Planets in science fiction

The portrayal of other planets in science fiction is a recurring theme in science fiction.

During the first decades of science fiction, Mars was the most common planet and the most romanticized of our solar system whose surface conditions seemed closest to being amenable to life. Percival Lowell's idea about Martian canals was taken at face value then. Currently Mars is depicted mainly as a target of terraforming. See Mars in fiction for more details on the red planet's numerous roles.

During the early-to-mid 20th century, 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 colonization of Africa. Venus is in fact an inhospitable world—the clouds are sulfuric acid, the atmosphere is 90 times thicker than Earth's, and the surface temperature could melt lead. See Venus in fiction for more details and particular works.

Contents 1 Fictional planets 1.1 Unusual social environment 1.2 Unusual physical environment 1.3 Living/sentient planets 1.4 Other 1.4.1 A 1.4.2 B 1.4.3 C 1.4.4 D 1.4.5 E 1.4.6 F 1.4.7 G 1.4.8 H 1.4.9 J 1.4.10 K 1.4.11 L 1.4.12 M 1.4.13 N 1.4.14 O 1.4.15 P 1.4.16 Q 1.4.17 R 1.4.18 S 1.4.19 T 1.4.20 V 1.4.21 W 1.4.22 X 1.4.23 Y 1.4.24 Z 2 Books 3 See also 4 External links

Fictional planets

Authors have created thousands of fictional planets. Most of them are nearly indistinguishable from Earth, which is why Brian M. Stableford calls them "Earth-Clones". In these, differences with Earth life are mostly social (like Barrayar in the science fiction of Lois McMaster Bujold). More physically unusual planets have been depicted in hard science fiction books. For the Star Trek universe, a detailed planetary classification system has been devised.

Unusual social environment

Typical examples are prison planets, primitive cultures, political or religious extremes and pseudo-medieval societies.

See: Utopia, Dystopia.

• Aka — Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling (hyper scientific advancement)
• Anarres — Ursula K. Le Guin's Dispossessed (anarchist)
• Armaghast — Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos (prison planet)
• Athos — Lois McMaster Bujold's Ethan of Athos (male-only society)
• Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series (feudal military culture)
• 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 — Piers Anthony's Chthon (prison planet)
• Coruscant — The Star Wars films (planet-wide city, seat of Galactic Republic and Empire)
• Crete — Freelancer
• Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson's Dorsai series (soldier culture)
• Gauda Prime — Appears in the last episode of Blake's 7, being where one of the characters originates, and where the series' eponymous character is residing. A planet overrun with bounty hunters and the scum of the galaxy - but some of whose inhabitants wish to return it to normality (and the Federation).
• Gethen/Winter — Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness (hermaphrodites)
• Gork
• Gor — John Norman's Gor series (men are warriors; women are often sex-slaves; all are generally happy in their appointed roles)
• Hades — David Weber's Honorverse. Prison planet where none of the native wildlife can be metabolized by humans.
• Hain — Central planet in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish series.
• Hebron — Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos (Jewish ethnic)
• Houston — Freelancer
• Irk (Invader Zim)
• Leeds — Freelancer, a heavily polluted planet.
• Magrathea — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (planet of wealthy customised planet builders)
• Mejerr — Vandread (female-only society)
• Miranda — Serenity (site where Alliance accidentally spawned the Reavers)
• Nark A charlie planet
• Omega — Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization (a prison planet)
• 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 — Arnold Rimmer of Red Dwarf spends 600 years alone on this planet, creating clones of himself in a failed attempt to create a girlfriend. The planet is eventually populated by millions of clones who imprison the original Rimmer.
• Riverworld — Philip José Farmer's Riverworld series (all humans in history reincarnated along a spiral river)
• Rubanis — Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent 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.
• Shaggai - From Ramsey Campbell's "Insects from Shaggai". Now-destroyed planet of fanatical sadists.
• 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, interacting only via telepresence.
• Talark — Vandread (male-only society)
• Terminus — Foundation; Isaac Asimov
• Tiamat — Joan D. Vinge’s The Snow Queen (matriarchy/monarchy)
• Yugopotamia — (The Fairly Oddparents)
• Xindus — Star Trek: Enterprise (six distinct sentient species)
• Zycos A charlie planet.

