List of fictional universes in literature

This is a list of fictional universes in literature.

Universe Origin Creation date AuthorNotes1632-verse16322000Eric FlintThe 5th Wave universeThe 5th Wave2013Rick YanceyAbeir-TorilForgotten Realms1985It was officially published in 1985, though Greenwood had begun developing it as early as 1967Ed GreenwoodLocation of Forgotten Realms novels and gamesAcorna universeAcorna: The Unicorn Girl1997Anne McCaffrey, Margaret Ball, & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Alagaësia Eragon 2002 Christopher Paolini The settings of the novels of the Inheritance Cycle: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr and InheritanceAgatha Christie's fictional universeThe Mysterious Affair at Styles1920Agatha Christie All-World The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger 1982 Stephen King The setting for the Dark Tower series of novels and derived works, which also ties into all of King's other novels, such as The Stand and Eyes of the Dragon. Includes the towns of Derry, 'Salem's Lot and Castle Rock, and the recurring antagonist Randall Flagg. Alliance-Union universe Heavy Time 1991 C. J. Cherryh The setting for an epic future history series extending from the 21st century out into the far future. It consists of 27 science fiction novels along with a series of seven short story anthologies and a few other miscellaneous works. Amber multiverse Nine Princes in Amber 1970 Roger Zelazny Multiverse in which The Chronicles of Amber take place; two worlds of opposed chaos and order of which all others are merely "shadows" Amtor Pirates of Venus 1934 Edgar Rice Burroughs A fictionalised version of the planet Venus as depicted in the Venus series of novels featuring the character Carson Napier Anita Blake mythology Guilty Pleasures 1993 Laurell K. Hamilton Alternate history in which the contemporary United States is reinterpreted into a world in which vampires, necromancy, and fairies exist. Setting for the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of novelsAnno Dracula universeAnno Dracula1992Kim Newman Avonlea Anne of Green Gables 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery Fictional location on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and setting for a series of novels featuring the character Anne Shirley. Barsetshire The Warden 1855 Anthony Trollope Featured in the series of novels known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". The county town and cathedral town is Barchester. Other towns mentioned in the novels include Silverbridge, Hogglestock and Greshamsbury. Barsoom Under the Moons of Mars 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs A fictionalised version of the planet Mars in over 100 adventure stories featuring the character John Carter Bas-Lag Perdido Street Station 2000 China Miéville Steampunk setting for a trilogy of novels. BattleTech Universe Battledroids 1984 Jordan Weisman, L. Ross Babcock III, & Patrick Larkin Futuristic wargame setting created for the Battledroids/BattleTech boardgame, also detailed in more than 100 print novels by various authors (including Michael A. Stackpole, William H. Keith Jr., Robert N. Charrette, Blaine Lee Pardoe, Loren L. Coleman, and numerous others) plus print anthologies and additional novels and stories published in electronic format. Beklan Empire Shardik 1974 Richard Adams Kingdom in which slavery is legal and setting for the novels Shardik and Maia Bensalem New Atlantis 1624 Sir Francis Bacon Utopian community in the Pacific Ocean that focuses on scientific discovery Blandings Castle Something Fresh 1915 P. G. Wodehouse An idealized English country estate (with nearby village) and seat of the Threepwood familyBobiverseWe Are Legion2016Dennis E. Taylor Boxen Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis 1908 C. S. Lewis & Warren Lewis Animal-based kingdom (complete with its own politics, economics and government) created by CS Lewis and his brother when they were young; heavily influenced by Beatrix PotterCarcosaAn Inhabitant of Carcosa 1886 Ambrose Bierce Carcosa is a fictional ruined city in which the spirit of a man roamed and found he was dead, later borrowed by Robert W. Chambers for weird fantasy The King In YellowCatteni universeFreedom's Landing1995Anne McCaffrey A Certain Magical Index Universe To Aru Majutsu no Index Volume 1 2004 Kazuma Kamachi Consists mainly of Academy City, a futuristic city-state near Tokio, and its surroundings. Magic and science compete for supremacy while many heroes and villains from different factions fight to understand the true nature of the world. Setting for many storylines in the main books as well as the numerous spin offs the franchise has to offer. City of the Sun The City of the Sun 1602 Tommaso Campanella Theocratic society in which goods, women and children are held in common. CoDominium A Spaceship for the King 1973 Jerry Pournelle Interstellar empire controlled by a unified United States and Soviet Union. Corona The Demon Awakens 1997 R. A. Salvatore Setting for The DemonWars Saga and The Highwayman. Bears a strong resemblance to eastern Canada Cosmere Elantris 2005 Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere is the fictional universe in which the various worlds in most of Sanderson's adult fantasy works are set. The Culture Consider Phlebas 1987 Iain M. Banks Interstellar anarchist, socialist, and utopian society created for a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction collectively called the Culture series.Dark Hunter UniverseDark-Hunters (formerly Fantasy Lover)2002Sherrilyn Kenyon Darkover The Planet Savers 1958 Marion Zimmer Bradley Fictional planet in orbit around a red giant star and setting for the Darkover series of novels. Deathstalker universe Mistworld 1992 Simon R. Green Setting for the Deathstalker series; a totalitarian, corrupt human galactic empire in which dissent is crushed and alien races are enslaved or exterminated Derlavai Into the Darkness 1999 Harry Turtledove Fantasy land in which The Darkness Series, a retelling of World War II in a fantasy context, takes place Deverry Daggerspell 1986 Katharine