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| | Fictional universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many universes written in one or both of these genres feature physical and metaphysical laws different from our own that allow for magical, psychic and various other types of paranormal phenomena. | | | It generally consists of a time and place that invoke a sense of a distinct world, one which is unique to the content and context of the tales that it is used to tell. | | | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, when considered as all 5 books together, flits back and forth between different universes, or perhaps it is more accurate to say, flits through different time lines and different dimensions involving different states of existence for the characters and for the earth itself. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe
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| | Marvel Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Power Cosmic is a force that can alter reality, allowing the user to do whatever he or she wants (including breaking the laws of physics), only being limited by how much cosmic energy the character can tap at a time. | | | In addition, powerful magical beings from other dimensions have created specific, extremely powerful magical spells that they allow to be used (often indiscriminately) by those sorcerers who invoke their names; one example is the trinity of beings called The Vishanti, who serve as patrons to heroic sorcerers. | | | It seems to be part of the universe itself, and is mostly used by cosmic entities. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Universe
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| | The Philosophy of the Wold Newton Universe and the Crossover Chronology |
| | The Philosophy of the Wold Newton Universe and the Crossover Chronology | | | For the convenience of the reader who chooses not to include superhero universe references in his or her version of the Wold Newton Universe, the references are in green text. | | | The crossover stories establish that there are other characters who co-exist with the characters populating the Wold Newton Universe, although the newly-added characters are not necessarily a part of the Wold Newton Family tree. |
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http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Chron0.htm
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| | World Building |
| | If we define Fantastic Literature as fiction placed in a setting that is divergent from the reality the writer inhabits, then SF is that class of Fantastic Literature where this divergence is the result of a rational extrapolation of a change in the writer's reality. | | | As a rule, a reader will allow a writer to alter anything about the universe, as long as the writer explains why what we thought we knew is wrong. | | | If you write of stellar or planetary exploration, know the stars and planets you're using. |
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http://www.sff.net/people/SASwann/text/wb.htm
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| | Forum - Wich animals you want to have in Adellion? |
| | Adellion is fictional, so therefore the argument that in this universe the chances are another planet so similar to earth would not exist. | | | So when we say 'this is not earth", we are saying that we are creating a work of fiction and therefore have the right to use our imagination in creating the world. | | | But like a story, it is certainly possible to use the same trees, animals, etc. because the fiction is written in our world. |
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http://www.adellion.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4936
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| | On Crossovers |
| | Before that year his books had possessed an internal consistency, but it was in 1834 when he systematically began making use of recurring characters, with 23 of them appearing in the first edition of Le Père Goriot (1835). | | | The next significant kind of crossover began in 1834, when Honoré de Balzac finally articulated to himself the idea of making his individual novels part of a coherent whole, an individual fictional universe. | | | The first truly modern crossover--that is, one in which characters from different creators are brought together in a story or novel by another creator--took place in 1872, when "Theopholis M'Crib" published Kennaquhair. |
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http://ratmmjess.tripod.com/crossovers.html
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| | Robert Mercer |
| | His argument employs the "complex question" fallacy to claim that by suspending disbelief, we implicitly agree to accept a particular mode of interpretation (his mode, naturally), when nothing could be further from the truth. | | | The general arguments against technobabble are based in: (1) the nature of technobabble as dialog vice an observable event (the priority of the visual over the verbal); and/or (2) the "nonsensical" nature of technobabble. | | | You are no longer comparing that reality to another (unless you are drawing a direct comparison to reality-as-it-is), you are drawing a comparison between a particular interpretation of a reality (and not necessarily a particularly faithful one) and another reality. |
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http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Gothmog/Mercer.html
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| | Chapter 45 - The Last Words of Zebulon Hendrix |
| | But more wondrous by far is the Author who exceeds by infinite measure the greatest of the authors of the greatest fictive tomes and tales. | | | Yes, folks, I've come to believe Egghead when he says that we're all just fantastic fictional creatures in a book of mysterious origin. | | | I've heard tell that there's a whopping big passel of undeveloped woods up in the Panhandle which neither man nor fictional creature has trampled to death. |