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—Total Annihilation (Corresive oceans with forests of explosive gasbag plants)
• Aether—Metroid Prime 2, planet with two parallel dimensions
• Aquarius—Giant waterworld that caused the Biblical Great Flood. From Final Yamato of the Space Battleship Yamato series.
• Aquas—Small waterworld in the Lylat System, setting of the video games in Nintendo's StarFox series
• Arrakis—Frank Herbert's Dune (desert world, sole source of Melange)
• Atlantis—Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy (waterworld)
• Aurelia—An attempt at theorising what a habitable planet orbiting a red dwarf star would actually be like.
• Ballybran—Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer. (toxic world. Inhabitants must form a symbiotic relationship with a spore in order to survive.)
• Baloris Prime—A planet from the PC game 'Descent II' which was mostly desert (according to the writers of the game this was because its axis of rotation was exactly perpendicular to its plane of orbit, causing a total lack of seasons on the surface of the planet.
• Bespin—Star Wars (gas giant with habitable atmospheric layer)
• Big Planet—Jack Vance
• Bimnorii in C. C. Ekeke's Star Brigade: First Renaissance (desert world)
• Chaos—Exosquad (the tenth planet of the Solar System, composed entirely of dark matter)
• Core Prime—Total Annihilation (metallic with a gigantic computer at its core and a landfill-covered satellite)
• Crematoria—The Chronicles of Riddick movie (periods of intense heat)
• Cybertron—Transformers series (Metallic/Mechanical)
• Dagobah—Star Wars (swamp, Yoda's hideout)
• Various Death Worlds in Warhammer 40,000, including Baal(highly radioactive), Catachan(extremely hostile jungle), And Fenris(Arctic)
• 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)
• Endor—the forest-moon in Return of the Jedi
• 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)
• Fortuna—Small planet in StarFox 64, it is a world similar to Hoth(Named Fichina in Star Fox Assault)
• 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—David Weber's Honorverse. Toxic, heavy metal environment.
• 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—Robert Silverberg's Face of the Waters (waterworld)
• 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—Poul Anderson's Fire Time (periods of intense heat)
• Ix—Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Prelude to Dune (The entire civilization is beneath the planet's surface)
• Jinx—Larry Niven's Known Space universe (high gravity and extreme vertical scale)
• Kamino—Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (ocean)
• Kashyyyk—Star Wars, particularly Knights of the Old Republic (forest world caused by a terraforming accident, where gigantic trees and furry, sentient Wookiees to maintain them evolved at an accelerated pace)
• Kharak—Homeworld (desert planet) destroyed by an enemy race after space travel is developed
• 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)
• Krikkit—Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything (The planet is inside a massive dark cloud)
• Lagash—Isaac Asimov's Nightfall (planet where each day lasts two thousand years)
• Lamarckia—Greg Bear's Legacy (Lamarckian evolution)
• LV-426—Aliens
• 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—Harlan Ellison's worldbuilding project
• Mesklin—Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity (superjovian)
• Monea—Star Trek: Voyager (waterworld)
• Mor-Tax—the aliens' homeworld in the first season of War of the Worlds (described as a garden planet)
• Nacre—Piers Anthony's Omnivore
• Namek and New Namek—Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball (temperate land where trees are scarce, but water and grass abondant)
• Pittsburgh—Freelancer (desert, populated with mining operations).
• Placet— Fredric Brown's Placet is a Crazy Place
• Plateau/Mt. Lookitthat—Larry Niven's Known Space universe (Venus-like with only a small high plateau habitable; colonized by mistake)
• Poseidon—Blue Planet Roleplaying game (ocean world)
• Pyrrus—Harry Harrison's Deathworld (high gravity and psychic animals)
• Regis III—Stanisław Lem's Invincible (inorganic evolution)
• Resurgam—Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe (desert with buried alien artefacts)
• Rocheworld—Robert Forward (double planet that almost touches)
• The 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—Stanisław Lem's Solaris (Mostly covered by living ocean)
• Star One - a star with a single planet holding the Federation's main computers in Blake's 7, 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.
• Tatooine—Star Wars movies (desert world)
• Tallon IV—Metroid Prime. All life on planet was horribly mutated following the crash of a toxic asteroid.
• Tenebra—Hal Clement's Close to Critical (high gravity and corrosive atmosphere)
• Terminal—an artificial planet displaying extreme polar flattening in Blake's 7.
• Thalassa—Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth (waterworld)
• T'ien Shan—Dan Simmons's Hyperion Cantos (mountain world, toxic surface clouds)
• Tycho Brahe—From Descent II, a spaceship the size and shape of a planet, mistaken for one until its two hemispheres actually separated to reveal a mechanical interior (metallic/mechanical)
• Ursa Minor Beta nearly always Saturday afternoon The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Venom—Largest and closest orbiting planet of the Lylat System, setting of the games in Nintendo's StarFox series, bearing an extremely toxic atmosphere and therefore a highly desolate surface. In some versions of the backstory, Venom was previously called Edena because it was supposedly covered almost entirely with forest, possibly evergreen, before Andross was exiled there, suggesting it may have also been a prison planet.
• Vladislava—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe (extremely turbulent atmosphere)
• 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
• Yellowstone—Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe, the site of Chasm City and Glitter Band habitats
• Zahir—Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent series (hollow planet)
• Zeelich, a planet in Little Big Adventure 2. It is covered by a thick layer of gas clouds and beneath lies a sea of lava. Vegetation and civilisation is recurrent only on mountains above the cloud layer.
• Zeid in C. C. Ekeke's Star Brigade: First Renaissance (gas giant with habitable atmosphere pockets)
• Zyrgon, an icebound planet in "Halfway across the galaxy and turn left"
• Zoness—A planet that once was nearly all tropical in its climate, and home to many island resorts in StarFox's Lylat System, the whole planet was turned into a toxic waste dump by the forces of Andross according to the storyline of StarFox 64, turning its once beautiful oceans into seas of corrosive poison and its atmosphere into a caustic cloud of deadly vapors.

