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    The Cities You Can Never Leave

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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    09/16/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    Mega-City One from the world of Judge Dredd.

    New York from Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within.

    New York from Soylent Green

    The City of Gold and Lead from the Tripod series.

    Rockford Falls from Population 436.
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    09/16/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    Thanks for the tip on "The Forest of Hands and Feet". I'll be looking for that today.
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    Image of MrLister MrLister
    09/15/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    How about the whole 1950'3 Earth in Alastair Reynolds' "Century Rain"? Better than a little city, that.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    Does the cube in The Cube satisfy your definition of a city "that will never let you leave" ? I think so.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    Hey, I love how the village from "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" is on this list!
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    Image of AutonymousPrime AutonymousPrime
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    Also the planet encompassing city of Chung Kuo! with England as your garden, how could this NOT be a city you could never leave? ^_^
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    DARK CITY + BluRay + DIrector's Cut = Awesomeness
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    Image of jstimson jstimson
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    For the World is Hollow, and I have Touched the Sky
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    The Savage Reservation in Brave New World? Maybe World Staters can come and go, but there is no way they would let any of the "savages" out.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment RavenNemain was starred RavenNemain was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    09/14/09

    @RavenNemain: Was that a city? I recall the Reservation being more rural.
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    09/14/09

    @Grey_Area: I was thinking more in the idea of "settlement;" some others on the list don't really qualify as cities, either. (ex. the Village)
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    Image of All hail the Winslow! Hi! All hail the Winslow! Hi!
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    I've posted a few times before, but finally decided to set up an account.

    Gurren Lagann has a nice sequence of spiraling cities at the end of the world, starting with the cave of Jeehta Village, where expansion is threatened by horrific beastmen and their giant robots.

    Although it isn't strictly an isolated city, FLCL's Mabase is structured to create that sense of isolationism, with some really neat monologues on the yearning to leave.

    Okay, okay, I'm a Gainax fanboy. Sue me.
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    Image of All hail the Winslow! Hi! All hail the Winslow! Hi!
    09/14/09

    @All hail the Winslow! Hi!: Aha! I found the FLCL quote I was looking for:

    When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.
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    Image of aassddff1234 aassddff1234
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
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    Image of SpaceHospital SpaceHospital
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    How about the mega-cities that appear in Isaac Asimov's work? Enormous, enclosed cities where billions work without ever breathing fresh air and eat yeast prepared in a variety of ways to taste like real food. In "I, Robot" urbanities of the mega-cities think the "Spacers" are weird - because they live outside the dome in single-family dwellings and eat food they grow in the ground. Those crazy Spacers.
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    Image of VidorSilus VidorSilus
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    However, the "city" of Zion (The Matrix trilogy), isn't even a real city, either, but another extension of "The Matrix". We never actually see the "real world" in the movies, only what everyone thinks is the real world. They kind of beat you over the head with this, although many people didn't seem to get it due to the length of "The Architect"s' long speech. Even Morpheus commented that it seemed unlikely that the Machines could build one Sentinel for every Human in Zion.

    And that's why I loved the trilogy.
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    Image of Shai_Hulud Shai_Hulud
    09/14/09

    @VidorSilus: Wow. I never got that. I was like "WTF???" when I saw it in the theater. Never bothered watching it again. Though that explanation does open up more plot-holes...
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    Image of trilobyte trilobyte
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    What was the name of the small city in the movie 'Zardoz'?
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/14/09

    @trilobyte: Zardozville.
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    Image of paulgo paulgo
    09/14/09

    In reply to The Cities You Can Never Leave
    What about the City of Gold and Lead from the John Christopher book of the same name?
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    09/16/09

    @paulgo: Good point. The only way "out" was by receiving your "happy release".
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