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Thought of another - Fury (1947) by Henry Kuttner - the cities are underwater on Venus, since the Earth is somewhat destroyed, but you didn't say they had to be on Earth.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582105.Fury

Another story involving long-lived city dwellers and a harrowing escape. A theme within a theme? Off-Earth is fine.

The Lazarus Effect by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom.

Acceptable. That brings us to three, I believe. I reckon this will be a short round.

Stargate: Atlantis would be another.

I'm of two minds about Atlantis because it's really a starship that happened to be underwater or floating at one point in time, and was designed to be (and eventually is) mobile, rather than being built as an underwater or floating city.

Waterworld

In 2500[4], as a result of the sea levels rising over 7,600 metres (25,000 feet), every continent on Earth is now underwater. The remains of human civilization live on ramshackle floating communities known as atolls, having long forgotten about living on land. People believe that there is a mythological "Dryland" somewhere in the endless ocean.

OK, if we allow Atlantis (which I suppose technically qualifies, since I didn't specify the cities couldn't move), that makes five. Congratulations, spud42, you are the next lucky(?) recipient of the Ceremonial Question Fish. What question do you have for us?

ok, lets see if this takes your fancy....

the Lexx is 10,000 M in length according to a chart i have...
Name 5 ships from 5 different universes/Authors etc. that are bigger than the Lexx

no space stations, so no DS9 or Babylon5 etc... if i cant find it on my chart i will ask for supporting evidence...

good luck and your time starts... Now!

The Culture General Systems Vehicle Size Isn't Everything, from Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks - over 80km long.

sovereign, sovereign class super star destroyer 15km ( star wars )

https://www.fastcompany.com/3018546/inf ... eries-ever

https://medium.com/@brandonweigel/the-l ... 3dc9c2da3f

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-bigge ... -in-Sci-Fi (I think Mark Fergerson's answer is best)

Milo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:33 pm

https://www.fastcompany.com/3018546/inf ... eries-ever

https://medium.com/@brandonweigel/the-l ... 3dc9c2da3f
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You should've used these for answers, not publish them
Now they'll be used by others!

I thought others would find them interesting. I could have reserved the links until after this round, but people still need to choose specific ones from the lists I shared or offer others.

Those charts make this a little too easy, but I can think of a couple without looking that are bigger than the Lexx

Dahak, in David Weber's Mutineer's Moon and sequels. It's an alien starship which hid itself by the simple ruse of destroying the moon (a LONG time ago) and taking its place, with a fairly thin skin of rubble covering the hull.

"A vessel some three thousand-three-two-oh-two-point-seven-nine-five, to be precise—of your kilometers in diameter."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_from_the_Ashes

You can read Mutineer's Moon on line here:

http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200303/07 ... .htm?blurb


And V'ger from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The most CONSERVATIVE estimate of the physical ship's length is 20km, but the dialogue said 78km and some estimates make it 97km

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/V%27ger