Eternal Recurrence: Difference between revisions

* Something like this happens at the end of the [[Robert Heinlein]] short story "[[wikipedia:The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag|The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag]]", when the universe is remade to get rid of the Sons of the Bird.

* The Golems in ''[[Discworld]]'' believe that the universe is circular, and one (Anghammarad, in ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'') has been carrying a message to a long since deceased king with him for '''over nine thousand''' years, reasoning he'll get it right the next time.

* One of the many computer generated worlds in ''[[Otherland]]'' is based on ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass]]''. Every time one king or the other dies, the world is reset to how it was at the beginning of the game.

* In [[David Eddings]]' ''[[Belgariad]]'' and the sequels and prequels, this is used to explain why the same situation tends to reoccur over and over again. This was used partially as a wry acknowledgement of, and excuse for, [[David Eddings]]' lack of creativity, as he himself admits that he basically wrote it as an attempt to make the most generic fantasy plot of all good.