Alternate Reality

Alternate reality is usually a synonym for a Parallel universe.

It may also refer to:

  • Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe they're writing about.
  • Alternate Realities (Cherryh), an anthology of science fiction by C. J. Cherryh.
  • Alternate Reality (video game series)
  • Alternate reality game, a type of cross-media game.
  • Alternate Reality, A psychedelic dance music DJ/VJ team based in London, England.
  • Virtual reality, simulated reality.
  • A euphemism for "psychedelic experience".

Famous quotes containing the words alternate and/or reality:

    “I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow tentacular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.”
    —Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)