List of fictional city-states in literature
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. This is a list of fictional city-states in literature. A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories.[1][2] They have been an important aspect of human society, and historically included famous cities like Athens, Carthage, Rome,[2] and the Italian city-states of the Renaissance. Correspondingly in literature, there are numerous examples of fictional city-states.
Contents
A-I
- Amber, a castle and city in The Chronicles of Amber, a series by Roger Zelazny.
- Ankh-Morpork, which features prominently in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett.
- Aramanth, a city where personal freedoms don’t exist and success depends solely on performance in compulsory examinations, in the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson.
- Cities in Flight by James Blish are Earth cities which though the invention of the Spindizzy are able to take off into space, leaving an impoverished Earth behind, and wander the galaxy as independent "okie" cities.[3]
- Columbia (Bioshock: Infinite)
- Cynosure (First Comics multiverse)
- Diaspar in The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
- Duchy of Grand Fenwick in The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberley
- Dungeons & Dragons campaigns
- Free City of Greyhawk
- Menzoberranzan (Forgotten Realms)
- Neverwinter (Forgotten Realms)
- Sigil (Planescape)
- Silverymoon (Forgotten Realms)
- Waterdeep (Forgotten Realms)
- Fighting Fantasy series by Steve Jackson.
- Kharé, a cityport
- Port Blacksand
- Hav (Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris, 1985)
J-R
- Judge Dredd comic book series
- Lake Town - also known as Esgaroth (from The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien)
- Lys in The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
- New Crobuzon (Books by China Miéville)
- New New York (The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, Worlds trilogy by Joe Haldeman)
- Neustern: An autonomous coastal city state invented in the paintings of artist Gary Farrelly.[4]
- Novarian series - Twelve city states presented in detail in the sequence of fantasy stories by L. Sprague de Camp: Solymbria, Boaktis, Tarxia, Zolon, Ir, Metouro, Govannion, Alissar, Xylar, Othomae, Kortoli, and Vindium - all sharing a common language and culture but jealous of their independence and greatly differing in their systems of government; also, Iraz - a distant, non-Novarian city state in the same world, with a different language and culture
- Opar "Lost" city in the African jungles, in the Tarzan books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, its ancient days of glory described in prequel series by Philip José Farmer
- The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist
- The Free Cities of Natal on the continent of Triagia on Midkemia
- Krondor, a principality
S-Z
- The Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne
- Stahlstadt (Steel City), a totalitarian German-speaking city-state
- Ville-France, a utopian French-speaking city-state
- Superbia, a mobile city-state in the DC Comics continuity.
- Umbar (from Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)
- A Song of Ice and Fire book series
- Braavos
- Pentos
- other Free Cities
- Lorath
- Lys
- Myr
- Norvos
- Qohor
- Tyrosh
- Volantis
- Ys (from Roger Zelazny's Traveller in Black)
References
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- ↑ Specifically mentioned are Scranton, Pennsylvania, New York City (actually, only Manhattan) and Budapest (wandering space still bisected by the dry course of the Danube).
- ↑ The map of Neustern is an ongoing project by the artist Gary Farrelly, which began when he was international artist in residency at the University of Texas in Dallas.
