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* While not quite an extremely tall building, the starscrapers in Peter F. Hamilton's ''[[Nights Dawn]]'' Trilogy are named such - as they are skyscrapers IN SPACE. Literally hanging off the outside edge of rotating space habitats.
* Common in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' universe. Justified by the ubiquity of counter-grav technology.
* The Cylinder from K. W. Jeter's Farewell Horizontal. A specific size isn't given, but most of humanity lives inside (or on) it, and most of the habitable area is well above the cloud layer.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Hive Cities in ''[[Warhammer
** Fang, the fortress of Space Wolves. It is so high, spaceships dock to its peak.
* Sharn, the City of Towers in ''[[Eberron]]''. It's towers average at around 2 km tall with some of the tallests having half to a full a kilometre more. Above them is a flying district of rich people called the Skyway. The city's three dimensional nature means most of the transit takes place with flying vehicules such as Soarsleds and Skybarges.
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* Whittlebone's (driver of Mr. Slamm) dream is to build one in ''[[Twisted Metal]] 2''.
* The Karma Temple in ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]''.
* The Tower of Salvation in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''. It literally reaches "unto the heavens" and the player never sees its top from the outside.
* The entire point of ''SimTower'', where the player can build a fully functioning hotel/office complex that spreads over several square blocks, ten underground levels, and up to 500 stories.
* The Tower of the Gods in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' is so tall it can be seen from almost anywhere on the map.
* The eponymous [[Ar tonelico]] actually reaches out into space. All of humanity lives on it or one of two similar towers, since they're the only things tall enough to reach over [[After the End|the sea of plasma enveloping the Earth.]]
* The [[Tower of Babel]] in ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]''. After climbing to the top, the player can look out at the background and see the curvature of the Earth. It also might double as a [[Space Elevator]], since the allows the main character to simply fly into space to fight the [[Big Bad]], without worrying about any pesky little details like "gravity".
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': one of the many things they built and lost in a single day is a star scraper that touched the earth's moon.
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