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319: 298: 428: 403: 584: 563: 207: 594: 329: 495: 474: 267: 237: 936:, the main characters were aged from college freshman to grad student, one was renamed (from Janet to Margo, to reduce confusion with Jane and Julia) and her role greatly expanded, and two names of omitted minor characters were reused for new unrelated major characters. To calibrate my thinking, as it were, I wonder how you would summarize these changes. 811:
but have been somewhat altered; They may have been re-named or their genders or ethnicities changed, been aged up or down or given different described appearances, different personalities or different roles. So essentially those authors have borrowed or copied these characters from J. M. Barrie but
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I see some muddling of parallel worlds, like Oz, with alternate timelines. I would not include the latter here unless the different forks are equally real and somehow coexist, allowing communication between them. That of
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then have gone and made them their own to fit into their own interpretation of the story they've done! So they are based on J. M. Barrie's creations but are ever so slightly not! So what else would you call them but
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For example the character of John Darling in Nevermor is renamed Henry and aged up into a pre-teen while in Everland said character of John Darling is aged up into a teenager and changed into a girl called
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The title suggests a conclusion. "It's all just fiction, not to be taken as a serious possibility." A better title would be "Parallel universe hypothesis."
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I would use a phrase like "Barrie's characters, though often somewhat altered". A facsimile is a copy as faithful as the medium allows.
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is new to me. What, if anything, does it mean? (The sentence was more coherent but equally puzzling before the last change.) —
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Does this mean the characters are impostors? Are they contrasted with the real ones, perhaps in backstory?
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222: 70: 701:, Heinlein quantizes that the many parallel, fictional universes - in terms of works of fiction. 1031: 998: 956: 941: 915: 897: 854: 794: 753: 715: 51: 979: 878: 831: 219: 1035: 1002: 987: 960: 945: 919: 901: 886: 858: 839: 798: 757: 719: 745: 347: 221: 1043: 599: 318: 297: 1027: 994: 952: 937: 911: 893: 850: 807:
on your question: The characters depicted in these retellings are those created by
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I am now reminded of some similarities between the two characters called Penny.
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an alternate history is not necessarily a parallel universe story
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The title doesn't reflect the content of the article.
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