[Data-modeling] Multiple Fictional Universes

[Faye Harris]

I agree with Chris. "Setting" means "place" to most people.

If people are conflating two types of things into one Type, then the 
solution would indeed require creating a new type, so that the two can 
be separated.

Is "space-time continuum" potentially too "techy" a type name? It'd 
dead-on in terms of precision. ;) Or, how about creating a type 
"fictional world" to represent a "space-time continuum" inside the 
"fictional universe" type? Settings inside worlds inside universes. For 
example, DC Comics Multiverse has Earth-One, Earth-Two, Earth-Three as 
worlds.

-- Faye


Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> 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
>