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Occasionally, this approach becomes self-referential, treating the literary universe of the work itself as explicitly parallel to the universe where the work was created.
Stephen King's seven-volume Dark Tower series hinges upon the existence of multiple parallel worlds, many of which are King's own literary creations.
Ultimately the characters become aware that they are only " real " in King's literary universe ( this can be debated as an example of breaking the fourth wall ), and even travel to a world — twice — in which ( again, within the novel ) they meet Stephen King and alter events in the real Stephen King's world outside of the books.
An early instance of this was in works by Gardner Fox for DC Comics in the 1960s, in which characters from the Golden Age ( which was supposed to be a series of comic books within the DC Comics universe ) would cross over into the main DC Comics universe.
One comic book did provide an explanation for a fictional universe existing as a parallel universe.
The parallel world does " exist " and it resonates into the " real world.
" Some people in the " real world " pick up on this resonance, gaining information about the parallel world which they then use to write stories.

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