Choose your Hellhole!

[hypocriticHarkonnen]

hey guys! Choose your hellhole!

Imagine this.....
You're lollygagging about with your sweetheart, best pal, best pet, whatever, when a groups of orcs/monsters/priest-fanatics/boy-band-fanatics[?!] gag you, blindfold you, kidnap you [what-have-you] and tell you they're gonna drag you to some of the worst places in fictional history. But ah! They have at least a teensy drop of leniency [if you can call it that], and gives you the choice. Which hellhole do you want to be dropped off to?

a. Mordor
b. Azkaban
c. Arrakis
d. Apokolips (for all yah DC fans out there)
e. The Castle of Night

....and because of my extreme lack of knowledge of fictional hellholes, just name what hellhole you, uhm, prefer.

 

[Paige Turner]

Mordor, definitely.

I love volcanoes.

I've studied the maps and know all the roads.

Summer holidays at Club Barad-dur! Woo hoo!

 

[Carolyn Hill]

Of the five you name, I'd take Arrakis.

 

[SteveR]

What about Chasm City from the Alastair Reynolds novel of the same name?

 

[hypocriticHarkonnen]

heck, why not? haven't read those, can you describe it for me?

 

[Culhwch]

What is Arrakis? Actually, what are they all apart from (a) and (b)?

 

[hypocriticHarkonnen]

Arrakis is the Dune world in Frank Herbert's book, Dune. Basically, it's one huge, huge desert where giant sandworms [when i say giant, i mean it!!! big enough to swallow you, your family, your friends...you get the picture] live and well, obviously, it's very hot and water is extremely scarce. Top it all off with warring Houses [sort of like clans] competing to possess Arrakis [the sandworms fabricate a very precious spice coveted all over the universe], and a tribe called Fremen who live by strict codes, and you've got yourself a hellish planet!

Apokolips is the planet of the warlord Darkseid, one of the most powerful and enigmatic characters in DC comics [who has a band of warrior chicks called Female Furies as honor guards]. His planet is one giant ball of charred rock pock-marked with giant firepits and populated by terrorists and the terrorized. Ask a friend who knows DC comics, hehe.

Lastly, the Castle of Night is the author Cornelia Funke's invention, the castle of The Adderhead. A guy named after a snake's head? He's gotta be a bad guy! His castle is made of silver...but you never want to find yourself stuck there, anyways, since you'll be killed by The Adderhead's mercenaries before you so much as see the glitter of silver.

 

[j d worthington]

I still stand by my earlier statements in other posts: Here. This fictional construct we call "consensus reality". Again, quoting Marlowe: "Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it...."

 

[steve12553]

I still stand by my earlier statements in other posts: Here. This fictional construct we call "consensus reality". Again, quoting Marlowe: "Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it...."

To sit reading a forum with posts that cry out for an answer and not be able to log in. That would be Hell.

 

[j d worthington]

To sit reading a forum with posts that cry out for an answer and not be able to log in. That would be Hell.

Amen to that, brother!

 

[hypocriticHarkonnen]

Amen to that, brother!

double amen to that......and then some.

 

[kyektulu]

Can I just go to the regular old Abyss...?

Although the castle of night sounds quite appealing...

Definetly not Mordor, im not good with heat and it would be quite roasty toasty in a volcano!

 

[steve12553]

Can I just go to the regular old Abyss...?

Although the castle of night sounds quite appealing...

Definetly not Mordor, im not good with heat and it would be quite roasty toasty in a volcano!

I think that's the point. Choose your own Hell. And Kye, you've changed your avatar. Very becoming.

 

[weaveworld]

Azkaban

Its looks surprisingly roomy and you get to meet like-minded people.

 

[kyektulu]

I think that's the point. Choose your own Hell. And Kye, you've changed your avatar. Very becoming.

Cheers, although we do have a choice...

So where is the Castle Of Night from?

 

[chrispenycate]

I think i'll try Harry Harrison's "Deathworld"(the original, not the two sequels) Not that I expect to survive there that long, but great to visit (fast)

 

[alicebandassassin]

i think i would like to be droped in robert rankins toy town
i think i could have great fun messing with nursary rymes

 

[hypocriticHarkonnen]

Cheers, although we do have a choice...

So where is the Castle Of Night from?

sorry I forgot to mention that

The Castle of Night is from Cornelia Funke's Inkspell.

Dudes, can you post a description of your respective 'hellish hotspots'? unfortunately i'm not well-versed in that arena and i'd really like to know what those places are like

 

[SteveR]

Ok, from memory (and the back cover), Chasm City is a large domed city on a nasty looking planet called Yellowstone. With multiple layers of housing and trees it used to be a high tech place but is now ravaged in large parts by a nanotech plague that consumes all matter - turning it into some sort of sludge. Parts of the city are knee deep in this sludge. Very dark and gothic.


I can't remember the name of the plague, it is referred to throughout Reynolds's revelation space novels. On the tip of my tongue but nope, it 'aint coming

It's a top read if you're into Reynolds and reasonably hard Sci-Fi.

Cheers
Steve

 

[SteveR]

Ah ah ah! Just came to me - The Melding Plague!