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The flying island of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. (Illustrated 1795.) In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.
See also References A The Abarat: 25 islands in an archipelago, one for each hour and one for all the hours, from the series The Books of Abarat by Clive Barker Absolom: a prison island in the movie Escape from Absolom Acidophilus: an island in Greece appearing in the adventure game Spy Fox in "Dry Cereal" Aepyornis Island: an atoll near Madagascar, in H. G. Wells' story by that name Al Amarja ...
List of fictional islands; Planets in science fiction; List of fictional police states; List of fictional prisons; List of fictional railway stations; List of fictional rapid transit stations; List of fictional schools. List of fictional British and Irish universities. List of fictional Cambridge colleges; List of fictional Oxford colleges
Pages in category "Islands in fiction" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alan Wake; B.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Čeština; Deutsch; Español
The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, features a woman who, in one of her many possible lives, is a glaciologist doing research in Svalbard.; North of Danger, by Dale Hollerbach Fife, is a World War II story about a 12-year-old boy living in Svalbard who has to hide in a coal mine to avoid being captured by the Nazi invaders.
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, [23] typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. [24] Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres can overlap.
When the winter ends the sea becomes ice-free. The travellers build a boat from the shipwreck and head towards the pole. Here they discover an island, an active volcano, and name it after Hatteras. With difficulty a fjord is found and the group get ashore. After three hours climbing they reach the mouth of the volcano.