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* [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s ''Odyssey'' novels are notable for each book taking place in a slightly separate universe than the one before it.

* Similarly, Clarke seemed to also regard the three ''Rama Cycle'' books cowritten with Gentry Lee as being set in a somewhat different universe to his original ''[[Rendezvous With Rama]]''. This may be less to do with continuity concerns and more to do with the fact that Lee wrote the bulk of these stories in a very different style and tone to Clarke's writing.

* In the stories about Jerry Cornelius and his friends by Michael Moorcock and others, continuity naturally fails between the various twentieth century time streams, and often within some of them in what is, after all, a multiverse.

* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] was known to disregard continuity whenever it suited him (mostly on the account of not seeing the point in continuity in the first place). The name "Old Ones" referred to both gods like Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth but also strange alien races like the one in ''The Shadow out of Time''. Likewise, he has claimed that the "nightmare plateau of Leng" is in Asia, Antarctica and an otherworldly dreamland in various stories. [[Unreliable Narrator|One's sanity is a tenuous thing, after all...]]

* [[Robert Rankin]]'s Brentford <s>trilogy</s> [[Trilogy Creep|octalogy]] keeps the [[Reset Button]] firmly held down at all times - Brentford itself has been repeatedly destroyed/heavily damaged {{spoiler|and on occasion, had the ''Great Pyramid of Giza'' teleported directly on top of it}}, world changing events are promptly ignored in later books, secondary characters disappear without a trace and almost the entire main cast {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All|was wiped out]] in book 3}}.

* In George Orwell's [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]], the dystopian government's power comes mainly from their ability to do this.

* The stories in ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' by Max Shulman contradict each other in many ways, as the author's note points out.

 

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