Dark Towns
May. 7th, 2008 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI'll repost this here because people actually read it :)
It might be selective memory, but on thinking about fictional towns & cities, it seems the most believable ones are those with the dark or negative elements emphasised.
I can't think of any examples though
It might be selective memory, but on thinking about fictional towns & cities, it seems the most believable ones are those with the dark or negative elements emphasised.
I can't think of any examples though
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Date: 2008-05-07 09:43 am (UTC)This is why I wasn't going to write it, as soon as I opened up the page, I forgot the places I'd been thinking of.
I was actually after some counterexamples
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Date: 2008-05-07 11:48 am (UTC)There is that :)
SF/F mainly. Although places like London, esp Victorian London, seem to fit too.
Dark is more interesting than nice?
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Date: 2008-05-07 10:14 am (UTC)New Crobuzon
Mega City One
Sin City
There's a few for you :)
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Date: 2008-05-07 11:28 am (UTC)Ha, yes!
Gotham was one of those that set off my original thought.