Fictional British SF place names

[vgqn]

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!

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[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Correct, fictional place names used in SF by British writers (books or other media). And yes, I know Tolkien alone could fill a wall! What I'm hoping for in the end is a list of not too obscure names, just one per writer (a tough choice for Tolkien!). What would be your top one or two from those writers, ones that people might recognize? (I have to say, I don't recognize any of the Dunsany ones you cited, though it's been years since I read any.)

It occurs to me that I could use 'Bad Ass' for a Pratchett place name rather than the more obvious Ankh-Morpork. Ha ha!

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

My favorite Dunsany place name is one he didn't make up. It's Carcassonne. It's a name he'd seen in a poem somewhere and liked, and used for a fictional city, but he didn't recall where he'd read the name nor where it came from. (It's actually a town in southern France, and the poem Dunsany had read is by Gustave Naudaud.)

Eddison's most important placename is Zimiamvia, but you seem to be not looking just for exotic names, so Witchland or Demonland from The Worm Ouroboros might do you better. (Eddison invented those in childhood, and couldn't bear to part from them.)

For a Tolkien name in English, how about The Cottage of Lost Play?

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Zimiamvia is lovely, happy to go with it. Though your other suggestions remind me of Flatland -- wasn't he British? Will go check.

I'm afraid I'm going to go with a more obvious Tolkien name like Mordor or Rivendell. Boring to a Tolkien scholar like you, I realize.

Will you be at Westercon this weekend?

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Flatland = yes, British author.

Gormenghast. Elidor. Dalemark (or Derkholm).

Me = at Westercon intermittently.