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http://www.literarylights.com/rainbow_chap45.shtm
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| | Ex Astris Scientia - What is Canon? |
| | Books are non-canon because of their printed nature, even those officially released by Paramount via Pocket Books and with people working on the show as authors (reviews). | | | As we can see, the word originally used for the "divinely inspired" literature of Christian churches has been passed on to describe the valid parts of a fiction. | | | In this sense canon stands for what we could find in the history books or other records of the fictional universe. |
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http://ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/canon.htm
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| | Barbelith Underground > Temple > I'm gonna summon THE BATMAN! |
| | so is this a fiction reality ala Animal Man where the 2 of you are the only ones who know it (like psycho pirate and AM himself, and the indian guy...been so long). | | | That is, assuming the reason is enough that you know he would do it. | | | (Mind you, I'm crazy, so I don't expect you to believe this yourself, necessarily) I exist in a fictional reality, so it seems quite possible that I can leave my fictional reality and travel to another one. |
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http://www.barbelith.com/topic.php?id=13374
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| | Tomorrowlands.org The Tomorrowlands Disclaimer |
| | Which isn't to say that alien abductions are necessarily real, or only explainable by that hypothesis. | | | Just that they shouldn't be judged by the fact that someone was a smart enough cookie to make a popular piece of fiction out of the idea. | | | Of course, no matter what I say, I'm sure someone will walk away thinking of my reality as just another of my stories. |
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http://www.tomorrowlands.org/story/fiction.html
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| | SF Citations for OED |
| | He was not, he knew, the easiest man in the universe to live with. | | | My first memories of this kind of science-fictional universe are Edmond Hamilton's galactic adventure yarns for Weird Tales. | | | Such stories fall into two main categories, both well represented in science fiction. |
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http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/1208
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| | Gothmog debate rebuttal 2/5 |
| | The question of what does and doesn't "really" happen in a fictional universe has nothing whatsoever to do with law. | | | In objective reality, appearance and event are not easily (or usually separate), but the same is not necessarily true of fictional settings. | | | The statements do not rule out canonicity for any materials not explicitly listed, but do tell us some material that is canon. |
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http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/HateMail/Gothmog/Round-2b.html
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| | Sime~Gen - Introduction |
| | Every professional novel book has a Relationship driven plot, and most are action stories pivoted around a love story featuring romance, love and/or committment. | | | NEW NOVELS ADDED - by Meisha Merlin Publishing Inc. You may Order Sime~Gen: The Unity Trilogy containing House of Zeor, Ambrov Keon and Zelerod's Doom. | | | Scheduled for July 2004, this volume will include a Zhag-Tonyo story by Jean, plus a very short novel by Jacqueline titled Personal Recognizance. |
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http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/welcommittee/intros~g.html
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| | [No title] |
| | While all planes within the Forgotten Lore Multiverse operate under a single set of universal laws of nature, each plane was formed by the force of will of its particular greater god and emphasizes this nature by having become an environment that mirrors the personality and character of this greater god. | | | Lesser gods, typically strong 2nd waves, much like greater gods influence the general nature of the Forgotten Lore environment in their image. | | | The Centaur god and a Treant god live here and on the 2nd layer (moving around whenever they chose). |
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http://www.fred.net/knopp/mop.doc
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| | Star Trek actor’s novel expands on fictional universe - THE DAILY BRUIN ONLINE |
| | Before Isaac Asimov, the science fiction genre was similar to the horror genre, providing a chilling vision of something that might exist. | | | Indeed, the charm of the novel comes from its settings deep within Cardassia, a place that is light years away from Shakespeare's England. | | | While much of the Star Trek universe is Federation-centric, Robinson delivers a world where humans are careless, good-intentioned meddlers, and Cardassians are the characters the reader must identify with. |
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http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=911
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| | Pikeman's Rants: George Lucas Rant |
| | You don't care about us, the millions of fans that have made your universe what it is by loving it and expanding upon it. | | | These authors then worked carefully with one another to maintain a cogent story line that flowed as clearly as possible. | | | I think, however, that one of the characteristics that has made Star Wars so popular over the years is its enormous scope. |
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http://www.evula.com/rants/pikeman/george_lucas.php
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| | Church of Reality |
