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Loose thread rules. If you could pick any fictional location from any recognised public book/movie/TV show/radio show /play/poem/whatever where would you pick, and why, if you like.
I'm still thinking about my choice 🤔 maybe France as portrayed in 'Allo'Allo.
The Discworld. I'd make a terrible great Watchman 😉
Or, semi-realistically but sticking with Pratchett, our earth around the time of The Long Earth. Similar to today but with additional opportunity/danger/novel things to experience.
Your game your rules but .... can we have your reason Jekkyl ? A love of ear horns ? Fallen madonnas? Or just fancy Vicki Michell ??
The lovely prosperous, tolerant, utopian Britain which the Brexitiers say is going to emerge in October. 😉
Iain M Banks the world of "the culture"
Plenty of everything for everyone, sybaritic lifestyle
Probably the Culture. Any one of the GSVs as long as it had a good name.
A socialist paradise.
The Culture, hands down. Live forever until you don't want to any more, then be resurrected later if you like; do anything you want, indulge any interest or desire, go anywhere, be anything. Do good works if you want, don't bother if you don't.
The Culture for me as well.
Or for the other extreme, Mega City 1, as long as I could be a Judge and ride a Lawmaster.
I'm thinking Mr Benn. Never a dull moment, though his detailed lifestyle choices are rarely touched on, probably because he doesn't have any.
The Planiverse...
Culture definitely, but as an immigrant to it or on the fringes where it meets other cultures.
Based on the books, the most interesting way to see the culture was in comparison to the alternatives.
I imagine if you were born grew up and lived surrounded by it without any external reference it could be a hopelessly bland existence.
Thinking a little more; I'd definitely like to be the culture ambassador to the diskworld :O)
A Dragon Rider on Pern during Threadfall.
Exploring Ringworld with Louis Wu, Speaker to Animals and Teela Brown.
Though knowing my luck I'd end up on Nu-Earth or the world the Dark Judges come from.
Ah - the luck of Teela Brown - that would make for a very weird life
Probably discworld for me too
The village of Danebury, from the Detectorists.
Mornings spent in sunny fields surrounded by chirping birds and bees buzzing. Afternoons eating sandwiches and drinking tea under big trees and nights spent in the pub with pals.... just about perfect.
A few weeks back I run a marathon through southeast Suffolk, it was everything I'd hoped for .... sun, birds, bees, butterflies, fields of wheat and even the remains of a Anglo-Saxon settlement Denham Castle
It was joyful and I sung the Detectorist theme tune out loud as I ran ..... "I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind"
Great question. I have a lifelong love affair with high fantasy, and I love the idea of going on an epic quest across a huge wilderness astride a horse, so I'm tempted to go for the very obvious Middle Earth. Probably betwixt the Silmarillion and the Hobbit to avoid all the nasty bits.
Or, on a completely different tack, the Warhammer 40k universe during the Great Crusade. Being an invincible Space Marine yomping around the universe killing aliens would be pretty cool.
Heaven sounds alright, I guess.
The Culture if I wanted an easy life.
Jack Vance's Dying Earth if I wanted a more challenging one.
At the moment it'd be Westeros and as far north of the wall as I could get.
The other one I love is the shared 60s view of the future. Something like "space family stone" - where ordinary citizens can fly out to the asteroid belt, live on the moon, all that sort of stuff. so full of positivity and hope
The Magic Roundabout. I'm halfway there already.
The Purge, UK (more specifically, at the houses of Farage, JR-M and BoJo)
The other one I love is the shared 60s view of the future. Something like “space family stone” – where ordinary citizens can fly out to the asteroid belt, live on the moon, all that sort of stuff. so full of positivity and hope
Good one. The Flintstones would be similar I think - who doesn't love dinosaurs?
The Culture, but not during the Idiran War. Post scarcity and about the only fictional society where the quality of your life doesn't depend on being in the 1% to start with.
Failing that, I'd like to be a white man living in Western Europe during the late 20th/early 21st century please.
The Culture if I wanted an easy life.
Jack Vance’s Dying Earth if I wanted a more challenging one.
Well the point is that you can make Culture life as challenging or as easy as you want. Many (most?) of the central characters are making life harder for themselves than it needs to be. It's a bit of a theme in fact. You can choose absolutely anything. See Inversions for an example.
Many (most?) of the central characters are making life harder for themselves than it needs to be
Ah, but even with enhancements etc, the protagonists tend to be exceptionally talented. I'm not. I'm pretty average, so doubt I'd survive. Anyway, that's not quite what I meant. 😀
I'd also add Lankhmar, for excitement.
Fast and Furious land
The Flintstones would be similar I think
Sexism tho.
A nice comfy federation planet in the Trek universe. No poverty, replicators and transporters. Join Starfleet and see the universe.
Join Starfleet and see the universe be assimilated.
The long earth - Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
Fed up with this Earth just head to a new one
Dan Bilzerians
Shelbyville
robin hood men in tights
A nice comfy federation planet in the Trek universe
I’d prefer one of the planets where blokes in red uniforms spontaneously die on what seems to be their first day at work.
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The Magic Roundabout. I’m halfway there already.
Actually that's a good shout Essel, any problems sorted out in 5 minutes and everyone is happy 🙂
any problems sorted out in 5 minutes and everyone is happy
Until Buxton turns up. Then it’s 90 minutes of evil and confusing dread.
The lovely prosperous, tolerant, utopian Britain which the Brexitiers say is going to emerge in October. 😉
I was thinking of their version of the 'good old days' it must be lovely, crime free you could leave your doors open, no traffic treat the road like race track, drunk. Basically live completely without consequence - smoke, drink, eat buckets of red meat, chuck your rubbish wherever you like, slash and burn the rain forests. By the time you add in the "we had proper seasons back then" aka year-around summer, apart from Xmas when it snowed every year.
