Places from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.
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Snork Deebus - Prison 'Confession?' said Dem Lysander, startled. Then, seeing what she was driving at: 'Oh, no, miss, this isn't a confession. This is history. I've done my time, three years in the Snork.' His...
Solakarno - An island of Chalakanesia The presidency of the Federation of Chalakanesia rotated from state to state, passing from Cherwin Skam to Midas Makorum, from Unlox Brocade to Solakarno, from Jaz Diva to...
Sopwith Dromedax - The sixth pearl of Chalakanesia. 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....
Spliars - Spikey rock sticking out of the ocean that cleans the waters of Eastbeach. Near the wreck site of the Zuzu Magore. Heineman's prau drifted into the shadows of one of the Spliars. Each of these towers...
Tatsu Clapsu - Tatsu Clapsu, a tattoo parlour by the Chadlin Steps Once Atlanta had taken Oberon's fingerprints, Heineman managed to persuade her to quit La Lantis. Teladex, in turn, surrendered the assassin the...
Temple Of Logic - In Chalakanesia's classical period, there had been a breed of savants known as Balancers, who had been able to channel and control the energies of the metapsychic faultline for productive purposes....
Temple Of The Flesh - Zinjanthrop's religious cult So much had happened that Atlanta scarcely gave a thought to the rain. She brooded on the history of her grandfather, Zinjanthrop. Zinjanthrop the priest, preaching...
Tilnus Building - 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 intersection was the...
Ul Den Ul - Atlanta's Office Building. Owned by the Family Ul. Ground Floor - Fish Mongers Second Floor - Lady Jane's School of Body Painting then Lady Belinda Del Dorn's Alma Chorda music school. Third Floor -...
Unlox Brocade - 'Children?' said Belinda. 'On the profits from the Alma Chorda? How would I afford it? We should have been born on Unlox Brocade - at the Breakup.' The Breakup of Unlox Brocade, the Third Pearl, bulks...
Upton Zinc - 'Quite honestly, I wouldn't,' said Gorkindachina. 'Just as I wouldn't advise anyone to visit Upton Zinc in the locust season.' That raised a laugh, and made Atlanta feel like an outsider. She had...
Vangelic Waxworks - Lying there in the moonlight, Heineman found himself reluctant to sleep in case he woke to find himself ghosting, floating out over the seas, floating out over the reefs of moon coral, reefs glowing...
Vasakatari - Vasakatari, the islands of the Mer, lay in the Sea of Ice, south of the Yontil Yantil But there was little Heineman could tell. The Vasakatari, the islands of the Mer, lay in the Sea of Ice, south of...
Vishna Elmira - Eastern great ocean Imagine, then, the Mexicus Hojo, a narrow peninsular with a row of great mansions on either side of its central road. To the west is the Western Ocean, otherwise known as the...
Vizlexis - In some of the short stories Hugh Cook called the city Vizlexis , but in the novels the city's name is Lexis. It was then Lombok, the Month of Madness. In that month, metapsychic storms frequently...
vomitoriums - 'Oh,' said Panjalo. 'Did I neglect the eating bit? Well, sorry about that. Anyway, the unfortunate Lex Raga Tashkent - he Was responsible for planning the public vomitoriums, by the way - he -' 'The...
Warehouse Epoktatima - Then she set out for the Warehouse Epoktatima, the headquarters of the Epoktatima clan in Westport. There she was received with civility by Lotharian Amarto Epoktatima, father of Yulius. 'Atlanta,'...
Westbeach - On first arriving in Lexis from the Fifth Pearl, the island of Jaz Diva, ex-president Wolfganga Zenseneth Belch had found it impossible to buy a rambler, since there had been no such mansion for sale...
Western Ocean - Imagine, then, the Mexicus Hojo, a narrow peninsular with a row of great mansions on either side of its central road. To the west is the Western Ocean, otherwise known as the Ocean of Solasalassa; to...
Western Power - Aka Hell. 'You must come with me,' said Heineman to Nodo. But Nodo begged off, saying he had some fresh media analysis to do (and so he had, for he had just received a fresh consignment of Blast-Star...