Living/sentient planets

• Ego the Living Planet from Marvel Comics
• Eylor, from Rifts, a living world said to be the source of the magical Eyes of Eylor, living disembodied eyes of great power.
• Gaea, a sentient artificial space habitat, from the Gaea Trilogy (Titan, Wizard & Daemon) by John Varley.
• Mogo, from the Green Lantern Corps comic books, is not only alive, but also an appointed member of the corps.
• Pandarve, from the Storm comic books, is not only alive, but also has the status of a goddess
• Petaybee, from the Petaybee Series (Powers series) by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Scarborough
• Wormwood, from Rifts
• Zonama Sekot living world from the Star Wars expanded universe.
• Unicron from the Transformers universe.

Other

A

• Acheron—aka LV-426 the planet on which the derelict ship and its deadly cargo are found in the movies Alien and Aliens
• Aiur—jungle planet in Starcraft the computer game
• Altair IV—Forbidden Planet formerly inhabited by mysteriously extinct race
• Ahnooie-4 where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) decides to put a repulsive blob out of its misery
• Arisia—E. E. Smith's Lensmen series
• Ark—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Arlia—Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z
• Astra—A Marvel Universe planet where humanoid aliens possess magnetic and molecule-controlling powers that enable them to have every power on metal
• Athse—Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest

B

• Bajor—Star Trek
• Barsoom—Edgar Rice Burroughs, heroic fantasy version of Mars
• Belzagor—Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth and into Conrad's Heart of Darkness
• Bismol—Home world of Tensil Kem, a.k.a. Matter-Eater Lad of the Legion of Super-Heroes (Pre-Crisis) DC Universe. Everyone on Bismol has the power to digest anything.
• The Blue Sands Planet—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
• Bog—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) avoids pools of toxic chemicals under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases
• Botany—an Earth-like world portrayed in Anne McCaffrey's Freedom series.
• Boskone—Smith's Lensmen series
• Braal—Home world of Rokk Krin a.k.a. Cosmic Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes.(Pre and Post Crisis) DC Universe. Everyone on the planet has magnetic powers.
• Bothawui—Star Wars cosmopolitan planet of Bothans