| | Likewise the fictional universe makes up our reality and controls our universe with their books and stories. | | | This universe includes Spiderman, Superman, Zeus, Osirus, Thor, Dr. Strange, Jesus, Apollo, Vishnu, Allah, God, the Boggie Man, Satan, Spock, and Captain Kirk. | | | Their books include the Bible and the Koran and no one doubts the control they have in our reality. |
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http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/flying_spaghetti_monster
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| | Shards Universe |
| | Although the planets man will settle in this Universe are fictional, the stars themselves are accurate in location, distance and class. | | | The story exists only as a typed manuscript, and there is only one copy. | | | Sign of Iron was the first Roids Cavanaugh story written in the Shards Universe, but not the first ever written. |
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http://shardsuniverse.net
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| | The NATIVE TONGUE trilogy, by Suzette Haden Elgin: Questions and Topics for Discussion |
| | In addition to being a science fiction trilogy, the three books are also a thought-experiment. | | | Does it add anything to the novels for which it is a frame? | | | They were used to "release" the Láadan language into the real world outside the novels, to observe what happened to it, and to test the data against the hypotheses the novel was exploring. |
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http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/NativeTongue/NT0_Trilogy_DiscussQ.html
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| | HERO GAMES Discussion Boards - Fake TV-Shows |
| | For example: On Muprhy Brown, FYI was the name of the news show they all worked on. | | | Chow, sister of Green Dragon) She is currently big enough to be the "hot chick of the week" in various TV shows, but never gets the good roles. |
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http://www.herogames.com/forums/printthread.php?t=28113
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| | Alibris: Ursula Fanning |
| | This book provides a detailed analysis of the fiction of a Neapolitan novelist and journalist whose work spanned the turn of the last century and, widely translated, was in her own lifetime the object of both critical and popular acclaim. | | | Gender Meets Genre: Women as Subject in the Fictional Universe of Matilde Serao | | | Serao is placed firmly in her socio-political context, against the background of post-unification Naples and... |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Ursula_Fanning
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| | The Tradëscan Codex |
| | I couldn't find it on google and all my writing books are at home.) And without a doubt, whether in the form of a short story or a novel, the story is the most commonly encountered narrative form in contemporary mainstream literature. | | | But I've recently read (And wrote a paper on) the short stories of the Russian writer Isaac Babel, and this got me thinking, because there are a lot of similarities between the way that Babel structures his stories as fanfic writers do, without a clear, conventionally delineated conflict, crisis, and resolution. | | | You see, when we think about our universes, we assume that the canon--a set of propositional facts--applies to a fictional universe, a "possible world" to use analytic philosophy language. |
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http://alixtii.livejournal.com
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| | Game Studies 0501: Star Wars Galaxies Review by Timothy Burke |
| | No one comes into Ultima Online planning to play an anonymous serf, and yet, a massive social foundation of serf-like labor ought to be the essence of economic realism in a faux-medieval setting. | | | It’s like reading a book report by a dedicated, meticulous but unimaginative high school student”. | | | They might not have bothered to do so, but this was like not fighting an opponent who is so inconsequential that they are not worth the time to kill. |
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http://www.gamestudies.org/0501/burke
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| | IGN: Comics in Context #22: Major League: Part 1 |
| | Marvel stories ranged into future times (the era of Kang the Conqueror) and ancient times (the era of Kang's other identity, Pharaoh Rama-Tut), into other planets and galaxies (the Kree and Skrull Empires), and other dimensions (like Dormammu's Dark Dimension). | | | So it was that in Amazing Spider-Man #1 the title character tried to join the Fantastic Four, and in Daredevil #2 its star, Matt Murdock, turned out to be the F.F.'s lawyer. | | | It was probably Mark Gruenwald who coined the phrase "Marvel Universe," making it part of the title of his creation, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, to which I contributed in its various editions. |
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http://comics.ign.com/articles/595/595600p4.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: OR: ORI |
| | He is a Dwarf of the House of Durin, and brother to Nori and Dori. | | | Ori is a fictional character in J. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth. |
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| | TheFourthRail.com |
| | Yurkovich has his own characters and shared universe of a sort, but Altercations is not set up to shill any of those other books. | | | However, the more analytical look at the super-hero genre is still quite welcome, and though the vignettes often leave me wanting more, I found the structure of this book and the ideas presented within to be solidly entertaining and interesting. | | | The use of chapter breaks by Alfred Pinchley, apparently a noted commentator, really helps to set the tone and having Pinchley and Yurkovich discuss what is real and what has been embellished helps to create an academic tone that really establishes what Altercations is all about. |
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http://www.thefourthrail.com/reviews/snapjudgments/121602/altercations1.shtml
