Fiction
- Parallel universe (fiction), alternative universes, worlds, realities and dimensions in fiction
- Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe written about
- List of fiction employing parallel universes
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“A fiction about soft or easy deaths ... is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)