# Southern hemispherical F/SF **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032 "2015-04-19T10:03:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/21 "2015-04-22T15:42:16Z")
Does _On the Beach_ count? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/22 "2015-04-22T16:02:18Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I stopped reading Pern books quite a few years ago and never read about this. It doesn’t matter though. Most of Pern’s population is in the north so it has a northern bias. Later books focus more and more on the south. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/23 "2015-04-22T16:12:18Z")
Another fantasy one: the [continent of Roshar](http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/stormlightarchive/images/7/73/Roshar-Iri.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121122140750), setting of Brandon Sanderson’s ongoing \*The Stormlight Archive \*series (_The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance_). (Highly recommended, incidentally, if you haven’t read them yet) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/24 "2015-04-22T22:15:16Z")
Y’know, technically WATCHMEN is partially set on the Southern Hemisphere of Mars. (And when they’re on Earth, it’s partially set in Antarctica.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/25 "2015-04-24T19:01:15Z")
Some of the Fremen projects were in the Southern hemisphere of Dune. Not much said about them, tho ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/26 "2015-04-24T19:03:10Z")
What would the Ringworld be? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/27 "2015-05-19T10:07:30Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Just out of curiosity, **dtilque,** why are you looking for this? The difference between the Northern and Southern hemispheres has certain cultural and historical importance on Earth, but of course that would not apply on any other planet. Mostly I’m just wondering how many SF authors are thinking outside their box. Apparently very few. > [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > What would the Ringworld be? Not a sphere, so no hemispheres. BTW, in the OP, I wasn’t sure about the Inheritance Trilogy. In rereading one of the books, I noticed a data item that was pretty conclusive. The High North was a locale that grew coffee. That pretty much settles it. The continents in that world seems to be based roughly on Australia and that region. Or maybe the word should be inspired. Semn is the big continent (Australia in this case, but probably bigger and definitely further south, so probably no deserts); the High North is smaller (New Guinea, but bigger), the Archipelago is to their east (South Pacific islands), the Meroland is further east (so maybe South America?). ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/28 "2015-05-19T11:49:42Z")
Beam Pipers Terro-Human Future History series posits an expansionistic human race from Australia, South Africa and South America because the north was devastated by nuclear war. There’s at least one story where explorers choose to land in the Southern Hemisphere of a new planet because that’s ‘right’ to them. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032/29 "2015-05-19T13:10:52Z")
There are a few references in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s _Darkover_ series that the sole inhabited area of the planet is in the southern hemisphere, most explicitly in _The Planet Savers_ which is neither the best nor the most well known of the novels. However, all maps of the planet are oriented with the colder bits at the top… which may mean “south” is towards the top of the map or, like the Himalayas on Earth, it’s on a part of the planet where, due to high mountains, it gets colder as you go north towards the equator because you’re going upwards. The trilogy _The Stone Dance of the Chameleon_ is set on the continent of Antarctica in a prior geological age when it is a lush temperate to tropical climate. OK, sorry, that is Earth, isn’t it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-hemispherical-f-sf/718032.md?page=1)