[Data-modeling] Multiple Fictional Universes

[Christopher R. Maden]

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> I just had a thought.  We're using "universe" to mean two different things
> here.  The first, and what the type "fictional universe" is currently used
> for, refers to the entirety of the milieu of a work or series, which can
> include multiple alternate worlds.  The other sense refers to a single
> space-time continuum, any number of which might be used in a series.  So my
> question is: why not just consider these other continua as Fictional
> Settings?  That is, the Star Trek Universe includes as a setting the Mirror
> Universe; the DC Comics Multiverse has Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-Three
> etc. as settings, and so on.

I believe Fictional Settings was in the running or even used at one 
point.  The problem is that “fictional setting” more easily brings to 
mind Gotham City or the Shire (or New York or San Francisco) than Middle 
Earth or the Mirror Universe.

~Chris
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