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* The [[Cyberspace|Digital World]] in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' consisted of seven discs stacked one on top of another.

 

== Literature ==

* The ''[[Discworld]]'', as its name suggests, is a very slightly convex disc. It's also supported by four giant elephants on the back of an insanely vast turtle. It has a (spherical) tiny sun and a tiny moon, which travel in complex patterns to make seasons. (Sometimes, one of the elephants has to cock a leg to let them go by.) In fact, one novel concerns the bold efforts of religious fanatics who believe the world is round because God prefers perfect circles going about crushing dissent from any scientist who tries to prove the world is actually flat. Which it is.

* ''[[Narnia]]'' is also flat. The characters reach the edge in ''Voyage of the Dawn Treader''. The 3 children never do see what (if anything) lies beyond Aslan's Country (though it's implied that the dome of the sky comes down to meet the ground there). The Narnians are surprised to find out that the Pevensies come from a round world, and are delighted, because that's what ''their'' fantasy stories are about.

* In the ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Silmarillion]]'', it's revealed that Arda was originally flat. It was reshaped into a sphere by Eru Iluvatar to prevent humanity from attempting to sail to Valinor.

 

 

* ''[[Rice Boy]]'' and ''[[Order of Tales]]'' both take place on Overside, the top half of a flat world. Travel between the two sides was possible in the past, though it is now restricted, but {{spoiler|Rice Boy himself eventually travels to Underside, where he meets his (for lack of a better word) parents}}.

* ''[[Unicorn Jelly]]'' has Tryslmaistan, a universe where all worlds are flat triangular plates of extremely regular shape and size, justified due to having different laws of physics than our world. Each worldplate also has its own greater and lesser light source in a complex orbit, a "sun" and "moon". Since only objects of worldplate size are suspended against the omnipresent unidirectional "gravity", any time a plate breaks up or wears down too small, it falls, breaking others until Tryslmaistan is consumed in a "stormfall" of matter that eventually spreads throughout the entire universe (wrapping all the way around the universe's finite but unbounded vertical plane and likewise expanding horizontally until it meets itself). Then the debris is eventually clumped into triangular shapes by the natural forces of that world, and it all starts over again. Its sequel, ''[[Pastel Defender Heliotrope]]'', takes place in Pastel, a similar universe of rectangular worldplates.

 

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