Top Ten Worlds I'd Never Want to Live In

Today's topic was listed as Love Freebie  hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, but I couldn't think of anything romantic, so I picked the Top Ten Worlds I'd Never Want to Live In. In a book, you can go anywhere, do anything, meet anyone... But not every captivating story has a pleasant setting. It's one thing to imagine a world, it's entirely another to actually go there.

1. Arrakis, from Dune by Frank Herbert. It's too effing hot! Too much sun, too much sand, too much sweat. If the heat doesn't kill you, the sand-worms might...

2. Purgatory-Golf Course, from I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist. It's got never-ending blue skies and green grass, what's not to love? I'm just resistant to the idea of a place with no food, no water, no sun... A place where the sins of your past will haunt you until you bleed.

3. Hollywood & Church of Scientology, from Leah Remini's Troublemaker. These are two locations that actually exist in the real world... Hollywood and Scientology have a lot in common: They'll both try and take your soul and you'll feel judged for who you are and who you hang out with. Hollywood will pay you for the self-abuse and Church of Scientology will take that paycheck to cover the costs of staffing abusers.

4. The Stillness, from The Broken Earth trilogy by NK Jemisin. With my luck, I'd trip and fall into a volcanic fissure.

5. What's left of USA, in The Passage by Justin Cronin. Where everyone you know, and yourself, will likely be ripped to shreds in the night.

6. Utgard from Zodiac Station by Tom Harper. It's too cold, too wet, and a poorly executed Deus ex machina roams free.

7. The creepy world Hiron Ennes creates in Leech. Makes my skin crawl.

8. As long as we're talking creepy crawly, what about Mira Grant's sci-fi series, Parasitology? Nope. Nuh-uh. No way would I agree to hosting a tapeworm in exchange for permanent good health.

9. The Terror by Dan Simmons... And we've come back to too cold. But with a side of demon-bear, frostbite, malnutrition, cannibalism, tongue removal... It's essentially a haunted Arctic circle.

10. The North End in The City Where We Once Lived by Eric Barnes. Climate change and economic collapse have ravaged this city, left it vacant and prone to catastrophic tornadoes and floods. The people who remain in this ghost town are left troubled and alone, dealing with a government that doesn't think they're worth the effort.

What fictional world would you hate to live in?