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Huckleberry Dreaming

The Places

Cassaforta Continent, Planet Banunus

Grade Glennings

The largest town in Northern Cassaforta. Home of the Grade Glennings Gazelles, or ‘Triple Gees’ baseball team. East of Hailey’s Town with a dedicated rail link.

Hailey’s Town, Hap County

Carney’s hometown, in Northern Cassaforta: a place that, at times, he felt was nothing special, but at other times he romanticized and was reluctant to leave. This is the main setting for his story.

Sorley Ridge

A suburb of Hap Town, close to Hailey’s. Sorley Ridge House, a mental institution, can be found here.

The Ambinas

A rundown suburb of Hailey’s Town that is home to Arch Angel gang member, Marshall Bexley.

Javapod Street

A ‘happening’ district in downtown Hailey’s. Buddy’s Deck, a coffee bar where the Arch Angels often used to hang out, can be found here.

Caters Mead

A semi-rural area between Hailey’s Town and Hap Town. Arch Angel gang member, Dakota used to work part-time at a gas station out here, pumping gas.

The Bolars

A range of hills on the north side of Hailey’s Town, including Cobone Hill, a popular hangout spot for the Arch Angels. The hills are connected to many nature trails, including one leading to Ditania Country Park. The hills ‘turn purple’ in the spring because of the tashur flowers that grow on them.

Hap Town, Hap County

A larger town, north of Hailey’s, this is the county town for the Hap area, and hometown for minor character, Rufus Lester.

Gravelbeck

An industrial area ten miles north of Hap Town, and the location of the Garlan-Woodfin car parts factory, where Carney worked during the summer of 2324.

Old Kandal Valley

An area north of Hap Town, close to the Great Hap Water Hide, which flows to the Pleasian Ocean in the northern hemisphere. Carney’s family used to go camping there in the summer, before Lucy had a stroke.

Harlone Welby

A small town about ten miles east of Hailey’s, connected via the Longboon Highway. It is close to a defunct industrial estate.

Troccapago, Hap County

A mid-sized town to the west of Hailey’s. Hometown for drug baron, Yale Cuthbert.

Bajenco

A small, picturesque town close to Ditania Country Park, The Tundles, and Mallanbury Moor, where the Arch Angels spent a night out camping under the stars.

Tennacia Bay, The Jigdips

A beautiful sandy bay with cliffs, found on the rugged Jigdips coastline in the north. Popular vacation destination for the Caldwells and the Hunters.

Nefamincle

Surfing town on the northeast coast. Arch Angel gang member, Taylor Pumble used to dream of heading out there one day to lead a life of leisure.

Lope Horn Town

Eight hundred miles from Hailey’s Town, on the east coast in the Placops belt. An area famous for growing jooba fruit.

Crosswinds Bridge

A town about 100 miles from Hailey’s. Home to The Crosswinds Bridge Mental Health Unit.

Barraleah

A rustic town far away from Hailey’s, in the Gellatirran Plains, 50 miles inland from the southwest coast.

Losterdinos

The town that Dakota lived in before moving to Hailey’s.

Port Allinhoe

Central east coast port with cargo and passenger ferry links to Magnatella.

Anthelion’s Rock

Northern east coast port with cargo and passenger ferry links  to Magnatella.

Porporrol, Pin Lake County

Mining town in the south, and hometown of Doran’s arch nemesis, Torgon Strumpole.

Covell

The town to which Strumpole fled, aged sixteen, fearing incarceration. A hundred miles north of Porporrol.

Tusslin Kantop

Run-of-the-mill manufacturing town, about four hundred miles southeast of Grade Glennings. Home of The Dover Plain Reform School for Boys, which features in the story.

Addonite’s Gate

A small port town in southern Cassaforta, built alongside the Isley Banna River.

Borcole Stubbs

A small town about 15 miles from Addonite’s Gate, situated close to the Isley Banna River’s estuary.

Drayborn Fells

A town located in the north of the continent. Home to the Linnestone Juvenile Correction Center.

Pladen Craggs

A small town 31 miles north of Tusslin Kantop.

Pellaman Town

A town 95 miles north of Tusslin Kantop, and 460 miles south of Drayborn Fells.

Western Roe-Fotherguild

Home to the Kakovellie Rehabilitation Centre.

