What fantasy universe would you live in?

[MacLaddy]

To be honest I can't think of a fantasy world I'd ever want to live in. They might come with cool magic but pretty much all of them are pre-industrial feudal systems and whilst the hero of a thousand faces might rise above his lowly beginnings I'd not like to be one of the 99.9% of people who are background peasants. Incidentally if anyone knows of a fantasy series where revolutionary democracy is a major theme I'd love to hear it.

Like my above post, I have to suggest Codex Alera by Jim Butcher. Especially if your a fan of the Harry Dresden novels.

Similar to other series, it is basically a Feudal system, but abolishment of slavery and individual rights is a major underlying theme of these books.

 

[Chronos]

Heaven would be nice enough for me.

 

[Ash L]

Either Halo or Warhammer 40k.

 

[Kepler20f]

not a particularly useful quiz...

btw, here is a rather simple quiz to take to find out
http://www.youthink.com/quiz.cfm?obj_id=171412

...seeing as I already live in New Zealand!

I got Wonderland btw! Presumably because I don't want to fight in a big Middle Earth war. Well who would, seriously? War is hell.

 

[ZeGinger]

If I had to pick from the above examples, it'd be Middle Earth.
But... if it were my own choice of place, It would tie between Alagaesia and Icewind Dale. probably Alagaesia. I don't read enough Drizzt Do'urden to have a final opinion. I imagine that will change, in due time...

 

[Odins Acolyte]

There is a book called "Autumn Angels". In it a Bim (yes...read it sometime) comes to Earth and on a whim transforms all of mankind into Men Like Gods complete with immortality. Anything that can be imagined can be done by these transformed humans. The book is completely entertaining.

 

[strangerep]

Anything that can be imagined can be done [...]

Hmm. Ever heard of the Krell from the classic movie "Forbidden Planet"? Didn't turn out too well for them...

 

[Odins Acolyte]

I love that movie.

 

[adjacent]

I'll choose Harry potter

 

[JayJohn85]

Middle Earth its so beautiful I don't think I would miss the technology.

 

[AdrianHudson]

Fantasy world for sure middle earth, sci-fi world the EVE universe.
Jumping light years and going to different parts of galaxies in a couple minutes count me in.

 

[HallsofIvy]

Middle Earth its so beautiful I don't think I would miss the technology.

Try cleaning out a few outhouses before you decide!

 

[viryan23]

Fantasy universes are so cool! I actually don't know what to choose, hehe. But if I only had to pick one, I'd probably choose Narnia as well. It's just so majestic.

And a thought came to me just now. The REAL world is also full of never ending fantasies. Living in the real world isn't so bad. ;)

 

[strangerep]

The REAL world is also full of never ending fantasies.

Umm,... that "version" of the real world is called Delirium.

Living in the real world isn't so bad. ;)

Tell that to the Syrian civilians.

 

[Kepler20f]

Hmm. Ever heard of the Krell from the classic movie "Forbidden Planet"? Didn't turn out too well for them...

Haha good point! That is still one of the most awesome movies ever made. It's a really good piece of sci-fi film history, in that the dialogue and to an extent the acting is very much of its era, but the sci-fi themes and details totally stand the test of time and even now are not dated at all. I read that the monster was given a subtle goatee beard as a hint, and on watching closely, there it is!

 

[TenTwenty*Four]

Alternatives

a) Skyrim (only as the Dragonborn of course)

b) in a Star Wars world pre-The... Menace (real or imagined)

c) in a time loop like the one where Kissoon lives in Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show. Don't aks me why this time loop exists in the nanosecond before the Trinity explosion, and don't ask Clive Barker. (btw, I think this is the only long Barker book I like.)

 

[Varun Bhardwaj]

a game STAR LEGENDS The blackstar chronicle
You can be the character as in game after playing it.
I am playing it for 2 years and yet not find a better game.

 

[Paulibus]

I'd like to live in a Universe that has evolved subject to only two simple constraints: 1: That it be
big enough to accommodate an indefinite amount of interesting latently complicated stuff and
happenings and 2: That all this would fit and work together in a strictly logical way. No fairy
doings allowed!