C

• Caladan—House Atreides home planet before being ordered to take up occupancy of Arrakis. Frank Herbert's Dune.
• Calafia—Water world in David Brin's Uplift universe, inhabited by humans and neo-dolphins. Currently occupied by the Soro.
• Caprica—destroyed home planet of the Battlestar Galactica, one of the Twelve Colonies
• Corneria—home planet for the Fox Team in the Star Fox video game series
• Covenant—Scottish-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. Known for its mercenaries specializing in infantry.
• Centauri Prime—homeworld of the Centauri in the Babylon 5 universe
• Churchill—English-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
• Cyteen—C. J. Cherryh's Cyteen series

D

• Darkover—Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series (medieval culture and psi powers)
• Daxam—Native of Daxam are not unlike those of Krypton, they too circle a red gas giant, one notable inhabitant is Lar Gand a.k.a. Mon-El(Pre-Crisis) and Valor(Post-Crisis)who is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the far distant future. Lar has the same powers as Superman under the yellow sun, and the element lead is deadly to him, as Kryptonite is deadly to Superman. DC Universe.
• The Discworld—not quite a planet, as it's flat and supported by giant elephants
• Dosadi—- The setting for Frank Herbert's novel The Dosadi Experiment.
• Deemi—World in David Brin's Uplift Universe leased to humans on the condition that they run the Galactic prison. Bathed in UV radiation. Most of biosphere is aquatic.
• Dragon World—the Earth from the anime Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dr. Slump, and Neko Majin Z.
• Dayan or Dyan—Israeli-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
• Dryad—Is a planet inhabited by a race of sentinent silicone creatures that resemble the shape of humans. Dryad is the home world of Blok a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the far distant future. DC Universe.

E

• Epsilon 3—orbited by Babylon 5
• Expel—where much of the action of Star Ocean: The Second Story occurs
• Exxilon—Doctor Who serial Death to the Daleks

F

• Fortuna—Planet of the Star Fox video game series; the "dinosaur planet".
• Freeza Planet 79—Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z
• Friedland—German-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. Known for its mercenaries specializing in armored warfare.
• Frystaat—Afrikaaner-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.

G

• Gallifrey—Home planet of The Doctor and his race, the Time Lords, from Doctor Who.
• Garrota—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Garissa—Planet in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy that is anti-matter bombed and rendered uninhabitable.
• Gauda Prime—a planet on which the series Blake's 7 comes to an end.
• Giedi Prime—home planet of the Harkonnen Dynasty from Dune
• Giganda—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Gloob—above which Spaceman Spiff, Calvin from the comic (Calvin and Hobbes), 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 Great Kai Planet—Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z

H

• Harvest—a farm planet in the video game series Halo
• 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—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe

J

• Jean—colony planet in the Freefall comic
• Jijo—Planet in Galaxy #4 where Humans and other sophont refugees have illegally hidden, in the case of the G'kek and the Humans to avoid extermination, potential for humanity, certain for G'kek.
• Jobis—A Kiint world with three artificial moons from Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy.
• Jophekka—In David Brin's Uplift Universe, the homeworld of the Jophur, sapient and ambitious sap ring stacks.
• Jurai—The seat of the powerful Juraian Empire in the anime Tenchi Muyo.

K

• Kaitain—Frank Herbert's Dune (home of the Padishah Emperors)
• Kanassa—Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z
• Koosebane—weird planet in The Muppet Show
• Kosmos—A planet in the Marvel Universe from which a criminal sludge-like alien escapes to hide on Earth where he kills The Wasp's father and fights Ant-Man
• Klendathu—bugs homeplanet in Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers
• Krelar- Second homeworld of the (Blue Skinned) Kree Race. Marvel Comics Creation. Home world of "Captain Mar-Vel," "Colonel Yonn-Rog," "Captain Atlas," and "Una."
• Krypton—Superman

L

• 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
• Manhattan, London, Tokyo and Berlin—Freelancer. Most places in this game are named after Earth places, such as the planet Stuttgart, the New York system, or the Detroit asteroid field.
• Leonida—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Lithia—James Blish's Case of Conscience
• Londinum—Co-capital world (Anglo-American) of the Alliance in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe.
• Lusitania—Orson Scott Card's Speaker for the Dead