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| | DCU Chronology Introduction |
| | Examples abound throughout the whole range of modern fiction, from Tolkien’s Middle Earth to John LeCarre’s British spy “Circus,” from the Victorian London of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes to the futuristic vision of Star Trek. | | | The more complex such a Universe becomes, the more crucial it becomes to determine, What is canonical and what is apocryphal?—and the more difficult it becomes to answer that question, and adhere to the answer. | | | This obviously may be as much for marketing as for story reasons, as noted above, but it’s a consideration nevertheless. |
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http://dcu.smartmemes.com/_DCTL_MainIntro.html
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| | The Fiendish Glow -- Karaoke Selections -- Menu |
| | or they may be sung by a character in that universe. | | | they may tell a story in a fictional universe, | | | Tunesmiths and lyricists are credited wherever we can figure out who they are; |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~webwarren/glow/karaoke.html
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| | Andromeda RPG- Or does bad TV/books make good gaming? - RPGnet Forums |
| | Wheras if you had to do the same with the B5 universe, the plaers might stuggle to match the oratory of Sheridan (who could deliver a good speech when called upon), intricate relationship betwen Londo and G'Kar and other great characters. | | | The players can muck around doing whatever they want, so why bother playing in said universe when a generic/non-license/homebrewed system will do? | | | Not only have the ficitonal characters been the centre of the fictional universe and so do all the awesome, epic feats but they've often done it with more style and panache than the typical group can muster. |
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http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=7578
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| | Terminology:Universe - VsWiki |
| | Thus, one should be able to describe it :) | | | This page was last modified 21:53, 1 May 2005. | | | The Vegastrike universe seen from the real world |
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http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/Terminology:Universe
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| | What's the Big Idea? Balance and the Universe |
| | And, of course, there's Newton's third law: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Is balance everywhere, and in everything, and operating at every level? | | | The balanced universe of the novel is non-local…a circle rather than a straight line. | | | View the world as Many, that is, as separate things with unique individual identities, and the conventional real world of space-time is manifest. |
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http://www.donnee.com/big-idea.htm
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| | John Cowan's Home Page |
| | A bit of dialogue spoken in the English of various centuries. | | | Pretty close to my view of Jesus (I'm an agnostic, which means I don't know if there is a God or not and I don't believe you do either.) | | | Sound files from (and hosted by) Melinda Menzer at Furman University. |
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| | Universe - Uncyclopedia |
| | Leading scientists claim that the universe was just dropped accidently by a passing god. | | | They further claim that the universe is just entering a transdimensianal area they call the Great Lost and Found and that, in the end, the god that lost it will finally reclaim it. | | | Either that or it will be pawned to some kid. |
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Universe
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| | Halfbakery: Fictional Universe Studies |
| | I thought this was going to be a serious textbook on the nature of various universes in fiction, which a professor would use to teach a class. | | | This story is about a fictional planet that became so exhaustively documented that it eventually supplanted our own. | | | What does that suggest about her?" But it seems to be a pop-culture trivia book. |
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http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Fictional_20Universe_20Studies
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| | Re: Identity |
| | fiction: just rerun my argument with a non-fictional example. | | | For example, you like to think that the term 'Jupiter' denotes a planet, and that this planet is a solid well-defined thing, right? | | | In all these cases ('Jupiter' and the web examples) we, humans, impose a categorization on the universe we observe into distinct objects with identity and it's not really clear that this grouping into objects has any independent existence outside our heads. |
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http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/199906/post10620.html
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| | Metaphilm - Star Wars |
| | The universes themselves are, after all, like theories: theories about how certain characters would act in certain situations, theories about how their various magical or superscientific abilities can be logically reconciled with one another, and theories about which fictional systems will best keep fans addicted. | | | The official Star Wars website touts an “opaque window” theory to explain why some versions of Star Wars reality, such as the spin-off comic books and videogames, do not seem to capture the main Star Wars reality as accurately as the films do. | | | DC Comics, the creators of Batman, literally blew up their fictional universe in a 1985 comic book series, starting over from scratch in hopes of making the whole thing more consistent and modern. |
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http://metaphilm.com/philm.php?id=416_0_2_0_M
