April 30, 2009

There's no place like… an SF universe

Filed under: Uncategorized — Rhiannon Lassiter @ 2:03 pm

Last night at the Clarke award a nice young woman with a video camera asked me the following question:
If you could live in any science fiction universe which one would you choose?
Immediately my head was filled with places I definitely do NOT want to live such as Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn universe. I stammered out an answer about Tanith Lee’s Drinking Sapphire Wine world but that’s a worryingly hedonistic answer. So I’m throwing it open to my readers. If you could move anywhere in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, where would you like to live?

6 Comments »

  1. Well, the traditional answer is the Culture … but think I’d be inclined to go for one of Kim Stanley Robinson’s futures. His Mars is quite something.

    Comment by Niall — April 30, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

  2. Despite all the pear shaped I like the Palace-verse.

    Where by ‘like’ I mean it would be interesting, a bit like the apocryphal curse and that kind of look at future computer technology always intrigues me.

    Comment by Andie — April 30, 2009 @ 4:17 pm

  3. I’d go with Moorcock’s Dancers at the End of Time milieu… everyone there is very jaded and melancholic, but a world free of death where power rings can convert anything you can imagine into reality? Sign me up!

    Comment by Matthew Marcus — May 1, 2009 @ 12:00 am

  4. If I had the choice of worlds to live in then I would have to go with the Aurian world described in Mr. Shannon LeJuan Clements novel The Star Explorer: The Discovery. It’s very out of this world!

    Comment by Mr. Shannon Clements — June 22, 2009 @ 10:57 pm

  5. Somewhere serene, and technologically advanced. The first idea in my head are the uppermost levels of Corruscant. Wherever I was, I would have to be able to see the sky. I love those kind of places. The brightly lit, open spaces – full of nurtured plants and incredible architecture. The Citadel in Mass Effect, Belgravia, Transcendance, Atlantis in Stargate. Light, Water, Life, Air.

    Comment by Graham — July 8, 2009 @ 10:16 pm

  6. Um, excuse me but are you actually recommending your own book in multiple comments to my blog? If so, that’s a bit cheesy – and not at all likely to encourage people to read it. Recommendation should come from someone other than yourself, Mr Clements!

    Comment by Rhiannon Lassiter — July 16, 2009 @ 3:20 pm

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