M

• MacBeth—planet from the Star Fox video game series
• Meiji—Japanese-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
• Metaluna—This Island Earth
• Minbar (planet)—homeworld of the Minbari in the Babylon 5 universe
• Mok, where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) undergoes water torture (his mother washes his hair)
• Mondas—home planet of the Cybermen from Doctor Who.
• Mongo—Flash Gordon
• Morthrai—destroyed world of the aliens in the second season of War of the Worlds
• Mote Prime—The Mote in Murcheson's Eye, homeworld of the Motie race, mutant non-symetric semi-vertebrates who have been locked in ten thousand year cycles of chaos due to being trapped in one star system and their reproductive drives. Appear in the Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
• Mustafar:Star Wars

N

• Narn—homeworld of the Narn in the Babylon 5 universe
• New Chicago—World in revolt from the 2nd Empire of Man at the beginning of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye
• New Mecca—The Chronicles of Riddick movie
• New Terra—In the computer game Outpost_2, New Terra is the world chosen by humanity as it's last hope for survival, colonized by the last survivors of Earth in starship Conestoga.
• Nihil, Latin word for 'nothing', additional planet of Earth's solar system in the novel Beyond the Spectrum. Due to a flaw in space, the planet is invisible except at close range, although it can see most of the other planets. The inhabitants attempt to conquer Earth during the 30th century.
• Norfolk—British-ethnic world in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Known for Norfolk Tears, a highly-prized spirit distilled from the secretions of a flower native to the world and dependent on the star systems binary nature.
• Nova Kong—Capital world of the Kingdom of Kulu in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Ruled by the Saldana family.
• Nuliajuk—Inuit/Eskimo-ethnic world of Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
• Nyvan—First planet colonized by humanity in Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn Trilogy. Considered backwards and stunted due to its not being unified into one nation.

O

• Oa—headquarters of the Green Lantern Corps
• Omnivarium—World in David Brin's Uplift Universe. Inhabited by birds that mimic any sound, a fact discovered when the birds started mimicking the sounds of explorers performing coitus.
• Optera—homeworld of the Invid Robotech
• Ork—homeworld of the humanoid alien Mork in the television situation comedy Mork & Mindy.

P

• Palshife—capital of the Rebellion in the computer game Escape Velocity
• Pandora—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Pant—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• The Planet of the Apes—originally a book by Pierre Boulle
• Ix—Frank Herbert's Dune (The machine planet)
• Plootarg—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) crashes after being zorched by a Zarch spacecraft

Q

• Q-13—where Spaceman Spiff (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 to be in the same system as that of the invading aliens (Mor-Tax) and has sent a synth to assassinate the Advocacy

R

• Rainbow—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Roak—where the action of Star Ocean occurs
• Raxicoricofallapatorius—the planet from which the criminal Slitheen family originate in Doctor Who, if any Slitheen family members return there they will face execution.
• Reach—a military stronghold planet in the video game series Halo, in the Epsilon Eridani system
• Remulak, home planet of the Coneheads
• Remus—Twin planet of Romulus inhabited by Remans in the Star Trek universe.
• Reverie—Bruce Sterling's Artificial Kid
• Rigel IV—The Simpsons Home Planet of Kodos & Kang.
• Romulus—Planet of the Romulans, an enemy of the Federation in the Star Trek universe.
• Ruzhena—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe

S

• Sagan—from the novel The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
• Salusa Secundus—Frank Herbert's Dune (prison planet and training ground of the Padishah Emperors' Sardaukar)
• Sanctuary—Terran Colony world in the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers
• Saraksh—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Saula—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Sauron—Homeworld of the Sauron Supermen in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. Known for high metal content and its denizens belief that war was the ultimate expression of humankind. Started the Secession Wars that ended the First Empire of Man.
• Shadow—Homeworld of Malcolm Reynold's in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe.
• Sigma Octanus IV—a colony planet in the Halo series, significant because the Halo's "coordinates" were discovered there
• Sinnon—Co-capital (Chinese) of the Alliance in Joss Whedon's Firefly universe.
• Skaro—Home planet of the Daleks from Doctor Who.
• Sky's Edge—Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe (Earth-like planet in a perpetual state of war between settler families)
• Smade's Planet—Visited by Kirth Gersen in the Demon Princes novels by Jack Vance; known for Smade's Tavern.
• Sparta—Capital world of the First and Second Empires of Man in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History, originally called Botany Bay. Generally North American in population.
• St. Ekaterina—Russian-ethnic world in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History. First planet attacked by the Sauron Supermen in the Secession Wars.
• Synnax—Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire Series and Foundation Series—The birthplace of Gaal Dornick, it was in a stellar system orbiting a region called the 'blue drift'.

