Pratchett's Discworld rests on the backs of four elephants, which rest on the giant turtle Great A'Tuin. Credit: Blastr.com.
The Nac Mac Feegle, the six inch high, aggressive fairies of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, believe themselves to be in heaven. With all its opportunities for thievery, brawling, drinking, trouble-making and adventure, what place could possibly be better than where they find themselves right now?
But fantasy in general does not concern itself much with ideas of utopia. I can think of some that do: J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion about Valinor, the perfect haven of the elves; the end of C. S. Lewis’s The Last Battle, which is essentially a glimpse of heaven as Lewis imagined it. Both of these are older and written in part with a religious purpose, using fantasy settings as allegory.
