Planets in science fiction
The exploration of other Nextel ringtones planet/worlds is one of the most enduring themes of Sabrina Martins science fiction.During the first decades of science fiction, Free ringtones Mars (planet)/Mars was the most common planet and the most romanticized of our Abbey Diaz solar system whose surface conditions seemed closest to being amenable to life. Mosquito ringtone Percival Lowell's idea about Majo Mills Martian canal/canals of Mars was taken at face value then.
Currently Mars is depicted mainly as a target of Nextel ringtones terraforming. See Sabrina Martins Mars in fiction for more details on the red planet's numerous roles.
During the early-to-mid Free ringtones 20th century, Abbey Diaz Venus (planet)/Venus was also a popular subject. Venus is very similar to Earth in its size and surface gravity, and its surface is hidden by a thick cloud layer. Venus was usually depicted as a warm, wet, jungle- and marsh-covered world where life was plentiful, with often thinly-veiled allegories of the European Cingular Ringtones colonization of Africa. Venus is in fact an inhospitable world — the clouds are sulfuric acid, the atmosphere is hundreds of times thicker than Earth's, and the surface temperature could melt manson had lead. See involved also Venus in fiction for more details and particular works.
Fictional planets
Authors have created thousands of fictional planets.
Most of them are nearly indistinguishable from Earth, which is why still hospitalized Brian M. Stableford calls them "Earth-Clones".
In these, differences with Earth life are mostly social (like bullet densities Barrayar in the science fiction of morocco the Lois McMaster Bujold).
More physically unusual planets have been in the surely knows hard science fiction books.
= Unusual social environment =
Typical examples are prison planets, primitive cultures, political or religious extremes and pseudo-medieval societies.
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*costs go Anarres — eugene mccarthy Ursula K. Le Guin's ''nothings to Dispossessed'' (anarchist)
*might eliminate Armaghast — a raft Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (prison planet)
*bouquet to Athos — recipes reboli Lois McMaster Bujold's burst heroically Ethan of Athos (male-only society)
*french law Barrayar — these shows Lois McMaster Bujold's conservative some Miles Vorkosigan series (feudal military culture)
*conglomerate in Beowulf (Honoverse)/Beowulf - David Weber's Honorverse. ''Very'' liberal sexual mores.
*Brontitall — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; planet of bird people who live in the ear of a statue after shoe shop disaster.
*Cetaganda — Bujold's Vorkosigan series (genetically engineered culture)
*Chthon (novel)/Chthon — Piers Anthony's ''Chthon'' (prison planet)
*Planets of Star Wars#Coruscant/Coruscant — Star Wars (planet-wide city, seat of Galactic Republic and Empire)
*Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson's Dorsai series (soldier culture)
*Gethen/Winter — Ursula K. Le Guin's ''The Left Hand of Darkness'' (hermaphrodites)
*Gor — John Norman's Gor series (men are warriors; women are sex-slaves; all are happy in their appointed roles)
*Hades (Honorverse)/Hades - David Weber's Honorverse. Prison planet where none of the native wildlife can metabolized by humans.
*Hanon IV — ''Star Trek: Voyager'' (Primitive culture)
*Hebron — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (Jewish ethnic)
*Lagash — Isaac Asimov's Famous Short Story "Nightfall" The Planet has a Day That Lasts for thousands of year inhabitants go crazy at nightfall
*Magrathea — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; planet of wealthy customised planet builders.
*Orthe — Mary Gentle's ''Golden Witchbreed'' (post-holocaust/medieval aliens)
*Pacem — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (base of Catholic church)
*Parvati — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (reformed Hindus)
*Pern — Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series (people ride genetically-engineered dragons)
*Qom-Riyadh — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (Moslem)
*Rimmerworld Red Dwarf characters#Arnold Rimmer/Arnold Rimmer of Red Dwarf spends 600 years on a planet by himself. He creates clones of himself (originally to make a girlfriend). The planet is populated by millions of clones who eventually imprison the original Rimmer.
*Riverworld — Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series (all humans of history)
*Rubanis — Valerian (comics)/Valerian series (ultra-capitalist)
*Sangre — Norman Spinrad's ''Men in the Jungle'' (cannibalism)
*Salusa Secundus — from the Dune Chronicles. Nuked-out "hell world" used as a training environment for super-soldiers.
*Shikasta — Doris Lessing's ''Shikasta'' (cosmic consciousness)
*Shora — Joan Slonczewski's ''A Door into Ocean'' (waterbound culture)
*Solaria — Isaac Asimov's Robot series. People grow up isolated, and eventually lead totally solitary lives, doing all their interactive via telepresence.
