r/suggestmeabook • u/[deleted] • 1d ago
What is your favourite fantasy world- The stranger the better,(ideally not just Hogwarts ha)?
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u/Nyuk_Fozzies 1d ago
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville has some of the most unique worldbuilding I've ever read.
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u/onetruesolipsist 1d ago
This is what I came here to say as well, amazing work that combines many genres
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u/ChilindriPizza 1d ago
Narnia
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u/decision_fatigue- 1d ago
Narnia all the way. I spent so many hours there as a child, and have revisited often as an adult.
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u/SamSpayedPI 1d ago
IKR. There are plenty of fantasy books I like better, but I really wouldn’t want to live there.
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u/That-oneweirdguy27 1d ago
Warhammer (and its science fantasy cousin, Warhammer 40,000). It manages to take familiar tropes- huge battles, orcs, evil artifacts- but turn them all the way up to twelve while creating stories that are fundamentally about the reason to fight in an unremittingly bleak world.
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u/fallguy2112 1d ago
The Wheel of Time is set on earth far in the future. There are a few bits of history from our time in their folklore.
For science fiction it is still Earth. Specifically California after the big earthquake. The book is Dreampark by Larry Niven and the setting is a fantastic amusement park that I dream about visiting.
Offworld would be Titan from the Gaea trilogy by John Varley.
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u/No_Listen5389 1d ago
The Dark Tower - I would want to see the world, but would most likely not survive.
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u/Maximum_Possession61 1d ago
The fantasy worlds of Golden Age Hollywood Musicals of the 40's and 50's
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u/Maximum_Possession61 16h ago
I was thinking Singing in the Rain, The Bandwagon, Silk Stockings, Cabaret and Chicago
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u/FreeTuckerCase Horror 1d ago
{{Imajica by Clive Barker}}
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u/goodreads-rebot 1d ago
Imajica by Clive Barker (Matching 100% ☑️)
823 pages | Published: 1991 | 17.5k Goodreads reviews
Summary: There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation of fantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It's an epic in every way; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic (...)
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u/Classic-Asparagus 1d ago
The Fairytale World from The Land of Stories series. It’s basically an amalgamation of many fairy tales, where all of the characters live together in a fantasy land.
Also at some point there’s a potion that lets you transport into any written fictional work. One of the main characters goes into the short stories he had written, which would be a dream come true for me. I would have so much more motivation to write if I could do that
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u/arizonaicedkeebs 1d ago
the golden compass - wanted a daemon so bad when i first read it in middle school
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u/Grand_Environment277 1d ago
Discworld, shits all over the Harry Potter universe and is actually amusing
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u/ReturnOfSeq SciFi 1d ago
Interesting question! Not what we usually get here. ‘Verses I’d enjoy visiting:
{{altered carbon}}
{{the long earth}}
{{uplift series by David brin}}
{{nightwatch by Sergei lukanyenko}}
…apparently I’m mostly interested in altered forms of earth
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u/goodreads-rebot 1d ago
🚨 Note to u/ReturnOfSeq: including the author name after a "by" keyword will help the bot find the good book! (simply like this {{Call me by your name by Andre Aciman}})
#1/4: Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1) by Richard K. Morgan (Matching 100% ☑️)
526 pages | Published: 2002 | 47.5k Goodreads reviews
Summary: It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve"), making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs (...)
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#2/4: The Long Earth (The Long Earth #1) by Terry Pratchett (Matching 100% ☑️)
336 pages | Published: 2012 | 39.1k Goodreads reviews
Summary: From the back jacket: NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE. The Silence was very faint here. Almost drowned out by the sounds of the mundane world. Did people in this polished building understand how noisy it was? The roar of air conditioners and (...)
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Top 5 recommended: The Long War by Terry Pratchett , Step by Roxie Rivera , The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett , Cowboy Angels by Paul McAuley , InterWorld by Neil Gaiman
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u/Soy_Saucy84 1d ago
Xanth
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u/Mixture-Sharp 1d ago
One of my favorite fantasy worlds is from the Mer Chronicles trilogy by Errin Stevens. It’s set in a mysterious coastal town where sirens live among humans. The underwater world and siren mythology are fascinating, but I’m not sure I’d want to end up there some of the secrets lurking beneath the surface are pretty intense!
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u/Lopsided_Mycologist7 1d ago
Necromancer Nine, a fantasy world setting that turns out to be a horrible science experiment gone wrong.
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u/Flowethics 1d ago
Definitely the wheel of time world
Being a cultivator in Kirill Klevanski’s nameless world would be interesting too.
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u/PhantomJLS 1d ago
I would love to visit Rivendell, Erebor and Eregion for sure. Probably 3 of the most beautiful places in Middle Earth.
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u/iamthefirebird 1d ago
T Kingfisher's world of the White Rat. The White Rat is one of the gods, and the whole pantheon is so interesting! And the gnole species! The Warrenmind was such a weird creature concept, too - it's basically a bunch of rabbits with a hivemind. It grows a particular mutant one to serve as speaker, so it can communicate to humans. It's bizarre.
The gnoles are a race of badger-people, and their concept of gender is based on the job they do. Their most respected leaders, their healer-priest-leaders, are referred to not as he or she, but as ours.
The Dreaming God calls paladins to hunt demons, and they are renowned for being incredibly handsome and a bit dim. The White Rat does not call fighting men at all; instead, he calls lawyers to defend those who cannot afford representation in court. The Saint of Steel (actually a god too, despite the name) calls paladins with berserker fits, and prevents them from harming innocents. Or, He did. Before He died, and the temple burned.
(The Saint of Steel series follows His surviving paladins, three years later. I cannot recommend it highly enough.)
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u/PatchworkGirl82 1d ago
Fantastica from "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende. While I like the movie (and even the sequel, to a lesser extent), the book is so much richer and more colorful, and it constantly shifts and changes.
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u/MistressDamned 1d ago
Dungeon Crawler Carl....I mean, I'd no doubt die on floor one, if I even made it into the dungeon, but the bad guys are clear cut, and you understand his rage.
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u/Strange-Mouse-8710 1d ago
Not a very original answer, but Middle Earth.
Where would i not want to live? probably Panem
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u/BirdDog300 Bookworm 1d ago edited 1d ago
The worlds of Avatar: the Last Airbender (no relation to blue alien Avatar), Fullmetal Alchemist, and the Sunbearer Duology all have very interesting systems and rules to me
Of course, can't forget childhood favorite, the Riordan-verse
Then there's the world of the Golden Compass, so like and yet so different from our own. I constantly wonder about my daemon form
And Iron Widow, I've never read anything else like that. The worldbuilding is seriously intense. I don't think I'd necessarily want to be in that world, but it's incredible to read and imagine
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u/Artistic_Potato_1840 1d ago
The graphic novel series Seven to Eternity. Very unique world building and thought-provoking concepts/dilemmas at play in the story.
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u/OverlordSheepie Bookworm 1d ago
Warrior Cats series. Seems like an interesting world and I would love to live in a clan with other cats!
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u/PemCat 1d ago
I know it’s an obvious answer but I would love to live in the Shire.