And in the hard science fiction novels by Hal Clement (see 61 Cygni: A Mission of Gravity below) and Robert L.
For example, James Blish's A Case of Conscience (1958) is set on the planet Lithia, but it is not a planetary romance because the nature or description of this world has little bearing on the story being told. It is not enough that the story simply be set on a world. Of all these, the print medium, specifically novels and novellas, are of note because they are often planetary romances.Īny science fiction tale whose primary venue is a planet and whose plot turns on the nature of the planet can be described as a planetary romance. The multiple fictional genres that appear in the list below include films, television serials, interactive games, and print (among others).
This tendency became predominant once the exploration of the Solar System was complete enough to conclusively demonstrate the unlikelihood of any highly developed form of extraterrestrial life here, aside from humans on Earth.Īlthough some of the stars named in works of science fiction are purely imaginary, many authors and artists have preferred to use the names of real stars that are well known to astronomers, and indeed the lay public, either because they are notably bright in the sky or because they are relatively close to Earth. Authors invoked a variety of mechanisms for superluminal travel (or generation starships) and placed their stories on worlds in planetary systems around other stars, an innovation that gave them the freedom to construct exotic fictional planets and themes. Īs science fiction became established in the early 20th century, destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other bodies within the Solar System began to seem stale. One of these is found in Voltaire's Micromégas (1752), which features a traveller from Sirius. The notion that there might be inhabited extrasolar planets can be traced at least as far back as Giordano Bruno who, in his De l'infinito, universo e mondi ( On the Infinite, Universe and Worlds, 1584), declared that "There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, if not exactly as our own, and if not more nobly, at least no less inhabited and no less nobly." Allusions to inhabitants of other stars' planetary systems remained rare in literature for some centuries thereafter. Simak novel serialised in Galaxy Science Fiction Novels 3.150 Proxima Centauri (Alpha Centauri C).3.130 Markab / Markeb (Kappa Velorum/Alpha Pegasi).3.26 Alpha Coronae Borealis (Alphecca/Alphekka).3.24 Alpha Centauri (Rigil Kentaurus/Toliman).
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