07/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    My personal favorite is the story "Why I Left Harry's All-night Hamburgers," by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Look it up if you're not familiar. It's a different take on the concept than most.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/07/09

    @Leif Hassell: That's a GREAT story.
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    Image of John Nor John Nor
    06/07/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    The Star Trek 2009 Movie "parallel timeline" is mentioned and the article also says "the new Movie-Earth lines up so well with Mirror-Earth and OriginalSeries-Earth that it's really only a matter of time before some comic or novel seeks to cross them all over"...


    Is that now the most popular theory in Star Trek fandom, that there are three different universes describing
    1. ST:ENT/ST:TOS/ST:TNG/ST:DS9/ST:VOY
    2. ST:ENT/ST:2009movie
    3. the Mirror episodes
    (OriginalSeries-Earth, Movie-Earth, Mirror-Earth or whatever they are called)?


    If it is a "parallel timeline" does Star Trek fandom also accept it as a "parallel universe"?


    What about ST:TNG Yesterday's Enterprise - that's a different kind of time travel from the Star Trek 2009 Movie?

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/07/09

    @John Nor: Considering TNG doesn't keep continuity with TOS (exhibit A: Zephram/Zefram Cochrane's birth planet, exhibit B: KHAAAAN), I'd make it at least 4.
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    Image of Nudemanatee Nudemanatee
    06/06/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    The great thing about an infinite number of parallel universes is that in one of them I'll manage to write something witty here.
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    Image of Nudemanatee Nudemanatee
    06/06/09

    @Nudemanatee: No you won't.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/06/09

    @Nudemanatee: Oh you will, but it will be in a reality where no intelligent life ever evolved to appreciate it. Bummer.

    Still, love your commenter name!
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    Image of Brian David Phillips Brian David Phillips
    06/06/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    "Even before most people had heard of Erwin Schrödinger, we knew that there were plenty other Earths out there..."


    First, the immediate examples given after this statement all post-date Schrödinger(1887-1961). Schrödinger postulated his happy happy cat in 1935. There are examples of multiverse stories that do indeed predate Schrödinger, the various "fairy world" stories would count but they're more fantasy than science fiction (albeit, one man's magick is another's technology and demons are just really powerful nasties from another dimension). Second, uh, most people still haven't heard of Schrödinger. :-)


    Additions to the mix . . . Roger Zelazny's Amber series or Keith Laumer's Imperium or H. Beam Piper's Paratime Police . . . ad infinitim.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/06/09

    @Brian David Phillips: "Sidewise In Time" is pretty close to the postulated theoretical kitty.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/06/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    I'd like to see some of those DC Earths on a more regular basis. Some of them sound fun.
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    Image of Azogue Azogue
    06/06/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    Heinlein, nicely codified the multiverse decades ago.


    I especially enjoy his concept of "fictons"; units of imagination, that if widely shared create a parallel universe.


    Thus his characters visit the Lensman, Dejah Thoris and Oz. Best start off points: "The Number of the Beast" or "The Cat Who Walked Through Walls."


    Love that stuff.

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    Image of Mathmos Mathmos
    06/06/09

    @Azogue: Perhaps the first use of the idea of fictions creating alternate universes was by De Camp and Pratt. Their characters travelled between worlds by changing their mental axioms and visited the worlds of Norse, Irish and Finnish myth, Orlando Furioso, The Faerie Queen, Coleridge's Xanadu and I'm sure others, (not in that order).
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/06/09

    @Mathmos: The "Incompleat Enchanter" series. Delightful stories. Years before Heinlein did it.
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    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    06/06/09

    In reply to Get Away From It All By Traveling The Multiverse
    I was so irritated when SciFi dropped Charlie Jade after just two episodes. I like Stargate re-runs as much as the next person, but c'mon!
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    06/06/09

    @Srynerson: They didn't drop it, they moved it to like 2 AM on Mondays. They did show them all.

    Unless of course my TiVo got them from an alternate universe. In which case it better be finding me Firefly seasons 2-5.
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