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"

Three Kinds of Lucky (The Shadow Age #1)
The Wandering Inn: Volume 2 (The Wandering Inn, #2)
All the Dead Shall Weep (Gunnie Rose, #5)
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)
The Quantum Curators and the Fabergé Egg (The Quantum Curators #1)
Invisible Sun (Empire Games, #3)
Subversive (Clandestine Magic, #1)
Robin and Her Misfits
Hearts Forged in Dragon Fire
Cinnamon Bun (Cinnamon Bun, #1)
The Peacekeeper (The Good Lands, #1)
Any Way the Wind Blows
Famous Men Who Never Lived
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Dark Matter
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1)
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2)
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Coraline
Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
The Midnight Library
Abraham Lincoln by Seth Grahame-SmithPride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-SmithBrothers Sen Gogh by Manik BalSense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. WintersEscape from Texas by James W. Russell
Revisionist Novels
26 books — 19 voters

NAUGHTY hotwife on vacation by Jae John-RoseLover Awakened by J.R. WardUnsaid by Avery AsterSheltered by Charlotte SteinUnconventional by Avery Aster
The Best of the Best (Erotic Romance)
48 books — 23 voters
Doctor Who by Steve ColeDoctor Who by Sophie IlesDoctor Who by Dave   RuddenDoctor Who by Una McCormackDoctor Who by Carrie Thompson
Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious
42 books — 6 voters

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen ChoWelcome to Night Vale by Joseph FinkThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-MohtarThe Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleThe Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Let's Get Weird
23 books — 6 voters


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Ilona Andrews
He’d spent the night in the boat. Next to the spaghetti queen. William glanced at the hobo girl. She sat across from him, huddled in a clump. Her stench had gotten worse overnight, probably from the dampness. Another night like the last one, and he might snap and dunk her into that river just to clear the air. She saw him looking. Dark eyes regarded him with slight scorn. William leaned forward and pointed at the river. “I don’t know why you rolled in spaghetti sauce,” he said in a confidenti ...more
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Dexter Palmer
You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance th ...more
Dexter Palmer, Version Control

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