Fictional Universes
] Fantastic Earth
An earth much like ours, but with some fantastic twists.
• Anita Blake universe, by Laurell K. Hamilton
• Buffyverse by Joss Whedon
• Bleach universe
• Charmed universe by Constance M. Burge and Brad Kern
• Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft and others
• Digimon universe and Digital World within
• Highlander universe of TV and movies
• Pokémon universe, by Satoshi Tajiri
• Yu-Gi-Oh! universe, by Kazuki Takahashi
• Death Note universe
• The Wizarding world of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
• Breeniverse for the lonelygirl15 and KateModern
• Godzilla universe where all the Toho monsters exist in one separate timeline. Created by Ishiro Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya
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Archaic Earth
A fantasy world that is asserted to be Earth in an imaginary age of the distant past.
• The Asian-influenced world of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Hyborian Age in the Conan the Barbarian stories of Robert E. Howard. An earlier (but geographically very different) version of the same world featured in Howard’s King Kull stories.
• Arda in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Nyumbani in the works of Charles R. Saunders
• The Earth of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess.
• God of War of the God of War series of video games.
• The Endless Valley Shadow of the Colossus
Alternate history Earth
The past or present of an Earth where history diverged slightly from our experience.
• The Domination series written by S. M. Stirling
• Timeline-191 series written by Turtledove
• The Years of Rice and Salt, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world history.
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
• Worldwar series written by Harry Turtledove
• Wild Cards series edited by George R. R. Martin
• Glorianna of Quest for Glory (video game)
• Tarrantry created by Rick Robinson
• Code Geass universe.
• The totalitarian Earth in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (a future when written, now an alternate history)
• North America in the Tales of Alvin Maker series of novels by Orson Scott Card
• The universe in which The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres co-exist, linked by the appearance of the characters Uncle Joe Carson (played by Edgar Buchanan) and “Dog” (played by the dog actor Higgins) in all three series.
• The owl kingdoms of Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’hoole series.
• The Emberverse series written by S. M. Stirling
• The history in which the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde are based
Future Earth
Earth as it may be in the future.
• The Four Lands by Terry Brooks
• Matrix movie universe, consisting of “our world in 2199″ and a false reality created by machines.
• 2000 AD (comic) (Judge Dredd et al.)
• Terminator movie universe.
• The Bobbleverse of Vernor Vinge’s novels The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime.
• Blade Runner dystopia, based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick This may be canon with Total Recall and Minority Report as the authors works are linked with subtle similarities.
• Third Earth from the Pendragon Adventure Universe.
• Aldous Huxley’s pseudo-utopian Brave New World
• Randland in The Wheel of Time novels by Robert Jordan
• Futurama created by Matt Groening
Dying Earth
Main article: Dying Earth subgenre
Earth in the distant future, when the shapes of lands have changed.
• Briah – name of the setting in several novels and short stories by Gene Wolfe
• The Dying Earth – Jack Vance et al.
• Sunfall – C. J. Cherryh
• Viriconium – M. John Harrison
• Zothique – Clark Ashton Smith
• Randland – Robert Jordan
• Filgaia – Wild Arms
Lost Lands
A land which is asserted to exist somewhere on Earth and which can be reached, usually with difficulty, by travelers. See also Fictional country and List of fictional countries.
• Oz – L. Frank Baum
• The lands of Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
• Lyonesse – Jack Vance
• Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (inside a hollow Earth)
• The Plateau in The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle
• The island of Dinotopia – of author and illustrator James Gurney
• The Lost island – from the television series Lost
• Egon – the futuristic world beneath the ocean in Lionel Davidson’s children’s novel Under Plum Lake
• The Country of the Blind – from the short story of the same name by H. G. Wells
• The islands of the Abarat- from the book Abarat by Clive Barker
• Gensokyo of Touhou Project.
