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So question for everyone. What are your favorite published fictional worlds? Why do you like them/what is it about them that interests you so much? Would you like to live in them or not, and if so or if not, why?

Not so much a specific fictional universe but a popular trope- the soulmate au. Whether its marks, tattooed names, or a countdown timer- I'm completely fascinated by the idea. I read so many of these. I don't even care about the pairing, I just like the worldbuilding. There's some where the governernment sets up databases to make it easier to find your match and there's some where it's almost impossible to find your match. There are ones where a soulmate doesn't necessarily have to be romantic and there's others where any pairing besides the soulmate match is basically destined to end badly. They're just so interesting and I have a lot of feelings about them.

Maybe part of it is the way it's set up so that everything ties up nice and neat in the end, or at least, everyone has the possibility of a happy ending. Because I like the sad ones where things don't end up working out, too.

I don't think I'd ever want to live in one, though. Maybe visit, just to see what it's like. I don't put a whole lot of stock in romatic relationships irl, so I'm interested in a world where a lot of everyday life revolves around a soulmate.

Huh

I've never actually read those. But that does sound really interesting and unique. I bet there is some cool worldbuilding in there.

I thought this said 'favorite words', and I had so many terrifying disease names on the tip of my tongue. Because some of them feel so nice to say [even if they are awful]

It is a good question though, but I am to drunk to put an actual answer into words :/

Haehhe it's cool.

and some disease names can be pretty neat

Most of my favorite universes that I would want to live in involve regular space travel because that would be awesome. And that's about it.

There's so much that's wrong with Jack Vance, but I still love the Oikumene and the richness of Vance's worldbuilding.

I'm gonna go with Diana Wynne Jones's Dalemark.

-I love fantasy with a non-medieval level of technology. Cart & Cwidder, Drowned Ammet, and most of The Crown of Dalemark are set at a time with a roughly 17th/18th century level of technology; there's extensive sea travel, guns, and they're just on the cusp of the industrial revolution/steam power (but NOT STEAMPUNK). The rest of Crown of Dalemark takes place around 200 years later, the modern era (1990s)-- there's bullet trains, computers, etc. And then The Spellcoats is set in ancient times, pre-1000. The most important piece of technology is Tanaqui's loom.

-Low-level magic. Two of the novels do have a magic-using "big bad," but magic isn't part of the everyday person's life. Most people probably think it doesn't exist/is mythological.

-And speaking of the mythology: the Undying. I'm a sucker for name-magic (Earthseeeeeeaaa), and this has some of the finest. DWJ is always fantastic for providing just enough information about a fantasy element for you to feel like it's a completely natural part of that world, but then leaving a ton of stuff below the surface.

-I feel like if I had to live in Dalemark, it probably could be worse. Of course it depends on where and when, as South Dalemark in the time of the Earls is kinda oppressive. Living in modern-day Dalemark would be just fine! ;) But really, that whole not-medieval thing is really awesome and I wish there were more fantasies with a similar time period.

And incidentally, as just as another point of recommendation, I'll just mention that almost half of the characters are POC (those from North Dalemark). It may not be reflected on your edition's covers, but they are! And that's from a series where 3/4 of the books were written in the 1970s.

I'm a big fan of worlds where people have an extra sense for each others power - youki/demon energy, reishi/reiatsu/spiritual energy, magical power, bloodlust/killing intent. I'm always disappointed when a world has some kind of magic, but the magic users (and non users) can't sense each others magic.

I have major issues with the His Dark Materials trilogy. That said, there is something hugely compelling about the daemon aspect of that universe.

Ah yeah IA on both counts. The daemon aspect is pretty cool and everything else is kinda...ehh.

I can only like daemons IN a world like HDM, where they really belong. Daemon fic is very, very close to the top of my list of fanfic pet peeves. Hate hate hate.

My favorite fictional worlds:

- Middle-Earth
- Narnia
- The Wizarding World (Harry Potter)
- Arthur's Britain as told by T.H. White

I love them all for the language used describing them, because they are richly realized and detailed worlds, and because they have complex and interesting characters.

I'd like to live in Hobbiton, Narnia, or the Wizarding World but not when any of the wars are going on. I like to read about exciting things, but I like a peaceful life IRL. Wouldn't like to adventure with the Knights of the Round Table because that was pretty much constant battles and the women got short shrift anyway.

This is an interesting question.

The Wizard world is one of my personal favorites as well. Though I don't think I'd want to be around for the wars either.

CJ Cherryh's Chanur novels set in the 'Compact' of multiple alien species. The xenosociology and the politics and the technology is all so cool, and I'm eternally interested in seeing the development of the Hani after being dragged kicking and screaming into the spacing culture, and the interactions between the various species. And I want to see what happens as more humans start sticking their noses in!

I love, love, love fantasy settings. Middle Earth and dnd worlds, like Faerun, are particular favourites of mine, I love the world building for them and well magic, which is the main appeal lbh. But I'm not sure if I'd want to live in them because giant spiders(though at least with Middle Earth Ungoliant's brood are in certain areas, with dnd they can turn up all over the shop).

Middle-earth because it's...Middle-earth.

Pern, because dragons and fire-lizards.

The Land (from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.) Whatever you think of the protagonist, you can't not love Revelstone, Glimmermere, the Ranyhyn, the Giants and all the other gorgeous places, creatures and phenomena Donaldson described.

I like the rhythm heaven world because I love the idea I can be competent at anything as long as I can do it in 4/4 time

The worlds of:

- Mortal Engines
- Gormenghast
- The Edge Chronicles
- Monster Blood Tattoo
- China Mieville
- Neuromancer

they're just really original and immersive and interesting.

Apart from places like Middle-Earth and Narnia, I'd like to live in the world of E Nesbit's 'Wet Magic', in which people from books will come into the real world and help in times of crisis.

I would love to at least know that the Redwall universe is real.

As well as the Artemis Fowl universe, but that's more for Underground and Haven.

Ohhhh those books were my childhood. Those worlds were so coooool.

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