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You tell me: What’s the best fictional city?

April 20, 2018 by Nathan Bransford 7 Comments

A great setting can make a novel unforgettable. And there have been some great cities in novels that inspire our imagination, make us want to pack our bags, or run away screaming.

What’s your favorite city in fiction?

I’d have to go with the wildly inventive Besźel/Ul Qoma from China Mieville’s The City and the City.

What about you?

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  1. abc says

    April 20, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    Hogsmeade. It’s a village, does that count? I want my butter beer.

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  2. Mary Ellen Wall says

    April 20, 2018 at 4:29 pm

    Castle Mount, on Robert Silverberg’s Majipoor. Amazing world-building, and the interactions between the very different inhabitants really fleshed it out. I expect any day NASA will report they found a large, lightweight planet somewhere out there that appears to have LIFE!

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  3. Becka Drum says

    April 20, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    I’m going with “place” because I don’t think it’s fair to handicap us with a word like “city” when discussing fiction, Nathan. My husband immediately chose Arrakis (an entire planet) from Dune. But mine has to be somewhere in Middle Earth, and if you’re going to insist on a city, I’ll say Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings.

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  4. Kate says

    April 20, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    Ankh-Morpork. Thank you, Mr. Pratchett!

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  5. Lana says

    April 20, 2018 at 11:51 pm

    Coruscant.

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  6. JOHN T. SHEA says

    April 21, 2018 at 9:47 pm

    Disneyworld! All of them. They’re both real AND fictional.

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  7. Charles says

    April 22, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    I thought of The City and the City first also. Gondor maybe or Gondolin also.

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