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Would you want to backpack through Narnia or Mordor? Stay at a hostel in Springfield from the Simpsons, or Futurama's New New York? Maybe take hike or bike through Hazzard County?

-the Cuba of Jose Lezama Lima's Paradiso
-Macondo, from Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
-Vheissu, from Thomas Pynchon's V

The domes of Logan's Run would be a cool place to see....

The Discovery...I'd like to fight HAL

The Equilibrium society would be a place to try...Just no smiling, kids.

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Planet Coruscant from Star Wars, a planet completely encased in one huge mega city.

The epicenter of galactic core planets, it contains the galactic archives, imperial palace and jedi temples.



You couldn't imagine the epic adventures you could have in such an amazing location!!


Absolutely Magnificent!

The Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. (Without the creepy boat ride or various unfortunate misshaps related to untested candies being eaten.)

Macondo.

Narnia.

But, am "settling" for a trip to New Zealand instead

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Originally posted by christina-in-brooklyn:
The Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory. (Without the creepy boat ride or various unfortunate misshaps related to untested candies being eaten.)

Which interpretation of the Factory? The book? The Gene Wilder flick? Or the Johnny Depp flick?

I would try and steal an Oompah Loompah. They can clean up my house.

I would really like to spend some time on Kim Stanley Robinson's terraformed Mars and get a chance to hike up Mons Olympus -- the biggest mountain in the solar sytem.

HOGWARTS

The Metaverse from Snow Crash

And from an atheist's perspective... hopefully nobody will be offended if I say Heaven...

I've been to the REAL Hogwarts (Gloucester cathedral)

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And from an atheist's perspective... hopefully nobody will be offended if I say Heaven...

Do you mind if I quote you on that one?

Just went through the list of my favorite books - and it's funny, few of them contain fictional places. I guess, my favorite experience with a book is the human cause. Ah well...

I'd like to spend a week as Josef K. in whatever the place is Kafka woke him up to be arrested. That would spin me out - probably more than and fantasy world as such.

Also, I would like to spend a few days in Les Cerisiers Duerrenmatt's The Physicists

Maybe it's my dark state of mind, but I would love to spend some time in Philip K. Dick's dystopian and deserted San Francisco, as imagined in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (a.k.a. Blade Runner). I'd just have to make sure to pack some protection, but what an adventure...

Fantastica from the Neverending Story. I always thought I might make it past the Southern Oracle.

Plus, If I had Falcor as my transportation I could get anywhere in Fantastica in a short period of time.

The "Galaxy" from 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' all the world and all the times. I want to pick up a Bable Fish, my trusty towel, my Guide, stick out my thumb and head to Milli Ways in time to see the universe explode.

I'd just like to be able to time travel. But for some place fictional I think I'd go with Hogwarts!

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Originally posted by kj115:
The "Galaxy" from 'Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' all the world and all the times. I want to pick up a Bable Fish, my trusty towel, my Guide and head to Milli Ways in time to see the universe explode.

Totally! Hop aboard the Heart of Gold and fly to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

To a place where there is no need for money, where politics doesn't exist and where the pace of life is ruled by nature...
Otherwise be able to explore Isaacs Asimov's worlds of Foundation - to have my own spaceship and jump from planet to planet - that would be awesome!

The entire Harry Potter magical world, and Atlantis.

Kath

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Originally posted by Faun:
Otherwise be able to explore Isaacs Asimov's worlds of Foundation - to have my own spaceship and jump from planet to planet - that would be awesome!

As long as it's possible to avoid that world that's entirely built over and is a continous city of 40 billion or so -- what is the name of that planet? I read the whole Foundation series ages ago and have forgotten most of the details.