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Extrasolar planets in fiction. Sun in fiction. List of hypothetical Solar System objects. Nemesis – Hypothetical star orbiting the Sun, supposedly responsible for extinction events. Planet Nine – Hypothetical Solar System planet. Theia – Planet hypothesized to have impacted Earth and created the Moon. Tyche – Hypothetical gas giant in ...
Siwenna. Skaith. Skaro. Snaiad. Fictional planets of the Solar System. Solaria (fictional planet) Solaris (novel) Spira (Final Fantasy) Synnax.
Most extrasolar planets in fiction are similar to Earth—referred to in the Star Trek franchise as Class M planets—and serve only as settings for the narrative. [1] [2] One reason for this, writes Stephen L. Gillett [Wikidata] in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, is to enable satire. [3]
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
World Devastator (EU): Ships which consumed the material of a planet, using the material to create new war machines (utilizes tractor beams ). Death Star: A moon-sized battle station, armed with a superlaser capable of destroying an entire planet. Darth Nihilus (EU): Fed off entire planets, destroying all life on them.
0D-10, AI computer in the sci-fi chapter from the game Live A Live (1994). It secretly plotted to kill humans on board the spaceship of the same name in order to "restore the harmony". Its name derives from "odio", Latin for "hate". A possible reference to HAL 9000. [citation needed]
Gerrold calls bolognium "technobabble", and cautions against overusing it, or using it carelessly; doing so harms the illusion of reality which good sci-fi needs. [22] In the 1982 sci-fi comedy Big Meat Eater, Bolonium makes up a meat-based fuel; the comedy rock band Bolonium gets its name from said reference.
Billy Blastoff, an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s. The Major Matt Mason line of toys from 1968, including Major Mason himself, Lt. Jeff Long, Sgt. Storm, and Doug Davis. [ 1] Moon McDare, a generic astronaut figure from 1965, packaged with various accessories. John Blackstar, Earth astronaut who crashes on planet Sagar.