What follows is a selected bibliography of portal fantasies and parallel universe fiction. Some imagine multiverses; others, worlds just slightly shifted from our own in space and time. Some reveal elfin doorways to strange realities; others offer gateways to grandiose planetary romance; still others posit entire universes held within the hearts of atoms. Titles notable for their high literary value are marked with an asterisk. To paraphrase e. e. cummings: there’s one hell of a universe next door… let’s go!
To learn more about the stories in Other Worlds Than These, visit the anthology’s website at johnjosephadams.com/other-worlds-than-these.
Abbott, Edwin A.
—Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions *
Alexander, Lloyd
—The First Two Lives of Lukas Kasha
Allston, Aaron
—Doc Sidhe
—Sidhe Devil
Anderson, Pohl
—Operation Chaos
Anthony, Piers
—Split Infinity (et seq.)
Applegate, K. A.
—Search for Senna (et seq.)
Asimov, Isaac
—The Gods Themselves *
Bach, Richard
—One
Ball, Margaret
—No Earthly Sunne
Barker, Clive
—Imajica *
—Weaveworld
Barron, Natania
—Pilgrim of the Sky
Baum, L. Frank
—The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (et seq.)
Baxter, Stephen
—Raft
Brown, Frederic
—What Mad Universe
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
—A Princess of Mars (et seq.)
—Pirates of Venus (et seq.)
Carroll, Lewis
—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
—Through the Looking Glass
Cavendish, Margaret
—The Blazing World
Coney, Michael
—Charisma
Crumley, Andrew
—Mobius Dick
Dean, Pamela
—The Secret Country (et seq.)
DeChancie, John
—Castle Perilous (et seq.)
Dick, Philip K.
—The Man in the High Castle *
Donaldson, Stephen R.
—The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (series)
—Mordant’s Need (series)
Dunsany, Lord
—The King of Elfland’s Daughter *
Egan, Greg
—Diaspora
Ende, Michael
—The Neverending Story
Farmer, Philip Jose
—Maker of Universes (et seq.)
Farren, Nick
—Necrom
Feist, Raymond E.
—The Riftwar Saga (series)
Fforde, Jasper
—The Eyre Affair (et seq.)
Foster, Alan Dean
—Spellsinger (et seq.)
—Parallelities
Friesner, Esther
—Elf Defense (et seq.)
Frohock, Teresa
—Miserere: An Autumn Tale
Gaiman, Neil
—Coraline
—Neverwhere *
Gerrold, David
—The Man Who Folded Himself*
Gould, Steven
—Wildside
Grossman, Lev
—The Magicians (et seq.)
Hambly, Barbara
—The Silent Tower (et seq.)
—The Time of the Dark (et seq.)
Heinlein, Robert A.
—The Number of the Beast *
—Glory Road
Hoffman, Mary
—Stravaganza: City of Masks (et seq.)
Hogan, James P.
—Paths to Otherwhere
Holdstock, Robert
—Mythago Wood *
Howard, Robert E.
—Almuric
Jones, Diana Wynne
—Charmed Life (et seq.)
—Deep Secret (et seq.)
—Dark Lord of Derkholm (et seq.)
Jones, Raymond F.
—Renaissance (AKA Man of Two Worlds)
Juster, Norton
—The Phantom Tollbooth
Kay, Elizabeth
—The Divide (et seq.)
Kay, Guy Gavriel
—The Fionavar Tapestry (series)
Kendrick, Mark Ian
—The Rylerran Gateway
King, Stephen
—The Dark Tower (series)
King, Stephen and Peter Straub
—The Talisman *
Kube-McDowell, Michael P.
—Alternities (et seq.)
L’Engle, Madeleine
—A Wrinkle in Time (et seq.)
Laumer, Keith
—Worlds of the Imperium
Lawhead, Stephen R.
—The Skin Map (et seq.)
Lawrence, Michael
—A Crack in the Line (et seq.)
Le Guin, Ursula K.
—Changing Planes
Leiber, Fritz
—The Big Time
Lewis, C. S.
—The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Lindsay, David
—A Voyage to Arcturus (et seq.)
Lovecraft, H. P.
—The Dream-Quest of Unknown
Kadath
Lukyanenko, Sergey
—Rough Draft
MacHale, D. J.
—The Merchant of Death (et seq.)
McAuley, Paul
—Cowboy Angels
McDonald, Ian
—Planesrunner (et seq.)
Mellick III, Carlton
—The Haunted Vagina
Melko, Paul
—The Walls of the Universe (et seq.)
Miéville, China
—Un Lun Dun
Miles, Lawrence
—Dead Romance
Mirrlees, Hope
—Lud-in-the-Mist *
Moorcock, Michael
—Eternal Champion (series)
—The Cornelius Quartet (series)
—Warlord of the Air
Murakami, Haruki
—Hard Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World *
Myers, John Myers
—Silverlock
Nichols, Ruth
—A Walk Out of the World
Norman, Jon
—Gor (series)
Norton, Andre
—Star Gate
Parkin, Lance
—Warlords of Utopia (et seq.)
Piper, H. Beam
—Paratime (series)
Pohl, Frederik
—The Coming of the Quantum Cats
Pullman, Philip
—His Dark Materials (series)
Reynolds, Alastair
—Absolution Gap
Robinett, Stephen
—Stargate
Rucker, Rudy
—Jim and the Flims
Ruff, Matt
—The Mirage
Russ, Joanna
—The Female Man *
Sawyer, Robert J.
—Hominids (et seq.)
Shan, Darren
—Lord Loss (et seq.)
Sherman, Josepha
—The Shattered Oath (et seq.)
Smith, L. Neil
—The Probability Broach (et seq.)
Stephenson, Neal
—Anathem *
Stirling, S. M.
—Conquistador
Stross, Charles
—The Merchant Princes (series)
Turtledove, Harry
—Crosstime Traffic (series)
—After the Downfall
Valente, Catherynne M.
—Palimpsest *
Webb, Catherine
—Mirror Dreams (et seq.)
Wells, H. G.
—Men Like Gods
—The Time Machine
Zelazny, Roger
—The Chronicles of Amber (series)