Oh, Dresden Files! Instructor didn't think we'd be able to use SF or Fantasy - we're doing a community analysis (lite). Several people in the class are using Stephen King books.
I did go through my LibraryThing and look at books. M*A*S*H books (after they got home), Stephen King, or James Hetley would net me Maine towns.
I like Eric Flint's books - and his fictional town of Grantville has a real basis. JD Rhoades' books are set in & around Fayetteville, NC. Travis McGee - Ft. Lauderdale. Spider Robinson's later Callahan's books - Key West. Boston - William Tapply or Robert Parker mysteries. Nantucket - SM Stirling (or the ones set around Portland).
Little House on the Prairie, Where the Red Fern Grows (if it's a real place). Replay by Ken Grimwood. Jumper by Stephen (Steven) Gould.
Or Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak books, set in Alaska. Louis L'Amour has an Alaskan book - Sitka. Plus all the westerns :)
I'm leaning more towards a smaller town. But I need to be able to come up with some interesting facts for a small discussion group post and useful sites for the whole class discussion group.
I thought about using Sandra McDonald [waves] so I could post about knowing the author, but her books are set in Australia.
Though I know Rhoades and Hetley through Callahan's newsgroups - or Sailor Jim! I could cement my weirdness by using a Sailor Jim story! "Well, in "Boingy, Boingy, Boingy", Sailor Jim ran naked through the snow in [...] town".
And yes on the Starfleet Academy. Or there used to be, at least when I was a children's librarian in Fayetteville - was TNG, I think.
I was really reminded of Kobayashi Maru, the book, during the new Trek movie, as the whole Kirk reprogramming the setting was a part of both, though the book version was different.
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Date: 2009-09-17 12:12 am (UTC)Boston? John Adams or The Scarlet Letter
Chicago? Dresden Files
Just off the top of my head.
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Date: 2009-09-17 12:37 am (UTC)I did go through my LibraryThing and look at books. M*A*S*H books (after they got home), Stephen King, or James Hetley would net me Maine towns.
I like Eric Flint's books - and his fictional town of Grantville has a real basis. JD Rhoades' books are set in & around Fayetteville, NC. Travis McGee - Ft. Lauderdale. Spider Robinson's later Callahan's books - Key West. Boston - William Tapply or Robert Parker mysteries. Nantucket - SM Stirling (or the ones set around Portland).
Little House on the Prairie, Where the Red Fern Grows (if it's a real place). Replay by Ken Grimwood. Jumper by Stephen (Steven) Gould.
Or Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak books, set in Alaska. Louis L'Amour has an Alaskan book - Sitka. Plus all the westerns :)
I'm leaning more towards a smaller town. But I need to be able to come up with some interesting facts for a small discussion group post and useful sites for the whole class discussion group.
I thought about using Sandra McDonald [waves] so I could post about knowing the author, but her books are set in Australia.
Though I know Rhoades and Hetley through Callahan's newsgroups - or Sailor Jim! I could cement my weirdness by using a Sailor Jim story! "Well, in "Boingy, Boingy, Boingy", Sailor Jim ran naked through the snow in [...] town".
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Date: 2009-09-17 01:04 am (UTC)One well remembered book was about the reincarnation of Merlin in Ontario...
Hell, you could probably find a star trek novel somewhere where part of it is based on earth...
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Date: 2009-09-17 01:11 am (UTC)Oh, that's sad. It took me two seconds - lol
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Date: 2009-09-17 02:06 am (UTC)It isn't sad that you thought of them off the top of your head. It's.... it's... a little sad. :)
Isn't there a young adult series set at Starfleet Academy?
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Date: 2009-09-17 02:14 am (UTC)And yes on the Starfleet Academy. Or there used to be, at least when I was a children's librarian in Fayetteville - was TNG, I think.
I was really reminded of Kobayashi Maru, the book, during the new Trek movie, as the whole Kirk reprogramming the setting was a part of both, though the book version was different.