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Comets inhabited by various kinds of lifeforms appear in several stories published in science fiction magazines during the pulp era of science fiction: the titular creatures in Festus Pragnell [Wikidata] 's 1933 short story "Men of the Dark Comet" are sentient plants, Archibald Low's 1934 novel Adrift in the Stratosphere features telepathic ...
Trees felled by the 1908 Tunguska event. The 1908 Tunguska event—an enormous explosion in a remote region of Siberia—has appeared in many works of fiction. It is generally held to have been caused by a meteor air burst, though several alternative explanations have been proposed both in scientific circles and in fiction.
Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help This category is for the fictional use of real comets. ... Pages in category "Fiction about comets" The following 23 pages are ...
Comets is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the fourth volume in their Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in February 1986. [1]
Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. It recounts the journey of several people carried away by a comet contacting the Earth. The comet passes by various bodies in the Solar System before returning the travelers to the Earth.
Scientists believe Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks boasts an enormous diameter of about 10.5 miles, and the last time it passed this close to Earth was in 1954. Extremely rare 'devil comet' expected to pass ...
The comet takes its literally hellish name from an eccentricity in its appearance. Like Halley’s Comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks is a so-called cryovolcanic object, meaning that its icy surface sometimes ...
In the Days of the Comet (1906) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is "exalted" when a comet causes "the nitrogen of the air, the old azote," to "change out of itself" and become "a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain."