PREPOSTEROUS PRECINCTS JIM PUDER Saratoga, California Wonderland, Oz, Never-Never Land, Narnia, Middle-Earth-who needs pulpy tales of outer space or the future, when more mainstream writing offers us no end of fantastic story settings? Below is a list of 40 such fabulous fictive locales, as well as a roster of the perpetrating authors. Both lists are alphabetical, making for some odd pairings-can the reader set things right? Solution, book titles and dates in A&S. Alifbay Edwin A. Abbott Atlantis Aristophanes Back of the North Wind L. Frank Baum Bengodi Giovanni Boccaccio BrocCliande John Bunyan Centrum Terrae Edgar Rice Bwroughs Clorudcuckooland Samuel Butler Coromandel James Branch Cabell Dictionopolis Casanova Earthsea Samuel Taylor Coleridge El Dorado Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Erewhon Anatole France Flatland W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Gangaridia Hans von Grimrnelshausen Glome H. Rider Haggard Glubbdubdrib James Hilton Gondor Norton Juster Hooloomooloo Charles Kingsley Hyperborea Edward Lear Land of a Million Wishes Ursula K. Le Guin Land of Play C. S. Lewis Macondo George Macdonald Maple White Land Gabriel Garcia Mhquez Noble's Isle Andre Maurois Oldwiivesfabledom Herman Melville PeUucidar Sir Thomas More Penguin Island William Morris Phantastico Plato Philistia Pliny the Elder Protocosmo Edgar Allan Poe Satinland Franqois Rabelais Shangri-La Sir Walter Raleigh Standard Island Salman Rushdie Titipu Robert Louis Stevenson Upmeads Jonathan Swift Utopia Alfred, Lord Tennyson Vanity Fair J. R. R, Tolkien Vondervotteimittiss Jules Verne Xanadu Voltaire Zuvendis H. G. Wells 256.