Solar System in fiction
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The Solar System and its various bodies (planets, asteroids, moons, etc.) were the earliest objects to be treated as fictional locations in works of science fiction. Among these, imaginary voyages to and explorations of Earth's Moon are found in seventeenth century literature. By the early twentieth century, following the increase in scientific and technological development spurred by the Industrial Revolution, fictional journeys to (or from) the Solar System's other planets had become common in fiction.
With the onset of the Space Age, planetary probes cast increasing doubt on the likelihood of extraterrestrial life in the Solar System, at least life of any magnitude greater than organisms such as bacteria. More recent fiction focused on the Solar System has thus tended to address its exploration for purposes such as terraforming.
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[edit] Examples
Examples of fictional works set wholly or primarily on planets and other locations within the Solar System include:
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[edit] Comics and animation
- The Cowboy Bebop comics, animated television series and film by Hajime Yatate
- The Exosquad animated television series (see Exosquad planets)
[edit] Film, radio and television
- Space Patrol, the puppet television program.
- The Tom Corbett, Space Cadet radio and television programs.
[edit] Games
| Name | Developer |
| Space: 1889 | Game Designers' Workshop |
| GURPS Terradyne campaign | Steve Jackson Games |
| Jovian Chronicles | Dream Pod 9 |
| Transhuman Space | Steve Jackson Games |
| Mutant Chronicles | Target Games |
[edit] General
- The adventures of Buck Rogers in various media (comics, radio, television, movies) and the Buck Rogers XXVC game setting
[edit] Specific articles
Most of the major bodies of the Solar System have articles concerning their use as settings for fiction:
- Planetary satellites
- Moon (Luna) · Mars' moons · Jupiter's moons · Saturn's moons (Titan)
- Other bodies
- Asteroids (Ceres) · Outer planets · Pluto · Comets
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| Solar System | Mercury · Venus · Earth (Moon) · Mars (moons) · Jupiter (moons) · Saturn (Titan • other moons) · Uranus · Neptune Ceres · Asteroids · Pluto · Outer planets · Comets |
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| Other systems | Aldebaran · Alpha Centauri · Altair · Betelgeuse · Deneb · Epsilon Eridani · Rigel · Sirius · Tau Ceti · Vega · Nebulae · Galaxies | |
