| 1950 J. D. MacDonald Shadow on Sand in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 27/1
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We have made the basic and very important discovery of a twin planetary system corresponding to our own, separated from us only by a symbolic logician's definition of reality. This is not a completely physical and technical phenomenon. It is a philosophical phenomenon. In simplest terms the formula can be expressed this way: The twin world exists because any definitive explanation of reality presupposes alternate realities. Thus the doorway was achieved by the creation of unreality. Call it negative matter if you will. A sphere where there is no reality must, through the application of the basic formula, be a bridge between realities.
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| 1978 G. S. Elrick Sci. Fiction Handbk. 30
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Alternate reality , (fiction) another—equally valid but not always attainable—way of experiencing existence. Implicit in the concept is the postulate that there may be a multiplicity of universes nested together, Chinese-box fashion, though each discrete universe normally is oblivious of the others.
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| 1984 D. Brin Practice Effect i. i. 1
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By using zievatronics alternate realities appear to be almost within our reach, presenting possibilities for bypassing both space and time.
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| 1989 Isaac Asimov's Sci. Fiction Mag. Dec. 175/2
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Serving as a kind of space-time Metro with gates leading into other worlds, other times, other alternate realities.
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| 1992 L. Tuttle Lost Futures 95
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We're not bound by the same limitations, and we can become aware of alternate realities.
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| 1992 Locus Aug. 31/3
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Anyone reasonably well-read in sf will pick up on the possibility of alternate realities here, but things get stranger.
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| 1993 Locus Oct. iv. 33/3
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Hamilton, whose previous work was pleasant but innocuous fantasy, changes style and direction abruptly in this neo-noir alternate-reality vampire novel.
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