What classic fantasy place would you not want to go to? And why?

Arrakis from Dune. A miserable sand planet where you have a monarchy and a theocracy battling it out - both dismal choices. To quote Alec Guinness from Lawrence of Arabia "There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing."
Also the despicable Endor (the Teddy Bear planet from Return of the Jedi.). Mainly due to the very lame Teddy Bears.
I would also pass on the time-dilated tidal wave planet from Interstellar (and the frozen one).
 
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Arrakis from Dune. A miserable sand planet where you have a monarchy and a theocracy battling it out - both dismal choices. To quote Alec Guinness from Lawrence of Arabia "There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing."
Also the despicable Endor (the Teddy Bear planet from Return of the Jedi.). Mainly due to the very lame Teddy Bears.
I would also pass on the time-dilated tidal wave planet from Interstellar (and the frozen one).
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All good choices to run screaming from! :D
 
From wherever it be that the Auditors come from! For that must truly be a most soul-crushing existence.

honourable mention for "the nothing" !
 
Overread said:
From wherever it be that the Auditors come from! For that must truly be a most soul-crushing existence.

honourable mention for "the nothing" !
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A land so horrifying they could not give it a name! :LOL:
 
Let's expand the concept to sci-fi and game world's you rather not be caught dead in? :eek: I would prefer to be in the belly of a shark than be in the game world of Diablo! The Hell's escape way too offen into the world! The angels need to get off there a$$e$ and do something! :D
 
Speaking of GAME OF THRONES...

Eni6ma said:
I really need to read the books! :cool:
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Keep in mind that the teevee series does not exactly match the books -- in fact, I had to stop watching the tv series because it confused me while I was reading my way through the books...
 
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A lot of readers, focused on the image of Clifford D. Simak as the "pastoral poet" of science fiction, have forgotten that he did enough horror stories to become one of the inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker award. I just made myself a quick list of some of his stories that feature horrible places, but I find in most cases those stories probably do not fall into the category of "fantasy" (unless, as Cliff did, you believe that science fiction is a subset of fantasy.). But one of Simak's horrible places in a fantasy (I think...) is the farm of Foster Adams, in the story "The Questing of Foster Adams."
 
Well... If you ask me Everything is a subset of Fantasy.

Reality as we know it is only our projection of a communal fantasy which we are writing and rewriting with our every thought and action...

This is why so-called "fictional" places can seem real to us when we read about them, (or in the case of games, play in their world) it's only a matter of a transreality transfer to place our consciousness in a separate communal reality peopled by authorial projections seen through our own lens of belief and knowledge.
 
2DaveWixon said:
Speaking of GAME OF THRONES...



Keep in mind that the teevee series does not exactly match the books -- in fact, I had to stop watching the tv series because it confused me while I was reading my way through the books...
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I am not watching the series. I did not want to see the series without reading the books first. The series never seems to live up to the book so I did not want it to color my perception of them. :cool:
 
2DaveWixon said:
A lot of readers, focused on the image of Clifford D. Simak as the "pastoral poet" of science fiction, have forgotten that he did enough horror stories to become one of the inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker award. I just made myself a quick list of some of his stories that feature horrible places, but I find in most cases those stories probably do not fall into the category of "fantasy" (unless, as Cliff did, you believe that science fiction is a subset of fantasy.). But one of Simak's horrible places in a fantasy (I think...) is the farm of Foster Adams, in the story "The Questing of Foster Adams."
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I still see them as different, one that is magic laden while the other is tech laden. Of course losts of stories blur the lines and have elements of both and I enjoy them too! Something like horror can go scifi or fantasy (demonic) very easily in there stories and a lot of times both. I prefer not put every thing into fantasy I don't want to risk diluting the concept. So yep I agree a lot of stories blur the lines and thats a good thing too!
 
Them there is the lovely vacation spot known as the planet Erna in C S Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy.:)
 
BAYLOR said:
Them there is the lovely vacation spot known as the planet Erna in C S Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy.:)
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Oh yeah, the Fae!!! A series of stories where science and magic blurs deeply!!!! Thats been a long time since read those! Gerald Terence what a fun guy!!!! :whistle:
 
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