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Fairly traditional for [[Underwater City|underwater cities]] or space colonies in SF. |
Fairly traditional for [[Underwater City|underwater cities]] or space colonies in SF. |
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[[Sub-Trope]] of [[Wall Around the World]] |
[[Sub-Trope]] of [[Wall Around the World]] |
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...[[Captain Obvious|Not to be confused with]] [[Doomed Hometown]] |
...[[Captain Obvious|Not to be confused with]] [[Doomed Hometown]] |
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* [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Under the Dome]]'' deals with a small town in [[Lovecraft Country|Maine]] that is quite suddenly, and unexpectedly, placed... well, guess. |
* [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Under the Dome]]'' deals with a small town in [[Lovecraft Country|Maine]] that is quite suddenly, and unexpectedly, placed... well, guess. |
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* In the "Revelation Space" novels by [[Alastair Reynolds]], Chasm City and Cuvier are initially built under domes. |
* In the "Revelation Space" novels by [[Alastair Reynolds]], Chasm City and Cuvier are initially built under domes. |
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* In ''[[Gone]]'', a dome appears over Perdido Beach (actually, in a 10-mile radius around the nearby nuclear power plant) at the same time [[Only Fatal to Adults|everyone older than 14 disappears]]. |
* In ''[[Gone (novel)]]'', a dome appears over Perdido Beach (actually, in a 10-mile radius around the nearby nuclear power plant) at the same time [[Only Fatal to Adults|everyone older than 14 disappears]]. |
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* The idea is [[Older Than Radio]], appearing in the 1881 socialist and white supremacist fantasy ''Three Hundred Years Hence'' by British author William Delisle Hay. Hay's book describes a future civilization where most of humanity lives in glass-domed cities beneath the sea, allowing the surface to be used primarily for agriculture. |
* The idea is [[Older Than Radio]], appearing in the 1881 socialist and white supremacist fantasy ''Three Hundred Years Hence'' by British author William Delisle Hay. Hay's book describes a future civilization where most of humanity lives in glass-domed cities beneath the sea, allowing the surface to be used primarily for agriculture. |
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* Steven Millhauser has an odd little short story called "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. |
* Steven Millhauser has an odd little short story called "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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