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  2. Extrasolar planets in fiction - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] The majority of extrasolar planets in fiction are inhabited by native species, [4] and humans are variously depicted as being integrated into or remaining apart from such alien ecosystems. [7] Some fictional planets are described as orbiting real stars; [2] [8] a 2024 article in the Journal of Science Communication analysed a sample of ...

  3. Extraterrestrials in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The alien invasion is a common trope of alien fiction. (AI generated) Extraterrestrials in fiction are portrayed in several different ways. Extraterrestrial intelligence may be lower, similar, higher or exponentially higher than that of humans, or completely alien and impossible to be compared. [6]

  4. Fictional planets of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...

  5. Lists of fictional extraterrestrials - Wikipedia

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    List of Doctor Who universe creatures and aliens; List of Star Trek aliens; List of Star Wars creatures; Lists of Star Wars species: A–E, F–J, K–O, P–T, U–Z; Species of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

  6. Mars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Mars colonies seeking independence from or outright revolting against Earth is a recurring motif; [2] [61] in del Rey's Police Your Planet a revolution is precipitated by Earth using unrest against the colony's corrupt mayor as a pretext for bringing Mars under firmer Terran control, [22] [54] [65] and in Tubb's Alien Dust the colonists ...

  7. Venus in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Clicking on a planet leads to the article about its depiction in fiction. The earliest use of the planet Venus as the primary setting in a work of fiction was Voyage à Venus (Voyage to Venus, 1865) by Achille Eyraud , [1] [2]: 6 though it had appeared centuries earlier in works depicting multiple locations in the Solar System such as ...

  8. List of fictional galactic communities - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. Pluto in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and has made comparatively sporadic appearances in fiction since then; [1] [2] [3] in the catalogue of early science fiction works compiled by E. F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler in the 1998 reference work Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Pluto only appears in 21 (out of 1,835) works, [4] compared to 194 for Mars and 131 for Venus. [5]