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Posted May 23, 2014
Fictional world?! Firefly! Because combines so wel two genres: science - fiction and wild west. Because is about life at the frontier, hard people and even a harder place to live in. Because it has great characters.

My second fictional place is a fictional city: Roanapur. It exists in the world of the Black Lagoon manga/anime. Not a place where you'd want to end up. A place where the criminals are ruling, life is cheap and the law is a joke.

In and many thanks.
Posted May 24, 2014
Favorite fictional world is definitely the one in Spiderweb Software's Exile series. The old but cool graphics and the amazing story is just my thing.

Play them and you'll understand their greatness! =D

Edit. They're for free in their website BTW
Post edited May 24, 2014 by nuuttiT
Posted May 24, 2014
Firefly being canceled was a real tragedy.
Posted May 25, 2014
Needs more fictional worlds!
Posted May 26, 2014
I'm in, thank you for this generous opportunity +1

My favorite fictional worlds are very classics to be honest. I like to lose my imagination in them.

- The Tolkien's Middle-Earth, because it's probably the more "realistic" fictional world that I ever discovered, with strong characters, places, history, civilizations...

- The post-apocalyptic world of Fallout, probably a vision of our future world with the Wasteland, the Vault survivors and the mutants.

- The Lovecraft's work ! Even if the novellas take place in our world, there is some fictional places (Innsmouth, Dunwich, Arkham...) inspired by real places. The mythology deities and species (Cthulhu, Dagon, Deep Ones, Shoggoth...) are so exciting and the books (Necronomicon, Pnakotic Manuscripts...) reveal some horrible knowledges which should be forgotten.
Post edited May 26, 2014 by MaxFulvus
Posted May 26, 2014
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wolfsrain: Fictional world?! Firefly! Because combines so wel two genres: science - fiction and wild west. Because is about life at the frontier, hard people and even a harder place to live in. Because it has great characters.
Ooooo, Firefly! YES! I freaking LOVE that series and the movie, Serenity ♥ I SO wish that the darned network hadn't killed the series by not showing the pilot episode for three months after the series started! >_<
Posted May 26, 2014
Im in

My favorite fictional world is the world of the legend of zelda. Its a land rich in adventure, peril, and deadly chickens. Who doesnt want to be a hero, adventuring the land, facing your fears to become the hero of time.
Post edited May 26, 2014 by dracomage1996
Posted May 26, 2014
Not In.
Thanks anyway.

My own favorite (Dune) and a few others have been posted already. My contribution would be the universe of the book Anathem (by Neal Stephenson).

Imagine that instead of going to college, if you wanted to dedicate your life to science/philosophy, you'd have to go to live into some sort of monastery where you would go out perhaps once a year or even less. Imagine this monastery not being based in religion but in reason. Where instead of knowing some dogma you'd be expected to argue about things.

Apart from the events that set big things in motion I thought it was a very interesting environment.
Posted May 26, 2014
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wolfsrain: In and many thanks.
Random.org has selected you, congrats!
Posted May 26, 2014
Thanks to Tooms for the generosity and to the gods of Random.org. Thanks to the other contestants for providing some interesting reads. Definitely gonna check some of those books, movies, etc.
Posted May 27, 2014
Congrats, wolfsrain, and thanks again, Tooms!
Posted May 27, 2014
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chevkoch: Thanks, Tooms, for giving away what seems to be a very underrated RPG. I just watched a couple of minutes of YouTube reviewteria and am already convinced this should be a fun experience. Appreciate you brought that title to my attention! Flung it down into the wishlist dungeon.

Please consider me in for this.

The Malazan Empire out of Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen. Beautifully realized (no wonder, Erikson is as much an anthropologist as a writer), it offers a diverse range of interesting, often scary places - scary, if you imagine one would have to wander these. I have read seven of the ten books, a real recommendation.

New Port City (Niihama) from the Ghost in the Shell series. Likely the story depth makes me love the universe here too. The 1995 film is why I'm fond of Cyberpunk as a genre. I'm familiar to some extent with Asian environments, a particular blend of modern and traditional surroundings, cold high tech and spiritual spillover. Watching GitS makes me nostalgic in that sense, aware of how and what I personally miss about these environments.
Decided to start reading Malazan. I have the books laying around, but the sheer size always scared the s... out of me. Will have to check the availability of novellas and spin-offs at my favorite book shop ( i'm a completionist, so sue me:))
Posted May 27, 2014
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wolfsrain:
Congrats :)

And yeah, you are in for a treat reading Erikson's series; if you grow to like it, you might even be glad that these are huge volumes, this way there is more of the good :) I took a break after each title, I think. For me, it's the best in fantasy reading, but of course, there is Tolkien, not to forget him.
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