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	Shared universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Shared universe is a literary technique in which several different authors share settings and characters which appear in their respective works of fiction, often referring to events taking place in the other writers' stories.
		Shared fictional universes tend to appear more frequently in fantasy and science fiction than in other genres.
		From time to time, two comics publishers may jointly produce a "crossover" in which characters from their respective universes interact; these stories are commonly presented as "out of continuity" to avoid entangling the universes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shared_universe (1386 words)

	Marvel Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer/editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters grow and change.
		The New Universe was intended to be a more realistic, self-contained superhero universe, but due to a combination of a lack of editorial support and a general disinterest on the part of the readers, the line was cancelled after three years.
		This concept is fairly rare; another example of a fictional universe that seeks to use all types of fantastic elements is the DC Universe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marvel_Universe (3598 words)

	Shared universe: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		A Shared universe is a literary technique (literary technique: novels and short stories do not simply come from nowhere....
		Shared fictional universes tend to appear more frequently in fantasy (fantasy: Imagination unrestricted by reality) and science fiction (science fiction: Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) than in other genres.
		While professional/corporate shared universes usually attempt to maintain overall continuity (continuity: Uninterrupted connection or union), the sheer number of amateur writers working in any given shared universe make for less stringent continuity between writers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/shared_universe (2069 words)

	Poly-Solipsism - BrainMeta.com Forum
		Truth in one universe is different than the truth in another universe, even though we may be standing right next to another person, the universe we each exist in, is a different universe.
		In another universe they do not exist at all, and the person existing in that universe will not see one, even if they were standing right next to a person existing in the a universe where ghost do exist.
		Universe is a shared illusion, and therefore everything we perceive as being ‘in Universe' is also an illusion.
	brainmeta.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=6082 (8136 words)

	The Gargoyles Fans Website :: The Grimorum Arcanorum
		In the world of role playing games -- and shared universes -- making any kind of permanent change to the character, like say, death, is off-limits to the other writers/gamers unless it's by the consent of the character's creator.
		Part of the appeal of shared universes is the opportunity to work with your peers to craft the best story possible.
		Sharing a universe means we all have the same source material.
	www.gargoyles-fans.org /grimorum/chapter2.htm (2697 words)

	Article 10: The Story So Far
		Comics are uniquely placed to put the shared universe at the centre of their stories, because of their publishing format - a whole load of indefinitely continuing monthly series under the common control of a publisher who's in a position to exercise some kind of overall editorial control over the universe.
		'Comics are uniquely placed to put the shared universe at the centre of their stories.' One of the points where superhero comics went wrong is when a generation of fans became creators and started playing around with the existing ideas, trying to draw convoluted connections between them, just for the hell of doing so.
		At its worst, you end up with a situation where the shared universe backdrop itself becomes the story, and the individual series are relegated to bit parts in the overall storyline.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=235 (1580 words)

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		One emerging model for the support of co- operative distributed applications is that of a distributed shared universe organized as a set of objects shared by concurrent activities.
		Shared objects are grouped in clusters; a cluster is implemented as a persistent segment, which may be dynamically mapped in a context (virtual address space) associated with a task.
		The linkage segment of a class is shared by all the instances of this class mapped in the same context.
	www.usenix.org /publications/library/proceedings/sedms4/full_papers/chevalier.txt (5342 words)

	Writer's Guide to the Shared GateWar Universe
		This means the universe is governed by at least the rudimentary laws of science and mathematics (as we know it).
		Once the shared messages and themes are identified, most of the differences can be written off as being mostly ritualistic in nature and thus of little consequence (certainly nothing worth killing over).
		That religion and science have a shared goal of understanding the true nature of the universe and that both are necessary agencies in bringing about orderly progress to society and individual's understanding of ones place in the universe.
	gatewar.com /develop/writer.html (2312 words)

	METAmystery: Mechanisms of Manifestation Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		However I suspect they are mistaken in assuming that our shared reality is the only reality and that therefore the act of perceiving itself actually collapses the ZPF wave function reducing its potentiality to that which has been perceived.
		In any given Universe of Perception it therefore becomes the 1st act of perception that thereby instantiates any element to be ‘written’ into the ‘script’ of that Universe for others to share.
		Perceiving other Universes may give far greater opportunity for intent to script the experience than is possible in the dream of the planet.
	www.metamystery.com /consciousness/blog/archives/core_integrated_themes/mechanisms_of_manifestation (1870 words)

