Places from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.
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Oceans Of Light - The sea which washed ashore upon Eastbeach was the Eastern Ocean, that wilderness of whales which is more romantically known as the Ocean of Vishna Elmira. The archipelago of Chalakanesia lies in the...
Palching Lindus - A road in Lexis Hodokyo De, the intersection encumbered by this brutal mass of overhanging metal, was the point at which Qin Sistock Maruka and Palching Lindus met the Alkaline Bill. This major...
Pert Ptyx - a small but expensive dressmaker's shop which perched precariously on poles by the Chadlin Steps Atlanta was still hard at it two days later, when Bullock brought her hot news of Soba's location....
Point Cur - Point Cur, the rocky headland at the southern end of Eastbeach So saying, Gorkindachina took himself to the House of X, the rambler often known by its proper registered name, the Engramicus Mulch....
Prodolikus Of The Golden Spheres - Sakura Amir, a city in the Gulf of Heaven, east of Idosolaris and west of Prodolikus of the Golden Spheres Clock appeared to have fled to Sakura Amir, a city in the Gulf of Heaven, east of Idosolaris...
Pro Pro Kana Kana Bak - A city No sooner had these words been spoken than Heineman realized he had committed himself to an absurdity. Pro-Pro-Kana-Kana-Bak was the name of a city, not a corporation. Its relationship to any...
Qin Sistock Maruka - Road down the Mexicus Hojo Peninsular. From Hodokyo De, Gorkindachina ventured down Qin Sistock Maruka, making toward the Mexicus Hojo, the peninsular on which the mansions of the great and mighty...
Quisling Hok - A road 'Never mind, never mind,' said Atlanta to herself. 'I might not have an affidavit, but I do have you.' Upon which Atlanta deliberately set about plying Soba with enough strong drink to render...
Rebus Rokroth - Insane asylum located on the mountain of Flanjegus Mo Heineman and Atlanta shortly did just that, climbing to the lunatic asylum on the heights of the great rock of Flanjegus Mo. They took with them...
Sakura Amir - A city in heaven, home of the media team. In Heaven, of course, students do sometimes fight each other on account of trivial sporting rivalries (and here one remembers the famous Beacon Football...
Salsa Soko Pelchis - Salsa Soko Pelchis, the Presidential Mansion These days, the senate chamber had come to look small and shabby, for he was thinking more and more of the presidency, and of the magnificence of the...
Scattered Pearls - But, while the glories of Chalakanesia were part of the common learning of the peoples of the Scattered Pearls (as the islands of Chalakanesia are poetically known), the ordinary citizens of Heaven...
School Of Body Painting - A brothel run by Lady Jane located in the Ul Den Ul. 'A client?' said Zinjanthrop. 'A client, by night? By night in the month of Lombok? In competition with Lady Jane, are we?' The Lady Jane in...
Sea Of Ice - But there was little Heineman could tell. The Vasakatari, the islands of the Mer, lay in the Sea of Ice, south of the Yontil Yantil. Few people ventured to those regions, for several reasons. For a...
Second Pearl - The Island of Midas Makorum In the past, in the classical age, when the Balancers had tapped the powers of the metapsychic faultline to do the incredible, Midas Makorum had been the seat of power,...
Seven Pearls Of Chalakanesia - The seven islands that make up Chalakanesia As everyone knew full well, that sudden lunge toward democracy was a forced move, made over the opposition of the senates of each of the Seven Pearls of...
Seven States - The seven island provinces of Chalakanesia The mongoose is a restless, questing, inquisitive beast. It is gallant to the point of recklessness, and misguided gallantry will often lead a small...
Sixth Pearl - Sopwith Dromedax Heineman's freshest presidential problem concerned Sopwith Dromedax, the Sixth Pearl, which was refusing to send its share of the federal tax to the federal treasury. This was...
Sklam Klorus - City in Hell After getting off to such a bad start, the day improved markedly when the Family learnt that a sailing ship had arrived from Sklam Klorus, bringing mail from the Chasms of Hell. The...
Slum Street - The unfortunate thing was that Gorkindachina's words had a great weight of logic behind them, and, as anger became more and more of a distant memory, that logic started to become implacably...