Poll
Question:
Where are Fantasy worlds?
Option 1: A different dimension
votes: 2
Option 2: Our universe
votes: 1
Option 3: Somewhere else (explain below)
votes: 4
Hi all,
When you are reading a fantasy book set on a planet that obviously isn't Earth, where in your head is it?
Is it in our reality, but on another planet?
Or
In a different reality?
Nothing other than idle curiosity here.
The fantasy world is reality. This life, merely a dream.
Am I a man dreaming I am an elf or an elf dreaming I am a man? :-\ :P :d :d
You're a nightmare...
QuoteHi all,
Nothing other than idle curiosity here.
Obviously a quiet day at work.
I would agree that you are quite possibly Idle and curious
:D
(It was lunch)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 January 2025, 01:19:27 PM:D
(It was lunch)
That was my excuse when I watched two films back to back on a night shift.
Some are our world, in a different time Elric)
Some are alternative dimensions but could be our world (Warhammer, Game of Thrones)
Some share our universe (Conan)
It depends on the author
Quote from: Orcs on 22 January 2025, 01:22:29 PMThat was my excuse when I watched two films back to back on a night shift.
Lunch? Night shift? This is fantasy isn't it!
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 22 January 2025, 02:37:05 PMSome are our world, in a different time Elric)
Some are alternative dimensions but could be our world (Warhammer, Game of Thrones)
Some share our universe (Conan)
It depends on the author
Far too sensible an answer !!! :'( :'(
Sort of agree with Ithoriel. A fantasy world is a story that exists in our reality, but the content of the story is somewhere else.
Quote from: Gwydion on 22 January 2025, 03:14:52 PMLunch? Night shift? This is fantasy isn't it!
It is now I am retired.
My fantasy world is where I sit and paint figures or models or game whenever I like, and someone else pays the bills...... OOH I am there its called retirement
Nobby has not replied about his fantasy world is, although I am not sure we want to know......
An alternative contemporary setting where an American based fascist movement that uses YMCA as a marching song threatens to attack Denmark.
However, that isn't at all believable
Depends. Some books make me think of Earth - like the Conan books or the Lord of the Rings. They "feel" like the author was placing their creation on top of the existing planet - so for me they are alternative timelines, or possibly pre-Big Bang copies of Earth - going on the rather unfeasible premise that the cosmos is cyclical and collapses and expands repeatedly.
Others, like the Moorcock books I see as being in alternative universes, or perhaps on a planet on the other side of the Milky Way. Some, like the Thomas Covenant Chronicles possibly only exist in the mind of the protagonist.
The stuff I have little time for is the Urban Fantasy where vampires running around Norwich, and secret cabals of werewolves running Gloucester.
Good question. :-bd
Quote... and secret cabals of werewolves running Gloucester.
Well they're not so secret anymore now, blabbermouth.
Agreed though, Middle-Earth and the world of the Hyborian Age are supposed to be Earth in an alternative history.
Game of Thrones is clearly a different planet.
The worlds of The First Law and Warhammer are alternative Earths.
Narnia, Wonderland, Neverland and Oz are alternative realities with links to the real world.
Probably.
Quote from: fsn on 22 January 2025, 07:09:24 PMThe stuff I have little time for is the Urban Fantasy where vampires running around Norwich, and secret cabals of werewolves running Gloucester.
Have you been to Hounslow?
When I framed the poll I knew it was too restricted, down sides of multiple choice.
Having read Nobby, I'm wondering if I should have asked..
Quote from: Raider4 on 22 January 2025, 07:42:50 PMWell they're not so secret anymore now, blabbermouth.
Apologies to our Lycanthrope friends in South West England.
QuoteAn alternative contemporary setting where an American based fascist movement that uses YMCA as a marching song threatens to attack Denmark.
However, that isn't at all believable
;D ;D ;D
Yes if they had gone for Panama or Canada instead it could be credible.
Talking of Hounslow
There is a curry house there a friend referred to as 'Honeymoon in Hounslow'* which sounds like a terrible Mills and Boon!
*Yes, it is related to the new Honeymoon that opened in Aylesbury.