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Io has a tropical climate in the 1935 short story "The Mad Moon" by Stanley G. Weinbaum. [1] [6] [29] The satellite is mined for resources in the 1981 film Outland, a science-fiction version of the 1952 Western High Noon. [1] [5] [30] In the 1998 short story "The Very Pulse of the Machine" by Michael Swanwick, Io is implied to be sentient.
Short stories set on Jupiter (6 P) Space Odyssey (24 P) Pages in category "Fiction set on Jupiter" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Pages in category "Short stories set on Jupiter" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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Spaceships are often one of the key plot devices in science fiction. Numerous short stories and novels are built up around various ideas for spacecraft, and spacecraft have featured in many films and television series. Some hard science fiction books focus on the technical details of the craft.
The story was the inspiration for The Medusa Encounter, the fourth novel in the Venus Prime series by Paul Preuss. The concept of life on Jupiter was explored in the second episode of Carl Sagan 's 1980 PBS series Cosmos , which featured lifeforms similar in concept to those in this story.
"Jupiter Five" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine If in 1953. [1] It appeared again in Clarke's collection of short stories Reach for Tomorrow , in 1956, [ 1 ] and deals with the detection and exploration of an old spaceship from outside the Solar System .
"The Moons of Jupiter" (1978/1982) is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. It deals with how facts may change over time. [ 1 ] The story is 17 pages in length and made up of 7 sections with the shortest section being the final one.