List of floating islands in fiction

This is a list of floating islands in various types of fiction.

Literature

Gulliver discovers Laputa, the flying island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Illustration by J.J. Grandville, d. 1847.)

Television

Film

Video games

Floating islands and continents are too common an element in video games for every appearance to be listed. However, a few examples of video games that have floating islands as a central theme or motif include:


Other

See also

References

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  2. Pliny the Elder. "II:209". Natural History.
  3. Page, Michael; Ingpen, Robert (1987). Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were: Creatures, Places, and People. New York: Viking Press. p. 191. ISBN 0-670-81607-8.
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  5. The Floating Islands (2011) Amazon Retail Page
  6. Anders, Charlie Jane (14 January 2010). "Avatar's Designers Speak: Floating Mountains, AMP Suits And The Dragon". io9.
  7. http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27237-the-terrain-of-okinawa-ocean-city-front-mission-3/
  8. Okinawa Ocean City screenshot
  9. Naohisa Inoue's Iblard
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