Tandorn Town

A medium sized town not far from Grade Glennings.

Regarafia

The desert area in the equatorial region of the continent.

Kohoutek Scrub

A desert village in Regarafia. Home of the Rohart Medical Center. Not far from Norinko and the Bunukuko Caves.

Ikeda Bennet

A large desert town in Regarafia.

Port Helix

An east coast desert port, about eighty miles northeast of Ikeda Bennet, with cargo ferry links to Port Quadroon in Magnatella. 

The Nellic Islands

A chain of islands to the south of the Cassaforta land mass in the Actuic Circle. All the Cassafortan colleges can be found here.

Linstock

One of the Nellic Islands.

San Breccia

One of the Nellic Islands. Popular as a holiday destination, as well as hosting a college.

Kantrololand

The northernmost island in the Nellic chain. Home to the Comjenk Institute of Technology, attended by Strumpole.

Magnatella Continent, Planet Banunus

Banunus City

Capital city of the Magnatellan continent. A vast high-tech city, with many districts, including:

  • Pablon — A district so close to the space port that windows are known to rattle whenever the big leptotronic spaceships take off and land.
  • Palderboon — The main cultural hub for the capital, located in the heart of the city. Doran and Quin spent many happy hours on school outings here.
  • Dactyleonbar — One of the major college districts in the city. Home of Sergeant Humbucker, who moored his barge on a canal near the Matapetus Waterfront.
  • Mulchaft — A shopping district, often targeted for ‘scrobbling’ by the Shadow Dwellers.
  • Calahadra — A well-heeled suburb. Doran grew up here, in the Maple Road Children’s Home.
  • Nustosternus — Another college district. Home to the Yantrista Medical School, where Leyland applied to study medicine.
  • Ballino Heights — A major theme park on the outskirts of Banunus City.
  • Pabowimble — A suburb on the edge of Banunus City where natural caves can be found.
  • Asternus — A district close to Tierramont Square, a popular busking spot for Barlin and Doran.
  • Novaturrell — Home to The Shadow Dwellers gang, who lived in a network of caves beneath the city, affectionately known as Nentoke. The district is near to Mercedes Way, a seedy street where Doran tried to earn money by staging conjuring illusions.
Myndalthrapy Mone, The Dolands

A small crop farming community, about three hundred miles southeast of Banunus City. Hometown for minor character, Quin Oakley, the area is surrounded by the Doland Mountains.

Tavon City, Cottafarral

Tavon is the fourth largest city in Magnatella, and it is situated in the southeast Cottafarral territory. Strumpole was extradited here from Cassaforta.

Califrod City

On the northwest coast of Magnatella. The Califrod Penitentiary can be found here.

Skitolas City

Home to Magnatella’s prestigious Skitolas College, which was coveted by Strumpole.

Port Isoboon

A port on the west coast, with cargo ferry links to Cassaforta.

Creoloone

A city about sixty miles from Port Isoboon. This was the closest you could get to Port Isoboon by air car.

Port Donnelly

A port on the west coast. A naval parade is held here annually on the last Saturday in September.

Port Crompton

Another port on the west coast with cargo links to and from Cassaforta and passenger links from Cassaforta.

Port Quadroon

A port on the west coast in the Mackalonian region with cargo ferry links to Port Helix in Cassaforta.

Planets, Moons, and Star Systems

Banunus

An Earth-like planet in the Dolon system, but only about half the size of Earth. There are two major landmasses: Magnatella, which was colonized by Earth first, and Cassaforta, which was colonized much later by Gilbert Gowder and the pacifist rebels.

The two continents are separated by the Disian Ocean.

The planet has two natural satellites, Akkasom and Akkasine. 

The Dolon system was discovered by Alpin Dillinger, brother of Walter Dillinger, who invented leptotronic science.

Akkasom

Moon of Banunus.

Akkasine

Moon of Banunus.

Dol

The Dolon system’s star.

Dilius

Another planet in the Dolon system, with four moons.

Ostrapoctinus

The fourth moon of Dilius. Wiskadon stone is mined there.

Pugnax

The closest star system to the Dolon system.

Lapilert

One of the planets in the Pugnax system. Rush crinkles, the hallucinogenic plants featured in the story, can only grow on Lapilert, which makes them very rare.