Alternate reality is usually a synonym for a Parallel universe.
It may also refer to:
- Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe they're writing about.
- Alternate Realities (Cherryh), an anthology of science fiction by C. J. Cherryh.
- Alternate Reality (video game series)
- Alternate reality game, a type of cross-media game.
- Alternate Reality, A psychedelic dance music DJ/VJ team based in London, England.
- Virtual reality, simulated reality.
- A euphemism for "psychedelic experience".
Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or reality:
“Germany is a queer country: one can’t regard it dispassionately. I alternate between hating it thoroughly, stick, stock and stone, and yearning over it fit to break my heart. I can’t help feeling it a young and adorable country—adolescent—with the faults of adolescence.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, about what is actual and observable.... It must involve throughout a resolute rejection of the demand for an explanation of the regularities in the observable course of nature, by means of truths concerning a reality beyond what is actual and observable, as a demand which plays no role in the scientific enterprise.”
—Bas Van Fraassen (b. 1941)