What's the strangest setting you've ever come up with?

[pathfindersam]

Hey fellow writers! I was just sitting around, looking through my works and reading some stuff, and a question came to my mind: what's the oddest setting I've ever thought up for a novel? I came to the conclusion that it'd be the one that takes place 1,000 years in the future where magic has caused the Earth to form its land masses into another supercontinent, causing the fall of humanity (quite an oddball, huh?) Then that got me thinking...what crazy, out of this world settings have others come up with for their own stories? What's the weirdest setting you've thought up for a story?

 

[BlueDragonSapphire]

I'm a fantasy writer so I love coming up with strange and magical worlds, now that I think about it the different environments and worlds I've creative are I guess unique to some degree. One of them is when the world is divided into four pieces and each is ruled by different magical beings who keep a long-standing treaty between each other and aren't allowed to cross boundary lines, but the main conflict starts when someone crosses a border they shouldn't have.
Another one of my stories is completely centered around the inside of a jail cell that lives in a fantasy world for the most part which I think is pretty unique, so that's all I got. That's what I love about writing, the limitless creativity, it makes it all the more fun!

 

[pathfindersam]

I'm a fantasy writer so I love coming up with strange and magical worlds, now that I think about it the different environments and worlds I've creative are I guess unique to some degree. One of them is when the world is divided into four pieces and each is ruled by different magical beings who keep a long-standing treaty between each other and aren't allowed to cross boundary lines, but the main conflict starts when someone crosses a border they shouldn't have.
Another one of my stories is completely centered around the inside of a jail cell that lives in a fantasy world for the most part which I think is pretty unique, so that's all I got. That's what I love about writing, the limitless creativity, it makes it all the more fun!

Ooo that jail cell idea sounds super neat! I'll have to pick up that one once it's on the market!

 

[Steve Harrison]

My strangest was when my characters (in BLURRED VISION) took a trip to the Surynnian Cannon, a single, colossal volcano poking through the clouds covering the surface of Suryn, an uninhabited planet ten times the size of Earth. Erupting every 12.5 years, it draws crowds of millions of sightseers to purpose-built viewing platforms around the planet, who marvel as a single jet of fire and debris is punched out hundreds of thousands of miles into space. It is, I'm told, one of the 26.8 million (registered) Wonders of the Universe.

 

[Dan Jones]

The oddest setting I invented was for my second novel, where a significant proportion of the story takes place in the unconscious mind of one of the MCs. It's a world almost completely given over to the conflict between the force of the creative logos, and its suppression by external forces, which are represented by things the character is dreaming. A lot of what happens in the Real world plays out in symbolic fashion in this sort of quasi-mythic dreamscape. So, yeah, that was pretty weird.

 

[Mon0Zer0]

Difficult to say the strangest: A zombear apocalypse set in a universe where bears are the dominant life-form, and where honey is the most precious commodity, Sex-flipped Sherlock Holmes set in a matriarchal Victorian alternate universe or the planet of sentient apple pies that require the intervention of godlike piemakers to reproduce and have an economy based around tin foil. Probably the latter.

 

[stephen g parks]

I wrote a short story that takes place completely in a tree - the characters are all fruit flies.

 

[Guttersnipe]

I came up with a flat world comprised of four realms (an idea I got from the Oz books): The Red Forest, inhabited by a vaguely Polynesian-type people who each have a special power; Chimerica, which is basically a smaller version of the States, inhabited by Greek mythological creatures; Rubberwheel, now Ironwheel, once ruled by talking toys but now dark and mechanical thanks to the Iron Queen; the fourth I don't recall.