Places

Each of us is familiar both with the abstract concept of a fictional character and also with (how many?) particular fictional characters although they can exist in different versions. Nygel was surprised to learn what Ian Fleming's James Bond is really like. In this context, I use the word "really" both consciously and ironically.

Fictional characters live and move in two kinds of places: real and fictional. Like the characters, their places are made familiar to us by their creators' powers of description and repetition, e.g.:

the Time Patrol Academy in the Oligocene period of the American West;
the Patrol lodge in the Pleistocene Pyrenees;
Patrol agent Manson Everard's New York apartment;
Nicholas van Rijn's modest penthouse on the roof of the Winged Cross in Chicago Integrate;
Starfall on Daybreak Bay on the planet Hermes;
the cities of Gray and Centauri on the planet Avalon;
the Wet Flag, a thieves' kitchen in a courtyard at the end of a cul-de-sac in Rouen, France, in several novels by Dornford Yates.