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  2. Extrasolar planets in fiction - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Floating cities and islands in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Stratos, on the planet Ardana, in Star Trek episode "The Cloud Minders". In Firefly episode "Trash", the planet Bellerophon is the site of dozens of floating estates with "gracious living, ocean views and state-of-the-art security." Atlantis from the Stargate universe is a "city-ship" which is capable of flight and intergalactic travel. Due to ...

  4. List of fictional spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    Messiah – an Orion spacecraft designed to prevent a comet hitting Earth in the 1998 film Deep Impact. Nightflyer – craft from the American horror science fiction television series Nightflyers [25] Odyssey – spacecraft designed to visit Saturn 's moon Titan in the 2013 film Oblivion.

  5. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Septium are gemstones that align with one of seven elements: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Space, Mirage, and Time. Septium is central to the function of Orbal energy, which can power appliances, vehicles, or channel elemental power in the form of "Arts", magical techniques used in combat. Silver rock stone. Pokémon.

  6. Earth in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    The overwhelming majority of fiction is set on or features the Earth, as the only planet home to humans or known to have life. This also holds true of science fiction, despite perceptions to the contrary. Works that focus specifically on Earth may do so holistically, treating the planet as one semi-biological entity.

  7. List of fictional doomsday devices - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Lists of fictional astronauts - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of science fiction films of the 1970s - Wikipedia

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    Horror Sci-Fi Thriller Prophecies of Nostradamus (a.k.a Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen) Toshio Masuda: Tetsurō Tamba, Toshio Kurosawa, Kaoru Yumi: Japan: Action Space Is the Place: John Coney: Barbara Deloney, Sun Ra, Raymond Johnson: United States: Music The Terminal Man: Mike Hodges: George Segal. Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart: United States ...