GREATEST LITERATURE CONTEST #28
Nowhere Lands
Identify the fictional settings in these works
You could win one of the books!
Instructions on entering are below.
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Start with the easiest: The country's name (and the book title) is an anagram of "nowhere" in Samuel Butler's novel.
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In this even older work, the name of the island (and again the book title) is also "nowhere", but in neo-Latin.
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It died out as a kingdom in England, but Thomas Hardy revived its name for the area in which he set works like The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure.
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A world of islands created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her series of storeis and novels featuring wizards.
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Ross Macdonald created the California city in his first Lew Archer novel but it's been adopted by other crime writers, including Sue Grafton who uses it as a setting for her cases.
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The continent on which most of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels, like The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, take place.
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It's the capital of the Galactic Empire where the action kicks off at the start of the Isaac Asmov's famed Foundation series.
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In Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, it's the fictional industrial city of the north.
Everyone who's ever lived is revived on this planet for a series of adventures beginning with To Your Scattered Bodies Go.
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An island nation of tiny folks discovered by Gulliver in his travels in Jonathan Swift's collection of stories.
The prizes:
Your choice from several of these books (telling you their titles would give away some of the answers),
as well as from among many other selections in our other stock of the greatest literature of all time.
Prizes will go to three entrants drawn from those with the most correct answers.
Note: We often don't get enough winners with all answers right,
so it's worth entering
even if you aren't sure of them all!
To enter:
Send an email to contest@EditorEric.com
by May 30, 2013,
listing your answers from 1 to 10. Winners will be notified by email
and announced on this
site.
To practise your literary trivia skills, try the previous contests listed above right.
