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Planets themselves being portrayed as alive, while relatively rare (especially compared to stars receiving the same treatment), is a recurring theme. [1] [38] Sentient planets appear in Ray Bradbury's 1951 short story "Here There Be Tygers", Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel Solaris, and Terry Pratchett's 1976 novel The Dark Side of the Sun.
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 ...
When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planet—and alien conquest on Earth! [10] Aliens: Nightmare Asylum: April 1, 1993: 277 pp: Adapted from the comic book series Aliens vol. 2 (Also known as Aliens: Nightmare Asylum) (1989–1990).
Solaris (/ s ə ˈ l ɑːr ɪ s /) is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It follows a crew of scientists on a space station research facility as they attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes the form of a vast ocean on the titular alien planet. The novel is one of Lem's best-known works.
Alien Planet is uncharacteristic of science fiction of the 1930s, which tended more towards space opera (in the sense the term began to be used in the 1970s). Written in a careful, reportorial style, it purports to be an account of one of two friends inadvertently transported to another world with the occupant of a disabled alien craft they aid in repairing his "sky car" (Shoraru) while on a ...
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.