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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New Releases Tagged "Alternate Universe"

Long Live Evil (Time of Iron, #1)
The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)
Primal Mirror (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #8; Psy-Changelings, #23)

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Any Way the Wind Blows
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呪術廻戦 逝く夏と還る秋 [Jujutsu Kaisen: iku natsu to kaeru aki]
Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)
The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee
Doors of Sleep (Journals of Zaxony Delatree, #1)
Invisible Sun (Empire Games, #3)
The Peacekeeper (The Good Lands, #1)
Subversive (Clandestine Magic, #1)
Robin and Her Misfits
Famous Men Who Never Lived
Hearts Forged in Dragon Fire
Cinnamon Bun (Cinnamon Bun, #1)
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10 books — 9 voters
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Wartime Taboo
57 books — 27 voters

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YA Books with Parallel Universes
135 books — 144 voters
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42 books — 6 voters

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Dimension Hopping
33 books — 2 voters


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Garth Risk Hallberg
Now, though, there was a second part, an artifact of his recent illness, as if his melancholy had, in a universe adjacent to this one, claimed his life. As if he was his own ghost, standing slightly behind himself, observing.
Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

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And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!
Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

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