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Title: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: Beamer on February 05, 2007, 04:08:39 AM

Here are some of mine
Sanctuary
Ringworld
River World
Amber & The Courts of Chaos
The Galactic Milieu & Pliocene Exile
Dream Park
Lankhmar

I think that the setting can be as important as the story.

Beamer
The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. (Dawn Summers)

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: Abstruse on February 05, 2007, 04:28:07 AM

I love contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy.  A modern setting with big huge fireballs and epic battles destroying entire buildings or even city blocks.  Gee, wonder why I like the Dresden Files so much...

The Abstruse One
Darryl Mott Jr.

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: LizW65 on February 06, 2007, 03:52:29 PM

The Discworld
Medieval England
Present-day Great Britain
1930's-1940's urban or contemporary United States
Alternate-history Europe
-Liz

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: The Corvidian on February 07, 2007, 04:37:59 AM

Alternate history
Modern Cities

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: blgarver on February 07, 2007, 08:29:51 PM

I find myself writing in similar settings a lot.  A lot of my stories take place in remote places largely untouched by civilization.  I'm not sure why I do this, that's just the way it comes out when I'm formulating a story.  Perhaps it's because I don't like dealing with time period, so the further away from cities and technology I am, the less I have to explain what year it is.

Islands
Jungles
Cross Country stuff, like Lord of the Rings
Abandoned places, like temples and warehouses and old ruins

All these places are places where people can't really dispute what you write.  I think that's why I put my characters there.  I can do whatever I want without having to do too much research about facts.  I just want to tell a story, not dwell on the nitpicky details of a setting.

My favorite settings to read...
TDF, of course

The Dark Tower universe, Stephen King...the ultimate Anything Can Happen setting

Jurassic Park, Sphere, Timeline, Prey, The Andromeda Strain...pretty much anything by Crichton has a cool setting.

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: Donna on February 08, 2007, 05:54:50 AM

Roman Republic
First century Rome
Victorian England
Edwardian England

And, of course, modern day Chicago (with fantasy overtones)

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: BobSkull on February 08, 2007, 05:22:44 PM

I don't really have one. Almost everything I write is in a different setting, anywhere from modern day to royalty fantasy. It always varies.

Title: Re: What is your favorite setting for a book?
Post by: Magus on February 13, 2007, 02:11:47 PM

Quote from: BobSkull on February 08, 2007, 05:22:44 PM

I don't really have one. Almost everything I write is in a different setting, anywhere from modern day to royalty fantasy. It always varies.

I agree.