In Yann Martel‘s novel Life of Pi, there is a floating island.Ī fictional vision from 1922 of a floating city in 10,000 years. In Jules Verne‘s Propeller Island, the characters are on an artificial floating island that is actually a huge ship. In the DC comics story of Wonder Woman, Themyscira is a group of floating islands. In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, the characters sail to a floating island, which later becomes fixed in place. Richard Head‘s 1673 novel The Floating Island describes a fictional island named Scotia Moria. They reappear in Pliny the Elder's Natural History of the 1st century CE. Seaborne floating islands have been found in literature since Homer's Odyssey, written near the end of the 8th century BCE, described the island of Aeolia. While very large floating structures have been constructed or proposed in real life, aerial cities and islands remain in the realm of fiction. In speculative fiction, floating cities and islands are a common trope, which range from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means. The Hawkmen's floating metropolis Sky City depicted in Flash Gordon (1936)