Star Wars - but only if I could have my own ship.
Special circumstances agent in the Culture, although contact or regular citizen would still offer plenty of excitement?
Father Teds Craggy island.
The lovely prosperous, tolerant, utopian Britain.
This.
Until then i’ll continue with the same distain I have for “them” as they have for me.
There's a parallel world shown extensively in videos where every simple pizza delivery, straightforward fridge repair, plumbing job or business meeting becomes a fairly ritualised sexual encounter, which seems pretty popular. But on the other hand, as it were, could become a bit knackering after a day or so and not much would get done so yeah, Culture.
(Though for all its utopian aspects, actual culture citizens seem not much happier than the rest of us. So perhaps Brave New World world, as long as I can keep soma'd up.)
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Castle Anthrax
Hebden Bridge
Castle Anthrax
😂 Sexism tho!
Culture is pretty popular with good reason. The thing is, you're still you when you get there...
Whistler
the one where the EU and the US collaborated to get rid of Putin in 2014 when the Russian economy was on it's backside
There was a series of fantasy/sci-fi books I read in my youth by an author named Piers Anthony. They were probably quite lame, but I liked them then, as I found the juxtaposition of his sci-fi world - with its "companionship robots"! - and a medieval-like fantasy world, very appealing.
So I guess I'd choose to be in the world of the "Adept" series.
Asterix the Gaul's village
Darling Buds of May. Every day is sunny and warm, no stress, helpful people looking out for each other and a young Catherine zeta Jones running around in a summer dress.
Perfik.
Darling Buds of May. Every day is sunny and warm, no stress, helpful people looking out for each other and a young Catherine zeta Jones running around in a summer dress.
Yeah, but David Jason!
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B
As a kid, I always wanted to be a Lensman in E E Doc Smiths world....
Hazzard County; the one I spent many an enjoyable 23 minutes at a time of my early life thoroughly absorbed by. Nice weather, fun in cars and mild peril of being chased around by a corrupt but incompetent sheriff and his deputies.
I had NO idea about the racism and sexism inherent in the show. Pity; looked great fun from my then innocent eyes.
Totally the Culture.
Themyscira.
robin hood men in tights
Just become a roadie.
Greendale for me
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B
I think we're on it already.
Hey Duggee world
The Culture for sure.
And nobody's gone for Ambridge...
Special circumstances agent in the Culture, although contact or regular citizen would still offer plenty of excitement?
Nah, I wouldn't be in SC. I'd just be living on a wilderness world somewhere on my own, but with a Mind somewhere accessible. Like the woman in the beginning of whichever book opens with her rock climbing and talking to the Mind.
Either this
The village of Danebury, from the Detectorists.
Mornings spent in sunny fields surrounded by chirping birds and bees buzzing. Afternoons eating sandwiches and drinking tea under big trees and nights spent in the pub with pals…. just about perfect.
or Lower Tadfield, pre-arrival of the 4 Horsepersons of the Apocalypse. The weather is always perfect for the time of year. Long hot sunny days in August, snow on Christmas Eve....
The castle of Guillume de Lombard.
Just to practice my taunting skills
Iain M Banks the world of “the culture”
That or the star trek universe, probably TNG era...
Basically I likes me a bit of late 80s early 90s sci-fi.
Star Wars probably, or The Matrix looks nice
A socialist paradise.
After the purge the emerging STW benevolent dictatorship.
I long for the days of being patted on the head by the grand high wizard Bazza (arms length manager, possibly living in Spain, the people are so nice there) as I agree with and echo everything he says. After all we are the most tolerant, live and let live people in the world, aren't we. The papers say so and I've got a black gender fluid best friend (sock puppet) as proof.
He will allow me to rent one of his wonderful terrace houses in Moston (no children or dogs) and I will be eternally grateful and work, for the people, for free. Either that or join the peoples army (allowed to drive base model VW's as a perk), compulsory palace and public space gardeners, house servants to the great and the good (a pooled tandem as a perk), pot hole menders and litter picking teams.
I notice no-one has chosen Midsomer .
Weather always seems decent, but life expectancy is questionable.
Hmm. The Discworld is pretty cool but I'd have to be a witch cos I don't fancy being a seamstress...
Star Wars. I'd be a super awesome Force using bounty hunter with a belter ship.
Nirn (Elder Scrolls world) would be great despite strange physics issues. A life spent dicking about, stealing everything that’s not bolted down just because you can, generally acting like a **** and having magic pockets that can hold endless supplies of anything would be great. Only downside would be cliff racers and that “Arrow to the knee” guy who is everywhere.
A great question which needs consideration, the potential list is long! Will be back later!
The town of Stepford.
A culture orbital where I could Design my own mtb/ surf plate and add to it with whatever took my interest that month.
I think a boring truthful answer would have to the socialist paradise from Star Trek TNG. Everyone living in peace and fulfillment furthering the endeavours of human race.
So on further deliberation and knowing my pox ridden luck (Rincewind has better luck than me), I'd chose the ST TNG universe and end up at Wolf 359 or Ceti Alpha 5. If I arrived in the B5 universe I'd be dropped off at Daltron 7 or Z'ha'dum.
The Culture wouldn't have me, either that or I'd have an overbearing snobby drone or knife missile following me around lecturing me on good behaviour and manners and generally stopping me doing what I wanted to do.
Other places I think I would end up; Geidi Prime, home of House Harkonnen, maybe dropped off at Tyco Crater/Moonbase Alpha on September 12th 1999 and I just know I would be a Broadleaf Farmer on Trenco in the Lensman Universe.