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This is a list of fictional galactic communities who are space-faring, in contact with one or more space-faring civilizations or are part of a larger government, coalition, republic, organization or alliance of two or more separate space-faring civilizations.
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština ...
Other names for this hypothetical innermost planet appear on occasion, such as "Aryl" in Roman Frederick Starzl's 1931 short story "The Terrors of Aryl". [1] [2] [3] In science fiction, the name "Vulcan" has since come to be more associated with the extrasolar planet Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise. [1] [2]
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 spacecraft, starships and exo-atmospheric vessels that have been identified by name in notable published works of fiction. The term "spacecraft" is mainly used to refer to spacecraft that are real or conceived using present technology.
Earth, when viewed as a planet, is sometimes also called by its Latin scientific conventional name Terra, this name is especially prevalent in science fiction where the adjective "terran" is also used in the way which "Lunar" or "Jovian" is for Earth's moon or Jupiter. The Latin convention derives from the use of that language as an ...
Sad Planets describes Solaris as an "enigma", calling some of the book's most moving passages those that describe the planet itself, with no human presence. [2] Green Planets states that Solaris "resists both physical and epistemic human penetration", describing it as "an impervious mirror surface". Ironically, the planet itself appears to ...
This science fantasy series is set on a planet colonized by humans, but with native intelligent races. The Planet Savers: 1958: N G Deltora: Emily Rodda: The setting for the Deltora Quest series of children's novels: The Forests of Silence: 2000: N A V Destiny Islands and other worlds: Square: The multiple worlds that make up the setting of the ...