Some fictional universes feature useful guidebooks which assist the hero and friends through difficult situations. A fictional universe is a cohesive imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction. ...

Features of a great fictional guidebook: Such books are ideally compact enough to carry on even the most strenuous adventures, yet detailed enough to contain exactly the information the reader needs at that particular point in the plot. Many guidebooks are electronic in nature; some can access relevant information through a wireless connection.

The Encyclopedia Galactica is a fictional or hypothetical encyclopedia of a future galaxy-spanning civilization, containing all the knowledge accumulated by a society with trillions of people and thousands of years of history. ... Hari Seldons holographic image, pictured on a paperback edition of Foundation, appears at various times in the First Foundations history, to guide it through the social and economic crises that befall it. ... Isaac Asimov (courtesy of Jay Kay Klein) Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ... The Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, or the Woodchuck book for short, is a fictional book in the Scrooge McDuck universe. ... Donald Duck Donald Duck is an animated cartoon and comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. ... Comics (or, less common, sequential art) is a form of visual art consisting of images which are commonly combined with text, often in the form of speech balloons or image captions. ... Carl Barks in 1942 Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951) and Gyro Gearloose (1952). ... DuckTales is an animated series produced by The Walt Disney Company starring characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe as largely created by Carl Barks. ... Cover of the Encyclopedia Frobozzica included with Return to Zork. ... Zork can run on modern Z-machine interpreters, as well as the older models it was made for originally. ... Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 - February 11, 2005) was an American science fiction author. ... Neal Stephenson (b. ... The Diamond Age, or A Young Ladys Illustrated Primer is a 1995 cyberpunk or postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson taking place in a world where nanotechnology is ubiquitous. ... Planetary is an American comic book series created by Warren Ellis (writer) and John Cassaday (artist), published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. ... This article is about the comic book author. ... The Pokédex from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen The Johto Pokédex The Pokédex (Zukan in Japan), a portmanteau of Pokémon (itself a portmanteau of pocket and monster) and index, as well as a play on the term Rolodex, is a fictional electronic device featured in the... Pokémon (ポケモン Pokemon, pronounced //, although frequently, and even intentionally mispronounced //), is a video game franchise, created by Satoshi Tajiri and published by Nintendo for several of their systems, most importantly the Game Boy. ... The Pokémon anime metaseries, based on the video game series, was created in Japan and then translated for the North American television market. ... John Barnes, (born 1957) is a prolific science fiction author, whose stories often explore questions of individual moral responsibility within a larger social context. ... David Eddings (born July 7, 1931) is an American author who has written several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels. ... The Belgariad is a five book fantasy epic written by David Eddings. ... The Malloreon is a five part fantasy book series written by David Eddings, which follows The Belgariad. ... Ferengi on Star Trek: The Next Generation The Ferengi are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the Star Trek universe. ... The Rules of Acquisition, in the fictional Star Trek universe, are a set of guidelines, intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by the ultra-capitalist Ferengi. ... Star Trek collectively refers to a science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series, 726 episodes and ten motion pictures in addition to hundreds of novels, video games, fan stories and other works of fiction all set within the same fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s. ... Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師, 鍊金術師, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, lit. ... Ghostbusters (sometimes written Ghost Busters) is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three parapsychologists who are fired from Columbia University in New York, and start up their own business investigating and eliminating ghosts. ... Ghostbusters (sometimes written Ghost Busters) is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three parapsychologists who are fired from Columbia University in New York, and start up their own business investigating and eliminating ghosts. ... Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a live action Disney musical film, which premiered October 7, 1971. ... Beetlejuice movie poster Beetlejuice is a film directed by Tim Burton, first released in the USA on March 30, 1988, and produced by The Geffen Film Company for Warner Bros. ... ¡Mucha Lucha! is packed with a menagerie of colorful characters. ... Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a U.S. television series loosely based on the original script for the 1992 movie of the same name. ... Richard Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. ... Promotional poster for MirrorMask MirrorMask is a 2005 film from the Jim Henson Company. ...

See also

• false document
• literature
• fictional book
• Archive of fictional things