The greatest Landmarks in Science Fiction and fantasy

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Arrakis

 

[Werthead]

From GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire:

King's Landing
Oldtown
Braavos
The Wall (particularly at Castle Black)
Harrenhal
Winterfell


From Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy:

Tranquillity
Norfolk
27th Century New York and London


Also: the Culture Orbitals from Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Gondolin and Numenor from the works of JRR Tolkien.
Camorr from Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora.
Ankh-Morpork from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

 

[BAYLOR]

Lots of choices here.

 

[farntfar]

Landmarks as physical objects marking a spot?
Lots from LotR
the stone of Erech
The pukelmen leading to the paths of the dead
The king's at Rauros falls
The king at the crossroads at Minas Morgul
Weathertop

 

[CupofJoe]

I've always wondered what "Fire domed" Matherion from the Eddings' The Tamuli books would really look like. An entire city clad in mother-of-pearl...

 

[Extollager]

The incomprehensible installation (if that's what it is) in Algis Budrys's novella "Rogue Moon," which is in one of the SF Hall of Fame anthologies edited by Ben Bova.

The Green Chapel in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (The movie sounds like rubbish.)

Malory's Camelot.

The Flying Island of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels.

The dark tower to which Childe Roland came in Robert Browning's poem; also the dark tower in C. S. Lewis's fragmentary novel.

The lost city of Kor in Rider Haggard's She, and the ruins of Charn in The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis.

I agree with the person who nominated Rivendell in 2007: "a refuge for the weary and oppressed, and a treasury of good counsel and wise lore." May many of our households be Rivendells.

The house on the borderland in William Hope Hodgson's novel of the same name.

The household of St. Anne's, and its evil counterpart at Belbury, in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength.

The vast structure in Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.

 

[johndsal]

Castle Brass defending Aigues-Mortes in Moorcocks Hawkmoon and Count Brass novels.

 

[Toby Frost]

The Green Chapel in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (The movie sounds like rubbish.)

The recent film is quite good. Very arty, and definitely not an exciting adventure, but very well shot.

Gormenghast Castle, Camelot, most of the notable places in The Lord of the Rings, the Ministry of Love, perhaps one of the wrecked tripods at the end of The War of the Worlds.

 

[hitmouse]

The incomprehensible installation (if that's what it is) in Algis Budrys's novella "Rogue Moon," which is in one of the SF Hall of Fame anthologies edited by Ben Bova.

The Green Chapel in the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. (The movie sounds like rubbish.)

Malory's Camelot.

The Flying Island of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels.

The dark tower to which Childe Roland came in Robert Browning's poem; also the dark tower in C. S. Lewis's fragmentary novel.

The lost city of Kor in Rider Haggard's She, and the ruins of Charn in The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis.

I agree with the person who nominated Rivendell in 2007: "a refuge for the weary and oppressed, and a treasury of good counsel and wise lore." May many of our households be Rivendells.

The house on the borderland in William Hope Hodgson's novel of the same name.

The household of St. Anne's, and its evil counterpart at Belbury, in C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength.

The vast structure in Susanna Clarke's Piranesi.

The recent Gawain movie is not rubbish, but it makes very few concessions to popular Arthurian movie tropes. It requires some effort from its viewers. So naturally a lot of people dont like it very much.

 

[Guttersnipe]

Hogsmead--Harry Potter series
Cair Paravel--Narnia series

 

[OuttaInc]

The Machine from Carl Sagan’s Contact

 

[KGeo777]

The morlock temple in the Time Machine