The Hamish Macbeth novels by M.C. Beaton take place in a fictional village on the north east tip of Scotland, but I'm not sure if that "unusual" enough, compared to the other examples here. I guess no place on land in the world would qualify. Maybe Antarctica?
Richard Matheson's NOW YOU SEE IT ... is told entirely from inside a single room in a house, and narrated by a wheelchair-bound man in a permanent vegetative state. And then of course there is Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, from inside the coffin ...
Reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, actually.
ReplyDeleteI bet there are more because it pits characters against each other although not in Pi.
ReplyDeletePhilip K. Dick's EYE IN THE SKY which takes place in a character's mind.
ReplyDeleteLiterally, George?
ReplyDeleteOne of Tom Robbins' books takes place in a pack of cigarettes.
ReplyDeleteThe Hamish Macbeth novels by M.C. Beaton take place in a fictional village on the north east tip of Scotland, but I'm not sure if that "unusual" enough, compared to the other examples here. I guess no place on land in the world would qualify. Maybe Antarctica?
ReplyDeleteRichard Matheson's NOW YOU SEE IT ... is told entirely from inside a single room in a house, and narrated by a wheelchair-bound man in a permanent vegetative state. And then of course there is Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, from inside the coffin ...
ReplyDeleteI am apparently missing a lot of great settings!
ReplyDeleteI think most of the ones listed are cheats.
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