fictional city

Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.Fictional locations vary greatly in their size. Very small places like a single room are kept out of the umbella of fictional locations by convention, as are most single buildings. A fictional location can be the size of a university (Howard Phillips Lovecraft's Arkham University), a town (Stephen King's Salem's Lot), a county (Raintree County), a large section of continent (as in Lord of the Rings, which supposedly represents Europe before some western sections sank), a whole planet (Anne McCaffrey's Pern), a whole galaxy (Isaac Asimov's Foundation books), even a multiverse (His Dark Materials). In a larger scale, occasionally the term alternate reality is used, but only if it is considered a variant of Earth rather than an original world. Austin Tappan Wright's Islandia has an invented continent, Karain, on our world.
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