{"id":28473,"date":"2015-03-19T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2015-03-18T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T04:34:50","slug":"something-about-london-the-realms-fantastical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/something-about-london-the-realms-fantastical\/","title":{"rendered":"Something About London &#038; The Realms Fantastical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/something-about-london-the-realms-fantastical\/neverwhere1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28474\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Neverwhere1-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"Neverwhere1\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Neverwhere1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Neverwhere1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Neverwhere1.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve decided there must be something about London and the realms fantastical.<\/p>\n<p>After all, there&#8217;s Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <strong>Neverwhere<\/strong>, which features a dark, wild, alternate London Below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/something-about-london-the-realms-fantastical\/un-lun-dun\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28475\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Un-Lun-Dun-93x150.jpg\" alt=\"Un Lun Dun\" width=\"93\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Un-Lun-Dun-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Un-Lun-Dun-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Un-Lun-Dun.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s also the fantastical <strong>Un Lun Dun<\/strong> in China Mieville&#8217;s novel of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>To complete this triumvirate we have Simon Green&#8217;s <strong>Nightside<\/strong>, also a dangerous magical alternate London accessed via the Underground system&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/something-about-london-the-realms-fantastical\/something-from-the-nightside\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28476\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Something-From-The-Nightside-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"Something From The Nightside\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Something-From-The-Nightside-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Something-From-The-Nightside-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Something-From-The-Nightside.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/a>What do you think? Is there something special about London that lends itself to imagining conjoined realms fantastical? Or are there other cities that have generated similar, specific alternate realms (or urban alter-egos) in Fantasy literature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided there must be something about London and the realms fantastical. After all, there&#8217;s Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Neverwhere, which features a dark, wild, alternate London Below. There&#8217;s also the fantastical Un Lun Dun in China Mieville&#8217;s novel of the same name. To complete this triumvirate we have Simon Green&#8217;s Nightside, also a dangerous magical alternate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28479,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions\/28479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}