	Developing open support for heterogeneous shared spaces
		A similar model of shared spaces is built into the services supporting Teamwave, while the development of the NSTP protocol uses "places" and "things".
		Essentially the majority of shared interface systems agree on the need to allow resources and information to be shared, the provision of techniques to structure this sharing and the need to allow users to be aware of the activities of others.
		Secondly, by moving the data sharing into the distributed system, the natural boundaries of sharing between applications can be transcended, allowing the data to be accessed and shared across applications, operating system and network.
	www.i3net.org /ser_pub/annualconf/abstracts/parea/heterogen.html (356 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In the informatic domain, it means for shared universe, an environment in which a common metalanguage joints man and computer in communicating; this metalanguage is of metaphoric kind.
		According to the authors, the interfaces must be designed in the shared universe between man and computer.
		As the man-system is composed of elementary reflexes, of simplex ones, of chain of reflexes, of primary instincts (instinct- learning), of cognitive structures (thought-speech) it'll be necessary, before expressing the experimental design, to analyze theoretically this complexity as a single system in the behavioural-motor and conceptual-virtual circle.
	galileo.cincom.unical.it /pubblicazioni/papers/1995/HCI95.htm (590 words)

	FAQ: What is a "shared universe"?
		The concept of a "shared universe" may not sound familiar to you, but chances are that you have seen them all of your life.
		If you find a "shared universe" on the web, and its contents are made available under one of these licenses, then you can be sure that it truly is a shared universe.
		If you find a web site which proclaims itself a "shared universe", but it is emblazoned with fierce pronouncements of copyrights, and which threatens harsh penalties for anyone using the contents without permission, then what you have discovered is not a shared universe at all.
	www.rpglibrary.org /jump.php?id=302 (677 words)

	Sequart.com Columns > Sequential Culture #7: Continuity: No-Prizes, Retcons, and the Mental Acrobatics of Continuity ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		At Marvel, the notion of a shared universe was deeply inscribed.
		Called the Ultimate universe, its characters were introduced amidst contemporary culture rather than in the 1960s that defined so many of their characters' original versions and, to this day, their origins.
		Part of the charm of these shared universes is the sheer bulk of their narratives, and even the fact that one cannot read them due to their fracture into so many different titles in any single coherent fashion.
	www.sequart.com /columns?column=233 (4838 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Larger publishers such as DC and Marvel may have minor universes in addition to a primary universe, as well as titles which are not part of a universe.
		Posts concerning the appearance of Marvel Universe characters in the universes of other publishers or in the Ultraverse may be crossposted between the appropriate group and rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe.
		Newsgroups lines: rec.arts.comics.dc.universe DC Comics' shared universe and characters rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe Marvel Comics' shared universe and characters rec.arts.comics.elfquest The Elfquest universe and characters rec.arts.comics.other-media Comic book spinoffs in other media CHARTERS rec.arts.comics.dc.universe rec.arts.comics.dc.universe is for posts about the shared universe of characters published by DC Comics, insofar as no more appropriate group or subgroup exists.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.arts.comics-reorg2 (4635 words)

	Sequart.com Columns > Continuity: No-Prizes, Retcons, and the Mental Acrobatics of Continuity Repair (Sequential ...
		At Marvel, the notion of a shared universe was deeply inscribed.
		The problems of continuity are often regarded as the consequences of this phenomenon of quickly-produced interlocking narratives occurring in the same narrative universe and running, in the case of both DC and Marvel, since the late 1930s.
		Part of the charm of these shared universes is the sheer bulk of their narratives, and even the fact that one cannot read them due to their fracture into so many different titles in any single coherent fashion.
	www.sequart.com /SequentialCulture07a.htm (4124 words)

	Article 10: Crossover Appeal
		Even at their most continuity-minded, Marvel and DC have always featured a handful of titles off on the fringes of continuity that have drifted gently about their business, completely unaffected by anything else around them - simply because they were so far removed from anything else that the question of mutual consistency never really arose.
		The benefit in having shared universes lies in their broad consistency, and in working as a stable, common setting.
		The Crisis was a bizarre exercise in demolishing the existing continuity (on the basis that it had become unwieldy); asserting that a streamlined version still applied (and that history was broadly valid); and then spending the next few years blithely ignoring everything and throwing everything into confusion.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=851 (1487 words)

	Shared Universes
		There are entire newsgroups devoted to shared universes.
		In fact, the LNH is largely responsible for the creation of racc, where it is the oldest established universe (excepting the odd Superguy repost).
		One of several serious superpower-themed universes on rec.arts.comics.creative ("superhero" just doesn't seem appropriate), Omega was created in an effort to have a universe with a consistent explaination of super powers and characters who react realistically to having powers beyond those of mortal men.
	www.eyrie.org /~zednenem/misc/su.html (903 words)

