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vgqn ([personal profile] vgqn) wrote2011-07-01 09:36 am

Fictional British SF place names

Here's an easy one for y'all. I'm looking for some fictional British SF place names, from books, movie, or TV shows. E.g., Perelandra, Perdido Street, The Village, Mordor.

Bring on the flood!

[identity profile] kalimac.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
So, you don't want names of fictional places -in- Britain, but just ones made up by British authors? Tolkien alone could provide you with hundreds. And even more from my two favorite of his predecessors, E.R. Eddison and Lord Dunsany. Dunsany in particular was a genius with beautiful and exotic names. Babbulkund, Merimna, Tarphet, Pegana, Allathurion, Thlunrana, Runazar, and those are just place names; his personal names are even better, I think.

The White Hart

[identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I ran across one of the stories in an old collection I ran into, and it's been so long since I read the eponymous collection that I hadn't known that the bar flies are Tuckerized fans.

What scale of "places" do you mean? Planets or pubs?

[identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com 2011-07-01 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
GCU Very Little Gravitas Indeed
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[personal profile] dalmeny 2011-07-01 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)

A few obvious ones, then, including works of fantasy. I've almost certainly mispelled some.

Gallifrey
Never-Never Land
Kor
Lilliput
Neverwhere
Gauda Prime
Wonderland
Bas-Lag
Megacity One
Gormenghast
Lud-in-the-Mist
The Village

What was the name of the Moreau's island? Did the land of the Eloi and Morlocks have a name?

[identity profile] coth.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
Acromel - the place where the honey itself is bitter - from Brunner's The Traveller in Black