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Anonymous Fri May 24 23:18:20 2013 No.3789131 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any novels about or set in fictional cities that aren't just a stand-in for New York or tongue-in-cheek Simpsons style "Springfield" amalgamations?

I'm assuming most settings like this would be found in genre fiction, but I'd be interested in anything that features the concept.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 24 23:32:19 2013 No.3789155 Eh... I hate being so obvious, but you could start with Perdido Street Station.

Anonymous Fri May 24 23:33:18 2013 No.3789158

>>3789155
>Perdido Street Station
>Perdido Street Station is the second published novel by China Miéville and the first of three independent works set in the fictional world of Bas-Lag, a world where both magic and steampunk technology exist
>magic and steampunk technology

but I hate YA

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 00:02:18 2013 No.3789201 >>3789158 >it has steampunk elements >it must be YA Stop being a fucking retard.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 00:08:18 2013 No.3789206 >>3789201 i'm not the one who reads books about magic

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 00:09:17 2013 No.3789211 What about "yoknapatawpha" It sounds funny

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 00:14:17 2013 No.3789217 >>3789206 Precisely what makes you the tasteless, ignorant and narrow-minded piece of shit that you are. I bet you're a woman too.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 00:21:19 2013 No.3789226 >>3789217 woah dude calm down take a chill pill

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 01:05:20 2013 No.3789257 >>3789201 >Thinking steampunk can be anything besides YA No John, you are the retards.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 01:31:33 2013 No.3789303 Winesburg, Ohio

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 01:48:34 2013 No.3789320 File: 77 KB, 192x154, 1366441025611.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3789217 r u 4 real

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 01:51:35 2013 No.3789322 >>3789217 >>>/pol/

>>	Anonymous Sat May 25 01:53:35 2013 No.3789325 Yoknapatawpha County

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