List of fictional airborne castles
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The idea of cities floating in gas giants was popularized by the Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, in which a gas mine floats in the atmosphere of the planet Bespin. Another notable example is the antigravity-supported City of Stratos, in the Star Trek episode The Cloud Minders. In Stargate Atlantis the title city floats on an ocean (although it is actually a fully functional interstellar spaceship). The main setting in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy is a giant dome shaped city that is a spaceship. In the Beast Wars of the Transformers universe, the Vok build an observational flying land structure on which are a garden and a number of buildings. In Larry Niven's Ringworld series, floating cities are all that remain of the ancient inhabitants of the Ringworld. In James Blish's series Cities in Flight, the invention of the spindizzy allows cities like New York to leave Earth and roam the universe.
Below is a list of fictional airborne castles, which does not include pure space stations.
- The giant's castle in the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, later incorporated into the comic book series Fables
- Laputa in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- The titular castle, also named Laputa, in tribute to the above, in the 1986 animated film Castle in the Sky.
- The castle on a floating rock in The Castle in the Pyrenees, a painting by René Magritte (1959)[1]
- The Castle in the Air in The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster
- Morrolan's castle "Castle Black" in Steven Brust's books about Vlad Taltos (starting 1983)
- The Flying Fortress/Sky Castle in Final Fantasy (1987)
- Ultimecia's castle in Final Fantasy VIII (1999).
- The castle on a cloud from the imagination of Cosette from the musical Les Misérables (1980)
- The Flying Citadel used by the Dragonarmies in the Dragonlance novels
- Howl's castle in Howl's Moving Castle (1986) and sequel Castle in the Air (1990) (by Diana Wynne Jones).
- Zenithia castle in the Dragon Quest series (1986)
- The air castle, known as Air Castle, which once floated above the planet Parma of the Phantasy Star series (1987).
- The abandoned flying castle which crashed in the mountains in With A Single Spell by Lawrence Watt-Evans (1987).
- The Sky Palace, found in the Act Raiser games (1990).
- The Sky Sanctuary in Sonic & Knuckles (1994).
- The floating kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger (1995)
- The upside down castle above the dueling platform in Revolutionary Girl Utena (1996)
- Nimbus Land in Super Mario RPG (1996)
- Bowser's Castle is capable of turning into a floating castle in many of the Mario Bros games, including Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
- The city of Airlandis in the 1996 tv program, Dragon Flyz.
- In the 1998 PC game Unreal, the natives, known as Nali, have a floating settlement above the planet Gryphon called "Na Pali Haven" complete with a river, farms, and a town center.
- Roper Klacks's castle in The Longest Journey (1999)
- Helliwood in Now and Then, Here and There (1999)
- The Darigan Citadel in Meridell in the Neopets (1999) world.
- Faerieland in the Neopets (1999) world.
- Neameeto-The Castle of Deranged Gods in Shadow Hearts (2001)
- The flying/moving cities in Philip Reeve's novel Mortal Engines (2001) and its subsequent sequels.
- Idar Flamme in Shadow Hearts: Covenant (2004)
- Hiranipra and other unnamed cities in the sky in RahXephon (2003).
- Cloud Club in Another Day, Another Dungeon by Greg Costikyan
- The Castle in the Clouds in the Sky, found in the Kingdom of Loathing (2003).
- The Steam Castle (aka., Steam Tower) in Steamboy (2004)
- A flying brothel and a flying windmill on a chunk of land in the music video of Feel Good Inc (2005) by Gorrilaz.
- The Castle That Never Was in Kingdom Hearts II (2005).
- City in the sky in the Wii game Twilight princess (2006).
- Floating City of Vane in the Lunar Series (1990's-2006)
- Space-faring mountain-castle in Krull (1983)
- Airborne head-shaped rock vessel in Zardoz (1974)
