What World is your Fantasy Book Set On...

JPSpideyCJ · Mar 26, 2007

.... And where is it at, what level of time and technology? Mine is set on Planet Earth, but it is set on a sinking island continent off the coast of Stone Age Britain. Though Andefil's technology is pretty much Medieval style.

Mr. Jinx · Mar 26, 2007

Mine is set in in an alternate history earth in the late 1860's on the western frontier. The catch is that magic works and consequently some odd creatures roam about but other than that it has a decidedly western genre flare to it.

Kentuk · Mar 26, 2007

The mudhole in the middle of the Margins. Far away in the future where man has scurried like rats through the universe and because of the restrictions of the portals left by the Ancients can't take most technology with him. The mudhole is a rather toxic swamp planet with a cold core and it stinks. It is a most unlikely place for the rise of a new civilization.

Michael Dracon · Mar 26, 2007

I currently only write Urban Fantasy set on modern-day Earth (though with a few added Realms to go to) and some Sci-Fi set in our own Solar System.

But if I would ever write Fantasy, it would probably end up being Medieval Urban Fantasy.

Anonymisty · Mar 26, 2007

Mine is set in an archipelago known as the Nine Islands. It's far enough from any mainland that most of its inhabitants have never travelled there. The society is roughly on a level with our world's late 17th/early 18th century.

But there's magic.

Judg · Mar 26, 2007

Mine is set on an alternate earth, settled by people from this earth. They are at approximately a Renaissance level of technology.

batgirl · Mar 26, 2007

Magic in the Blood - Suffolk, England, 1810
The Astrologer's Death - East Anglia, England, 1625
The Willow Knot - Northern Europe, the folkloric forest, late 1700s

I suck at making stuff up. Research is easier.
-Barbara

JBI · Mar 26, 2007

One with swords.(fancy post renaissance fencing weapons)

Sage · Mar 26, 2007

Earth. San Diego, to be exact, with a side trip to Columbus, OH. Also Celestia, the celestial plane (which includes Heaven & Hell), & a lower plane inhabited by demons (in the current WIP)

Zoombie · Mar 26, 2007

Harbinger, a massive planet eating spaceship that roams the cosmos, fulfilling an unknown purpose. And, at one point in it's millennium spanning history, an alien race decided to hitch a ride. The idea became popular, and now at least twenty three alien races live on Harbinger. And, more recently, Humanity managed to grab a living space in the sewer systems.

Wait...that's more sci-fi than fantasy.

But it's still cool. And it allows me to sum up the plot line in a single sentence: "A boy and his robot on an adventure in a massive, planet eating spaceship."

Oddsocks · Mar 27, 2007

Mine are set on more-or-less earth-like, non specified worlds (they are not earth, the continents are different, and there is no reference to earth, so they aren't different planets that have been colonised or similar). The level of technology varies from medieval (plus magic) to steam and cogs technology (also plus magic).

ebenstone · Mar 27, 2007

A late medievalesque world in the south hemisphere of a world with a "slight" axial tilt (meaning warm winters and hot summers). The northern hemisphere is a steaming waste due to a natural disaster and a wizard's war. The southern continent is made up of several countries made up of refugees from the northern continent, the southern native and a mysterious "witch" race.

Dave.C.Robinson · Mar 27, 2007

My fantasy novel is set in and around the Harven Empire in "the World." It has two moons, (a greater and a lesser) and isn't Earth. It doesn't need a name because you only need to name things when you have more than one.

JPSpideyCJ · Mar 27, 2007

The rest of the world.

JDCrayne · Mar 27, 2007

Mine is a sort of parallel world -- you can look up and see the same stars -- but it's kind of medieval. The elder race (for lack of a better name) have mostly died out but they have advanced technology. The rest of the folk make do with knives, pikes, and the like. No gun powder, but any day now someone may invent it.

MattW · Mar 27, 2007

My back-burner fantasy is set in a world that is almost early Renaissance tech, with some leaps and bounds due to advanced alchemy that can just barely be called magical.

