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The Sun received comparatively little specific attention in early science fiction; [2] prior to the late 1800s, when Mars became the most popular celestial object in fiction, the Sun was a distant second to the Moon. [3] A large proportion of the works that nevertheless did focus on the Sun portrayed it as having inhabitants.
Fiction about the Sun, the star at the center of the Solar System. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. F. Sun in film (1 C, 9 P)
A group of children and their guardian, captives of a sun-worshipping African tribe, escape by threatening to kill the Sun, having prior knowledge of an imminent solar eclipse. Voyage: A Novel of 1896 by Sterling Hayden (1976). Depicts a solar eclipse of the titular year, viewed from the South Pacific. Black Robe by Brian Moore (1985).
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Despite often being referred to as an ocean, including within the novel itself, Solaris is not aquatic in nature and is more akin to a chemical soup. The depiction of Solaris was praised by critics as a rare example of non-anthropomorphic alien contact in fiction - a creature that does not act, or even think in a way that humans can understand. [1]
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.