	Lance Eason - I don't think little niggling inconsistencies are the problem.
		Wolfman makes a good point about in-book continuity, or consistency, BUT if your books are all taking place in the same shared universe, then inter-company continuity is pretty much the same thing.
		So, you can scuttle the continuity between books if you like, but you must abandon the idea that they are living in a shared universe if you do.
		BUT, shared universes and interrelated continuity certainly don't add to every situation.
	www.comicboards.com /dcb/view.php?rpl=050112222700 (507 words)

	The Shared Universe Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Of course, by continuing to write in the series, origin authors open themselves up to be inspired by the works of votary authors from all over the world as the series becomes a truly collaborative effort.
		Votary authors enrich the universe in which they write, giving further depth and back story to the characters, fully realizing all potentials and exploring the nuances that exist.
		The Shared Universe Project contracts -- origin author and votary author contracts -- are not open-source but here is a list of some of the finer points:
	www.windstormcreative.com /fandom/shared.htm (538 words)

	METAmystery: Core Integrated Themes Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The eleventh dimension is an ocean of universes of various ontological topologies.
		The maximum distance separating us from these other universes is the span of the eleventh dimension itself – just 10 to power of -20 of a millimetre.
		Our assemblage points coalesce a subset of the fundamental filaments of energy of which this reality is constructed; this subset expresses the universe we share and experience.
	www.metamystery.com /consciousness/blog/archives/core_integrated_themes (5015 words)

	Night Shade Books Discussion Area: Submissions/Orders
		By this I mean one where the world depicted shares the same sort of atmosphere and internal logic without there being any explicit references; in another words, a story that one can easily imagine as taking place in the same world, though no concrete link exists.
		Demanding that 50% of the "megazanthus" be made up of shared universes is an unpleasantly artificial constraint, and one that sits poorly with the feel of "uniqueness" Nemo has accustomed us to so far.
		In the long run it comes down to what the story is and whether the originating author accepts the shared universe story, something that cannot really be known in advance (and not at all if the author is dead).
	www.nightshadebooks.com /discus/messages/201/869.html (5510 words)

	Emerald City: Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Reviews - #127
		In your own universe, you can do as you please and probably not give it much thought, but changing an agreed outline in a tie-in impacts a lot of other people’s work.
		Outside the Lucas universe, I’d have done my hard SF thing and shown what a disaster cloning was — high failure rates, developmental difficulties and all the problems inherent in cloning and raising a human army.
		I have the pleasure and commercial advantage of being a name to hundreds of thousands of readers, who know what they like and are smart enough to appreciate the genuinely challenging themes wrapped up in their favorite shared universe.
	www.emcit.com /emcit127.php?a=2 (2803 words)

	Shared Universe title list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Shared Universe books written by the origin authors of each universe.
		Shared Universe books written by the fan authors of each universe.
		Sourcebooks for each universe written by the origin authors and often bolstered by supplements from votary authors.
	www.windstormcreative.com /fandom/titlesshare.htm (198 words)

	Dark Blue Monstropolis
		Dark Blue Monstropolis is an ongoing sci-fi series in a shared universe which is created and maintained by John Robinson.
		In a nutshell, you are welcome to use the stuff you find here to create your own stories rooted in the DBM Universe as long as you slap the same license on it and don't try to make any money off of it.
		There is no "bible" for the universe, as such a document would inevitably give away some of the surprises I have in store for my own narrative.
	www.darkbluemonstropolis.com (354 words)

	DCU Chronology Introduction
		Such shared fictional worlds perhaps reach their apotheosis in the comic-book universes (entire metaphysical cosmologies, actually) created over the years by comics’ two largest publishers, Marvel and DC.
		The more complex such a Universe becomes, the more crucial it becomes to determine, What is canonical and what is apocryphal?—and the more difficult it becomes to answer that question, and adhere to the answer.
		There’s room enough for everybody’s tastes; new kinds and formats of comics are great, but shared universes are enjoyed by much of comics’ most loyal reader base, and have clearly shown wide appeal in other media as well.
	dcu.smartmemes.com /_DCTL_MainIntro.html (2786 words)

	Shared Universe -- Knowledge Management Framework
		Shared Universe is a knowledge and document management platform that has been under development since 2002.
		Although it was originally designed to serve the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, its scope has been expanded to serve many industries as a business to business tool.
		With availability of data that you have created and that others have shared with you.
	www.shareduniverse.com (453 words)

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