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* The trope's name comes from Moorcock's books. His many books range a vast array of worlds yet a sizable proportion of them are connected via [[Canon Welding]]. [[Robert A. Heinlein]] used this name in ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' (see below) as well.
* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Book of Amber]]'' has one reality, Amber, which casts an infinite number of Shadows, each one a full world (with Earth among them) or some strange reality area (like that bar [[Alice in Wonderland|where Cheshire Cat hangs out]], or bridge-linked islands floating in a starry sky without any ground below). The Princes of Amber can travel at will to these worlds by using Tarot cards as portals (some can make their own, but it's uncommon), or by walking the shadows and altering them until they stand in the world they desire. On the "opposite end" are Courts of Chaos — the Rim, and beyond it there are no Shadows, just Chaos. Then there's "land between the shadows" aka "negative space". Then there's the "mirrorworld".
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s series, stand-alones and short stories often feature Multiverses or at least two different alternate realities. Count them:
** ''The [[Chrestomanci]] Chronicles''
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* The Quantum Enchantment trilogy and its sequel by Kim Falconer uses the 'many-worlds' concept as a plot device. Working from memory, there is a dystopian Earth a few hundred years in the future, and a completely separate world where magic and the like are common place. Throughout the series, the characters manage to get themselves lost in the 'corridors' between the worlds, often returning to what would be their home but for some sort of twist- a battle was won instead of lost, time flows in a different direction, person X never existed. It gets somewhat confusing after a while.
* [[Vasili Golovachov]]'s ''The Saviors of the Fan'' duology (made up of ''The Envoy'' and ''The Deliverer'') has a myriad parallel worlds some of which are similar to ours, while others vary wildly. And that's just those organized into a linked structure called the Worldfan, of which our world is a part, with the implication that there are countless other worlds. According to the protagonist's half-Japanese friend, some of these worlds may be familiar from folk tales or science fiction/fantasy novels, as information has a tendency to "leak" between the worlds, meaning all those stories are actually true in other worlds. There is a world where the mere act of moving alters the surrounding reality, or a world made up of a gigantic tree.
* The Crystal-verse series by Vladislav Krapivin. "Great Crystal" being the model of Multiverse most commonly used by those interested in such matters. They are mostly navigable via "facet intersections", where one can walk between the worlds, though usually are anisotropic, open [[When the Planets Align|periodically]] rather constantly, and accessibility of edge areas (thus set of routes available for a given individual) varies. Talents for using and finding routes vary wildly, and are trainable. Some people also can travel anywhere "directly", that is rip themselves out of the current continuum, to float in non-space for a few seconds and be dropped in another place, usually wherever desired, though their visualisation of process and attitudes vary wildly (on the average they [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|find it very unsettling and avoid unless needed]]). And there are "mechanical" means, if less than convenient ones. Worlds and places range in Multiverse-awareness from not having such theories in common knowledge (you may meet "our world" there, unless it's that other one, or… etc), to having regular local fairs where people can buy unusual confections and cool weird trinkets without caring about their origin, to studying Multiverse in ways resembling radio astronomy, to treating services of a guide for interspatial travel as yet another legitimate business (if somewhat exotic one).
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