A ficton is a fictional setting created by writing any fictional story or series of stories. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ...

The term was coined by Robert Heinlein in his novel The Number of the Beast. Here Heinlein gives Oz in The Wizard of Oz and Wonderland in Alice in Wonderland as examples of fictons. Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most influential authors in the science fiction genre. ... The Number of the Beast may refer to: the number 666, a biblical allusion to the Book of Revelation a novel by Robert Heinlein, see The Number of the Beast (novel) an album and song by Iron Maiden, see The Number of the Beast (album) This is a disambiguation page... See: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie) starring Judy Garland The Wizard of Oz (stage) Stage versions starting in 1903 The Wizard of Oz (animated series) The Wizard of Oz (game) The Wizard of Oz (movie) Various film versions See also... Alice in Wonderland is the widely known and used title for Alices Adventures in Wonderland, a book written by Lewis Carroll -- as well as several movie adaptations of the book -- and is also the setting for several short stories. ...

Some fictons look remarkably like our own world, and have the same physical laws and history as ours. In the extreme case of historical novels it may be impossible to prove that the events did not happen exactly as described, so the ficton in which they occur is indistinguishable from the factual universe. In other fictons either history, physics or both are radically different to the factual world, and there is a spectrum in between. A few fictons do not lie neatly on this spectrum, notably the ficton in which the Star Wars series is set, which is described as long ago, in a galaxy far away... The DVD cover of the Star Wars trilogy. ...

A series of stories may be based on a single ficton or on many related fictons. The radio plays of The Goons and the television series The Monkees paid little attention to continuity between episodes, so in a sense each is set in its own ficton although there is much material in common. The series Yes Minister, on the other hand, was written as a consistent set of incidents within a single ficton. The Goon Show was a hugely popular and extremely influential British radio comedy programme, which was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960 on the BBC Home Service. ... The Monkees in 1968 (left to right): Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, Mike Nesmith & Davy Jones The Monkees were a four-person band who appeared in an American television series of the same name, which ran on NBC from 1966 to 1968. ... Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and...

A single ficton which is the basis of many individual stories is called a fictional universe. A fictional universe is a cohesive fictional world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction. ...

There are many instances of series originally written for slightly different fictons which have later been incorporated into a fictional universe. For example, Carl Barks' stories of Scrooge McDuck, a character he invented, were only loosely consistent. However later writers have resorted to retcons in order to create a consistent fictional universe across the entire series. As another example, Isaac Asimov's series of novels based on his Foundation trilogy was not originally intended to be consistent with his Robot stories, and he later made minor modifications to the Robot series to integrate most of his fictional writing into a single epic. 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 and the Beagle Boys. ... Scrooge McDuck, the Richest Duck in the World. ... Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to the act of changing previously established details of a fictional setting, often without providing an explanation for the changes within the context of that setting. ... Dr. Isaac Asimov enthroned with symbols of his lifes work (Rowena Morrill) Isaac Asimov (c. ... 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. ...