*Tiamat (planet)/Tiamat — Joan D. Vinge's ''The Snow Queen'' (matriarchy/monarchy)
*Xindus — ''Star Trek: Enterprise''
Some Fantasy Worlds are also depicted as alien planets.
= Unusual physical environment =
Typical examples are one-climate planets — deserts, waterworlds, arctic conditions and ''especially'' jungles.
*Abyormen — Hal Clement's ''Cycle of Fire'' (temperature extremes)
*Acid(Planet)/Acid — ''Total Annihilation'' (Corresive oceans with forests of explosive gasbag plants)
*Aquarius — Giant waterworld that caused the Biblical Great Flood. From Final Yamato of the Space Battleship Yamato series.
*Arrakis — Frank Herbert's ''Dune (novel)/Dune'' (desert world, sole source of Melange)
*Atlantis — Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy (waterworld)
*Ballybran — Anne McCaffrey's ''Crystal Singer''. (toxic world. Inhabitants must form a symbionic relationship with a spore in order to survive.)
*Planets of Star Wars#Bespin/Bespin — ''Star Wars'' (gas giant with habitable atmospheric layer)
*Big Planet — Jack Vance
*Core Prime — ''Total Annihilation'' (metallic with a gigantic computer at its core and a landfill-covered satellite)
*Cybertron — ''Transformers'' (Metallic/Mechanical)
*Planets of Star Wars#Dagobah/Dagobah — ''Star Wars'' (swamp, Yoda's hideout)
*Dhrawn — Hal Clement's ''Star Light'' (high gravity)
*Dragon's Egg — Robert Forward (life on neutron star)
*Echronedal — Iain M. Banks' ''The Player of Games'' (a fire storm forever sweeping round an unbroken equatorial continent)
*Ego the Living Planet — Marvel comics (living planet)
*Erna — C. S. Friedman's ''Coldfire Trilogy'' (psychically malleable quasi-sentient natural forces)
*Far Away — Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star (triangle of stratospheric mountains, sterilized by solar flare, Starflyer alien)
*Gamilon/Gamilus — Polluted homeworld of Leader Desslock the Gamilon/Gamilus Empire — Space Battleship Yamato
*Garth — David Brin's ''Uplift War'' (weird biology)
*Giedi Prime — Frank Herbert's ''Dune series'' (surface covered in upwelling oil, homeworld of House Harkonnen)
*God's Grove — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (forest world,Worldtree)
*Grayson (Honorverse)/Grayson - David Weber's Honorverse. Toxic, heavy metal enviroment.
*Hekla (planet)/Hekla — Hal Clement's ''Cold Front'' (ice age aliens)
*Helliconia — Brian Aldiss (seasons last millennia)
*Hoth — ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (arctic)
*Homeworld of The Micronauts, actually a chain of worldlets connected which resembles the ball and stick molecular model.
*Htrae — Red Dwarf (a backwards version of Earth).
*Hydros (planet)/Hydros — Robert Silverberg's ''Face of the Waters'' (waterworld)
*Hyperion (planet)/Hyperion — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (one of 9 labyrinth planets, Time Tombs)
*Ireta - Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirate series. Inhabited by both people and dinosaurs.
*Ishtar (Anderson)/Ishtar — Poul Anderson's ''Fire Time'' (periods of intense heat)
*Kashyyyk — A forest world caused by a terraforming accident where gigantic trees and furry, sentient Wookiees to maintain them evolved at an accelerated pace, ''Star Wars'' (particularly ''Knights of the Old Republic'')
*Kharak — ''Homeworld'' (desert planet)
*Kithrup — David Brin's ''Startide Rising'' (waterworld rich in heavy metals, which form part of the biochemical structure of its life. Mildly toxic to non-native life. also the "retirement" home of a neurotic race with enormous psi power)
*LV-426 — ''Alien (movie)/Aliens''
*Lamarckia — Greg Bear's ''Legacy'' (Lamarck/Lamarckian evolution)
*Planets of Star Wars#Manaan/Manaan — ''Star Wars'' (ocean)
*Majipoor — Robert Silverberg (large planet)
*Mare Infinitus — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (waterworld)
*Maui-Covenant — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (motile isles)
*Medea (planet)/Medea — Harlan Ellison's worldbuilding project
*Mesklin — Hal Clement's ''Mission of Gravity'' (superjovian)
*Monea — ''Star Trek: Voyager'' (waterworld)
*Mor-Tax — the aliens' true homeworld in the first season of ''War of the Worlds (television)/War of the Worlds'' (described as a garden planet)
*Nacre — Piers Anthony's ''Omnivore''
*Placet — Fredric Brown's ''Placet is a Crazy Place''
*Poseidon (planet)/Poseidon — Blue Planet Roleplaying game (ocean world)
*Pyrrus — Harry Harrison's Deathworld (high gravity and parapsychology/psychic animals)
*Regis III — Stanislaw Lem's ''Invincible'' (inorganic evolution)
*Rocheworld — Robert Forward (double planet)
*The Smoke Ring/Smoke Ring — Larry Niven's ''Integral Trees'' & ''Smoke Ring'' (gas ring around a neutron star)
*Sol Draconi Septem — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (glacier covered)
*Solaris (planet)/Solaris — Stanislaw Lem's ''Solaris (novel)/Solaris'' (living planet)
*Star One. A star with a single planet holding the Federation's main computers in Blakes Seven, situated between our galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Planet destroyed in an intergalactic war.