T

• Tagora—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Tanith—Homeworld of the Gaunt's Ghosts regiment the Tanith First and Only. Several novels chronicling the regiment are written by Dan Abnett and are set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
• Tanith—A jungle planet known for the drug borloi in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium Future History.
• Tanith—In David Brin's Uplift trilogies Tanith is the location of the nearest full Galactic Library branch near Terra.
• Terminal—planet in the series Blake's 7. In the toponymous episode it is a bizarrely flattened planet that had been constructed several centuries before in the Solar System and moved, supposedly destroyed: in the next episode it reverted to a more conventional shape.
• Terminus—Home of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
• Texlahoma—depressive Earth analogue in Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X
• Thyferra—Star Wars
• Timbl—Home planet of the Frants in Greg Bear's Eon series
• Tirol—Homeworld of the Robotech Masters—Robotech
• Tissa—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe
• Titan Planet of the Elders (Alien Race) Inhabited by: Mentor, Eros(Star Fox) and Pip the Troll in the Marvel Universe. It is not know if this is the same planet(moon) that circles the Planet Saturn in the Milky Way Galaxy, Sol System. In the future about a thousand years, a great hero will be born there. Imra Ardeen of Titan, better known as "Saturn Girl" of the "Legion of Super-Heroes," in the DC Comics Universe.
• Titania—planet of the Star Fox video game series, notable for a thick atmosphere.
• Tleilax—Frank Herbert's Dune (home of the Bene Tleilaxu)
• Traal -- home of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Trantor—Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire Series and Foundation Series—A planet-wide city
• Tralfamadore—in the books by Kurt Vonnegut, home to the phlegmatic Tralfamadorians.
• Twinsun—from the Little Big Adventure games, a planet lit by two suns (which are fixated). It has three climates: the poles are hot and desertic, the equator is cold and artic (in opposite to planet Earth), and between them lie temperate lands.

V

• Planet Vegeta and New Vegeta—Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball Z
• Venom—Home of the evil Dr. Andross in the Star Fox video game series.
• Vulcan—Star Trek

W

• Wallach IX—in Dune, the home of the Bene Gesserit.
• We Made It—Planet in Larry Niven's Known Space universe marked by intense winds. Inhabitants called Crashlanders, such as Beowulf Schaeffer from Neutron Star.
• Wegthor is a moon that once encircled the planet Krypton, Superman's home world.

X

• "X" (planet) source of Alludium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom, in Duck Dodgers
• X-13—where Spaceman Spiff (Calvin) is captured and brought before the Zorg despot
• Xenon—Roger Wilco's home world in the Space Quest computer game series.

Y

• Yayla—Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Noon Universe

Z

• 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) has several adventures escaping sinister aliens
• Zartron-9—home of the awful bug beings who blast Spaceman Spiff while he reboots his saucer's computer and tries to recalibrate his weapons
• Zog—where Spaceman Spiff makes a (very rare) perfect 3 point landing
• Zok—where Spaceman Spiff is marooned
• Zokk—where Spaceman Spiff bounds across the landscape given the low gravity
• Zorg—where Spaceman Spiff sets his gun on deep-fat fry to blast aliens
• Zebes-Planet in Nintendo's Metroid universe

In addition, some writers, scientists and artists have speculated about artificial worlds or planet-equivalents; see Larry Niven's Ringworld, Freeman Dyson's Dyson sphere or Christian Waldvogel's Globus Cassus.

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

See also

• Category:Fictional planets
• Archive of fictional things
• Artificial world
• Castul scale
• Desert planet
• Earth in fiction
• Extrasolar planet
• Globus Cassus
• Fantasy world
• Fictional country
• Hypothetical planet
• Mars in fiction
• Planetary habitability
• Terrestrial planet
• Venus in fiction

External links

• Worldbuilding Class
• The Multiverse Databaseit:Pianeti immaginari

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