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| | Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica :.: babylon 5 aliens ships creatures |
| | To set down one's perceptions of the universe in writing was a violent act, assaulting the truth of another's universe to suit your own. | | | That within each of us exists the true universe, but its form and structure never matching that of those around. | | | It is an act of selfishness and hubris that would bring dark punishments. |
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http://infinicorp.com/VEX
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| | The Celestia Motherlode: ArcBuilder Universe |
| | This is a system for the ArcBuilder Universe set | | | Includes a large solar system, with several terrestrial and gas worlds, as well as a large number of moons. | | | The AMT Almucantar, a cargo ship for the ArcBuilder Universe. |
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http://celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fic_arcbuilder.php
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| | Planetary Issue 9 |
| | But the experiment has taken an unexpected, grisly turn, as a being from the fictional universe has returned with the "fictionauts" and killed the entire crew. | | | What ever happened to the creature who accompanied the fictionauts back from the fictional universe (still at large)? | | | I'm not sure if I should thank him or send him hate mail. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~rkkman/frames/summaries/S9.htm
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| | A Checklist for Critiquing Science Fiction |
| | Along the way, does the story force us to think? | | | Is the reader truly transported into another place, a place he could imagine living in? | | | This page was last modified on Tuesday January 04 2005. |
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http://www.sfwa.org/writing/checklist.html
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| | Tommy Westphall - A Multiverse Explored |
| | There isn't necessarily any rhyme or reason with having one series connect to another. | | | B. Episodes where actual people exist within a fictional sphere are not included (such as Jay Leno, Alex Trebek, and professional wrestlers and athletes who have played themselves on many shows some of which are listed here). | | | Others make mention of specific parts of the "St Elsewhere" fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere. |
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http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html
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| | Sports Mogul Inc. Forums - What's your favorite year? |
| | I'm not really interested in historical recreations personally, and I can give or take having real players at present (I'd just sim ahead to create a fictional universe if so). | | | But I do realize that I am in the minority. | | | I'd prefer to be able to start in 2005 with the game generating a completely fictional universe. |
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http://www.sportsmogul.com/vbulletin2/printthread.php?t=69985
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| | Open Directory - Games:Video Games:Action:Space Combat |
| | Sites directly related to video game titles which are primarily set in a futuristic or fictional universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. | | | Collections of games based around a space theme (such as Star Wars or Star Trek) are listed here, even though certain individual titles may not be space combat titles. | | | The player commands a large starship in a semi-persistent universe. |
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http://dmoz.org/Games/Video_Games/Action/Space_Combat/desc.html
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| | Vidiian - Psychology Central |
| | The Vidiians are a fictional race in the Star Trek fictional universe that are under the affliction of a plague called the Phage. | | | They possess medical technology far more advanced than Starfleet, as they must constantly replace their organs with transplants, often stolen, to remain alive. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Vidiian
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| | ipedia.com: Stan Lee Article |
| | Stan Lee: And the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book. | | | Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922) is an American writer and editor who, with several artists/co-creators, especially Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, introduced complex characters and a thoroughly shared fictional universe into superhero comic books. | | | His success helped change Marvel Comics from a small publishing house to a large multimedia corporation. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/stan_lee.html
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| | Tar-Elendil - Psychology Central |
| | Tar-Elendil (350 - 751 S.A., r 590 - 740 S.A.) is a fictional character of Middle-earth, the fictional universe created by J. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Tar-Elendil
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| | Alliance of Fictional Fighting |
| | This site dedicated to a fictional boxing universe. | | | Boxers, utilities, and other files used in this universe... | | | Fictional boxers compiled from certain members of the TCBC forums |
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http://jcarpenter6350.home.mchsi.com/Boxing/boxinghome.html
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| | THEORIES |
| | This is the third trajectory: programming in computer games (1960-). | | | After all, this is not the same as writing a script that draws a few lines that keep moving in response to user input...yes, but why our fictional/figurative works have to follow the formulas of commercial media? | | | Now, programming was put in the service of traditional cinematic realism. |
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http://www.neen.org/wb/files/FAQ.htm
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