Kerr Celtic-inspired fantasy kingdom that is the setting for the Deverry Cycle Dinotopia Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time 1992 James Gurney Lost land in which humans coexist with sapient dinosaurs.The Dire Earth CycleThe Darwin Elevator2013Jason M. Hough The Discworld The Colour of Magic 1983 Terry Pratchett A flat world set on the backs of four elephants who in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, the Discworld is the setting for 41 comedic fantasy novels.DivergentDivergent2011Veronica RothSet in a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. Dreamlands Polaris 1918 H. P. Lovecraft A vast, alternate dimension that can be entered via dreams.The Dresden FilesStorm Front2000Jim Butcher Dune universe Dune 1965Frank Herbert Interstellar empire governed by a feudal system dominated by Great Houses and dependent on the Spice that forms only on the planet Arrakis, or Dune. Dying Earth The Dying Earth 1950Jack Vance Far future world in which the Sun has almost exhausted its fuel and magic reasserted itself. Setting for the Dying Earth series Earthsea The Word of Unbinding 1964 Ursula K. Le Guin Fantasy realm consisting of an archipelago of islands in a vast ocean that forms the setting for six books and seven short stories. Earwa The Darkness That Comes Before 2004 R. Scott Bakker Fantasy realm that combines alien technology with magicEight Worlds"Bagatelle"1974John VarleyThe Emberverse/NantucketIsland in the Sea of Time1998S. M. Stirling Emelan Sandry's Book 1997 Tamora Pierce Pseudo-mediaeval magical setting for the Circle of Magic seriesEmpire duetEmpire2006Orson Scott CardEmpire of ManMarch Upcountry2001David Weber & John RingoThe EnderverseEnder's Game1985Orson Scott CardEndworldThe Fox Run1986David L. Robbins Erewhon Erewhon: or, Over the Range 1872 Samuel Butler Satirical society that parodies Victorian conventions.EverworldSearch for Senna1999Katherine Applegate and Michael GrantFablehavenFablehaven2006Brandon Mull Familias Regnant universe Hunting Party 1993 Elizabeth Moon Feudal galactic society in the far futureFear Street MultiverseThe New Girl1989R. L. StineA fictional universal world Multiverse where the various Fear Street continuities all take place ranging from the books, films, and everything in between and beyond. Field of Arbol Out of the Silent Planet 1938 C. S. Lewis A fictionalised version of the Solar System, as depicted in the fictional theology of the Space Trilogy. Finisterre universe Rider at the Gate 1995 C. J. Cherryh Hostile alien planet of telepathic flora and fauna Friardale universe The Magnet issue 1 1908 Frank Richards A world containing a number of private boys and girls schools. Flatland Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott Authoritarian 2-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes ignorant of the "higher dimensions" of up and down. Foreigner universe Foreigner 1994 C. J. Cherryh Centres around the descendants of a ship lost in transit from Earth en route to found a new space station. Foundation universe "Strange Playfellow" 1940 Isaac Asimov Future history of humanity's colonization of the galaxy, spanning nearly 25,000 years, created through the gradual fusion of the Robot, Foundation and Empire series'. Foundationverse SCP-173 2007 An anonymous 4Chan user A colloquial name for the multiversal setting of the internet collaborative writing project the SCP Foundation, where the titular organization is responsible for the containment and study of supernatural entities and objects. Also known as the SCP-verse, Skipverse or Scipverse. The Four Lands The Sword of Shannara 1977 Terry Brooks A fantasy realm in which the Shannara series is set. Possibly a future post-apocalyptic Earth. Future History Life-Line 1939 Robert Heinlein Future history of humanity from the mid 20th century to the 23rd, seen largely through the eyes of the immortal Howard families, in particular Lazarus Long.Gaea universe Titan1979John VarleyGaean ReachTrullion: Alastor 22621973Jack VanceGalactic Center SagaIn the Ocean of Night1977Gregory BenfordGalactic Marines universeSemper Mars1998William H. Keith Jr.The Gap CycleThe Gap into Conflict: The Real Story1991Stephen R. Donaldson Gene Wars Universe Hammerfall 2001 C. J. Cherryh Currently consists of two science fiction novels (Hammerfall and Forge of Heaven). Gezeitenwelt Der Wahrträumer 2002 Bernhard Hennen and others Alternate world hit by a comet that forms the setting for a series of post-apocalyptic novelsGoosebumps MultiverseWelcome to Dead HouseJuly 1992R.L. StineA fictional universal world Multiverse where the various Goosebumps continuities all take place ranging from the books (including the original series, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Series 2000, HorrorLand, Most Wanted, and SlappyWorld), comics, films, television series, video games, and everything in between and beyond. Gor Tarnsman of Gor 1966 John Norman "Counter-Earth", sword and planet setting for 30 novels. Its depiction (and apparent endorsement) of aggressively subdued women has been widely criticised as sexist. Gormenghast Titus Groan 1946 Mervyn Peake Grim castle and surroundings that is the setting for the Gormenghast series of gothic fantasy novels. Green-Sky Below the Root 1975 Zilpha Keatley Snyder Low-gravity forest planet inhabited by an arboreal cultureGrishaverse Shadow and Bone2012 Leigh BardugoThe fictional universe of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels, starting with Shadow and Bone trilogy, which includes Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. It is also the universe which includes the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. Named for the magical Grisha, a central group in the books. Islands of Gulliver's Travels Gulliver's Travels 1726 Jonathan Swift Series of islands visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, including Lilliput and Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms (although Brobdingnag is not an island but a peninsula attached to North America). Gwynedd Deryni Rising 1970 Katherine Kurtz Setting for the Deryni novels; an alternate-mediaeval kingdo