Fiction about the Multiverse and Parallel Dimensions

[Sindatur]

Can't believe I didn't mention it in my first post, The Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny

 

[Starbreaker]

I haven't seen any mention of Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson.

That's a tricky one. It truly is just someone visiting an alternate reality... and it's not even really an alternate reality. It's just a jungle that appears.

 

[Mistral]

I couldn't remember the exact titles but :

Modesitt, L.E., Jr. The Ghost of the Revelator
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. Ghost of the White Nights
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. Ghost Stories
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. Ghosts of Columbia


And here's a forum with a story posted based on some game about a California that decides to become independent of Mexico-and white people.


http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?305869-The-Golden-Nation-California-%28VIP%29-AAR


I will try to post once more from my house this weekend-then I can just look on my bookshelfs.

Also, I believe there is at least one or two stories in the Worlds of H Beam Piper short story collection.

And you can go here to get a taste of Paul J McCauley: http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Paul J._McAuley.html

His novel, Cowboy Angels, is quite good, too.

And there is a duology : The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream
To Sail The Century Sea both by G. C. Edmondson which deal with time travel and parallel universes...

Kelly Country- A Bertram Russell a story about Ned Kelly with a twist

The Domination by S M Stirling

Bring the Jubilee-Ward Moore

Saberhagen, Fred. A Century of Progress

1945 by Newt Gingrich. Also Grant Goes East.

Fox On the Rhine by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson. And the sequel Fox at the Front

1901 by Robert Conroy He has a number of books about alt hist scenarios and is quite a good read

and if you like Horror scifi, Stableford, Brian. The Empire of Fear is a great tale of, well, vampires. With names like King Richard of England....

 

[stj]

Speaking of Modesitt, his Timediver books count I think.

And I forgot Clifford Simak's Ring Around the Sun. This is an unjustly forgotten classic, one of Simak's very best. I'd put it ahead of Way Station.

And Charles Stross has his Merchant Princes series.

 

[Silvercrest]

Saberhagen, Fred. A Century of Progress

Also The Mask of the Sun. A modern-day American pulled into a Temporal Cold War set during the conquest of the Incas. One faction is from a future where the Incas were never conquered and formed a high-tech society capable of time travel; the other is a somewhat similar version of the Aztecs. Other parties are involved.

It gets a little confusing at times and the nature of the war is never entirely made clear-- just like the other TCW! And the titular Mask is a literal deus ex machina that sometimes just resolves conflicts without ever explaining them. But the descriptions of Inca culture are really well-researched and presented.

 

[Icemizer]

The Lost Regiment series is pretty entertaining. Civil war soldiers swept into an alternate world where they must fight to live or be eaten. William Forstchen writes these.

 

[RandyS]

Parralelties by Alan Dean Foster. it's been a couple of years since I read it, so the only thing I remember about it is a man travels to parrallel universes involuntarily, and in one, has sex with a female version of himself, and they both hated it.

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold. I read this one in 1994, and all I remember about it is that I read it in 1994.

 

[nvek86]

I think "Interworld" by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves hasn't been mentioned yet. It's entertaining and (since it's not that long) a quick read.

 

[DrCorby]

Can't believe I didn't mention it in my first post, The Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny

LOVED the Chronicles of Amber!!

Not a novel, but Larry Niven has several stories on this subject. I think most are collected in his book All the Myriad Ways. I especially liked the story "For a Foggy Night". Niven proposes that fog shows where two realities are temporarily intersecting. Walk into a fogbank, and you might walk out... elsewhere.

 

[theenglish]

The Dark Tower series?

 

[timothy]

I am surprised know one has mention s.m. stirling or Harry Turtledove.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

If you had read the thread, you wouldn't be...

...since they did.

Also, I second Alternities, which was a really fun book.

 

[Mysterion]

Also, I second Alternities, which was a really fun book.

Wow. Someone else has actually read this book? Most folks I discuss alternate history related books with seem to have never heard of it.

It would make a good movie/mini-series if it were ever adapted, I think.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I've read it as well.

 

[Mysterion]

Well, maybe I'm just wrong in my assumprtion about how obscure it is.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

Thanks for all the recs!

Alternities by Michael Kube McDowell is a favorite of mine.

You might go here: http://www.uchronia.net/

A favorite site of mine actually. I'm sorry - I really wasn't asking after alternate history stories, which I use uchronia to scratch when I have that particular itch.

Right now I'm looking for things that deal specifically with a fictional universe in which there are multiple dimensions and the characters are dealing with this situation.

Thanks!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That reminds me, has the pilot for Doorways ever actually aired? I can never find any proof that it has. Did it just air once, and that was it?

 

[Greg Cox]

ed.- I almost forgot Mike Resnick edited a series of short story anthologies.
Alternate Generals


Alternate Kennedys (You HAVE to read The Winterberry!)

• Nicholas A. DiChario

Alternate Presidents
etc

"The Kennedy Enterprise" by David Gerrold (in Alternate Kennedys) is also great. It's set in an alternate universe in which JFK went into show-biz instead of politics and ended up as the star of a little tv show called Star Trek.

Plus, if you'll indulge me, I'm still proud of the tag-line I wrote for the cover of Alternate Kennedys:

"Ask not who the Kennedys were. Ask who they might have been."

One of my more inspired moments, if I do say so myself.

 

[Mysterion]

^^^
That is a great line.

And, The Winterberry is an excellent piece of alternate history story-telling.

 

[Greg Cox]

^^^
That is a great line.

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Thanks! I think I was blessed by the Blurb Fairy that afternoon.


There's also Time and Chance by Alan Brennert, which is a Twilight Zone-ish novel about a guy who trades places with alternate reality version of himself . . ..