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Science Fiction Places or Settings

The list of settings--places a story can take place--is almost endless. This is the beginning of a list of places or settings in which you can set a science fiction story. This list is still sketchy--if you have ideas of places to add to it, please E-mail me at: julia at juliahwest dot com. The lists of contemporary and medieval/fantasy places could also be used, with very few exceptions, in science fiction stories.

Abandoned starship
Agricultural planet
Airless moon/planet
Alien planet
Alien ruin
Alternate past
Asteroid belt
At sea
Cathedral
Cave
Chapel
City
Colony world
Cottage
Densely populated planet
Dome city
Dungeon
Far-future Earth
Forest
Generation ship
Home
Hyperspace
Inhospitable planet
     Heavy gravity
     Huge storms
     Inimical life
     Mostly desert
     Mostly water
     Unbreathable atmosphere
Island
Kingdom
Lost colony
Mars
Monastery
Moon (not necessarily Earth's)
Mountain
Multi-species bar
Near-future Earth
Newly-colonized planet
Night
Outer space
Overpopulated planet
Palace
Past Earth
Present-day Earth
Prison
Prison planet
Rings of Saturn
River
Road
Ruin
Space station
Space yacht
Sparsely populated planet
Stairs
Starport
Starship
     Cargo
     Freighter
     Merchant
     Passenger
     Scout
     Warship
Starship graveyard
Tower
Town
Underground city
Underwater dome
Village

Last updated 18 June 2011

Illustration from http://www.morguefile.com; photographer mconnors