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** Not to mention his ''Tier World'', which consists of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|several flat tiers stacked one onto another]]. Some [[Mooks]] even end up [[Fate Worse Than Death|fallen off the edge]].
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s Dreamland is apparently flat, or at least there is one place where you can sail off the edge of the world and "fall" into space.
* Technically, the landscape of the [[
* The poem "The Edge of the World", by [[Shel Silverstein]].
** The illustration on the cover of the book ''Where The Sidewalk Ends'' uses the illustration from the poem "The Edge of the World", [[Covers Always Lie|leading some to mistake the illustration to be for the specific poem "Where the Sidewalk Ends"]] (Which is actually about the grassy area between the sidewalk and the street).
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** Evidently, the faces ''would'' be able to support life, if not for the fact that while the planet itself is disc-shaped the gravitational pull acts as though it were spherical, so if you tried to stand on the faces, you'd discover that the gravity pulls you towards the hub and slightly presses you against the face itself, so the net effect is akin to holding your enemy against a passing train in a subway station.
* As is the world on which the ''[[Golden Sun]]'' games take place, complete with the oceans constantly spilling an apparently infinite amount of water over the edges. Interestingly enough, the dangers inherent in such a system are actually brought to light in the second game. {{spoiler|Without the power of Alchemy, Gaia Falls will eventually erode all of Weyard to nothing. One assumes that Alchemy is capable of producing enough earth and water to combat the erosion.}}
** In ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'', which takes place 30 years after the end of the [[Game Boy Advance]] duology, the world's oceans and continents are now separated into layers, with the heroes' ship being unable to reach any continents other than their own due to the other continents being separated by waterfalls. Other than the addition of layers, the world is still a flat one but may revert back to its original shape in the years down the road since there's still natural activity happening in the world in the 30 year gap.
* Some of the planets in both ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' resemble these, with optional [[Unrealistic Black Hole|black holes]] underneath. If you fall off the planet and into the black hole, you die. And if there isn't a black hole and you fall off, you still die.
* Played straight in the Burning Crusade expansion of ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. The world of Outland is considered to be the largest fragment of a shattered world, and players in the game can fall off the edge and die (dying in such a way causes you to be resurrected at the nearest graveyard from the point you fell off)
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