Books with secret portals
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China Mieville's Un Lun Dun Review: Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
SheilaNaGig
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How strict are your criteria?
The Phantom Tollbooth.
The Phantom Tollbooth.
SheilaNaGig
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Would you include films, telly etc?
Are you just looking for portals and doorways or Otherworld/parallel world/dimension stuff too?
Only for children or adults too?
Inception
Sliding doors
Being John Malkovoch
Neverwhere (Gaiman)
Are you just looking for portals and doorways or Otherworld/parallel world/dimension stuff too?
Only for children or adults too?
Inception
Sliding doors
Being John Malkovoch
Neverwhere (Gaiman)
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
Some of the Piers Anthony books have portals, iirc
SheilaNaGig
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List of fiction employing parallel universes - Wikipedia
Portals in fiction - Wikipedia
I think you’re going to have to set some limits and parameters!
Portals in fiction - Wikipedia
I think you’re going to have to set some limits and parameters!
SheilaNaGig
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Time tunnel!
SheilaNaGig
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The Oz books were all based on the principle of there being an alternate reality.
The recent Christopher Robin film struck me as essentially shamanic too: the portal between the worlds is via a hole in a tree, the beings in the Woods are focussed on non-material wealth.
And of course Stranger Things is pure shamanic journeying. It’s about the dangers of Journeying without the training or the know how. ETA or the cultural context and framework for what seems to be a universal impulse.
Maybe we stopped the Journeying when we started making literature.
The recent Christopher Robin film struck me as essentially shamanic too: the portal between the worlds is via a hole in a tree, the beings in the Woods are focussed on non-material wealth.
And of course Stranger Things is pure shamanic journeying. It’s about the dangers of Journeying without the training or the know how. ETA or the cultural context and framework for what seems to be a universal impulse.
Maybe we stopped the Journeying when we started making literature.
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Thanks for all the replies. My favourite part of my job is brainstorming and planning.
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Not really sure at the moment. Just collecting ideas. Started off just thinking about the book Journey but as I’ll have 40 kids thought about grouping them and giving each group a different “portal”. So needs to be something a) visual, and b) not too well known, e.g. the platform in the Harry Potter books.
I want them to come up with their own ideas, not just regurgitate an already known story.
Wikipedia is blocked in Turkey (still
) Not really sure at the moment. Just collecting ideas. Started off just thinking about the book Journey but as I’ll have 40 kids thought about grouping them and giving each group a different “portal”. So needs to be something a) visual, and b) not too well known, e.g. the platform in the Harry Potter books.
I want them to come up with their own ideas, not just regurgitate an already known story.
SheilaNaGig
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Also, books are portals.
SheilaNaGig
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In his Hyperion Cantos novel series, Dan Simmons imagines a network of portals called "farcasters" which connect most human-inhabited planets. The form these portals take can vary, and they may be opaque, completely transparent, or semi-transparent. The completely transparent variety is very commonly used and effectively turns all connected places into one giant WorldWeb where distance becomes almost meaningless. Some of the more opulent occupants may have houses where each room is built on a different planet, and some rooms themselves may be partially built in several different physical locations but be joined by forecaster portals to form one complete room.
Stephen Robinett's book Stargate[8] (1976) revolves around the corporate side of building extra-dimensional and/or transportational stargates. In the novel, the stargate is given the name Jenson Gate, after the fictional company that builds it. Andre Norton's 1958 novel Star Gate may have been the first to use that term for such portals. The plot of Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky(1955) uses a portal. Raymond Jones' Man of Two Worlds (aka Renaissance) (1944) employs a portal that turns out to be a fraud.[9]
The Shi'ar, an extraterrestrial race introduced by Marvel Comics in 1976, also utilize a network of stargates. The Shi'ar utilizes both planet-based stargates (for personal travel) and enormous space-based versions (equivalent to the Ori supergate and used as portals for spaceships), though both are usually depicted without any physical structure to contain the wormhole. They are used for travel across great distances.
In the His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman has characters use the 'subtle knife' to carve a doorway from one world to another. CJ Cherryh's Morgaine series see the main characters traveling via 'gates' from world to world, closing them as they go.
Since the introduction of the stargate on the big screen, other authors have referenced the stargate device. Authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince also write of The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The book details an alternative theory links the term stargate with Egypt's past: Either the pyramid itself is a gateway to the stars (because of the shafts pointing to a star) or a construction of Heaven on Earth based on geographical location of the great and outlying pyramids (see: Orion).
Stephen Robinett's book Stargate[8] (1976) revolves around the corporate side of building extra-dimensional and/or transportational stargates. In the novel, the stargate is given the name Jenson Gate, after the fictional company that builds it. Andre Norton's 1958 novel Star Gate may have been the first to use that term for such portals. The plot of Robert A. Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky(1955) uses a portal. Raymond Jones' Man of Two Worlds (aka Renaissance) (1944) employs a portal that turns out to be a fraud.[9]
The Shi'ar, an extraterrestrial race introduced by Marvel Comics in 1976, also utilize a network of stargates. The Shi'ar utilizes both planet-based stargates (for personal travel) and enormous space-based versions (equivalent to the Ori supergate and used as portals for spaceships), though both are usually depicted without any physical structure to contain the wormhole. They are used for travel across great distances.
In the His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman has characters use the 'subtle knife' to carve a doorway from one world to another. CJ Cherryh's Morgaine series see the main characters traveling via 'gates' from world to world, closing them as they go.
Since the introduction of the stargate on the big screen, other authors have referenced the stargate device. Authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince also write of The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. The book details an alternative theory links the term stargate with Egypt's past: Either the pyramid itself is a gateway to the stars (because of the shafts pointing to a star) or a construction of Heaven on Earth based on geographical location of the great and outlying pyramids (see: Orion).
SheilaNaGig
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The locked doorway in The Secret Garden is a portal.
You don’t go to an alternate world, it’s still very much this world. But it’s still a really significant portal.
You don’t go to an alternate world, it’s still very much this world. But it’s still a really significant portal.
Reno
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In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L‘Engle, the wrinkle is a tesseract which when opened by alien beings, whisks off three children on a journey through time and space to far flung planets and dimensions in search of a missing scientist. Skip the horrible movie with Oprah Winfrey from a couple of years ago, the book was a favourite of mine when I was a kid.
hot air baboon
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There's a short story by HG Wells The Door in the Wall
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miss direct
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Inittogether
Yes I loved it - it would make a great film - ‘calling Tim Burton!!’I thought of this - one of my favourites from childhood - but haven't been able to find a suitable picture. They all just look like trees
BristolEcho
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Portal is about portals.
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