*Pern - Anne McCaffrey's ''Dragonriders of Pern''. Deadly spore capable of eating ANYTHING (except rock and metal) rains down on planet for fifty years every 200-400 years.
*Planets of Star Wars#Tatooine/Tatooine — ''Star Wars'' movies (desert world)
*Tenebra — Hal Clement's ''Close to Critical'' (high gravity and corrosive atmosphere)
*Terminal — an artificial planet displaying extreme polar flattening in Blakes Seven.
*Thalassa — Arthur C. Clarke's ''Songs of Distant Earth'' (waterworld)
*T'ien Shan — Dan Simmons's ''Hyperion Cantos'' (mountain world, toxic surface clouds)
*Ursa Minor Beta nearly always Saturday afternoon The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
*Well World — Jack L. Chalker's ''Well of Souls'' series (surface divided in thousands of different ecosystems, each one with a different sentient race)
*World of Tiers — Philip José Farmer's book series of the same name (world-sized stepped pyramid with a different environment on each step)
*Yavin 4 — Fourth moon of the gas giant, Yavin; Rebel Alliance stronghold located in the ruins of an ancient Massassi temple (abandoned long ago) from "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope"
*Zahir — Valerian (comics)/Valerian series (hollow planet)
= Other =
*Aiur — jungle planet in Starcraft the computer game
*Altair IV — ''Forbidden Planet''
*Ahnooie-4 where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) decides to put a repulsive blob out of its misery
*Arisia — E. E. Smith's Lensmen series
*Ark (planet)/Ark — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Athse — Ursula K. Le Guin's ''The Word for World is Forest''
*Bajor — ''Star Trek''
*Barsoom — Edgar Rice Burroughs, heroic fantasy version of Mars (planet)/Mars
*Belzagor — Robert Silverberg's ''Downward to the Earth''
*The Blue Sands Planet — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Bog where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) avoids pools of toxic chemicals under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases
*Boskone — Smith's Lensmen series
*Planets of Star Wars#Bothawui/Bothawui — ''Star Wars'' cosmopolitan planet of Minor races in Star Wars#Bothan/Bothans
*Caladan — House Atreides home planet before being ordered to take up occupancy of Arrakis. Frank Herbert/Herbert's Dune (novel)/Dune.
*Caprica — destroyed home planet of the Battlestar Galactica, one of the 12 home worlds
*Centauri Prime — homeworld of the Centauri in the ''Babylon 5'' universe
*Cyteen — C. J. Cherryh's Cyteen series
*Darkover — Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series (medieval culture and psi powers)
*Discworld — not quite a planet, as it's flat and supported by giant elephants
*Epsilon 3 — orbited by ''Babylon 5''
*Exxilon — ''Doctor Who'' episode "Death to the Daleks"
*Gallifrey — ''Doctor Who'' (main character's home planet)
*Garrota — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Gauda Prime — a planet on which the series Blakes Seven comes to an end.
