Today I participate for the first time in #Scifimonth2025. Each Friday they have a theme based around the number 5. Today's theme is Strange New Worlds: Places We'd Love to Visit. So while I hate traveling in real life, I am more than happy to travel in the books I read. So without further ado, here are five SF worlds I'd love to visit.
Prism. An intriguing world that I have visited five times since 2000. Sentenced to Prism is a wonderful standalone book by Alan Dean Foster that explores a world made of crystal instead of flesh and blood. The cover drew me in as a teenager in the 90's and now I find it to be like mashed potatoes, warm and comforting.
Otherland. Technically, this is/was a prototype virtual reality, but it is its own place. The Otherland Tetralogy by Tad Williams is some of my favorite SF to date. Considering my last re-read of it was back in 2011, it is about time to add it to the TBR pile again :-D
Spatterjay. A world infested by a virus that turns you into an immortal, nigh indestructible being. The downside is that you constantly want to eat everything, even other people and you can possibly (usually, sigh) go stark raving mad and have to be put down. But I've always wondered, could I handle the Spatterjay virus? Neal Asher shows us varying cases of failures and successes in his Spatterjay Trilogy.
The City World of Coruscant, the capital of the Star Wars galaxy. Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston did a wonderful job of bringing Coruscant to life in their X-Wing books. Given my penchant for "paving the planet", I'd fit right in on Coruscant, a knock-off copy of Trantor. But most of Star Wars is a knock-off, if you know what you're looking for. And that's no knock on Star Wars ;-)
Dune, Arrakis, Rakis. The world of the giant sandworms, of the Spice, of Fremen, of continent sized dust storms. Frank Herbert created a modern classic with Dune, and while I am not sure I'd actually like to visit such a place, the very challenge of survival draws me in.
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