| rdfs:comment | - As a member of the Fiction 500, you own an awesomely cool car, boat, plane, and a garage to keep them in, but where do you get your mail delivered? Where do you hang out when not on amazing adventures? A Big Fancy House? No, too normal. It must be a Cool House. To be a Cool House, the standard suburban mansion or Big Fancy House just doesn't cut it. The Cool House is Wish Fulfillment in real estate form. It might look like an ordinary home or something that wouldn't normally be used as a house, but in either case the briefest of tours of its features will reveal that it is no ordinary home.
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| abstract | - As a member of the Fiction 500, you own an awesomely cool car, boat, plane, and a garage to keep them in, but where do you get your mail delivered? Where do you hang out when not on amazing adventures? A Big Fancy House? No, too normal. It must be a Cool House. To be a Cool House, the standard suburban mansion or Big Fancy House just doesn't cut it. The Cool House is Wish Fulfillment in real estate form. It might look like an ordinary home or something that wouldn't normally be used as a house, but in either case the briefest of tours of its features will reveal that it is no ordinary home. To qualify for Cool House status a dwelling should be sufficiently unique that any "normal" person aware of its full capabilities would be either in awe, concerned about the owner or designer's sanity, or concerned lest the house fall into the wrong hands. Thankfully Cool Houses are often protected by a Weirdness Censor. In addition, it should have at least several of the following: 1.
* Features that no sane, mundane person would expect to have in their home.
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* A security system better than most banks.
* The basement is actually an Elaborate Underground Base.
* Secret passages, fireman poles, concealed helipad.
* An architectural style that may make the home unique in the world.
* Home theater that actually looks like a small public movie theater, complete with ticket counter.
* Phone booth, bowling alley, indoor swimming pool/hot tub, "unusual" art, an astronomical observatory with rotating dome, etc.
* The house is the only Big Fancy House in a Stepford Suburbia city. 1.
* A feature that no mundane person would be ABLE to have in their home.
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* Alien tech.
* Magic portals.
* An object that is unique in the world, illegal for others to own, etc.
* A physical Weirdness Censor.
* Surrounded by a yard with grass, trees, pool, etc., in a location where construction or normal survival would be impossible, for example, at the north pole, inside a volcano, on top of Mount Everest, etc.
* Sentience. Not to be confused with a popular television doctor. Examples, from least cool to coolest:
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