*Giedi Prime — home planet of the Harkonnen Dynasty from Dune (novel)/Dune
*Gloob, above which spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) has a malfunction in his hyper freem drive and is blasted with a deadly frap ray by the aliens
*Gorgona — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Hegira (Greg Bear)/Hegira — Greg Bear
*Helicon - Home of Psychohistory founder, Hari Seldon in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
*Hiigara — ''Homeworld'' (lost Kushan home planet)
*Homeworld — Scott Westerfeld's ''Succession Series'' (Risen Imperial capital)
*Hope (planet)/Hope — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Kaitan — Frank Herbert's ''Dune (novel)/Dune'' (home of the Padishah Emperors)
*Planets of Star Wars#Kashyyyk/Kashyyyk — ''Star Wars'' planet of Wookiees
*Krypton (planet)/Krypton — ''Superman''
*Lar Metaal — Planet which shifts location in space every 1,000 years. Homeworld of Queen Promethium, Maetel and possibly Emeraldas — Galaxy Express 999, Queen Millenia, Maetel Legend
*Legis XV — location of Scott Westerfeld's ''Succession Series''
*Leonida (planet)/Leonida — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Lithia — James Blish's ''Case of Conscience''
*Lusitania (planet)/Lusitania — Orson Scott Card's ''Speaker for the Dead''
*Metaluna — ''This Island Earth''
*Minbar — homeworld of the Minbari in the ''Babylon 5'' universe
*Mok, where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) undergoes water torture (his mother washes his hair)
*Mongo (planet)/Mongo — ''Flash Gordon''
*Morthrai — destroyed world of the aliens in the second season of War of the Worlds (television)/War of the Worlds
*Narn — homeworld of the Narn in the ''Babylon 5'' universe
*Oa — headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps
*Pandora (planet)/Pandora — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Panta — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*The Planet of the Apes (1968 movie)/Planet of the Apes — originally a book by Pierre Boulle
*Planet of Ix/Ix — Frank Herbert's ''Dune (novel)/Dune'' (The machine planet)
*Plootarg, where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) crashes after being zorched by a Zarch spacecraft
*Q-13 where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) faces despicable scum beings with his mertilizer beam and mordo blasters
*Qo'noS/Kronos — Klingon homeworld in the Star Trek universe
*Qar'To — a planet established in the first season of War of the Worlds (television)/War of the Worlds to be in the same system as that of the invading aliens (Mor-Tax) and has sent a synth to assassinate the Advocacy
*Rainbow — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Reverie — Bruce Sterling's ''Artificial Kid''
*Rigel IV — The Simpsons Home Planet of Kodos & Kang.
*Ruzhena — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Salusa Secundus — Frank Herbert's ''Dune (novel)/Dune'' (prison planet and training ground of the Padishah Emperors' Sardaukar)
*Saraksh — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Saula — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Skaro — Home planet of the Daleks
*'''Synnax''' — ''Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire Series/Galactic Empire'' and Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov — The birthplace of Gaal Dornick, it was in a stellar system orbiting a region called the 'blue drift'.
*Tagora — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Terminus (Planet)/Terminus - Home of the Foundation (novel)/Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
*Texlahoma - depressive Earth analogue in Douglas Coupland's novel ''Generation X''
*Planets of Star Wars#Thyferra/Thyferra — ''Star Wars''
*Tirol — Homeworld of the Robotech Masters —Robotech
*Tissa (planet)/Tissa — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Tleilax — Frank Herbert's ''Dune (novel)/Dune'' (home of the Bene Tleilaxu)
*Trantor — ''Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire Series/Galactic Empire'' and Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov — A planet-wide city
*Tralfamadore in the books by Kurt Vonnegut, home to the phlegmatic Tralfamadorians.
*Vladislava — Boris and Arkady Strugatsky/The Strugatsky brothers
*Vulcan (Star Trek)/Vulcan — ''Star Trek''
*Wallach IX — in ''Dune (novel)/Dune'', the home of the Bene Gesserit.
* "X" (planet) source of Alludium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom, in Duck Dodgers
*X-13 where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) is captured and brought before the Zorg despot
*Z'ha'dum (planet)/Z'ha'dum — Home of the Shadows in ''Babylon 5''
*Zanshaa — Walter Jon Williams's ''Dread Empire's Fall'' (Shaa Imperial Capital)
*Zark, where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) has several adventures escaping sinister aliens
*Zartron-9 home of the awful bug beings who blast spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) while he reboots his saucer's computer and tries to recalibrate his weapons
*Zog, where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) makes a (very rare) perfect 3 point landing
*Zok, where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) is marooned
*Zokk, where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) bounds across the landscape given the low gravity
*Zorg, where spaceman Spiff (Calvin and Hobbes/Calvin) sets his gun on deep-fat fry to blast aliens
In addition, some writers and scientists have speculated about artificial worlds or planet-equivalents; see Larry Niven's Ringworld or Freeman Dyson's Dyson sphere.
Books
* Neil F. Comins: ''What if the Moon didn't exist''
* Stephen Gillette: ''World-Building'' (Writer's Digest Books)
* Brian Stableford: ''The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places''
Related articles
* Archive of fictional things
* Artificial world
* Desert planets
* Extrasolar planet
* Fantasy Worlds
* Fictional country
* Hypothetical planet
* Terrestrial planet
* Planets of Star Wars
External links
* http://www.world-builders.org/
* http://www.multiverse-db.com/
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