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Listopia > Silverfast's votes on the list Barriers, Force Fields and Domes in Fiction Part II (37 Books)
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I Am Behind You (Platserna, #1)
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""...four families on a camping trip wake up to find the world outside their campsite has vanished, replaced by an endless grassy plain with no sun...""
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Girls: The Complete Collection Deluxe
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""...the townspeople are sealed off by a barrier, meaning everyone trapped inside can't rely on military support.""
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The Fall of the Towers
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""Though Delaney never explicitly says so, the two domed cities of Toron and Telphar are obviously far-future, post-apocalyptic NYCs. One is an irradiated warning, and the other unstable and besieged.""
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Terrarium
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""The image of the dome is a barrier between humanity and its natural state, a technological impediment between humanity and nature.""
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2312
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""The domed city of Terminator runs on tracks all around the planet, pushed by the expansion and contraction of its rails as Mercury turns through its harsh diurnal cycle.""
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Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
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""Though New Crobuzon itself isn’t domed, it contains a domed city within it: the Glasshouse. Glasshouse is home to the cactacae, cactus people...""
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The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy Volume 1
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""The Last City;" "...focuses on a desperate, force-shielded city holding out against surrounding darkness." "...can't switch it off so everybody dies when the food and air run out.""
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Action Comics #242 (1958)
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"#242; "Brainiac creates domed force-fields around whole Earth cities, shrinking and abducting them. While trying to rescue them, Superman finds the Bottle City of Kandor, a Kryptonian city also miniaturized by Brainiac." First appearance of Kandor."
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Supergirl (1972-1974) #2
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""Kara visits the Bottle City of Kandor... and almost destroys it by accident.""
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Superman (Vol 1 #307)
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"Bottle City of Kandor."
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Elseworld's Finest: Supergirl & Batgirl
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""Gotham is enclosed under a domed force-field. One decade before the beginning of the story, Batgirl built the dome, banned all parahumans and declared that no one entered or left her city without her permission.""
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Superman: Brainiac
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""...the titular villain keeps dozens of them inside his ship. The first scene narrates how he reduced Kandor, and later he shrinks Metropolis.""
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ACTION Comics #544
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""Luthor Unleashed;" "A satellite built by Luthor surrounds Metropolis with an energy barrier, completely cutting it off the outside world. Not only said force-field can stave off a 100-megaton bomb...""
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Adventure Comics (1935-1983) #369
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"#369; "Mordru forms an impenetrable magic shield around Smallville after lifting the whole town in the air.""
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Empyrion (Empyrion, #1-2)
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""...air outside the dome is really painful until you get used to it...""
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Nova (The Starlore Legacy, #1)
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The Sky Inside (The Sky Inside, #1)
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""A futuristic, domed suburb (HM1) with a highly controlled environment, complete with state-run TV shows and mandatory voting on mundane issues.""
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Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
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""Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond its doors.""
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The Legend of Wonder Woman Vol. 1: Origins
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""...Themyscira is domed and floating in space with nearly all of the inhabitants dead due to the infighting...""
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The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 4: Hunted
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""...Kraven working with Arcade to place a large dome over Central Park to create an enclosure that allows him to stage The Grand Hunt without interference...""
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The Caves of Steel: The Robot Series
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""All of Earth's population live in Cities (areas such as New York, Baltimore, and Washington grew into a single city), areas enclosed under massive domes.""
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Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
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""... cover shows the Procurator's Mt Everest palace enclosed under a dome to protect it from Earth's inhospitable environment.""
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The Weapon Too Dreadful to Use
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""Humans have colonized Venus with domed cities like Aphrodopolis to keep out the heavy rains.""
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Biting the Sun (Four-BEE, #1-2)
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""The Fours' Cities... are under domes that keep a breathable atmosphere in, since the oxygen concentration outside the domes is so low...""
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Cities in Flight (Cities in Flight, #1-4)
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""...The motive force for traversing the stars were created by enormously powerful machines he called "spindizzies", which also form a protective bubble around the cities (so they only form the dome shape when landing on a planetary surface).""
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Glinda of Oz (Oz, #14)
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""...Dorothy and Princess Ozma's perilous journey to stop a war between the Flatheads and Skeezers, leading to their imprisonment in a submerged, glass-domed city until Glinda and the Wizard rescue them.""
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The Middle Kingdom (Chung Kuo, #1)
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""There are seven enormous domed cities housing thirty-six billion people.""
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A Colder War
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""The last survivors of the human race eke out their existence in XK-Masada, a city on an alien planet built beneath a mile-high dome designed by Buckminster Fuller.""
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Dangerous Laughter
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""The Dome;" where he describes a world where first domes were built over individual houses, to protect them from weather, burglars, etc, then neighborhoods became domed, then entire cities, and finally the entire world was encased in a giant dome.""
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Dragons Can Only Rust (Gonard's Journey, #1)
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""Gonard the mechanical dragon was built, enclosed in a force field dome, one of the few pockets of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world.""
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The Heritage of Shannara (Heritage of Shannara, #1-4)
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""...the Elven capital of Arborlon is protected by a magical dome known as the Keel, which is meant to keep out the "demons"...that haunt the island of Morrowindl.""
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Oblivion: Starcrime Book 2
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""The city of New London in the second book of the series is entirely enclosed under a dome, as are other separate facilities such as the nearby spaceport.""
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Second Stage Lensmen (Lensmen, #5)
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""...Medon, is a planet so constantly besieged that its transformation into a domed fortress planet was necessary for survival.""
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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""Most of the Lunar settlements are underground caves and warrens, though one section of Luna City is referred to as "Old Dome", and is implied to be a large dome at or near the Moon's surface which the city outgrew.""
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My Best Science Fiction Story
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""Each dome contains at least one building, and the roadways that snake around the domes have domed cars...""
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The Time Ships
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""London (and most surviving cities) is domed with concrete as protection against the bombs of an artificially prolonged World War I. The dome gets broken while we watch.""
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The Night's Dawn Trilogy (Night's Dawn, #1-3)
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""All the cities on Earth are under giant domes, to protect them from the hurricane-on-steroids armada storms that rage across the planet.""
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