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The urban component is usually found in the setting—typically a large or small city—or even a suburban community in a metropolitan area. Use of contemporary technology (such as automotive vehicles or communications) and everyday community and social institutions (such as libraries, schools/universities, or markets) establish a familiar context.
Urban fiction, also known as street lit or street fiction, is a literary genre set in a city landscape; however, the genre is as much defined by the socio-economic realities and culture of its characters as the urban setting. The tone for urban fiction is usually dark, focusing on the underside of city living.
Great Gusliar is a small, seemingly-quiet town that happens to attract all kinds of science-fiction phenomena, including aliens, time travelers, magical creatures, mad scientists. It is based upon the town of Veliky Ustyug , which itself stated in-universe to be a rival to Great Gusliar.
The Demon Breed is a 1968 science fiction novel by James H. Schmitz in which the female main character, Nyles Etland, armed only with intelligence and intimate knowledge of her home environment, allies and science, intimidated an alien species who had intended to invade. Schmitz, who still commands a cult audience half a century after his death ...
There is a long tradition of female-only places in literature and mythology, starting with the Amazons and continuing into some examples of feminist utopias.In speculative fiction, women-only worlds have been imagined to come about, among other approaches, by the action of disease that wipes out men, along with the development of technological or mystical method that allow women to reproduce ...
Within narrative prose, providing a believable location can be greatly enhanced by the provision of maps and other illustrations. [1] This is often considered particularly true for fantasy novels and historical novels which often make great use of the map, but applies equally to science fiction and mysteries: earlier, in mainstream novels by Anthony Trollope, William Faulkner, etc. Fantasy and ...
"From Female Man to Feminist fan: Uncovering 'Herstory' in the Annals of SF Fandom." in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands, 1999: pp. 115–139.-- The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction ...
A fictional city located somewhere within the eastern coast of the United States. Paradise City is divided into 5 districts, which make up two general areas of the landscape, the urban area and the rural area. Paradise, Arizona Postal 2: Paradise is a desert town in Postal 2. The population of the town is 4312. Possum Springs Night in the Woods