Where are Fantasy Worlds?

[Last Hussar]

Hi all,

When you are reading a fantasy book set on a planet that obviously isn't Earth, where in your head is it?

Is it in our reality, but on another planet?

Or

In a different reality?

Nothing other than idle curiosity here.

[Ithoriel]

The fantasy world is reality. This life, merely a dream.

Am I a man dreaming I am an elf or an elf dreaming I am a man? 

[Last Hussar]

You're a nightmare...

[Orcs]

Hi all,

Nothing other than idle curiosity here.

Obviously a quiet day at work.

I would agree that you are quite possibly Idle and curious

[Last Hussar]

 

(It was lunch)

[Orcs]

(It was lunch)

That was my excuse when I watched two films back to back on a night shift.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Some are our world, in a different time Elric)
Some are alternative dimensions but could be our world (Warhammer, Game of Thrones)
Some share our universe (Conan)

It depends on the author

[Gwydion]

That was my excuse when I watched two films back to back on a night shift.

Lunch? Night shift? This is fantasy isn't it!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Some are our world, in a different time Elric)
Some are alternative dimensions but could be our world (Warhammer, Game of Thrones)
Some share our universe (Conan)

It depends on the author

Far too sensible an answer !!!   

[d_Guy]

Sort of agree with Ithoriel. A fantasy world is a story that exists in our reality, but the content of the story is somewhere else.

[Orcs]

Lunch? Night shift? This is fantasy isn't it!

It is now I am retired.

[Orcs]

My fantasy world is where I sit and paint figures or models or game whenever I like, and someone else pays the bills...... OOH I am there its called retirement

[Orcs]

Nobby has not replied about his fantasy world is, although I am not sure we want to know......

[flamingpig0]

An alternative contemporary setting where an American based fascist movement that uses  YMCA as a marching song threatens to attack Denmark.


However, that isn't at all believable

[fsn]

Depends. Some books make me think of Earth - like the Conan books or the Lord of the Rings. They "feel" like the author was placing their creation on top of the existing planet - so for me they are alternative timelines, or possibly pre-Big Bang copies of Earth - going on the rather unfeasible premise that the cosmos is cyclical and collapses and expands repeatedly.

Others, like the Moorcock books I see as being in alternative universes, or perhaps on a planet on the other side of the Milky Way. Some, like the Thomas Covenant Chronicles possibly only exist in the mind of the protagonist.

The stuff I have little time for is the Urban Fantasy where vampires running around Norwich, and secret cabals of werewolves running Gloucester.

Good question.