Prompts

What's your favorite scifi or fantasy with a strong sense of place?

By
@DrTalos
Chris

I'm interested in new genre books where the setting is almost like a character. I'm especially interested in books that also have a strong plot. For me, the prime example is "Finch" by Jeff vandermeer. Maybe "City of Miracles" by Robert Jackson Bennett. What are books like this for you?

The Lord of the Rings
Dune
The Way of Kings
Piranesi
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Fifth Season
Annihilation
The Return of the King
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Night Circus
The Books of Earthsea
The Golden Compass
Uprooted
A Game of Thrones
A Memory Called Empire
The Martian
A Deadly Education
Roadside Picnic
Foundation
Jade City
The City of Brass
The Hobbit
Lirael
The Shadow of the Torturer
Hyperion
American Gods
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Tombs of Atuan
Perdido Street Station
The Amber Spyglass
Neverwhere
Wool
The Subtle Knife
Gardens of the Moon
Ready Player One
An Ember in the Ashes
Throne of Glass
Soulless
Nine Princes in Amber
Tongue Eater
The City We Became
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
City of Miracles
Into the Labyrinth
The Eye of the World
Red Rising
Finch
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners
Ancillary Justice
The Briar Book of the Dead
Fly by Night
The Darkness Outside Us
Dark Matter
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Ender's Game
The Saga of the Witcher
The Heritage Of Hastur
Shadow and Bone
Spiritwalk
Burn for me
The Dreaming Place
Gideon the Ninth
A Face Like Glass
Perelandra
Neuromancer
The City & The City
Helliconia Summer
The Mask of Mirrors
Fairy Tale
Crown of Midnight
Child of the River
Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 6
Revelation Space
In the Belly of the Whale
The Host
Out of the Silent Planet
The Magic of Recluce
NausicaƤ of the Valley of the Wind: The Complete Series
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Truthwitch
Eragon
Heroes Die
A Study in Drowning
Zodiac Academy: The Awakening
A Magic Steeped in Poison
The Lost Symbol
The Curse of Chalion
Seveneves
Malice
Adventure in Forgotten Valley
The Ginger Star
Winter's Tale
The Days of the Deer
We Hunt the Flame
The Many Coloured Land & The Golden Torc
Children of Time
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
House of Leaves
Siege and Storm
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