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Art of Pal'mystery’

A Fictional Universe

A fictional universe is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a
narrative work or work of art , most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science
fiction . Fictional universes appear in novels , comics , films , television shows , video games , art ,
and other creative works.

A fictional universe may be
an alternative version of the real world ,
differing only in the particulars of the story. All
fiction , in this sense, is set in a fictional
universe, since at least some of its characters,
events, and places are not real; the term
"fictional universe", however, is usually not
applied to worlds that do not contain
speculative elements.
When the setting of a
fictional universe is not presented as our own
world but as its own distinct world, it is often

instead called a fictional
world or "fantasy world " .In science fiction such
a fictional world may be a remote alien planet or
galaxy with little apparent relationship to the
real world (as in Star Wars ); in fantasy it may be
a greatly fictionalized or invented version of
earth's distant past or future (as in The Lord of
the Rings ). When such a world is meant to have
no connection to our own world (in effect, our
world does not exist in that world's reality) or is
presented as a reality that can only be
accessed from our own by a portal , it is
sometimes called a secondary world; such
settings are common in high fantasy (as in The
Chronicles of Narnia , Earthsea , and
Discworld ). A fictional world that is meant to
exist inside the real world (as in the Land of Oz
or the Neverland ) may be termed a fictional
realm.