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Some fictional approaches definitively establish the independence of the parallel world, sometimes by having the world differ from the book's account ; other approaches have works of fiction create and affect the parallel world: L. Sprague de Camp's Solomon's Stone, taking place on an astral plane, is populated by the daydreams of mundane people, and in Rebecca Lickiss's Eccentric Circles, an elf is grateful to Tolkien for transforming elves from dainty little creatures.

These stories often place the author, or authors in general, in the same position as Zelazny's characters in Amber.

Questioning, in a literal fashion, if writing is an act of creating a new world, or an act of discovery of a pre-existing world.