Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* Miskatonic University in the fictional Arkham, Massachusetts

* The fictional Central University Library at the real University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

* Miskatonic University, a fictional university

* Rider, Jeff, The fictional margin: The Merlin of the Brut, Modern Philology, 1989, University of Chicago Press.

* The Unseen University, in the fictional Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett

* Empire State University, a fictional university in the Marvel Comics Universe.

Streeling University ( also known as SU ) is a fictional university in the Foundation Universe, modeled after Harvard University

Professor Mark Glancy, teacher of film history at Queen Mary University of London has said: “ It ’ s horrendously inaccurate and attributes crimes committed by the Nazis in the 1940s to the British in the 1770s .” In contrast, Australian film critic David Edwards asserts that " this fictional story is set around actual events, but it is not a history of what America was, or even an image of what it has become-it's a dream of what it should be .... The Patriot is a grand epic full of action and emotion .... But it's also surprisingly insightful in its evaluation of the American ideal-if not the reality.

Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictitious town in Essex County, Massachusetts.

After completing high school, John-Boy attends fictional Boatwright University in the fictional nearby town of Westham.

John-Boy Walton's fictional alma mater, Boatwright University, is patterned after Richmond College, which became part of the University of Richmond on Boatwright Drive, near Westham Station in The West End of Richmond, Virginia, about 70 miles east of Schuyler.

The next year, Eric moves out of his parents ’ house and begins college at the fictional Pennbrook University ( a pastiche of local Philadelphia schools including St. Joseph's and Penn ).

In the film The Whisperer in Darkness, Mount Holyoke was used to represent H. P. Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University.

The main action of that series takes place at the fictional Shuster University in Florida, named for Superman / Superboy's co-creator, artist, Joe Shuster.

Scenes showing the fictional South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs home football games were shot at Spec Martin Stadium.

Hoople is probably best known outside North Dakota as the location of University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople, the fictional university created by Peter Schickele.

( Presumably it is an extension campus of a fictional University of Southern North Dakota, since the real Hoople is located in the northeastern, not southern, part of the state.

and the fictional O ' Grady of Trinity-A Story of Irish University Life.

Alongside the surgery, other regular locations include the police station, The Icon Bar and since 2008, The Campus Surgery, after a storyline saw the practice take over the surgery at the fictional University of Letherbridge.

The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set.

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different to her own, and where she falls in love with a man (' Paul Emanuel ') whom she cannot marry.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

The locations where these adventures occur, such as a city, country, planet or an entire fictional universe, are also sometimes called ' campaigns ' but are more correctly referred to as ' worlds ' or ' campaign settings '.

The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.

Often these books follow a formula where the first chapter involves Brown solving a case at the dinner table for his father, the local police chief in the fictional town of Idaville.

In Dancer in the Dark, jump shots and dramatically-different color palettes and camera techniques were used for the " real world " and musical portions of the film, and in Dogville everything was filmed on a sound stage with no set where the walls of the buildings in the fictional town were marked as lines on the floor.

The series is set in a fictional galaxy as part of an alternative universe, where planets are overseen by a powerful race of space-travelers known as Ancients.

The Marvel Universe is the shared fictional universe where stories in most comic book titles and other media published by Marvel Entertainment take place, including those featuring Marvel's most familiar characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, and the Avengers.

* In his Inferno, Dante portrayed Boniface VIII as destined for hell, where simony is punished, although Boniface was still alive at the fictional date of the poem's story.

Some take this concept further by creating E-feds ( electronic federations ), where a user can create their own fictional wrestling character, and roleplaying storylines with other users, leading to scheduled " shows " where match results are determined by the organizers, usually based on a combination of the characters ' statistics and the players ' roleplaying aptitude, sometimes with audience voting.

The Bydo backstory developed from being negligible into being a complex fictional example of retrocausality, where humankind disposed of an experimental weapon into an alternate dimension and that weapon frees itself into mankind's own past.

* In the United States and United Kingdom, planned television screenings of films and fictional programs where terror, plane crashes, bombs or other related disaster were the primary subject were postponed or canceled.

The story includes a semi-illegal fictional Minneapolis Worldcon in a post-disaster world where science, and thus fandom, is disparaged.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, there have been a number of starships named Enterprise ( where the designation refers to United Federation of Planets Star Ship rather than United States Ship ):

In the 1980s, the comic featured a plot involving the fictional island nation of Genosha, where mutants were segregated and enslaved by an apartheid state.

* Adieu is a novella by Honoré de Balzac in which can be found a short description of the French retreat from Russia, particularly the battle of Berezina, where the fictional couple of the story are tragically separated.

" Bokonon " was the way the natives of San Lorenzo, the fictional Caribbean island-nation where the shipwrecked Johnson started his religion, pronounced his family name in their unique dialect of English.

* Middle-earth, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Arda, where Endor is the Quenya name for it

: For the fictional television character, please see Susan Moore ( General Hospital )

Developed under the working title The Julie Brown Show, it also starred Marian Mercer as Julie's mother, June ; DeLane Matthews as Debra Deacon, a reporter on the fictional series Inside Scoop ; Susan Messing as Julie's roommate Cheryl ; and Kevin O ' Rourke as Inside Scoop producer Tony Barnow.

Color segments from the present day interview real and fictional personages, including Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag.

Susan Sto Helit ( also spelled Sto-Helit ), once referred to as Susan Death, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels.

Dr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Robot series.

According to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated.

Susan Ivanova is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Claudia Christian.

The film is dedicated to the memory of Sedgwick and ends with the actual headlines announcing Sedgwick's ( not Susan Superstar's ) death, thus inseparably associating the fictional and the genuine figure.

Susan Pevensie is a fictional major character of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia series.

In this way, Gaiman presents, in fictional form, a critique of Lewis ' treatment of Susan.

Here, Johnny still lived with his elder sister, Susan Storm, in fictional Glenview, Long Island, New York, where he continued to attend high school and, with youthful naivete, attempted to maintain his " secret identity " ( later retconned to reveal that his friends and neighbors knew of his dual identity from Fantastic Four news reports, but simply played along ).

Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Stegner's use of substantial passages from Foote's actual letters as the correspondence of his fictional character Susan Burling Ward was and remains controversial among some scholars.

* Susan Ivanova, a fictional character in the Babylon 5 universe

In Asimov's fictional universe, the innermost planet orbiting Tau Ceti was mankind's very first extrasolar planetary settlement, established at some point between the discovery of the hyperspatial jump in 2031 A. D. and 2064 A. D., when numerous extrasolar colonies were mentioned by Susan Calvin during an interview given in that year.

* A fictional character in the Star Trek episodes " The Cage " and " The Menagerie ", played by actress Susan Oliver

( 2002 )— Nicolas Cage portrays real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ( as well as his fictional brother, Donald ) as Kaufman struggles to adapt an esoteric book ( Susan Orlean ’ s real-life nonfiction work The Orchid Thief ) into an action-filled Hollywood screenplay.

* Susan Harris, a fictional character from the movie Invasion of the Bee Girls

* Susan Harris, a fictional character from the movie Demon Seed, played by Julie Christie

* Rosie Banks, fictional character in the UK Channel 4 soap opera, Brookside, played by actress Susan Twist

The 2008 juvenile novel The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, while fictional, is based on Hübener's life.

Susan Delfino ( née Bremmer, formerly Mayer ) is a fictional character played by Teri Hatcher on the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) television series Desperate Housewives.

Susan resides on the fictional Wisteria Lane in Fairview, Eagle State, the primary setting of the show.