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In fiction, Adamant is referred to in the film Forbidden Planet (as "adamantine steel"), many books (such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Faerie Queene, Gulliver's Travels, His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, Mathilda by Mary Shelley, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) and many games (such as Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy and ...
Siwenna. Skaith. Skaro. Snaiad. Fictional planets of the Solar System. Solaria (fictional planet) Solaris (novel) Spira (Final Fantasy) Synnax.
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.
Science fiction bibliographers E. F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler, in the 1998 reference work Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, list various imaginary constituents of the pre-modern "science-fiction Solar System". Among these are planets between Venus and Earth, planets on the inside of a hollow Earth, and a planet "behind the Earth".
Extrasolar planets in fiction. Planets outside of the Solar System have been featured as settings in works of fiction. Most of these fictional planets do not vary significantly from the Earth. Exceptions include planets with sentience, planets without stars, and planets in multiple-star systems where the orbital mechanics can lead to exotic day ...
Spelljammer is a campaign setting originally published for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( 2nd edition) role-playing game, which features a fantastic (as opposed to scientific) outer space environment. Subsequent editions have included Spelljammer content; a Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition setting update was released on August 16, 2022.
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. [1] Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. [2] Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a ...
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Wizards of the Coast: 1997-1998 The setting was released in the form of three books, as part of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Odyssey line. Uresia: anime fantasy Planet of Uresia Systemless, Big Eyes, Small Mouth: Guardians of Order: 2003-2012 Written by S. John Ross. Multiverse (Magic: The Gathering) Sword and ...