L'Vaeryn · Mar 29, 2007

Mine is mainly set with a Regency-era type technology on a fairly European continent. The protagonist, however, is a mixed race teen; his mother is from his "home" country, but his father was an exile from an island nation modelled loosely off of the Greek Isles with a little bit of other island nations thrown in for fun, especially geologically speaking. In other words, I created the world, but relied heavily on several different cultures and eras... the island people's trading habits resemble the Phoenicians, for example, while their government is more like the Greek city-states, and their social structure is completely made-up.

elvenharlot · Apr 5, 2007

My current fantasy novel operates on what I call the Avalon principle - just beyond the world as we know it lies another, reachable only under certain circumstances and only by those who obtain the knowledge and ability to do so. Nothing new there, though.

Long story mercifully short, this story is set between two such worlds: rural Ireland, in the aftermath of a near-future apocalpyse - and a world primarily inhabited by elves (what else) that lies just beyond.

As the plot progresses (or as character perspective changes), the story moves back and forth between the two. Though it's not quite as erratic as I make it sound.

Technology-wise, picture the Irish countryside 20 years from now...there have only been a handful of advancements that have reached this area.

In the elven world, their "technology" (for lack of a better word) revolves around natural processes and certain forms of magick, but in many ways it is just as advanced - sometimes moreso - as our own. They have also made some sacrifices of convenience for the sake of preserving the natural purity of their world.

Zoombie · Apr 5, 2007

My latest fantasy book takes place in the City of O. O is it's name because O curves back on its self infinitely, just as the city of O does.

O is made of Chaos Matter, or as the natives call it, "Put" (short for Putty). A person will a bit of willpower and imagination can force Put into whatever shape they want. The harder they concentrate, the more the Put becomes what they want.

There are four general kinds of people in O. Willes: These folks are the suckers who just float through in life. None actually live in O, because as soon as they show up, they dizzolve into the Put, unable to keep their 'self' intact.

Aliens: People visiting O for any number of reasons.

Willworkers: Citizens of O who are capable of shaping the Put. They're artisans, reserchers, or just people enjoying their retirment in O.

Forces: Forces are deadly. Stay away from them. A force is someone who's personality, who's force of will can shape the fates of nations in their homelands...and can shatter the universe in O. Forces that have lived on earth are people like Hitler, FDR, Martin Luther King, and so on. If they had visted O, then they'd have become exponetially more powerfull...as long as they stayed there. Which is why Forces only stay in O for short times, creating what they need, then heading back to their home lands to do what they wish.

Everlasting · Apr 5, 2007

Planent Earth and Outerspace in the 22nd century !!!!

Everlasting

Moon Over Key Biscayne

Lady Esther · Apr 5, 2007

Mine is on Earth and is pre-historic with an alternate history.

Silverhand · Apr 6, 2007

Mine is set in a medieval world...and spans that of Heaven.

VonShneer · Apr 7, 2007

i often like not to make a world for my fantasy at all.. i like to put in no rules so that anything may go, and then work from that. by the end it will be what it was meant to be, but before the end there is nothing to it but what it becomes

Kentuk · Apr 7, 2007

My worlds change with the generations. I focus on a restless frontier kind of folk. The novelette I'm currently working on is set on Merte a nomadic steppe world inhabited by canny murderous native warriors who live for war. They are being raised up to become the protectors but not the conquers of the reach of man.

Spiny Norman · Apr 9, 2007

Mine's in a highly stylized version of Las Vegas. Weirdest place on earth.

What World is your Fantasy Book Set On...

JPSpideyCJ

Mr. Jinx

Kentuk

I want to write what I want to write

Michael Dracon

Urban Fantasy Geek

Anonymisty

Judg

DISENCHANTED coming soon

batgirl

Writting broad

JBI

Sage

Our Lady of Parentheticals

Zoombie

Dragon of the Multiverse

Oddsocks

ebenstone

Dave.C.Robinson

... with the High Command

JPSpideyCJ

JDCrayne

Indonesian Yak Keeper

MattW

Company Man

L'Vaeryn

elvenharlot

Zoombie

Dragon of the Multiverse

Everlasting

Lady Esther

I can say the alphabet backwards!

Silverhand

VonShneer

New kid, be gentle!

Kentuk

I want to write what I want to write

Spiny Norman