I’d prefer this universe to extend to infinity straightforwardly with Euclidean geometry and, since
it may to begin with have been too compact for stuff to explore latent prospects, it should be
expanding. For stuff to fit and work together logically, cause and effect should be able to link
freely everywhere. I’d not allow barriers inside my universe that inhibit cause and effect! So an
infinite, expanding, Euclidean, causal universe would suit me just fine.

Let’s model a region of such an Ideal (for me) universe with simple physics (this is Physics forums, so it's allowed?). Choose this region to be a sphere, radius R, mass/energy M, average mass/energy density d, so that M = 4/3 pi R^3d in a Euclidean way.

Then, if geometry is to be Euclidean while the model sphere expands against the pull of its own
gravity, say at a fractional linear rate of H per second, General Relativity (our best theory of
gravity) proscribes a critical density of d = 3H^2/8 pi G, where G is Newton’s constant.

But sadly the region’s mass generates an unwanted (by me) spherical cause-and effect-inhibiting
barrier, called a Schwarzschild Horizon, at a radius of GM/c^2, where c is the (always locally
measured) speed of light. Happily, by restricting the ratio (Horizon radius/R) to unity, this
unwanted barrier can be banished to the sphere’s surface and then be disposed of entirely by
letting R run off to infinity, so that the model region covers all of an infinite (albeit spherical)
universe with the Schwarzschild Horizon banished to ‘just outside’, wherever that is. When we combine the
expressions for M, d and horizon radius for this Ideal expanding model, we find simply that
(RH)^2 = 2 c^2.

Let’s now compare this Ideal universe with the ‘real’ Universe we live in. Observations show that
light would take T = 13.7 billion years (about 4.3 x 10^17 sec) to reach us from the Universe’s
origin, so this light could have covered a distance of c T metres (always locally measured) since the
Big Bang. Suppose we use R = c T as a lower-bound estimate of R. Since the presently
measured fractional linear expansion rate, measured from redshift observations, is accepted to be
about H = 2.17 x 10^(-18) per second, a rough estimate for our Universe is (RH)^2 = 0.45 c^2,.
The fact that both 0.45 and 2 are of the same order of magnitude as unity may be coincidental. Or, as I
hope, it may lend some credibility to the constraints I proposed earlier, to help answer questions like "why are things as they are?

Anyway I’m happy to be in a Universe so quantitatively close to my Ideal!

 

[adjacent]

Paulibus,that would be like programming a universe.
lol

 

[Paulibus]

Yes indeed. What language should I use for programming?

 

[adjacent]

Yes indeed. What language should I use for programming?

For programming a universe,you would need infinite programming functions variables etc.

 

[Finthefox]

Star Trek Voyager for me. It is the series I cared the most about. I would also find Harry Potter to be a pretty neat world to live in as well.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Like my above post, I have to suggest Codex Alera by Jim Butcher. Especially if your a fan of the Harry Dresden novels.

Similar to other series, it is basically a Feudal system, but abolishment of slavery and individual rights is a major underlying theme of these books.

A week or so ago I was browsing for something new to read and remembered this recommendation and so downloaded Furies of Calderon. Now I'm just a few chapters from the end of the series and I've absolutely loved it thanks for the tip!

 

[Psinter]

Spira.

 

[julcab12]

Spira.

Cool. A ff fan here. Bit old school. I'll go with worlds--Xenogear or Starocean.^^

 

[Psinter]

Cool. A ff fan here. Bit old school. I'll go with worlds--Xenogear or Starocean.^^

Not really all of FF. More likely FFX only. Their love story was cute and that totally grabbed me into that world. Maybe that's why like that world so much. But yes, other FF universes are attracting too.

Starocean's cool.

 

[heatengine516]

Middle Earth with the elves.

Rivendell, to be exact.

 

[strangerep]

Middle Earth with the elves. Rivendell, to be exact.

Umm,... you realize that most of the history of the Noldor in Middle Earth is essentially thousands of years of tragedy, right?

 

[stardust]

I think the Wheel of Time universe would be pretty cool to live in.

 

[micromass]

Umm,... you realize that most of the history of the Noldor in Middle Earth is essentially thousands of years of tragedy, right?

That makes it even more appealing.

Does that make me weird?