Alternate Reality

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:

    “In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
    —Henry James (1843–1816)

    “War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)